Willmar tribune., 1909-06-16

Stanley Ketchell, middleweight
champion of the world, whipped Jack
O'Brien in the third round of a six
round battle in Philadelphia.
Rev. Hastings Hart of Chicago told
the truant conference at Buffalo how
girl had been cured of stealing and
made beautiful creature" by a diet
Of bread and water and confinement
in a bare room.
The balloon Indiana won the endur.
ance contest and the University City
the distance race in the Indianapolis
aerial trials.
The Taft school at Watertown,
Conn, was closed on account of an
epidemic of diphtheria.
Forest fires in the vicinity of Kes.
wick, N. B., periled many persons
who prepared to flee from the flames.
Suffragists make too much noise,
according to Bishop Doane in an ad-
dress to girl graduates at Albany, N. Y.
Govan Smith, his brother, Elisha
Smith, and Levi Johnson, were ar
rested on charge of shooting Edward
Callahan, the feudist leader of Crock
ettsville, KY.
The $30.0O0,O00 suit OF the Pennsyl-
vania Sugar Refining Company against
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany was settled out Of court after it
had been on trial two weeks.
Mrs. Alice Newman of Des Moines
fell dead in G. A. r. convention at
Fort Dodge, la.
Domingo Centeno and Count Arnoso
fought duel over politics in Portugal,
the count being wounded in the leg.
Mary E. Gill of Brooklyn was ar.
rested charged with stealing fine
clothes from dry-goods store. She
said she wanted to wear fine clothes
so her husband would not be attracted
to other women.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of
Archbishop Ryan's appointment was
quietly celebrated in Philadelphia.
The strike that closed % hat fac
tories in Connecticut has been ended.
Mrs. William E. Annis, whose hus.
band was killed by Capt. Peter c.
Hains, Jr, has announced she will be
married to a New York real-estate
broker when her theatrical engage.
ments end.
Two men of San Jose, CAL, have re-
ceived from Joaquin Miller an acre of
land each and will build cottages near
the home of the poet in Fruitvale.
Cal. 1t is said Miller will establish q
colony of poets.
The trial of Richard Pines, the sec.
0nd of four negroes charged with the
murder of Walter F. Schultz of Chi.
cago, began in Alexandria, Va.
Frederick H. Brigham, head book.
keeper of the Merchants National
bank of New Haven, Conn.,, was ar.
rested charged with taking funds OF
the bank.
Fire destroyed the mill and elevator
OF the Decatur Cereal Company at
Decatur, ILL.,, causing $650,00O loss.
Gen. Frederick Funston, command
ant at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, had q
pistol duel with a burglar, neither be-
ing wounded.
A. Milton Holden, Detroit broker
killed himself because of financial
difticulties and his firm suspended
business.
Edward Callahan, former sheriff OF
Breathitt county, Kentucky, known as
Bloody Breathitt," was shot as a re-
suit of feud over church.
William Kane, in the St. Louis
criminal court building. avenged the
murder of Constable Sam Young, un
der whom he served as a deputy, by
Staying Fred Mohrle who was on trial
for the killing.
Judge Gilchrist at Evansville, Ind.
issued an injunction restraining the
street car men who are on strike
from interfering with the company'a
business.
Fire destroyed 100 homes and
caused damage estimated at $3O0,00(
In Presque Isle, Me.
Two masked men blew open a safe
In a saloon In the center of Butte
Mont, and escaped with $500.
The balloon Indiana, which started
In the races from Indianapolis, broke
the endurance record of America by
staying in the air more than forty
four hours.
The Indiana Democratic Editorial
association held its midsummer ses
sion in Bloomington.
Three soldiers were killed and SOC
persons were wounded by the explo
sion of powder magazine near the
railroad station in Cracow, Austrian
Poland. The explosion was caused by
lightning.
Michael Perovich, a Russian sen
fenced to hang at Fairbanks, Alaska
owes his life to Mrs. Taft who in
duced the president to commute the
sentence to life Imprisonment.
Becoming suddenly insane while
slaughtering hogs, John Murphy
turned his knife on human victims al
Somerville, Mass, killed five men and
wounded three others seriously.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Mrs. Joseph Carleton Archer, who
died in Los Angeles, CAL, and was
buried at Oneida, ILL.,, returned yer
dict saying death was due to strych
nine.
Because her husband had been ar
rested for embezzlement, Mrs. JONI
Glaesser OF st. Louis, killed theil
two children and herself, Gleasser wai
released.
Twenty-one cases of cholera have
broken out in St. Petersburg and the