Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-21


stormed the capitol.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler. successfully defended his
title against Yusiff Mahmout, Turk,
whom he defeated in two straight
falls.
Margaret Clark, supposed to have
been from Brooklyn, and Annie Miller,
whose residence has not been learned,
committed suicide on the liner Lucania
at sea.
The steamer Virginia was wrecked
and sank in the Ohio river at Wells
vile, o., the crew saving the lives of
SO panic-stricken passengers.
Harry A. Axtell, former city treasur-
er of Bloomington, Ind, was convicted
Of embezzlement.
A report from Mombasa, Africa, said
smallpox has broken out in the district
which former President Theodore
Roosevelt intends to visit.
Gov. Johnson signed the bill which
prohibits the sale or giving away of
cigarettes in Minnesota.
In riot at the coal mining camp at
Coahuila, Mexico, 30 men were killed.
Henri Lemoyne, fugitive from JUS.
tice, who had been convicted of swim.
ding an Englishman on a scheme by
which he protested to be able to make
diamonds, was captured in Paris.
To determine whether the Des
Moines river can be made navigable
from Des Moines to the Mississippi is
the object of Maj. C. E. Richie and
M. Meigs, army engineers, who are in
Des Moines on orders from the wa,
department.
Eugene Gardiner, who is connected
with several prominent Kentucky fam
lilies, was acquitted of the charge OF
having murdered Joseph Cordez, a
colored boat steerer of the whale1
BoWhead at San Francisco.
Turkish troops revolted in CONSTANT.
nople, stormed parliament and killed
II persons.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, in a
speech before a church club, said
Theodore Roosevelt is a greater man
than George Washington was.
Fire in Rochester, N. Y, made 1000
persons homeless and caused damage
estimated at $1,000,00O.
The police of Danville, ILL.,, arrested
David Reynolds, whom they charged
with plotting to blow up his grandpar.
ents, former policeman and himself
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According to a government report, it
is shown that hens hatch more eggs
than incubatOrs and the chickens thus
produced are worth more than the
machine-made kind.
Annie Bugelnorth of Burlington,
Conn.,, wears overalls and helps her
father to build public highway be-
cause she likes mans work.
After a desperate fight Walter
Strauss of Des Moines, Ia, killed the
first mountain lion shot in Iowa in 20
years.
The eleventh quadrennial congress
OF the Military Order of the Loyal Le-
glon was held in New York city.
Mrs. c. H. McCrackin for the f1f-
teenth time defeated an attempt to
open saloon in Dodson, Mo.
The United States court of appeals
affirmed the sentence of one year in
the penitentiary imposed upon Marion
Grey OF Elgin, who was convicted of
fraudulent use of the mails in soul
mating.
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Inc Russian government has adj
vlsed the post-office department at
washington that the prohibition
against the importation into that coun.
try OF bound books in the mails have
Deen Withdrawn and they may now be
admitted upon the payment of the Rus.
sian customs.
Inc supreme court of Nebraska
handed down an opinion that a dis.
trlct court had no right to order a
town council to reconvene to hear
testimony in liquor cases. The de.
clslon came upon the attempt of the
remonstrants in Wayne liquor case
to secure a rehearing.
Vice-Presfdent Sherman. speaking
at a banquet in Utica, N. Y, recounted
the elements of strength possessed by
the United States.
In collision of interurban trolley
cars near Gary, Ind, 80 passengers
were injured.
Philadelphia and Washington teams
defeated Boston and New York mines
In the opening of the American league
baseball season by the eastern clubs.
The war department issued an order
stopping the sale of discarded army
rifles because of the possibility OF
their use in riots.
Former President Roosevelt says he
was not interviewed by a correspond.
ent OF LIE Journal of Paris. but the
reporter says he was.
A report from Rome denied that
Mount Etna is in eruption and there
Is fear OF another earthquake.
1t has developed that the state de.
partment in 1906 inquired of Italy the
standing Of an American girl who
might become the wife of one of the
country's noblemen.
According to announcement made
IN New York the anthracite operators
nave decided not to cut wages of the
miners now.
Complaint has been made by Pitts.
burg officials against Minister WI Tine
Fang of China, for his action in bring.
Ing about the release of two Chinese
who were arrested in that city.
Malcolm W. Rix, a clerk, was ar
rested in Utica, N. Y, charged with
stealing $1,700 from the bank OF
which Vice-President Sherman is the
head.