Willmar tribune., 1909-06-30

leart or the business district OF Fort
Worth, Tex, in broad daylight, held up
, the cashier and fled in an automobile
with $500.
DR.. Frank C. Richardson of Boston
told physicians attending a branch
meeting of the Homeopathic congress
at Detroit that drinking among bust
ness men is increasing.
A report of a parliamentary commits.
sion of France declared the country's
500, 100000 navy is practically help
less because of red tape methods.
Gov. Stuart Of Pennsylvania ap-
proved the state pardon boards rec
ommendation that James b. Gentry,
who murdered Madge Yorke, an &C.
tress, in 1895, be freed.
A princess was born to the queen
OF Spain, and the royal house was de-
lighted at the arrival of a daughter,
the two other children being boys.
Mistrusting banks. Mrs. Elizabeth
Farrier OF Sperry, Ia., who died re-
Gently, hid several thousands of dol.
lars under carpet and in an organ.
Battling" Nelson, lightweight cham
pion pugilist, knocked out Jack Cliff
ford in five rounds at Oklahoma City.
Kermit Roosevelt, according to re-
port from the Loietta plains, where
the hunting party is now located,
killed the largest lion yet slain.
Articles of incorporation were filed
In Los Angeles for a $3O,O0O,OOO gas
and electric company, which is de-
signed to control all the gas and light
ing plants in southern California.
The first expedition ever sent out by
the National Geological Society OF
Washington, to study the big glaciers
of Alaska, will sail firm Seattle on the
steamship Portland. It is headed by
Prof. Starr of Cornell and Prof.
Mathew of the University of Wiscon.
sin.
With the arrival in New York soon
of j. P. Morgan and other financiers it
is expected in Washington that negoti-
ations for the organization of a PAN
American bank soon will begin.
Attorneys for So Nebraska banks
have filed suit in the federal court in
Lincoln, asking an Injunction against
the enforcement of the new bank
deposit guaranty law. The lawyers
contend the act is confiscatory.
Representative Young of Michigan
has introduced bill in the house at
Washington providing that prelimin.
ary or interlocutory injunctions shall
be issued by the federal court after
hearing.
Alleging liabilities of $1.OoO,OOO, a
petition in bankruptcy was filed in
New York by creditors against the
Leeds & Catlin Company, phonograph
dealers, which has Offices in Chicago
and other cities.
| The Wright brothers took every
| precautiOn to prevent accident in the
preparation of their new aeroplane
for the government tests at Fort
| Myer.
Reports that E. H. Hartman was
seriously ill in Vienna caused great
alarm in Wall street, but were denied
by his business associates. ::
Hezekiah Marshall, negro tramp,
who had attacked two women at
Green Ridge, ILL.,, escaped from a mob
by tagging a train with his red un
dershirt. He was captured in Carlin
Vile.
Passengers on the New York Cen.
trails Chicago special, a fast train
were excited when two Pullman cars
caught fire as the speeder was leav
ing New York city.
The Mauretania broke the Atlantic
ocean speed record when her passen.
gers landed in London after five days
and eight hours from New York.
The American Envelope Manufac.
turers' association met in Buffalo to
devise means to stop the injury to
| their business through government
manufacture of stamped envelopes.
Bob Fitzsimmons returned from Eu-
rope and declared he is willing to
fight Johnson, any time and any,
| where.
Henry Clark and Chesley Hubbard,
negroes, are under arrest at Denison,
1a.. charged with killing Lee c.
Warner and wounding Alva Bechtel,
brakemen in the Northwestern rail-
road. The negroes, it is said, were
stealing a ride and the killing fol.
lowed an attempt to eject them.
Charles Scheers, a chauffeur, who a
year ago while speeding near Morris
town, Pa. ran down two men, one of
whom, Patrick Mclaughlin, died from
his injuries, was sentenced in court to
one years Imprisonment and $50 fine.
Surveyor Clarkson, in the hope of
stopping wholesale smuggling at New
York, will appoint 100 additional spe-
cial watchmen.
The race for big cars in the Crown
Point Ond.) events was won by
Louis Chevrolet in Bruick auto.
Emil Tilley, who killed his father
near Benton Harbor, Mich, said he
fired to save himself and wife who
had been attacked by his parent with
a club.
The main factory building of the
G. B. Lewis Company, manufacturers
OF beekeepers' supplies at Watertown,
Wis, was destroyed by fire, causing
$4,000 damage.
The American branch of the Inter.
national Banking Company was
opened in Peking.
| A statue commemorative of the Illi.
nois soldiers in the civil war was
unveiled on the site of Camp Yates