Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11

man was improving.
Because he shook hands with the
negro presiding elder of q colored
Methodist Episcopal conference in
Ethel, Miss, Rev. Frank R. English,
was chased to the depot by Infatuated
citizens of that place and forced to
leave the town.
Robert J. Maloney, formerly lead
ing lawyer Of New Orleans, will be
taken at once to the state penitentiary
to begin 14-year sentence. Maloney
was charged with fOrgeries exceeding
$150,O00.
Miss Elsie Gasser, Is years old,
daughter of Attorney John J. Gasser
of Cincinnati, is dead. DR.. Gustave
Strohbach, the family physician, says
her death was caused by tight lacing
of corsets.
Complaints by western senators that
there is a Joker" in the leather
schedule of the tariff bill caused delay
in action on the measure by the SEN
ate.
When the car of Russia arrived at
Cowes, England, he was guarded by
the guns of 154 warships.
Testimony given by Mrs. Mary Cop
ley Thaw at her sons trial for murder
when it was desired to show him IT.
rational was used against Harry Thaw,
who now is fighting to prove that he is
sane.
A report from Barcelona, Spain, said
the city was quiet after it's bloody
battle and people were returning to
work.
After Alexander Graham Bells aero
drome had made three short, but sue
cessful flights near Ottawa, Can, it
was wrecked in landing.
Spies who were sent up in a bal
loon by the commander of the Span
ish forces in Morocco watched thou
sands of tribesmen as they prepared
for a great battle with the kings
troops.
Following the definite testimony of
experts that the prisoner is insane
and dangerous, predictions were free
ly made at White Plains, N. Y, that
Justice Mills will send Harry Thaw
back to the asylum.
A fountain pen which he carried in
his vest pocket saved the life of Will
liam D. Craig, a New York lawyer,
when he was shot by Mrs. Mary A.
Castle in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
A small boy with dog that had
been fighting a polecat broke up a
school house meeting attended by
John d. Rockefeller. Jr, and his
wife near their New York summer
home.
Calhoun Harris, secretary of the
Orr cotton mills at Anderson, S. c.,
and prominent socially, was arrested
when experts said his books showed a
shortage of $4,000.
It has finally been settled that
President Taft and President Diaz of
Mexico will meet at Ell Paso, Tex,
October Is.
The naval board of inquiry which is
demonstrating the death of Lieut..
James N. Sutton, U. 8. M. c., has
reconvened at Annapolis.
Women and children were panic.
stricken when one of the cars on a
Chicago & Northwestern train caught
fire near Elgin, Ill.
Following her arrest for killing
Joe Rodi at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, Mrs.
Ben Marci said her husband forced
her to commit the murder because he
was jealous of her victim.
Rear Admiral Schroeder command
ing the Atlantic fleet, has refused to
surrender to the authorities of Yer.
mont negro mess hand who killed
another man on one of the battle
ships in boxing bout.
Rosetta Neff, eight years old, was
kidnapped from her home in Sharon,
Pa, where the Boyles were tried for
abducting Willie Whitla. The police
say an older sister stole the child.
A bill providing statewide prohibit.
ton for Alabama was passed by the
house at Montgomery by a vote of
Is to 10.
At banquet given in his honor in
Nairobi, former President Roosevelt
said he was interested in Africa and
its possibilities as an abode for white
men.
Plans of the navy department con.
template large and efficient flotilla
OF submarine torpedo boats for de.
fensive purposes at the United States
naval station at Cavite, Philippine is.
lands.
The Alabama house voted for an
amendment to the federal constitu.
ton favoring an income tax. The
Georgia house killed a bill to insert
an income tax in the state tax meas.
ure.
With the mother clasping her babe
in her arms, the bodies of Mrs. Julius
Neneth, 81 years old, and her eight.
months'.old son were found in the
Morris canal at Newark, N. J.
Two daughters of the car of Rus.
STA created such a commotion as they
walked through the streets of Cowes,
England, on shopping trip, that the
police were forced to protect them
from the crowd and place them in a
carriage.
The state of Missouri has offered q
reward of $500 for the arrest and con.
victiOn of the men who lynched
George Johnson, white, slayer of John
w. Moore, a farmer at Platte City.
Marysville, Tex, was destroyed by
fire and several men had narrow es.
capes for their lives.
Twenty thousand buildings were de.
stroyed and thousands of persons