Willmar tribune., 1909-07-14

President Taft and all the other no
table guests took part in the cere.
monies. the principal address being by
Postmaster General Lemieux of Can
ada.
American investigations tending to
prove that bovine tuberculosis is large.
~ responsible for the spread of the
disease among human beings, espe-
cially children, were oficially re-
ported to the International Tuberculo.
sis conference in Stockholm by Nathan
Straus Of New York.
William w. Hastings, superintendent
OF schools at Springfield. Mass, said
he would bar teacher with hacking
cough and round shoulders from the
school room, in an address at the ed.
ucators' convention.
Harry X. Thaw will be kept in jail
at White Plains, N. Y, pending the
inquiry into his sanity.
A report received in London said
the Persian revolutionary forces have
entered the city of Teheran. the ma,
tional capital.
The New York police were puzzled
by the murder of an unidentified wom-
an whose battered body was found in
the doorway of an Italian tenement
house.
Earl ]. Litteer, assistant cashier Of
the Security National bank, Okla
homa City, Okla. shot A. G.. Hudson,
an alleged forger who tried to escape.
John Justice was killed and three
other men wounded in a pistol battle
over girl at a dance in Foley, w. Va.
A cannon ball fired into tank con-
tanning $4,000 gallons of coal oil at
Martinsville, ILL.,, checked a fire and
prevented an explosion.
DR.. Charles F. Barstow, formerly Of
Chicago. was acquitted of the charge
OF numbering jeanette Reider at Free
port, Ill.
Louisville's new water plant has
been opened. It will give the city
81 100000 gallons of clear water daily.
Mrs. William c. Grant of Chicago,
aged Is years, and her sister, Miss
Catherine A. Baker, arrived in New
York after making tour of the
world.
More than 100000 birds of different
varieties that breed on the islands of
the Gulf of Mexico were destroyed by
the heavy seas that followed high
winds, according to Frank M. Miller,
president of the Louisiana game CON-
mission.
Fourth of July celebrations through.
out the country cost AZ lives, caused
injury to 1851 persons and resulted in
$724,515 damage by fire.
James COrcOran, an aeronaut, was
killed by fall from a balloon in
sight of 5000 persons at Portland, Me.
Educators at the Denver conven-
ton expressed the opinion that the
object of the public school system
of the country is not to train boys
for the presidency.
Henri Lemoine, who swindled Sir
Julius Wernher out of many thou.
sands by declaring he could make dia-
monds, was sentenced to six years in
prison by Paris court.
Martin J. Sheridan won the national
all round championship of the Ameri-
can Athletic union at New York by
making 1885 points, breaking his own
record of 7,13Ok points.
Referee Roche gave the decision to
Stanley Ketchel over "Billy" Papke
after 20 rounds of fighting at San
Francisco.
H. F. Strange, confederate veteran
and five children were burned to death
at South Boston, Va.
After failing to see Premier AS.
quith members of the Women's Free.
dom league announced that they will
seek an audience with King Edward.
Jikiri, head of the Moro outlaws and
all of his band were killed by United
States soldiers in desperate battle
near Patian on Jolo island.
An unidentified man and woman,
evidently to carry out suicide pact,
allowed their boat to drift over &
dam at South Bend, Ind. and both
were drowned.
Mrs. Lillian D. Hoag of Los Angeles,
CAL, went without food for 40 days
and cured a disease from which she
suffered.
Officials of New York hospital say
John Early who was held a year in
Washington as leper, hasn't trace
of the disease.
Allison V. Armour of New York en-.
tertained Kaiser Wilhelm on his yacht
at Travemunde, Germany.
President Taft accompanied Mrs.
Taft to the summer White House. at
Beverly, Mass, and will return after
congress adjourns.
Five hundred terror-stricken people
scrambled for their lives when the
fire started in moving picture thea.
ter at Euclid Beach near Cleveland.
All escaped without injury.
A duel was fought between Col.
Orestes Ferrera, president of the Gu
ban house of representatives end
Senor Monleon. a representative. Ra-
piers were used and both received
slight injuries.
The British steamship Whakatane
was in collision of Dungeness in 4
fog with the French steamship Circc.
1t was an exceedingly narrow escape
from a disaster as the Whakatane had
300 persons aboard.