Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-12

lug ltallan SOcletleS or New York,
many of. them Italian bankers and i'm
porters. met to organize society for
the suppression of violence, particu-
larry by members of the Black Hand.
The international Brotherhood of
Transfers rejected the overtures of
the United Transfers of America to
amalgamate the two organizations.
After IL months of litigation, the
insurance companies have been de.
feated In their attempts to resist pay.
ment of the insurance claims resulting
from the damage caused by the fire
Of January IA, 1907, when Kingston,
Jamaica, was visited by severe
earthquake.
Ten thousand members of the uni.
form rank, knights of Pythias, parad.
ed in Boston.
Archie and Bert McMas ter and their
wives, of Chicago, were drowned at
Galena, ILL.,, while bathing.
The steel fireboat Illinois was
crushed and sunk by the falling wall
OF burned elevator in Chicago.
lightning during a severe storm at
Grand Rapids, Mich, caused score
OF destructive fires.
United States District ATTORNEY
Baker of Washington, his bride and
several friends plunged over a. 900.
foot precipice in an automobile near
Liberty, n. Y, but escaped with their
lives.
The Bank of Austin, New, one of the
Oldest in that city, has closed its
| doors.
Later advices from the fire-swept
region around Fernie, B. c., placed the
probable number of deaths at 200 or
more and the property losses at over
$10,O0O,000. The refugees were re-
ported in great need of food and relief
trains started from many cities.
Fire in Chicago destroyed Armour
elevators, Burlington freight sheds
and cars and other property, the loss
being nearly $2,OOO,0OO. Many fire.
men were injured.
The body Of a well-dressed man,
presumably the victim of a murder,
was found in half-dug grave near
Laporte, Ind.
President Roosevelt announced that
no decision had been reached as to
the fate Of the eight cadets dismissed
from West Point for hazing.
Three women and two children, mem
bers of well-known San Francisco fam
lilies, were killed in an automobile &C.
cident.
William Wilson was instantly killed
in a theater at Coshocton, O., when he
tried new kind of "loop-the-loop"
known as the "whirl Of death" on a
bicycle.
The 24-hour general strike in Paris
was a fiat failure.
j. NJ. Randlet, Oklahoma, who muir
dered his sister-in-law, committed sui.
eide when surrounded by a posse.
Jealousy led James Kelley, 10 years
old, to murder his sweetheart, Miss Eva
Sleeper, and Link James, and to com.
NIT suicide near Metropolis, Ill.
The plant of the Nationa! Render
ing company near Hammond, Ind,
was burned, the loss being $250,000
One man was burned to death.
One life was lost and much property
destroyed in a cloudburst at Verdi,
New.
Because their DEGREES of divorce
have not been filed 1874 mex and WON.
en- Of Des Moines, a., who entered
matrimony again may be bigamists.
James Ryan, one of the most noted
pickpOckets of the country, was killed
by tram car at Pratt City, Ala.
Syrians in America are planning tc
present a modern battleship to the
sultan of Turkey.
At least 100 lives were lost, the
towns of Fernie, Coal Creek, Hosmer
and Michel, B. c., wiped out, three
other towns partially destroyed, and
property loss of $10,OO0,O00 sustained
as the result of bush fires which ragged
in the Crows Nest district of the
Kootenay valley of British Columbia
In addition to the dead scores have
been injured and it is estimated that
! 5000 people are homeless.
A 24-hour general strike began in
Paris as protest against the killing
OF laborers in the Vigneux riots, and
the garrison of $4,000 men was held
ready for action.
Wlnstead, Conn.,, was visited by q
tire in which the state armory, the
Odd Fellows block and the Manchester
building were destroyed, and a dozen
other buildings were badly damaged
the loss being placed at $4,000.
Three workmen are dead and q
fourth was severely burned as the re.
suit OF an explosion of coal gas and
dust in a coal conveyor at the plant of
the Aetna Portland Cement company
in Fenton, Mich.
Ex-State Senator r. A. Booth and
NJ, brother, James H. Booth, ex-re-
ceiver Of the land Office at Roseburg,
| and Thomas T.. Singleton, were found
not guilty of land frauds at Portland.
! Ore.
The two-year-old son of S. L. Barr
OF Webster City, Ia, fell head first into
churn and was drowned.
David Lamasuey, a dealer in fine
horses, who travelled extensively but
! had no permanent home, committed
suicide by the hari-kiri method at
Burlington, la. He was temporarily
! deranged by the heat.
The Chicago, Milwaukee G st. Paul
freight house at Chillicothe, Mo-, was
wrecked by robbers, who blew open