Willmar tribune., 1909-01-27

closed following the installation Of
new system of accounting.
The Carnegie Hero Fund commits
sion at its annual meeting awarded 26
medals, $14,75O in cash and pensions
aggregating $565 per month for deeds
OF valor investigated since the last
meeting Of the commission last Oc-
tober.
Consideration of the bills denying
Japanese the right to own land or to
be directors of corporations was de-
layed for one week by the California
assembly at the request of President
Roosevelt and Gov. Gillett.
Six miners were killed and eight
others seriously If not fatally injured
by an explosion in the Stone Canon
coal mine at Chancellors, Cal.
United States Senator James P.
Clarke was elected to succeed himself
at joint session of the legislature of
Arkansas.
Paul Radloff, under sentence of ten
years for arson, hanged himself in the
jail at Marshalltown, la.
Three persons afflicted with leprosy
were exhibited before members of the
New York Academy of Medicine.
That the United States is not
Christian country was the spirit of a
resolution passed by the delegates to
the twenty-first council of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations
in Philadelphia.
John w. Grubb, for 20 years profess
sor of mathematics in Lombard COL
lege, Galesburg, ILL.,, committed suicide
by taking strychnine and cutting an
artery in his wrist.
Mess1na was swept by fire again.
For many hours soldiers and sailors
worked heroically to keep the flames
from destroying the last remnants of
the town, and eventually they sue
ceeded in getting the fire under con-
troll.
Eight persons were killed by a
sharp earthquake which occurred at
Phocaea, rs miles northwest of Smyr-
ma, Turkey, and at other neighboring
towns. .. ...
Announcement was made that an.
other alleged trust is to be investi-
gated by the federal authorities in
New York. The company concerned
is the Atlantic Terra Gotta Company,
a 100000 corporation.
The militia of Clinton, S. c., was
called out to prevent the lynching of a
negro who had attacked white
woman.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Farmers State bank of Hadar, Neb.,
and escaped with $4,000.
According to statement made by
Gov Gillett, there will be no legisla-
ton against the Japanese at this ses-
sion of the California legislature.
Fire in the business district of To-
ledo, o., destroyed property valued at
$250,00O.
Several hundred operatives escaped
from fire which destroyed the Brook
side Worsted mills and the wool scour-
ing shed of George C. Moore at North
Chelmsford, Mass, causing a loss of
$500,0OO.
The centenary of the birth of Edgar
Allan Poe was celebrated in New
York. where monument was un-
veiled, and by meetings in other
cities.
Robert E. Lees birthday was appro-
prfately observed in many southern
cities. y
4 Gov. George E. Chamberlain of Ore
UOn q nonooorot u,oo o1oo%ol TY,>s%od
States senator by a Republican legis-
lature, and Charles J. Hughes, Jr., was
elected senator by the Colorado legis-
lature.
James B. Kellogg of New York, who
was convicted in the state and federal
courts in connection with the opera
tions of the alleged bucketshop firm
of E. S. Dean & Co., eight years ago,
must serve the term of Imprisonment
imposed by the state court, according
to a decision handed down by Justice
Blanchard in the supreme court.
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decree of the state
courts of Texas imposing a fine of
$1,623,00O on the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company of St. Louis and ousting it
from the state on the charge of VIC.
lating the Texas antitrust law.
The supreme court of the United
States decided against former Presi-
dent Meyer of the Western Federation
OF Miners in the damage suit brought
by him against former Gov. Peabody
of Colorado.
A triple tragedy was discovered in
Seattle, Wash, when w. L. Seeley, an
attorney and former national bank ex-
aminer for Illinois under Comptroller
of Currency Eckels, his wife, Mrs.
Kate M. Seeley, member of the ma
tional society Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and his daugh-
ter, Miss Rena Seeley, student at the
University of Washington. were found
dead In a bathroom of their home. 1t
was believed Seeley killed the two
women and committed suicide.
Miss Frances Livingston of Boyd,
Wis.,. who advertised In papers in all
parts of the country for husband and
received 1000 proposals Of marriage.
has chosen Louis Struvanz of Dor.
chesetr. Wis.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
30 injured, many of them seriously. in
the head'on collision between a pass
enger train and freight train on the
Denver & Rio Grande near Dotsero.
Col.
Miss Violet Gordon Char,o.uo-+,,