Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-02-03

Nantucket lies under IS fathoms Of
sea of No Mans Land, near Martha's
Vineyard island, OF the Massachusetts
coast. The Republics captain and
crew were taken of at the last min.
ute before the great ship went down
by the revenue cutter Gresham. The
hundreds Of passengers, first taken on
board the Florida following the cot.
lision and later transferred to the
liner Baltic, were landed at New
York. They owed their safety to the
wireless, which called vessels to the
aid Of the cripple steamers. Two Of
the Atlantic's passengers and four of
the Florida's crew were killed in the
collision.
Several hours after the Baltic ar.
rived at New York with the 1850 pas
sengers Of the Republic and Florida,
the derelict destroyer Seneca came in
with Capt. Sealby of the Republic, his
volunteer crew and Jack Binns, the
wireless operator, who stuck to the
rammed liner until she went down.
The Florida, badly smashed, also
reached port.
The New York senate adopted a res
olution expressing admiration for the
heroic services rendered by the Mar
conf operator on board the steamship
Republic during the collision with the
Florida, and by the officers and crews
of the colliding steamships, the
steamer Baltic, the revenue cutter
Gresham and the derelict destroyer
Seneca.
Cabling from Picking, the CORE
spondeat of the Times says that the
infant Chinese emperor is suffering
from continent smallpox.
George Fitzmaurice shot and in
stantly killed his sweetheart, Miss
Gusta Nelson, and then killed himself
at Mohall, N. D.
August Belmont, the New York
financier, was operated on for append.
citis.
Fire destroyed most of the small
towns of Portal and Kermit, N. d.
Three men were said to have been
indicted at Muskogee, Okla, by the
federal grand jury inquiring into town
lot frauds.
District Attorney Jerome said he was
ready to begin action for criminal libel
against the publishers of the New
York World if Douglas Robinson
would appear as complainant and the
federal government would give his pro.
ceedings precedence.
violent earthquake shock was felt
In Pierce and Knox counties, Nebras-
ka.
Five men were killed by the gas
explosion and fire in the Merchants
mine at Boswell, Pa.
Secretary of State Root refused Rus.
sia's request for the extradition of
Christian Rudowitz on charges OF
murder, arson and other crimes, on the
ground that he was really wanted for
political offenses.
Peter Wambold shot himself dead
IN telephone booth in a Brooklyn
drug store after calling up his wife
and instructing her to listen for the
shot
Two persons were killed and num-
Der of others injured when the Union
Pacific's Oregon express was ditched
near Dana, Wyo.
c. S. Scroggins, for 10 years cashier
OF the State bank of Portsmouth, 1a.,
committed suicide by shooting.
Five persons lost their lives in a fire
that destroyed the Southern hotel.
Fort Worth, Tex.
The Ohio supreme court decided
the state tax on life insurance compa-
MES Is illegal.
George Frankhauser was found
guilty at Helena, Mont, of robbing a
Great Northern train. extracting $4O,-
oOO from the registered mails and
placing the lives of the custodians in
jeopardy.
George Goldman, a lawyer of Phila-
delphfa. was indicted by the grand
jury on charge of criminally libeling
John B. Parsons, president of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company;
Peter A. B. Widener and George L.
Widener.
T. J. Drummond, retiring president
of the Montreal Board of Trade, in his
annual address declared that Canada
had nothing to gain and everything to
lose by a reciprocity agreement with
the United States.
On the eleventh anniversary of the
arrival of the old battleship Maine on
her Inflated mission to Cuban waters,
the new Maine, with the still more
modern Mississippi following in her
wake, sailed into Havana harbor to be
present at the Inauguration of Gen.
Jose Miguel Gomez and the new Gu
ban government
That benzoate OF soda used as a
food preservative is not injurious to
health is the judgment of the referee
board of consulting experts, Of which
DR.. Ira Remsen, president of Johns
Hopkins university, is chairman. This
conclusion, which has been approved
by Secretary Wilson. reverses the
findings Of DR.. H. w. Wiley, chief OF
the bureau of chemistry.
Jay Gould, champion amateur court
tennis player Of the world and son of
the millionaire railroad director.
George J. Gould. Is likely to become
probation officer in, a New York po.
lice court.
What are believed to have been
earthquake shocks were felt In
Cincinnati and it, suburbs.
Delegates from IS countries includ.