Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-07-21

by K. Uchida, now at Vienna.
Mrs. William Olyphant of West
Branch, Ia, poisoned four of her chill.
dren and herself, killing one of the
children.
It is probable that the Wright
brothers. because of accidents to
their aeroplane, will ask the govern
ment for q further extension of time
In which to complete their speed and
endurance trials.
The Northwestern Railroad Com.
pany has made plans to build several
branches in the wheat regions Of
South Dakota.
John D. Rockefeller has defeated
1nnkeeper John Melin at Sleepy Hol.
low, N. Y, and the latter will sell has
saloon. The oil king bought all the
land surrounding Melin's place and
installed abstaining tenants.
:, Naval officers at Annapolis say it
will be shown at the coming investi-
cation of Lieut.. Sutton's death that
he shot at another when he killed
himself
War between the American Society
of Equity in Kentucky and the Burley
! Tobacco society, over the 1909 pool,
is threatened.
John w. Brown, believed to be from
Indianapolis, was killed by an automo-
bile in Los Angeles.
Mrs. George Lynas, said to be from
Chicago, paid $525, a record price, for
Rob Roy H., Chinchilla Persian cat,
in London.
No trace of Claude Hunt, compan.
ion of Mamie Davey of Chicago,
whose body was discovered in King.
er lake near Sturgis. Mich, could be
found by searchers. Physicians said
the girl died of fright, but another
theory was she committed suicide and
Hunt died in attempting to save her.
Both the widow and daughter of
J. B. Sayler, the Crescent City Qll.)
banker who was slain by DR.. w. R.
Miller, declared the physician acted
| in self-defense.
The Mississippi river reached a
| stage of 1874 at St. Louis, being three
| feet above the food mark Buildings
along the levee were flooded.
Thirty-five men invaded the foreign
quarter of Victor, COL, and attempted
to drive Hungarians away from their
| work. One foreigner was dangerously
wounded in the fight.
Battling Nelson, champion light.
weight pugilist of the world, was bad.
ly beaten in a ten-round fight with
| Ad Wolgast of Milwaukee at Los An,
geles.
Orville Wright made two unsuccess.
full attempts to fly in his aeroplane at
Fort Myer and the machine was
broken again in falling to earth.
A letter written to a Bloomington
woman by Col. Tom Smell, the Clinton
Qn) millionaire whose will is being
attacked in court, showed him in the
role OF the wooer and not the wooed
Seventy-two guests at private din.
ner In Toledo, Spain, were poisoned
by ice cream.
James J. Hill, after a fishing trip.
reached New York. He said crop con.
ditions were excellent. He said low
prices for cereals were at an end.
Secretary Ballinger of the interior
department has arrived in Seattle on
his inspection of the government re.
clamation projects and Indian agen.
cies.
Prof. George A. Ferguson Of Colum
b1a university has reported, after an
expert chemical analysis, that Elsie
Slgel, who was murdered in the room
OF Leon Ling, a New York Chinaman
was poisoned.
Eighteen Japanese prisoners arc
held in Honolulu and they probably
Will be charged with resisting an of
flcer, following strike riot on the
Waimanalo plantation, IL miles from
the Hawaiian capital.
Fithian, ILL.,, was wrecked, Alton and
venice were badly damaged, st. Louis
was swept and 20 mourners in fun.
eral procession near Hamilton, o.
were hurt, by cyclones.
Fourteen members of the crew on
the steamer John B. Cowle lost their
lives when she was sunk in collision
with the Isaac M. Scott of White.
fish Point. Lake Superior.
The credentials committee of the
International Longshoremens associa.
ton, which began its seventeenth an
nual session in Galveston, announced
that Daniel ]. Keefe, former presi-
dent of the organization, but now fed
eral commissioner of immigration,
would be denied a seat in the con-
ventiOn.
Persian rebels invaded Teheran, the
capital, and fierce battle with the
shah's troops was begun.
Miss Stella May Dunn of Blooming.
ton, ILL.,, committed suicide by Jump.
in from the window of the Milwaukee
(Wis.) museum in view of hundreds of
of persons.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Short, who is prosecuting Ella Gin
giles, the Irish lace-maker in Chicago,
received a letter threatening assassi.
nation.
The sixth annual Glidden tour-a
reliability run to Kansas City by way
of Minneapolis and Demonstrated in
Detroit with thirty machines in the
contest.
Prof. Lawrence Marshall Byers of
Des Moines, Ia., who died in a den.
lists chair, was the victim of misad-
venture. according to the London
coroner's verdict.
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