Willmar tribune., 1908-01-22
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST lMPoR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS


HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
ters Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.
Over 165 persons were killed and
many injured at Boyertown, Pa,
when the opera house burned. The
explosion of moving picture tank
started wild panic; oil lamps were up.
set and blew up and the floor collapsed:
The victims were mostly women and
children and belonged to the leading
families of the town. p.
The special grand jury which was
sworn in to investigate the conduct of
certain banks in New York county re-
liam X. Montgomery, president of the
Hamilton bank.
A serious earthquake occurred at
Gonaives, Hayti. A few houses were
destroyed and others were damaged.
No loss of life has been reported.
At their annual meeting in Detroit
the Lumber Carriers Association of
the Great Lakes decided that it would
be impossible to operate their boats
during the coming season at the same
expense and under the same condi
tons as prevailed during 1907. 1t is
predicted that there will be q great la
Dor struggle.
The Maple-Leaf mills at Kenora,
Ont, were destroyed by fire. The ele.
vator, in which was stored over 30O,-
900 bushels of wheat, was also de-
stroyed. The loss was $1,OO0,OOO; in
sured
Oil-producing firms at st. Petersburg
received news from the Caucasus of
the opening of mammoth oil gusher
In the: Bibi-Eybat field at Baku, flow
ing at the rate of 10000 barrels q
day. ..
Farmers in Stanley county, South
Dakota, were plowing during the first
week in January.
The coroner's jury practically ex.
onerated the coal mining company for
the great disaster at Monongah, w.
Va
Edward Henry Strobel, general ad-
wiser of the government Of Siam, died
after long illness.
The body of Lieut. John w. Craw-
ford, private secretary to Admiral
Dewey, was found in the Potomac '
The prince regent of Bavaria, who
recently pardoned two murderers SEN
fenced to death, declared his intention
not to sign any more death warrants.
The officers of the American battle
ship fleet were breakfasted by Presi
dent Penna at Petropolis and later
attended a garden party at the Ameri-
can embassy.
1t was positively asserted that Sec
retary Cortelyou would not resign
though he was virtually offered the
presidency of the Knickerbocker Trust
company
John s. Peters, one of the jurymen
who found r. Meade Shumway guilty
of murder at Beatrice, Neb, afixing
the death penalty, committed suicide.
Five persons were drowned while
skating in the Jimtown reservoir, near
Connellsville, Pa.
Hepburn hall, the girls dormitory at
Miami university, Oxford, O., was de-
stroyed by fire.
E. D. Scott, cashier, and Roy W.
Van Hoesen, bookkeeper of the Peo.
pies National bank of Franklinville, N
Y, were arrested, charged with viola
tion of the revised statutes relating to
the making of false statements of a
banks condition to the controller
Denmark's greatest modern poet,
Holger Drachmann, died suddenly at
Copenhagen, in the sixty-first year of
his age.
Prof. Charles Baetens, for many
years solo cellist in the Thomas or.
chestra, committed suicide in Omaha,
Neb.
The City National bank of Muskogee,
Okla, purchased by DR.. J. l.. Johnson
of st. Louis, was merged with the
First National. The Bank of Com.
merce will go into liquidation, it's
business having been sold to the Okla
homa State bank.
Frank Nunno, wealthy young
banker, was found murdered near
Ardsley, N. Y.
Mayor William B. Thompson of De-
troit, Mich, in his annual message,
calls attention to the fact that the CITY
will have to deal with the street rail-
way franchise question in another
year and urges that mo new leases of
life be given except on the basis of a
three-cent fare"
General Freight Agent w. +. Estes
Of the Central of Georgia railway was
perhaps fatally shot by his wife at
Savannah, Ga. The shooting was &C.
cidental.
Peter Rasmussen of St. Charles
ILL.,, committed suicide because of do.
mestic and financial troubles.
Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, the
Oldest Jewish theologian in the Uni.
ted States, recognized as the worlds
greatest Hebrew scholar, died in Chi.
cago after ten days of illness. He
was most widely known as the
founder of the reform" movement
among Chicago Jews.
The United States dredge boat
Henry Fladd, worth $175,O0O, was
burned to the waters edge at her
moorings in Memphis.