Willmar tribune., 1909-09-08

every wireless telegraph instrument
In the western division was silent for
half an hour.
Mrs. Katherine Miller, formerly Mrs
Kate Soffel, who served a two-year
prison term for helping Jack and Ed
ward Biddle, the murderers, escape
from the county Jail at Pittsburg, died
of typhoid fever.
Tied to tree by robbers, an EN-.
ploye of the 1ngram-Day Lumber Com
pany, suffered tortures for three days
near Nugent, Miss. His mouth was
stuffed with paper and rags and he
was without food, while mosquitoes
were torturing him.
President Taft has decided that Bev-
erly, Mass, shall be the summer cap
ital again next year, and has leased
the cottage he now is occuying for
the season.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
a delegate from Austria engaged in a
war Of words at the International
Trades Unions congress in Paris when
the latter attacked American labor
for not joining the organization.
The United States and Europe were
brought nearly three hours closer to-
gether when the great liner, Maure-
tania reduced her record from New
York to Queenstown to four days, II
hours and 27 minutes.
After Staying Cecil Norton, Is years
old, daughter of his housekeeper; his
daughter Dorothy, aged II, and set
ting fire to his house, Will Tibbetts,
wealthy farmer of Red Wood Falls,
Minn., committed suicide.
| Five persons, all relatives, were
killed when street car struck an au-
tomobile, near St. Louis.
a new tobacco war has been
started at Covington, KY, by the filing
of suit by Clark & Scott, independ-
ent manufacturers, against the Burley
society, demanding $135,52O, said to
have been overcharged on. tobacco
bought by them.
An important amendment has been
made to the navy regulations which
places the engineer officer attached to
a ship of war in line to succeed the
executive officer.
Ten square miles of forest adjoin-
ing the Sequoia grove of big trees in
California have been devastated by
fire, though the United States cav
| airy troop under Capt. Rush S. Wells
has succeeded in saving the grove
from danger.
A race war is threatened at Hopes.
ton, ILL.,, because John A. Lumkley of
Ottawa, Ia., white man, was acquit-
ted in connection with the murder of
negro, who was shot in the darkness
during gambling row between white
and negro cannery employees.
Before 1000 persons at Coffeyville,
Kan, Harry E. Hoffman, balloonist,
fell 500 feet to death. The big bag
was released accidentally before the
aeronaut was ready and he was car
ried up hanging to trapeze by his
toes.
Emperor William invited Orville
Wright and his sister, Miss Kather-
inc, to sit with the royal family in a
box to watch the arrival of Count
Zeppelin who made 450-mile flight
in his airship to Berlin.
| President Taft has accepted the res
ignation-it is believed by some that
he requested it-of Ormsby McHarg,
assistant secretary of the department
of commerce and labor, who assailed
former President Roosevelt in news
paper interview.
Much damage was done in West
Scranton, Pa, when an old mine be-
meath the city caved in, the city's sur
face in many places sinking five or six
feet.
Three tanks containing $4,000 bar
rels of oil were set on fire at Cygnet,
O., by lightning, causing 100000 loss.
| Mrs. Carrie Sanders of St. Joseph,
Mo-, killed one of her children and
tried to end the lives of five others
with morphine and then attempted
suicide while insane.
Engineer Andrew Horn of Lacka.
| wanna express train into Summit, N.
-, was oIIuCA III lu0 IlSuI eye Will
a piece of broken glass oil cup and the
eye cut squarely in two. Calling his
fireman to his side in case he should
collapse, he ran his train to Summit
before relinquishing the throttle.
The Turkish government has decid.
ed that it is impracticable to send a
warship to the approaching Morse.
Fulton celebration in New York, but
will be represented by an official of its
embassy in this country.
Tenants of the Ardsley Hall apart.
ments in New York, many of them So
clety persons, were thrown into a
panic when Joseph Harding, a colored
elevator boy, was fatally wounded by
George E. Gethin, a telephone opera.
tor. Women became historical and
physicians were called to quiet them.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the United
States forestry service, held a con.
ference in Seattle, Wash, with lead
ing lumbermen of the northwest to
devise methods of gathering accruate
information and quotations, to be used
IN monthly and quarterly reports on
the forestry service.
| The fiftieth anniversary of the first
OIL we'll in the world was celebrated
at T1tusville, Pa, where Col. Edwin
W. Drake struck petroleum by drilling
0n An0rcf 1oEn