Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-04-15

Prince, Haiti, to force the Intervention
of the United States If possible. Ap-
parent tranquility prevails, but there
Is good authority for the statement
that hostility against the present Hal
tien government is growing more In.
tense.
Three hundred and five students of
Clemson college, in South Carolina,
were expelled for an All-Foors day
escapade.
Albert Heiser, a baker of New York,
drew a revolver at the dinner table,
fred two shots at his young bride and
then killed himself. Mrs. Heiser is
not expected to recover.
Public and private funeral services
were held in Washington over the
body of the late Durham White
Stevens, adviser to the Korean gov.
eminent, who was killed by Korean
In San Francisco.
The American government has &C
copied the invitation of New Zealand
for the American battleship fleet to
visit Auckland.
M. A. Johnson, bank cashier at
Stoughton, Wis, committed suicide by
inhaling gas.
President Roosevelt made public his
letter of April 2 to the attorney gen
eral directing proceedings by injunc
ton to compel certain railroads of the
south to furnish equal accommoda
tons to white and negro passengers.
Archbishop Ryan announced that a
100000 gift had been made by a
woman, believed to be Mrs. Frederic
Garfield Penfleld, for the proposed
Catholic High School for Girls in
Philadelphia.
A rumor that a big public school
in the Italian section of Newark, N
j., was blown up by Blank Hand
blackmailers as an act of revenge for
failure of parents of pupils to pay
tribute resulted in panic in which
two children were injured.
There has been a recrudescence of
bubonic plague at Lima and other
parts of Peru.
The French fishing schooner Cham.
pagn was lost off St. Malo, France,
the crew being brought to Halifax on
the steamer Volturno.
The great liquor contest in Illinois
resulted in drawn battle, with the
saloons winning decisively in most of
the larger cities, but losing in scores
OF smaller ones, LOLA saloons being
voted out Of existence. The returns,
as collected by townships, are even
more impressive from the prohibition
viewpoint, 1928 townships, or three.
fourths of the total number, being
closed to the saloon.
David s. Rose was elected MAYOR of
Milwaukee for the fifth time In
Kansas City the Democratic ticket
headed by T. T. Crittenden, Jr, for
mayor was successful.
The Great Northern Railway CON-
pany was convicted of granting re.
bates to the American Sugar Refining
company, before Judge Holt in the
United States circuit court in New
York and fined $4,000.
The United States court of appeals
decided that the city of Omaha must
purchase the water works system of
the Omaha Water Works company.
paying for it $6,263, 29549.
Banks in Dundee, Mimi, and Yeager,
Okla, were robbed.
Eighteen persons were injured. nine
OF them severely, and about a dozen
otners slightly bruised when a South
Side Elevated railroad train in Chi
cago leaped the tracks at Forty-third
street and the motor coach went
crashing to the ground 20 feet be-
low.
John Smith, book agent, kept a
large posse of the Montreal police
force at bay and killed one constable
and wounded another before he
could be arrested on the charge of
making threats to kill his landlady.
seven men Were severely injured at
Huntington, w. Va, in a dynamite ex.
Flos1on at Meadow Greek, where a
force of men was at work removing a
landslide.
Samuel L. Gardner, a well-known
civil engineer who lived at McKees
Rocks, suburb of Pittsburg, shot
and killed Miss Dorothy Yost, II years
old, and then shot himself in the
mouth, dying several hours later.
Gov. Magoon of Cuba requested all
the provincial governors to resign and
appointed army officers in their
places.
Counsel for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
filed in the New York supreme court
the suit for annulment of her mar
riage with Harry Kendall Thaw, on
the ground that Thaw was insane at
the time of the marriage.
Two bombs were exploded in the
effort to destroy the pier and equip
ment used by the McClintic- Marshall
Construction company in constructing
new pier for the White Star line in
New York
One of the most determined of
fights against the saloon will reach a
crisis when more than 1900 Illinois
cities, villages and townships outside
OF Chicago, will vote on the question:
shall this town become anti-saloon
territory?"
Two women were fatally hurt, 20
others so badly injured that some of
them may die, and a hundred other
persons hurt in panic following the
explosion of a gasoline lamp in the
hall OF the Modern Woodmen at Ellis
worth, ILL.,
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