Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-18

west show parade.
Five deaths and q total of AZ new
cases OF 1nfantile paralysis have been
reported to the Minnesota health de.
partment.
Becoming seasick, William Sterne
was forced to abandon his attempt to
swim across the English channel.
A tariff issue has arisen in Kansas
City over a consignment of q car.
loads of zinc ore from Mexico. The
| shipment crossed the Mexican frontier
five hours before the tariff bill was
signed. The importers claim it should
be admitted free.
The Georgia senate has passed a
bill to impose a $1,000 license tax on
wholesale dealers in near beer" and
one of $500 on retailers.
Fire which destroyed 36 buildings,
! including several large hotels, at
!, Monticello, N. Y, summer resort,
caused loss of $1,OO0,OOO.
Sergt. Arthur Todd of the United
States Marine corps is quoted in an
interview at Boston with saying he
| saw Lieut. James Sutton shot by fel-
low officers.
NJ. Spelterine, a French aeronaut
and three companions, succeeded in
flying over the Alps in a balloon, at
tanning height of more than three
miles as they were above Mount
Blanc.
The report, which reached London.
that Count Zeppelin. the German
aeronaut had died, proved to be un-
true.
While driving along a road near
Nashville, Ind, Mrs. Charles Daley
was shot from ambush and seriously
wounded.
When dog bit one of II elephants
on the heel the whole herd of pachy-
derms bolted in a circus parade at
Clay Center, Kan, knocked down
many persons and created a panic
the town will not forget in years.
Thirty-two skeletons, supposed to be
those of early settlers slain by saw
ages, have been unearthed by railroad
excavators near Piedmont, Tex.
After evading pursuers for a week,
shooting one man and creating con-
sternation in two states, r. E. Dun.
nington, an escaped maniac, walked
into the Office of Gov. Brown of Geor-
gia and sought an interview with the
executive. He fled when the police
were summoned.
state of Washington that it is i'm
possible for the canneries to handle
all of it.
A picture bearing the inscription,
"Cummins for President in 1912" was
carried through the streets of Des
PLANES when the senator was greeted
by thousands upon his return from
Washington.
Fifty-two dray loads of liquors have
been moved from points in Alabama
to Columbus, Ca, in an effort to de-
feat the Alabama liquor law.
Mayor Earle of Niles, Mich, says
he will sue the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern Railroad Company for
100000 for the killing of his son near
South Bend. Ind.
President Taft's itinerary has been
changed to include visit to Milwau-
kee on the morning Of September II.
John Simpson, farmer near Scots
vile, KY, was called to his door by six
masked men and murdered.
Mrs. Robert w. Chambers, wife of
the novelist, was thrown from her
morse near Broad Albin, N. Y, and
the animal reached home alone. The
rider was found by searching party.
She was only slightly hurt.
A Cleveland judge has ruled that a
husband need not wash the dishes in
his home. His ruling was given on
the complaint of wife that her hus-
band beat her. The husband said he
was the injured party and the trouble
started because he would not wash
the dishes.
The treasury department in Wash
lngton is planning for the issue of
new paper money. The same portraits
and emblems will appear on bills o.
the same denomination.
After practicing for &C years, DR..
Jesse Cope Green of Westchester, Pa,
probably the oldest dentist in the Uni
ted States, retired at the age of 80
years.
Archbishop John Joseph Keane of
Dubuque, Ia, will retire and a coad-
jutor is to be suggested at meeting
OF lrremovable rectors and consultors
OF the archdiocese in the Iowa town
August IS.
Philip Spizzirri and his wife fought
a duel with pistols in their home in
Chicago, the woman being slain and
her husband mortally wounded.
Six foreigners lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed 20 frame build.
ings near the steel plant in South
Chicago.
The government estimate of wheat,
corn, oats, rye and barley for 1909
is 1881, 100000 bushels, valued at
$3,102, 100000 and the commercial in
terests expect the most widespread
boom the country has ever known.
The mother of Lieut.. Sutton of the
United States marine corps, whose
death is being Investigated, in a let
ter declared her sons spirit had Wis
tied her and told her he did not CON-
nit suicide, but was murdered.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, has sigri-
fed his intention of applying for H.
cense as an aeronaut.
A cloudburst caused 100000 DAM
age at West Colfax, COL, near Denver.