Willmar tribune., 1909-09-15

eoric monster have been found on a
farm near Pendleton, Ore. One of the
teeth is IA inches long.
President Taft has taken up the
Ballinger-Pinchot row and upon his
decision probably will hang the ques-
tion whether the secretary of the in
terror or the nations chief forester
will resign from public service.
The National Federation of Post OF.
flee clerks, in convention at st. Louis.
discussed plans of obtaining shorter
working hours.
During the fortnight ending Satur'
day. September 4. there were "a bu-
bonic and IS cholera deaths In tho
city of Annoy, according to an official
announcement.
Mrs. Anna Dickens, the first white
settler in Iowa, died at her home in
North McGregor, Ia, at the age of SO.
Twenty-three miles was cut from
the distance between Chicago and
New York over the Michigan Central
and New York Central by a change
In the Niagara Falls branch from
Rochester.
l. N. Chapman was shot and killed
by Earle budding, a Huntington wv.
Va.) business man. as the result of a
controversy following the arrest of
Chapman's daughter, who was EN-.
ployed in Dudding's store.
Frankfort, KY, is quiet after a
clash Saturday night between civil.
1ans and soldiers, in which two men
were killed and three severely wound
ed. A company of troops is guarding
the city.
With Mayor Stoy under a $4,000
bond to appear before the grand jury,
Atlantic City IN. J.) saloons all were
open Sunday and the reform move.
ment was defied.
Fifty thousand 1rishmen living in
the United States are expected to
make pilgrimage to Ireland, accord.
Ing to plans of F. ]. Kilkenny OF
Washington, national president of the
Home'Going Pilgrims.
For the first time since the Spanish
American war 200 armed men from
the Fifth Canadian artillery arrived in
Seattle to participate in the celebra.
tion at the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex.
position.
Government reports show an in
crease In industrial activity in the
United States in July.
A one-legged man and companion
who has only one leg were arrested
at New Castle, Pa, charged with be-
Ing the wreckers of the Baltimore &
Ohio train and causing the deaths Of
three persons.
A. A. Robinson, and his wife of
Detroit and Mrs. H. E. Tremaine OF
Bay City, Mich, were killed when
train hit their automobile in Bay City.
George Fields, buyer for a canning
factory, narrowly escaped lynching
near Decker, Ind, by farmers whose
tomato crops he is said to have prom.
ised to buy.
Because the attendance at the let
ter carriers convention in St. Paul
was less than 1000, railroads refused
the rate of one and one-half fares,
and several delegates were stranded.
Seven thousand Japanese, living in
or near Seattle, were joined by the
visiting Japanese commercial COM
mfssioners at Seattle in the celebra-
tion of Japanese day at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Tobacco growers from five Ohio
counties in Kentucky agreed at Gin
c1nnati to pool their crop and refuse
to sell 1t under fifteen cents, thus be-
ginning fight against the Burley To-
bacco society.
The Ohio Oil Company, subsidiary
OF the Standard, has purchased, for a
price approximating .$3,5oo,ooo to
$4,5OO,O00, the Jennings oil fields in
Clark, Lawrence and Crawford coun-
ties, Illinois, covering $500 to 5000
acres.
Herman F. jain, former president
of the defunct First National bank of
1ronwood, Mich, committed suicide by
shooting himself rather than face
criminal charges in the federal court
at Marquette, Mich, this week.
Corporal Lisle Crabtree has been
found guilty by court-martial at
Omaha, Neb., of the murder of his
commander, Capt. John c. Raymond,
and sentenced to life Imprisonment in
the military prison at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son, left Deadw0od, S. D., for Belle
Fourche to inspect the farms being
cultivated under the new government
irrigation projects.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, fell from a street car in Wash
ington and suffered a broken arm.
After a physician had attended him
he went to his Office and did his work
as If nothing had happened.
The dismembered body of the girl
found in Ecorse creek at Detroit was
identified, after her head had been
found, as that of Maybelle Millman of
Ann Arbor. No clew to the slayer
has been found.
killed in fall with one of the
Wright machines he was testing at
Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. The cause
of the accident has not been ex-
planned.
The trial of Police Inspector Ed
ward McCann, charged with accept
ing graft from the West side under
world" was begun in Chicago. Col.
J. Ham Lewis is McCann's chief coun.
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