Willmar tribune., 1909-03-24

A Canadian Pacific passenger train,
after the enginemen had leaped from
the locomotive to escape scalding.
crashed into the Montreal station,
killed four persons and injured 80.
John w. Gates, according to 10.
port, is behind merger of several
steel companies which will fight the
big trust. The new concern is to
have $S00,000,O00 capital.
Reports from Rome say the police
of the whole country are making every
effort to arrest the slayers of Lieut..
Petrosino of the New York police de-
partment.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the annual spring
dinner of the Gridiron club April II.
A bust of former Ii~s-President
Fairbanks has been placed in the sen.
ate chamber. 1t was given q place In
the reserve gallery on the Democratic
side alongside of the bust Of the late
Vice-President Hobart.
John w. Wallace and D. w. Lazelle.
who have been engaged in . card-play.
ing contest for 20 years at Mancelona,
Mich, have played their last game,
Wallace finally winning ten times in
succession. which was the condition
under which they played.
The Japanese naval training squad
ron, consisting Of the armored cruiser
Aso and the protected cruiser Soya,
has sailed for Honolulu under com.
mand of Capt. 1soji. The ships carry
$50 cadets Of the Japan navy. They
will visit San Francisco and Seattle.
Senior Espinoza, minister from Mic.
aragua, told Secretary Knox his coun.
try had no intention of attacking any
of her sister republics and wants
peace.
A general cut Of ten per cent. in
wages in all departments of the Penn.
sylvania Steel Company's plant at
North Lebanon is announced for
April 1. 1t affects all local employees.
numbering about 600.
Secretary of War ]. NJ. Dickinson
has written to the New Orleans Prog:
ressive Union accepting the invitation
of that body to stop over in New Or.
leans on his way to visit the Panama
canal.
Saying his conscience hurt him so
badly as to force him to surrender,
E. R. May, wanted for forgery at
Mountain Grove, Mo-, walked into the
sheriff's Office at Alexandria, La, and
gave himself up. He was taken back
to Missouri.
A dog sent to find Joseph Small.
wood at Indianapolis returned and led
the mans wife to his dead body. He
had committed suicide.
In debate in parliament fear was
expressed that Germany will soon
outstrip England in naval strength
and be able to wrest the rule of the
seas from Great Britain.
The plan of reorganization of the
Chicago & Great Western railway has
been completed. It provides for the
authorization of $4,000, 900 first mort.
gage four per cent. bonds, of which
$17,OOO,OO0 will be reserved to retire
divisional bonds.
Peter Augustus Jay, secretary of the
American embassy at Tokyo, and
Miss Susan Alexander McCook, daugh.
ter of Col. John J. McCook, were mar.
rted in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church in New York
Indians in the Mackenzie river dis
trict of the Hudson's Bay Company are
dying from grip.
The interstate commerce commits.
sion has decided that railroads have
been discriminating against Indianapo-
lis In favor of Chicago.
Robert Strawser rural mail car
rler at Flora, ILL.,, killed his three chill.
dren and then ended his own life.
Reports received in St. Petersburg
say Persian soldiers are Staying de-
fenceless peasants and pillaging vii
lagos.
Joseph Mccarthy, who has been sen.
fenced at Danville, ILL.,, to the peniten-
when he leaves the prison.
The liabilities of Marie Dressler, the
American actress, who recently re-
opened the Aldwych theater in Lon
don, but was compelled to abandon
the enterprise within few days,
amount to $4,000, and the assets to
$4,000, according to estimates pre-.
sented at a meeting of the creditors.
Two men were killed and a third
was seriously injured by the explosion
OF the boiler of the Rich icehouse of
the American Ice Company at Farm
ingdale, Me.
Fenton r. McCreery, the American
minister to Santo Domingo, has ex-
tended the invitation of the United
States to the Dominican government
to send delegate to the International
Congress on the Conservation of Ma.
tural Resources to meet at The Hague
next September. The invitation proba-
bly, will be accepted.
BY the arrest of three negroes, one
of whom pawned the dead mans
watch, the Washington police believe
they will solve the mystery of the
murder of Walter F. Shultz of Chi
cago, slain near Alexandria, Va.
Bad meat served at banquet to
celebrate the one hundredth anniver.
sary of a Masonic lodge, poisoned 100
persons at Vincennes, Ind, and four
may die.