Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-05-05

The new administration in Turkey
has decided not to put Abdul Hamid
II. on trial to answer the charges
against him, but will keep him pris
oner for life in palace at Saloniki.
President Taft officially recognized
Mehmed ", the new sultan of Tur.
! key, In message sent to Ambassador
Leishman.
The Red Cross society has sent
$1,000 to relieve the suffering of refu
gees from the massacres In Asiatic
Turkey.
1t was reported that Turkish troops
arrived at Adana, killed many Armeni
ans and completed the work Of de.
stroying their homes.
Beach Hargis was convicted and
sentenced to serve a life term in the
penitentiary for Staying his father at
Irvine. Ky.
The body of Maj. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, who laid out the city of
Washington, was taken from the
grave at Digges farm, Maryland, and
buried in Arlington cemetery.
Policeman Kroeger of Logansport
Ind, and an unidentified pickpocket
were slain in pistol duel following
the performance of circus.
One person was killed and many
hurt by tornado which swept Doug.
las, Udall and Rock, Kan.
The miners in the tri-district con.
vention at Scranton, Pa, decided to
accept the old agreement with the an.
thrac1te operators and authorized
their officials to sign it.
An anarchist named Verdier was ar.
rested at Monte Carlo and charged
with plotting to kill President Fal.
Heres of France.
The defense in the case of James
Boyle decided to call James P. Whitla,
father of the kidnapped boy, to testify
in the prisoners behalf.
President Taft has signified his in.
tention of witnessing the information.
al yacht races between American and
German boats, to be sailed of Marble.
head the first week in September. His
newly-selected summer home at Bev.
| erly Is only three miles from the
starting point.
Abdul Hamid H., for 80 years ruler
OF Turkey, was deposed and his
brother, Mehemmed Reschad Effendi,
assembled the throne.
Fears were expressed by the Aid.
rich faction of the senate that the de-
bates on the tariff bill will prevent
final action on the measure until late
IN the summer.
President Taft, speaking at the
| Grant dinner in Philadelphia, praised
the soldier-president and pleaded for
| closer ties between north and south.
The National Federation of Reli.
g1ous Liberals held its first annual
| conference in Philadelphia.
Indiana liquor forces got the hard.
est blow they have yet received when
Delaware county, of which Muncie is
the seat, voted dry"
Miss Muriel White, daughter of the
United States ambassador to France,
was married in Paris to Count Her.
man Scherr-Thoss of Prussia.
j. Ogden Armour is reported to be
planning a $1,00O,OOO gift for perma-
nent home for grand opera in Chi
cago.
The Illinois house of representa-
tives voted to make October IL, the
birthday of Christopher Columbus, a
state holiday.
An attempt to kill the woman's
suffrage bill in the Illinois legislature
failed by five votes.
The explosion of a boiler caused
fire which destroyed the plant of the
Winnebago Furniture Company at
Fond du Lac, Wis.,, entailing $4,000
| loss.
The jury to try Capt. Peter Hams
for the murder of William E. Annis
was selected at Flushing, L. l.
Col. Roosevelt and his son Kermit,
having recovered from their indispo-
sltion, returned to the hunt, bagging
much small game.
Isaac S. Morse, a business man of
Nashville, Tenn, was slain by Ger
trude Douglas, who claimed he had
Tilted her.
| A. B. Rennie, a merchant of Pom.
tiac, ILL.,, was killed and four com.
panions hurt when train struck their
automobile at Elmhurst. Ill.
Adele Boas. daughter of New
York millionaire, who was believed to
have been kidnapped, returned to her
home after working in Boston res.
taurant.
The International Kindergarten
union began it's sixteenth annual con.
vention in Buffalo.
Centrahoma, Okla. was swept by
cyclone and not building in the town
was left unchanged, but no person
was killed.
Masons from all over Missouri at.
tended the grand lodge meeting in
Joplin.
Mrs. Jessie Osborne. bride of ten
days. committed suicide at Peru, Ind.
President Taft probably will not at.
tend the meeting of the Yale corpora.
ton on May II, but he hopes to attend
the commencement exercises in June.
Henry L. Wilson, the American
minister to Belgium, has notified the
state department that the Belgian gov
eminent is about to issue a decree
removing restrictions against the i'm.
portation of cattle from all sections
OF the United States.
| Hon. Ronald Ramsay, brother of
Earl Dalhousie of England, committed
suicide by jumping into the sea from
the liner Cleveland.