Willmar tribune., 1909-03-10

Because the cemetery authorities
would not allow his dog to be buried
In the family lot, William D. Corbin of
Sharon, Mo-, has withdrawn an offer
! to present $4,000 to the cemetery.
Another attempt was made in the
California legislature to pass a bill ex.
Guiding Japanese children from the
schools.
The state decided not to call Gov.
Patterson of Tennessee as a witness in
the COoper-C -Carmack murder trial.
More than 100 convicts in the Cali
fornfa penitentiary fought fire which
threatened to destroy their prison and
made no attempt to escape.
Unexpectedly ordered to return to
Constantinople, the Turkish naval Of
ticers who came to this country on the
American battleship fleet, left Wash.
ington on their homeward journey.
They were to have visited the princi.
pal cities of the country as guests of
various chambers of commerce and
boards of trade.
Thomas E. Stone, now chief usher
at the White House, will succeed Maj.
Charles D. A. Loef1ler, as doorkeeper
to the president. Mr.. Stone has been
at the White House ever since Secre-
tary of the Treasury Cortelyou was
secretary to the president.
Orders were issued at the navy de-
partment for the rendezvous of the
Pacific fleet under Admiral Swinburne
at Magdalena bay on March % where
the spring target practice will take
place.
Col. Edward E. Britton and Quaran-
tine Commissioner Frederick H.
Schroeder, former president and Sec
ond vice-president of the Eagle Saw
ings & Loan Company of Brooklyn
were found guilty of stealing $4,000
from that institution in February,
1908.
The joint occupation of Camp Colum-
bia by the Cuban and American
troops began when with the consent
OF Maj. Gen. Barry a battalion of in
fantry of the new army took up quar-
ters at the barracks in Havana lately
vacated by the marines.
The defense in the Cooper -Carmack
murder trial at Nashville, Tenn, rested
It's case and the state prepared to Of
fer rebuttal testimony.
Members of the Ohio senate carried
revolvers, expecting an attack from
a man who had threatened to blow
them up with dynamite.
A. D. Cassidy, prominent Illinois
horseman, was arrested on charge
of cruelty to 12-year.old orphan boy.
BY a decision of the federal court
at Cincinnati the printing pressmen
win long fight for an eight-hcur day.
A bill has been introduced in the
Illinois legislature which is aimed at
the re-marriage of divorced persons.
Mrs. G. M. Johnson of Ottumwa, Ia.,
whose sensational story nearly re-
suited in lynching, now says she
was not assaulted by a negro as she
charged.
Dates for option elections in four
more Indiana counties have been fixed
by commissioners courts.
White women have been besieging
the Des Moines Qa.) Jail, trying to see
the negro who killed Miss Clara Ro-
sen in Ottumwa. Some have sent
flowers to the prisoner.
Representatives of 80 Congrega-
tional churches in New York and
neighbOring cities met and discussed
plans for taking up campaign which it
Is proposed to push in all the Congre-
gational churches of the country, q
fund of $500,000 to pay off the debts
OF the denominations seven mission
ary societies and place them on a
sound financial basis.
Baron Hengelmuller, the Austrian
ambassador, accompanied by the
baroness, has left Washington for New
York, where they are to sail for an
extended absence in Europe.
With a view to ridding the country
OF a certain class of undesirable aliens,
Superintendent c. V. Collins of the
state prison department of New York,
suggests legislation by which foreign
ers who become inmates of the prisons
OF the state may be deported upon
their release.
China again has declined to recon-
slider or to negotiate the question of
the Russian municipal administration
of Harbin with Russia, and in view
of possible action on the part of the
powers the railroad authorities at
Harbin have desisted from their pro.
gram and are waiting.
After patching up truce with Sem
ator La Toilette, Senator Stephenson
decided not to permit his colleague to
present his certificate of election to
the senate and will have some other
Republican senator do it for him.
The annual report of the Pennsyl.
vanfa Railroad Company for the year,
1908, shows a decrease in gross earn
ings compared with the preceding
year, of $52,446,722, and a decrease in
net earnings of $7,436,297.
Blanche Walsh, the actress. who has
been confined in a hospital in Kansas
City more than month, suffering
from severe attack of stomach trou.
BILE, has left the hospital and will 20
to New York next week.
The defense in the Cooper-Sharp
trial at Nashville for the murder of
former Senator Carmack scored a
point in showing that Carmack was in
an ugly mood and borrowed a re.
v0lver.
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