Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-01-15

Foster E. Percy Of Mendoza, NJ,
committed suicide in Chicago.
Prince Stanislas Poniatowski, the
head Of the historic Polish house of
that name, is dead in Paris.
Gen. Hempartzoonian Boyadjian,
head OF the Hunchakists, or Armenian
Revolutionary society, is in New York
to organize Armenians in America In
armed bands to help the society in ito
effort to wrest their country from
Turkey. g
Claus A. Spreckle, son of the big
sugar refiner, charges that the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company has no
surplus and that it has included in its
assets dozen or two dismantled
plants.
Four men, who attempted to hold
up passengers on the Katy flyer in
the union station in Kansas City, No.,
were f0iled. The conductor struck
one Of the gang over the head with
a lantern and all fed.
AS a result of the overturning Of q
skin containing nine men near Kicka-
poo, Kan, seven men were drowned;
the other two were rescued by Ernest
Schweitzer at the risk Of his life.
Postmaster General Meyer ordered
that it shall be condition Of any con-
tract hereafter entered into for carry
ing the mails upon star, screen
wagon, messenger or special service
route, that the contractor shall not
transport Intoxicating liquor from one
point to another upon such route while
in the performance of mail service.
A. Ross Hill, dean of the college Of
arts and sciences and director Of
the school Of education at Cornell
university, was chosen president of
the University of Missouri to succeed
Richard H. Jesse, resigned.
Capt. William Thomas, superin.
tendent of the Aurora mine of the
United States Steel corporation at
1ronwood, Mich, was shot and killed
Monday by John Bendette, miner
who had been discharged.
BY majority of 2,6O3 the voters
of the territory interested declared for
a greater Birmingham, Ala. The ter.
ritory comprises 41h square miles
and the estimated population is
$4,000.
Allegations of fraud and graft in
supplying the bureau of engraving
and printing with black dry color,
used in the manufacture of ink, re-
suited in the Indictment by the fed.
eral grand jury at Washington of Ed
win M. Vandyck, formerly chemist
and ink maker employed in the bu-
reau, and Victor Boede, president of
Baltimore, manufacturers of ink and
col0rs.
The Republican committee of Erie
county, O., rescinded resolutions
adopted last March indorsing Taft for
president.
Miss Lena Craig, a school teacher,
was murdered by John Hopkins, re-
jected sutton, near Seneca, Mo.
George Dixon, colored, for many
years the featherweight champion,
died of alcoholism in New York.
Four big New York diamond firms,
with combined assets of $6,225, 900 and
liabilities of $4,500,000, were forced
into hands of trustees by inability to
dispose of stocks and meet maturing
loans.
H. Grey Duberly, relative of Earl
Grey, governor general of Canada,
committed suicide in New York.
A vessel believed to be the missing
steamer Mount Royal was reported
$50 miles west of Fastnet Light.
F. Augustus Heinze asked for a stay
of g. days in the collection of the $780,
900 fine imposed upon him by the fed
eral court for contempt, in order that
he may appeal to President Roosevelt
to remit the fine.
Judge X A. S. Berry, a well-known
Kentucky Democratic politician and q
former member of congress, died at
his home at Newport, KY, of pneu-
monia.
Unless the spinners modify their
demands, the cotton mills throughout
the country, owned by 500 members
of the Federation of Master Spinners,
will be closed January Is and 10000
employees locked out.
The employers liability law was
held unconstitutional by the supreme
court of the United States.
Former Supervisor Lonergan of
San Francisco, who confessed to &C.
cepting brides, dropped dead.
Charles M. Macdonald, formerly a
prominent lumberman, died at La
Crosse. Wis.
Riots broke out on the East side,
New York, as result of the tension
between the landlords and the strik.
ing tenants, and before the disorders
were Quelled by the police reserves
many combatants were injured and
five were arrested.
President Roosevelt's attitude on
the question of the command of hos.
pital ships in the navy, which resulted
in the resignation of Rear Admiral
Willard R. Brownson, and incidentally
some caustic observations on that in
cident and the controversies among
the naval officers and their adherents
as to details of naval construction and
methods of training, were made
known when Secretary Metcalf gave
to the press two letters from the
president addressed to him on these
subjects.
Mrs. Mamie G. Hoagland, aged 90
years, widow of the late millionaire
philanthropist, George Hoagland, died