Willmar tribune., 1909-03-03

IN rlOt caused by the murder OF q
policeman at the hands Of Greek.
The United States probably will be
involved in diplomatic tangle over
the assaults on Greeks in South
Omaha.
Fearing an attack on the jail to lib
crate three alleged burglars, the sher-
1T at Lima, O., asked authority to call
out the militia If necessary.
The state department has made in
quiry of the governor of Nebraska con-
cerning the mobbing Of Greeks at
South Omaha.
Russia fears Austria and Servia will
be at war within a fortnight. France
also Is alarmed but Germany and Eng
land take more optimistic view.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided that damages can
not be collected from a railroad for
injuries sustained by a baby on .
train where the mother is negligent.
Senator Hemenway of Indiana will
reply to President Roosevelt, who
characterized the report on the secret
| service as Inaccurate and misleading.
1t now seems certain that Franklin
! MacVeagh OF Chicago will be secre-
| tary of the treasury In the Taft cab
met.
An equal suffrage bill was passed by
the South Dakota house by vote of
6S to %. AS a like bill was carried in
the senate early in the session and
barely failed in the house suffragettes
are jubilant over the outlook
After an official investigation con-
Quoted by cable, Baron Mayor des
Planches, the Italian ambassador, has
issued an official denial of a recently
published story to the effect that in
the stress and confusion following the
recent earthquake in southern Italy a
large number of orphaned children
had been sold into white slavery"
abroad.
A resolution was introduced in the
Porto Rican house of delegates urging
President Roosevelt to remove Judge
B. S. Rodey of the United States dis
trict court.
1t is announced that the dates for
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Order Of Eagles to be held in Omaha
have been fixed for September 13 to
20, inclusive.
President Roosevelt has issued
proclamation giving sparkling wines
imported from Spain the benefit of the
reduced rates of duty under section
of the Dingley tariff act.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
was sued in the district supreme court
by DR.. Charles H. English to recover
$11,600 alleged to be due him on &C.
count of breach of contract in the pay
ment of medical bill.
Two counties in Arkansas were
swept by a cyclone which killed 13
persons and injured many others.
Fisher was practically swept of the
map.
A cyclone passed over Center town
ship near Evansville, Ind, unroofing
houses and other farm buildings.
The United States supreme court
has decided that the express COM
panies cannot issue franks under the
interstate commerce law.
Admiral Sperry sent report on the
fleets world cruise to the navy depart
ment, giving valuable information
about the voyage.
Rev. Rockwell s. Brank of st. Louis
has been extended call to the Ghent
Presbyterian church of Norfolk, Va.
The heaviest rains in years have
swollen Kentucky streams and the
government issued warnings against
Ohio river floods.
Five Indiana counties voted dry, put
ting 143 saloons out of business.
A sentence Of ten-years' imprison-
ment was imposed by Judge Grain in
New York upon Mrs. Ellen Peck, 70
years old, of Spark Hill, N. Y. Mrs.
Peck, who is known to the police as
the confidence queen" was convicted
of obtaining $4,000 from a brokerage
firm.
DR.. C. c. Clark, associate statistician
OF the department of agriculture, has
accepted an appointment as chief of
the bureau of general statistics and
agricultural information in the Inter-
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take effect Immediately
The Reno New branch of the Nye
and Ormby chain of banks in Nevada
suspended. Cashier Byington declares
all the depositors will be paid.
w. w. Wilmerton, editor of the Tri-
City Journal, shot John Looney, editor
of the News, in duel in the street at
Rock Island, Ill.
Seven men were killed and several
persons hurt in the collision of trains
on the Pennsylvania at Deln,ar, Del.
After having been missing from the
city for 40 years, the famous death
mask of Napoleon, which recently
came to light in the possession of
Capt. w. G. Raoul of Atlanta, has been
returned to New Orleans Capt.
Raoul presented 1t to the city.
E. H. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel Corporations board of d.
rectors, says there is no intention on
the company's part to cut wages.
Gov. Fort Of New Jersey says he
favors the election of presidents of the
United States for life.
Mrs. Frances Richard of Detroit was
found murdered in her home. Two
young men have been arrested. Her
throat was cut and an effort was made
to burn her body.
James Allen shot and killed his
brother-in'law, Willy Stewart, in Cape
Gtrardeau, Mo-, while protecting Mrs.
Stewart her mother and hahv fron, HI.