Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-17

IN sending cavalry to Sebastian and
nearby towns stopped all the efforts
OF the so-called Carlists.
The birthplace Of Rutherford B.
Hayes, nineteenth president of the Uni
ted States, was destroyed by fire at
Delaware, o. The building was two
story brick, 100 years old.
Not only Jacob l.. Hamon, but also
J. +. McMurray was named as a would
BE briber in the investigation of the
100000 Oklahoma Indian land deal
before the special congressional COM
m1ttee at Muskogee, Okla. McMurray
is the holder of the contracts with the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians to pro-
mote which In congress Gore charged
he was offered bride.
The feature Of the hearing at Meal.
lister, Okla. before the congressional
committee which Is inquiring into the
McMurray contracts with the Chicka.
saw and Choctaw Indians and the
charges OF attempted bribery made by
Senator Gore, was the testimony given
by D. c. McCurtain, son of Governor
McCurtain, who was recalled to the
stand.
Twelve persons were killed in a
head-on collision between a passenger
train and a terminal engine of the Cal
ifornia &, Northwestern railroad near
1gnatio, Cal. The passenger train was
carrying delegation Of Red Men on
their way to attend the state conven
ton at Santa Rosa. The train was
running at high rate of speed when
the collision occurred.
Uh-a the beautiful black son OF
Btngen, driven to wagon by his owner.
Z. X. G. Billings, trotted mile in
2:O1 at Cleveland, O., clipping ~ sec
onds from his own record to wagon, al
ready the record for trotting geldings,
The Payne-Aldrich tariff law has pro-
duced in It's first year revenue larger
by $75,000,000 than the sum collected
in any II months in the country's his.
tory, except the banner year 1907, &C.
cording to treasury department fig
ures.
Six thousand rifles were seized by
the Spanish authorities on tug which
had been chartered to go to San Sc.
bastian, where the anti-government
demonstration was proposed to be
held.
Portugal, like Spain, is nearly on the
verge OF an open rupture with the
Vatican, due, among other causes, to
friction over the governmental censure
of the Roman Catholic archbishop of
Braga for suppressing Portuguese
franciscan newspaper without first
submitting the order to the Portuguese
government.
So serious has the forest fire situa'
ton in northwestern and western
Montana become that Governor Nor.
ris has telegraphed the presidents OF
the three transcontinental railroads
beseeching their cooperation in fight,
ing the flames.
That one-third of the babies in Iowa
under one year old have died since the
hot weather set in was the alarming
condition revealed by DR.. G. H. Sum.
ner, secretary of the state board OF
health. Doctor Sumner attributes the
unusual rate to four causes: Cholera
infantum, infantile paralysis, poor milk
and improper care.
That the house of Savoy has at last
withdrawn its opposition to the long
heralded engagement of the Due d:
Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elkins
daughte.: of the United States senator
from Wes st Virginia, and that the an.
nouncemenS will be officially gazetted
in a few days is the substance of a
statement made here by person high
in the esteem of the members of the
royal family.
After writing two notes, Ralph G.
Nichols of Rockford, ILL.,, a marine who
has been stationed aboard the battle
ship Virginia, shot himself in the right
temple at a Boston hotel.
The convention of the Catholic To.
tai Abstinence Union of America
opened in Boston with high mass cele
brated by Archbishop Falconi and well
coming addresses by Governor Draper
and Mayor Fitzgerald.
The seventh annual meeting of the
American Apple Growers Congress be.
gan in st. Louis, J. w. Stanton of Rich.
view. ILL.,, presiding.
An international exposition opened
In Quito in celebration of the Gen.
tenary Of Ecuador's independence.
Five lives of Baltimoreans were
crushed out when the express train
on the West Jersey and Seashore rail-
road from Philadelphia struck the au-
tomobile carrying Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick w. Feldner and their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Mer-
genthaler and their chauffeur at q
grade crossing near Cape May, N. J..
Mosquitoes have become so trouble.
some at East Orange, N. j., that the
Methodist church there has been
forced to postpone evening service.
Denver authorities have issued an
order forbidding Salvation Army
women to enter saloons in that city to
solicit money, on the theory that the
practise is demoralizing.
Frank G. Drew, a San Francisco at.
torney, has engaged a special Pullman
to take his wife's pet bulldog across
the continent, because the animal was
not permitted to ride on a regular
tourist car.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West