Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-19


was private secretary to ex-Gov. Willis
J. Bailey when the latter was in con.
gress, was mysteriously assassinated
In Seneca, Kan.
Fred Slocum, an inmate Of the in
sane asylum at Elgin, ILL.,, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with q
piece of glass.
The Oklahoma house killed the hotel
bill which required 9-foot sheets on
beds and provided a penalty for the
use of cracked cups.
Lieut.. Gov. Dickerson of Nevada or
dered so carbines from a Chicago firm
for the new police force to relieve the
federal troops at Goldfield.
BY direction of the president, Act.
ing Secretary Oliver ordered com.
pany Of infantry from Fort Gibbon, in
Alaska, to Fairbanks, in that territory,
to preserve order during the mining
strike in that section.
Indictments alleging perjury were
returned in New York against former
governor of New Jercey, Foster NJ.
Voorhees,, and Frank H. Combes. fol.
lowing grand jury inquiry into the
acts of these two men while they were
officials of the Bankers Life Insurance
company.
It was stated on what was believed
to be good authority that w. B. Ridge
ly, comptroller of the currency, has
decided to accept the presidency Of
the reorganized National Bank of
Commerce of Kansas City, Mo-, which
suspended payment during the late
financial stringency.
Mrs. Martha Anderson was found
dead, lying on cot in her room in
GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, with her throat cut
from ear to ear. Investigations y>the
police indicate she was murdered.
George H. Norman, who as an Off
Ger on the gunboat Gloucester during
the Spanish-American war took Ad-
miral Cervera Of the Spanish feet off
the burning flagship 1nfanta Maria
Teresa, died in Brookline, Mass.
Newton Edmunds, former governor
of Dakota territory and president of
the Yankton National bank, died at
Yankton of paralysis, aged SO years.
The II laundries in Cincinnati under
indictment for organizing combine
to raise prices pleaded guilty and each
was fined $50 and costs. The trust
also agreed to dissolve.
/ Violation of the postal laws by car
rying first-class mail matter was
charged against the American Express
company in suit filed in the United
States district court at Cincinnati by
District Attorney Mcpherson.
Clyde Cant of Belleville, ILL.,, was
convicted of the murder of Henry
Dickerman and sentenced to II years
in the penitentiary.
That the fight of the administration
against the Standard Oil company was
"only BLUR was asserted in the
house of representatives by Mr..
Rainey of Illinois, who spoke at length
on his bill placing on the free list
petroleum, crude or refined, or it's
products.
John E. Venson set new American
record by jumping 116 feet on skis at
the Duluth tournament.
Sir James Knowles, founder and
proprietor of the Nineteenth Century,
died in London.
The Mississippi senate passed the
house statutory prohibition bill.
1t is announced that there is r1bs-
pect of Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit,
appearing on the variety stage in Lon
don.
The Chicago, Cincinnati & Louis.
vile Railroad company was put in the
hands of receiver.
Mrs. Clara G. Hoffman, president Of
the Missouri w. c. T. u, died at
Kansas City after a long illness, aged
SIS years.
Charles Peccorino, said to be the
leader of Black Hand society which
caused the murder of wealthy Italian
at Lake Charles, La, was arrested at
Hastings, Col.
The British steamer Roda, Cant.
Burdis, from Huelva for New York
with a cargo of iron ore, went ashore
during thick fog abreast of the Jones
life-saving station, just below Amity-
vile, Long Island.
Capt. E. B. Underwood has been
chosen for the command of the cruiser
Colorado, vice Capt. Sidney Stanton,
who will be appointed a member Of
the general board of the navy.
One boy was stabbed to death and
three wounded during a fight among
inmates of the correctional institution
in Randalls Island, New York.
After an exciting debate lasting six
hours which developed into a riot on
the floor of the Japanese house of rep
resentatives, the financial budget was
passed by a majority of 1O2.
Col. Andrew Wendell, a member of
the squad of soldiers which captured
J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and who was present
when Booth was shot, died at his
home in Chicago.
Arthur Sullivan, pioneer of south
ern Montana, died at Dillon, Mont,
aged 80.
The Michigan Republican state GEN.
trail committee fixed May II as the
date and Grand Rapids as the place
for the state convention to elect dele
gates.at large to the national Repub-
lican convention.
A. H. Cline, prominent lumber.
man, was shot and instantly killed by
Luke Banner, wealthy merchant of