Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-19

In fight between "moonshlners" OF
Van Buren, county, Tennessee, and 4
posse led by federal revenue officer.
one distiller was killed and two others
were hurt.
William Francis, a negro accused Of
numbering Mary Henderson at Column
bus. Mo-, August z, 1901, is reported
under arrest at Durham. N. C. A re-
ward Of $500 was offered for his cap
ture nearly ten years ago.
Luigo Usas, a convert from an
archtsm and divinity student. 10
dead in New York as result Of in
juries received in street fight. Otto
Schaffer, laborer, 10 in the hands Of
the police charged with the crime.
Bearing no visible scars except a
shattered rudder post. the North Ger
man Lloyd liner Princess Irene
slipped away from Fire island after
81 hours of imprisonment in the
sand and was towed by tugs to New
York.
In speech at Spokane, WASH, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt declared he was
not an asptrant for any office, that;
he had had everything and no man;
ever had a better run for his money
than he.
Eva Boves, = twenty-yearold girl,
at Los Angeles, stood beside the bed
side of her foster father. 8. L. DANA,
who was supposed to be dying, and
forced him to shot her three times,
to carry out compact they had en-
tered into to die together. Both are
probably fatally wounded.
William Mckenzie, held for dyna-
hitting the Lancaster (Tenn.) bank,
has been identified by detectives as
notorious yeggman, William st. Clair.
alias J. P. Montague, who is wanted
by the government and banks for
many robberies.
An investigation Of the New York
Antt.Saloon league will be conducted
by the Troy Methodist conference as
result OF declaration made in the
conference that the league is work
ing In the interest Of the saloons and
has used its efforts to secure legisla-
ton favorable to the liquor traffic.
Records of the first Kansas terri
tor1al court, which began in 1855 and
which were reported destroyed in the
fire that recently destroyed the Leav-
enworth courthouse. were found In
tact in the ruins.
In deploring the fact that the civil
service did not 60 back to Civil war
times President Emeritus Charles w.
Eliot of Harvard university said that
President Lincoln's appointments to
Office in 1851 were shocking and that
incompetent men held Office under him
as a result.
The Civil war pension list was at
tackled by Franklin MaoVeagh, secre-
tary of the treasury, in an address
at the opening session of the fifteenth
annual meeting Of the American Acad-
envy Of Political and Social Science in
Philadelphia when he advocated
civil service pension for government
employees. .&'ts - - 80. = L..
Personal,
The National Association Of Cotton
Manufacturers held a notable conven-
ton in Boston.
Mrs. Kate FELTON, Elkins is willing
to lose a sum estimated at $1,000, 900
for the sake Of marrying again. Ac-
c0rding to the terms OF her husbands
will she sacrifices a princely fortune
should she remarry. Her engagement,
to William Delaware Nelson, a prom
1nent attorney and society man Of
Philadelphia is announced.
More high life is said to be in store
for Hetty Green. The little fiat in
Hoboken will be closed May 1 and
Mrs. Green, it Is understood, will re-
side with her son. Col. Edward H.
Green, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
In New York.
Tom L. Johnson, former mayor Of
Cleveland and known throughout the
nation for his fight for three-cent
street car fares. died at Cleveland of
cirrhosis of the liver He had been
Ill for over two years but had been
confined to his bed only since March
Is. Mr.. Johnson was at one time a
multimillionaire.
David w. Cromwell of New York
has loaned to the National museum at
Washington 10000 varieties of stamps.
representing all nations that have
ever issued stamps.
Helen Gould ate dinner with sev-
eral hundred members Of the naval Y.
M. c. A. and shook hands with 1000
members of the crews of the Loulsl-
ana and New Hampshire and other
ships In Hampton roads.
Foreign
Gen. Stanley Williams, the Amer.