Willmar tribune., 1908-01-29

The body Of man who died at the
Kensfngton hotel, in Newark, N. j.,
where he had been living under the
name Of y. j. Cary" was identified
as that of former Justice Thomas w.
Fitzgerald, of the court of special ses-
sions in Brooklyn, who was removed
from the bench and disbarred from
the practice Of law by the appellate
division.
The Capital State bank of Idaho at
Boise suspended temporarily.
AS result of their appeal, r. G.
Lemon, r. o. Beard and ]. A. Miller,
ice dealers of Toledo, O., were sent
to Jail for a year instead of to the
workhouse.
A mob of unemployed men collided
with the police of Berlin and were
dispersed by saber charges.
A negro who was hanged by a mob
at Dothan, Ala, was cut down by the
sheriff while yet alive and may re.
cover.
On an indictment dated ten years
ago, charging assault and robbery,
William J. O'Keefe, alias Joseph Tai
bot, was arrested in st. Louis by a
detective who recognized a pigeon.
toed manner of walking peculiar to
O'Keefe.
Ten persons were killed and many
injured in collision between an ex-
press train from Rome and a train
coming from Bergamo near Milan,
Italy.
Reese Thomas of Cambria, Minn.,
was burned to death while starting a
fire with kerosene.
The Red Star liner Finland, from
New York to Antwerp, ran down and
sank the Greek steamer Epirus in a
dense fog off Terneuzen. All on board
the Epirus were saved.
A dynamite bomb was thrown
against the house of Thomas Mich
olas, captain of the Mohawk iron
mine, near Aurora, Mimi, the house
being wrecked and baby badly hurt.
The headless and nude body of
woman was found floating in the lake
at Chicago. 1t is believed she was
murdered.
Rufus Draper, one of the longtime
residents of Minneapolis, died in that
city.
AS reward for saving the life of
Mrs. C. c. Thompson and daughter of
Chicago 19 years ago, w. E. Gearhart
of Madrid, a., was the beneficiary of
the will of Mr.. Thompson, who died
recently, to the extent of $4,000.
w. l.. Mackenzie King reported to
the Canadian parliament that the
great influx of Japanese laborers was
due to the desire for them expressed
by certain Canadian corporations.
Small banks in st. Paul, Mimi; El-
linwood, Kan; Chouteau, Okla, and
Norwalk, o., were compelled to close
their doors.
James Big Heart, ex-chief of the
Usage Indians, who it was claimed
was the richest Indian in the United
States, is dead of paralysis at his
home near Big Heart, in the Usage
nation.
Fred Hamlin of East Bloomfield, N.
j., said he was the husband of Cath
crime Devine ('Little Egypt') and
claimed her 100000 estate.
Ed. Horderwisch, formerly a we'll
known professional bicycle rider and
later an automobilist and business
man, was killed at Dayton, O., by q
train while driving his automobile
across the tracks.
Lord Curz0n of Kedleston was elect
ed representative peer of Ireland.
Count Laszlo Szechenyi, who Is to
marry Gladys Vanderbilt, was accused
of Gaming photographer.
The will of Mrs. Mary P. Cameron,
widow OF the late Senator Angus Cam.
eron of Wisconsin, will be contested
by a nephew and niece.
Judge Smith Mcpherson in the
United States district court at Kansas
City declared void and unconstitution.
al the statute passed by the Missouri
legislature in 1907 forbfdding foreign
corporations from transferring suits
brought against them from the state
to the federal courts upon pain of for.
feiture of their charters.
Greer college and the high school at
Hoopeston, ILL.,, were closed because
of an epidemic of diphtheria.
Frank J. Constantine, who is serv.
ing life sentence at the Illinois peni-
tentiary at Joliet for the murder of
Mrs. Louise H. Gentry, attempted sui
eide by jumping from the gallery to
the floor below, fracturing his skull.
The building of the Colonial club in
Buffalo, N. Y, was partly burned and
one fireman lost his life.
The Brazilian police said they dis
covered and foiled an anarchist plot
to destroy part of the American bat
tleship fleet at Rio. Navy officials in
Washington were surprised and skep-
tical.
The wholesale grocery house of the
Mcneil & Higgins company in Chicago
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
The Masonic Temple in Baltimore
was gutted by fire, the loss being
about $250.000.
The last Of the Indiana National
guard left Muncie. the strike trouble
being ended.
Woman suffragists in London were
arrested and sent to jail for three
weeks.
Daniel c. Slower, millionaire manu-.
facturer Of stoves, windmills and
farm machinery, died at Freeport,