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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
No TRUTH IN 1T.

Alleged lGissioa Of Ex-Consul Williams to
Spain Pure Inventtoa-
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.-The state
officials say that the story published to
the effect that Ramon Williams. ex-
consul general to Cuba, was sent to
Spain Al secret agent of the govern
ment to endeavor to secure the consent
Of the Spanish government to project
to sell the Island of Cuba to the insur-
gents, the United States to guarantee
the bonds to be issued in payment there
for, Is pure invention. Mr.. Williams
has no connection with the state de-
partment, either open or secret. There
il also said to be lack of foundation
for the story that the Spanish minister
has promised the president that it the
Spanish troops were unable to subdue
the instruction within GO days tho
Island would be abandoned.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
LEAD IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

Republican State and Congressional Tick
cts AEU Safe.
YAsKroN, s. D., Nov 1O.-Corected
returns made by county canvassing
boards have increased the majority for
the Mckinley electors to l25. On the
count thus far the Republican state
ticket runs ahead of the electors by 300
to 400, and it is almost assured that the
entire congressional and state ticket is
elected.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
FAMINE RIOT IN INDIA.

Five thousand Men Loot Stores of Grain.
Police Killed -Four.
BOMBAY. Nov. 1O:-Serious rioting
has occurred at Sholapur A band Of
5000 men looted 1900 bags of grain.
The efforts of the police were Of no
avail and therefore they fred upon the
mob, killing four men and woundlng
six. A further outbreak is feared, as
Sholapur is one of the worst famine
tracts of the country.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
Tho Story Disputed.

TosAwAsDA, N. T., Nov. 1o.-The
story told by Mate Duquette at St.
Thomas about the loss of the schooner
Sonora is disputed. The Sonora arrived
here Thursday night from Wharton,
Ont, loaded with green oak timber,
and after unloading, cleared Saturday
night all right. Her captain is Il.
Buckley.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10

Claims Damages From Germany.
PARIS, Nov. 10. - The Matin an.
nounces that Sidney Odanna has ar
rived in Paris and intends to bring an
action in the French courts against the
German embassy, claiming $780, 900
francs damages. Odanna has just fin
ished term in prison in Berlin ON .
charge of intriguing to bring war be-
tween France and Germany. He con.
tends that he was uniustly sentenced
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
NEW Works. PLURALITY.

Complets Returns 6how . Lead of 259, 600
for HeKiA1sy.
NEW YORK, Nov. IA complete
compilation of the vote of New York
state shows that McKin1ey's plurality
is 259, 1919 and something like $500
greater than that of Black for COVER
nor. The Republican majority in both
branches of the Legislature is increased.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
Tho Okl.hona Lexi,I.ture.

GUTHRIE, O. IT,, Nov. 1O.-Returns
from all the Legislative districts of the
territory show that that body: viii be
controlled BY the free silve1ites, who
have elected good majority Of its
membera. ss>ss ~: ! 49, 80
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
Three Rioters Sentenced In Cali
fornia Pardoned by President
Cleveland.
They Have Been Punished Sufh-
GENTLY to Meet the Ends
of Justice,
Also for q Warning to Thousands
Equally Guilty But In
punished.

WASHINGTON, Nov. l0.-Ths presi.
dent has pardoned W. q. Gune, Isaac
Ross and Philip Stanwood of California,
sentenced Dec. s, 1895, to pay fine Of
81 and be confined in the Los Angeles
county jail 10 months for conspiracy,
the offense being committed in the rail.
way riots at the time general through
out the country.
Tho President's Enforcement.
The president wrote the following
endorsement on the application:
'These convicts have suffered more
than nine months imprisonment under
their sentences. I am bound to assume
that they were guilty of an offense
most dangerous in its character, and in
the commission of which they
aided and encouraged an unlawful
defiance of authority, which threatened
the most distressing consequences ]
am convinced, however, that these men
are not criminals, but laboring men
swept into violation of law by at first
listening to the counsels of disorder.
Others besides themselves are suffering
humiliation and deprivation on account
of their wrong doing, and am led &c
believe that tho purposes Of punishment
80 far as the effect on the prisoners il
concerned, have been fully accom-.
plished. lam also convinced that the
imprisonment already suffered by these
prisoners viii be ample warning to the
thousands equally guilty, though I'M
punished, and to those who may b
hereafter tempted, that the laws enact
ed to secure peace and order must b<
ObeYed.''
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
Arrested fer Eubex.lemens.

Bosros. Nov. 10.-Allison T. Mason,
president Of the defunct Globe Invest
ment company, has been arrested ON an
indictment. warrant, charging him with
the embezzlement Of sums aggregating
1900. Treasurer ]. Lowell Moore 81
the company = now serving athree
years sentence ON similar charge. :
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
For$ ST

We make 14xl7 Or 1920 Portrait
perfect likeness and satisfaction gaur-
anteed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
CAPTAIN AND CREW DRUNK.

Serious Allegation Made BY . Surviving
Sailor.
MUSHROOM, Mich, Nov. 1O.-The
schooner Waukesha broke up while
trying to ride out the gale at anchor
near here, and only one survivor of her
crew of seven has been rescued.
The Waukesha is one of the old feet
of "cana1ers," and, true to all tradi.
ton, she has taken almost her entire
crew down with her in her last disas-
ter. She was owned by F. a. Head of
Chicago, and was formerly known as
the Nabob.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10

PETER BROBERG. President
NJ. JORG ENSON. vice President.
JOS O. 'ESTREM- Cashier
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-10
G. A. CARLSON,

Cor. 4th st. and Benson ave.
WILLMAR, MINI.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
A Handsome Sum Realized.

New York, April 2.-An anniversary
meeting of the Freedman's Aid and
Southern Education society in connec-
ton with the New York Methodist con-
ference, now being held in this city, took
place today Rev. DR.. r. H. Travis pre-
sided at the meeting and the speakers
were Rev. DR. j. H. Hamilton, secretary
of the society, and the Rev. j. H. Phillips
The general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church for several years past
has declared that the work of the Freed
mans society is of great Importance.
The institutions of learning under the
care and direction of the society in
clude the Cannon Theological seminary
Atlanta, Ga; Central Tennessee college,
Nashville Tenn; Clark university, At
lanta, Ga; Rush university, Holly
Springs, Miss: Clafiin university, Or
augsburg, S. c.; Morgan college, Balti-
more; Bennett college, Greensboro n. c.;
Wiley university, Marshall, Tex; Phi
lander Smith college, Little Rock, Ark. !;
George r. Smith, Sedalia Mo-, and sew
eral academies throughout the south
The anniversary exercises We're opened
with singing, after which Secretary
Hamilton made an address reviewing the
work of the society. He said that nearly
100000 of lately enfranchised colored
people appeal for Christian leadership;
with equal emphasis comes the cry from
multitudes of the poorer white people of
hhe south.
Rev j. NJ. Phillips spoke on the educa-
ton of the colored people of the south,
and reviewed the immense progress made
by the colored race since the emancipa-
ton proclamation.
After the speaking a collection was
taken up and handsome sum was
realized.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03

illustrators to realize the beneficent
purpose for which it was enacted in
maintaining an equality of rates for all
shippers in the same localities and under
like circumstances and compelling the
railroad companies to adhere strictly to
their published rates.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press, Rep.
No other country in the world Is so
completely burdened and cursed with
corporate trust barons as ours. and no
other people claiming free government
would have so patiently endured their
tax collecting depredations. Possibly
the decision of the supreme court may
change this condition of affairs. 1t will,
at least, remove the objections hereto
fore urged by prosecutors that there was
no way of obtaining evidence against
trusts, for under the decision of the su-
preme court the managers of corpora
lions can no longer refuse to answer
questions as to their business affairs
Washington Times.
1t may or may not astonish all of our
protectionist friends to know that very
large shipments of cotton ties are being
sent from the manufactures at Youngs-
town, o., for delivery in Bombay, India
Those who may be astonished are such
as were honest in their cutlery against
putting cotton ties on the free list. Those
who may not be astonished are the better
informed gentlemen-lilxe Mr.. Carnegie,
for example-who know that the iron
manufacturers of America, with their
cheap fuel and ores, are able to compete
with the iron manufa cturers of Europe
on advantageous terms in all neutral
Philadelphia Record.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Is GARCIA PRAPPEDP
He Is Thought to Be in Position to Be
Captured.

Washington, April 2.-The Spanish
minister here has received a confirma-
tory dispatch, bearing yesterdays date.
from the Spanish minister, to Central
America, Senior Felipe Garcia Ontiveros,
now in San Jose, Costa Rica, saying he
is in communication with the Honduras
government regarding the Bermuda,
which has been seized in Puerto Cortez
and still held there. Consul Reig of
Spain, at Puerto Cortez, is also in con-
slant communication with the minister
here, who received two dispatches from
him yesterday, showing that the 'Ber-
muda is detained there and her cargo
of contraband goods seized, including
ninety cases of ammunition, Mauzer ri
fles and field gun. Two cablegrams
also reached the legation yesterday from
the Spanish consul at Panama, confirm
ing the detention of the Bermuda and
giving the details, which are withheld
from publication at present but which
are understood to relate to the where
abouts of Calixto Garcia and his men,
who are thought to be in spot where
the Spanish man-of-war may capture
them. While natural reticence is main
tanned about the latter dispatches, those
from the minister and consul at Puerto
Cortez are exhibited to the public at the
legation,
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Siberian Babies Are Not Nine

AS described by recent traveller, Rus
sian babies, as seen in the homes of the
russian peasants in Siberia, are very
unattractive specimens of humanity. II
looked curiously at one little bundle, -
says the traveller, (which was laid unon n.
sheff. Another hung from the wall on a
peg, while third was slung over one of
the supporting rafters, and was being
swung to and fro by the mother, who had
cord-loop over her foot. Why I cried
IN surprise, that's child!' of course it
is, replied the woman: what else should
1t be?' Having learned so much in so
short time, had an irresistible desire
to inspect the contents of the swinging
bundle. l looked. but turned away in dis
gust Tor the child was as dirty as pig
In a pen. l could not refrain from ask
ing one question. 1t may have been i'm
pertinent. Washed shrieked the moth
err apparently Mortified. Washed! What :?
Wash baby? Why, you'd kill it,
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
President Kruger Th anked.

Cape Town, April 2.-Governor Robin
son has sent a message to President Kru-
ger heartily thanking him for his offer
to send a burgher force to protect the
women and children threatened by the
rising of the Matabeles. Governor Rob-
inson says he considers the British force
of 500 men is sufficient at present. but
adds that he is none the less sensible of
the friendly spirit displayed by the presi-
dent of the Transvaal The telegraph
line between Buluwayo and this city has
been repaired. Dispatches dated March
81 have been received giving details of
fights with the natives. Olimo, instiga-
tor of the rising, has proclaimed himself
king of the Mataheles.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Lovely Easter Prayer Books. Il

The sombre leather prayer books are
Enamel is much used to make beautiful
the covers. A black leather cover will
be ornamented with enamel, shading
from pale violet to, deep purple, and so
arranged that the only visible part of the
leather forms the shape of cross. Eas-
ter lilies in white enamel are seen deco
rating the covers of a prayer book bound
in brown suede. The corners Of these
are capped in gold. One of the most ex-
pensive prayer books which will be given
as an easter souvenir is bound in white
leather. Upon the front of the cover is
a cross made of amethysts sunk deep in
the leather.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Another Victim of the Explosion.

Greenville, Miss, April 2.--As a result
of yesterdays disastrous explosion at
Planters oil mill another body was
found this morning, that of Harry CAL
houn, an aeronaut, who had gone to the
mill to secure valve for his balloon
This swells the list of dead to six. Co.
lumbus Washington, coiored, horribly
scalded, will probably die; Chief En-
gineer Wolfenden is doing nicely. as is
the four others injured. A defective
steel plate in the boiler is supposed to
have caused the explosion, although the
boilers were recently inspected and pro-
nounced first-class, and no blame is at
tached to the mill management
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Barren of Results.

Winnipeg, Man, April 2.-The schools
conference closed this afternoon. 1t has
been barren of results. The dominion
delegates wanted the provincial minis
tiers to re-establish separate schools, but
in a modified form, as exists in Nova
Scotia The Manitoba representatives
declined this, but offered to eliminate re-
ligion entirely from the schools or to set
apart hours during the day for religious
teaching either Protestant or catholic
The ottawa delegates did not agree to
this and the conference adjourned. The
ottawa commissioners left for home to-
day, going via st. Paul
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
M. BoURa EoIs INTERPELLATED.
Says England Has Installed Herself in
Egvnt Without Auth ority.

Egypt Without Authority.
Paris, April I'm the chamber of depu-
ties today M. Bourgeois, prime minister
and minister of foreign affairs, made re-
ply to the interpretations submitted by
NJ. Delafosse, Pierre Alype and Lemon,
in which they asked for information on
the situation in Egypt M. Bourgeois de-
clared that Great Britain had installed
herself in Egypt without having been
invested with a mandate to do so by the
powers or by the sultan of Turkey, and
had thereby caused permanent uneasl-
ness. The sultan's mandate had not been
procured, although Egypt was depend
ency of the Ottoman empire, whose in
tegrity the powers had agreed to respect.
The action of the Russian and French
delegates on the Egyptian debt commits
sion in protesting against the illegal APP
preparation of Egyptian funds for the
Soudan expedition had established res
eryation in regard to the Egyptian
question.
M. Bourgeois added that Russia and
France were never more closely associ-
ated than at present. The cabinet, he
concluded, was continuing the negotia-
tons concerning Egypt with firmness,
and was inspired with confidence in de-
Tending with Russia their common rights
and interests.
Upon the conclusion of M. Bourgeois
statement the chamber, by 80 to z13.
adopted vote of confidence in the gov
eminent.
The consensus of opinion in the Hobbies
is that part of M. Bourgeois reply to
the interpretations clearly indicated that
he was trying to procure a conference OF
the powers on the Egyptian question.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Attempt to Assassinate Rss Makonnen.

Rome. April General Bildissera
commander-in-chief of the italian forces
in Abyssinia. telegraphs to the war Of
flee that King Menelek will pass the
Abyssinian Easter season in Makalle.
The government is also informed that an
attempt has been made to assassinate
Ras Makonnen, commander of the Abys-
sinian army, which invested Makalle at
the time that the Italian stronghold was
held by Colonel Chen Major) Galliano.
The attempt on the life of this chief is
attributed to jealousy growing out of
rivalry between Ras Makonnen and Ras
Manga scia for military preference.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
The situation Not So Serious.

London, April 2.-Tbe government has
received a dispatch from Cape Town
stating that the situation at Buluwayo
and Gwelo, in Matabeleland, is not so
grave as previous information has rep
resented. Neither Buluwayo nor Gwelo
is in any danger, and there is a sufficient
supply of arms and ammunition at both
places to meet any emergency that may
arise at present, while all of the outlying
stations have been relieved.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
THE TIFF.

When pair of lovers quarrel,
And In pride and anger part,
Oft with hasty speech unkindly
Wringing each the others heart;
AS with high and naughty footstep
Trips offended maid away,
Sheswill turn her head a moment,
CHANGING only-so she'll say
At the glow of dying dayl
Maiden's way! Maiden's wayi
When a pair of lover weary
OF such comedy of strife,
Meet again and sue forgiveness,
Vowfng harmony for life;
As, with soft and tender g1ances,
For one little kiss he'll pray,
She will turn her head a moment,
Coyly feigning shy delay,
Lest he think he's won the day! -
Maiden's way! Maiden's wayi
Grace Ernestine Becks In st. Paupl
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
A MoLE's LONG BURRow.
For Nearly Two Miles It Wound Its Way
Along the River Bank.

For Nearly Two Miles It Wound Its Way
Along the River Bank.
Down along the river bank after the
water had receded into narrow chan
mel, through which it tumbled and eddied
and belched up great rings, there was
left broad sand fiat. This sand fiat fell
off in broad steps, in which, here and
there, were left shallow pools, says the
Kansas City Star. Big gnarly stumps of
trees probably grown many miles up the
river had occasionally stranded, after
floating down on the rivers surface. and
gathered piles of driftwood about them.
Barrels and boxes of all sorts of strange
plumber were to be found, and 1t is not
altogether unlikely that one. by looking
closely, might have found more than one
article of value.
The sand had dried down as hard and
firm as on any Atlantic beach. 1t was
spungy, too just the thing for brisk walk
ing. And walking on it was joy. There
were neither jostlng elbows nor street
smells nor sounds. Just the gray sky
above, the damp wind and the yellow
river oozing along stones throw away.
Traversing this fiat was a remarkable
little ridge or welt 1t started in the sand
where the last river bank had begun just
before the river seeded. Above 1t the
grass hung over the 5-foot bank, and
towering aloft was a large cottonwood
tree. The welt ran straight toward the
river 1000 yards or more, then turned west
and wound in waving line up stream
For nearly two miles it could be followed,
weaving here and there, never disappear
ing below the surface and never chang
ing in appearance until it suddenly lost
itself in another bank of sand, against
which it had run. 1t was the burrow of a
mole. And who knows but that the little
blind turnover is still working his way
through half of Clay county to find the
end of the bank. Or maybe he started
upward after awhile and came out in
the middle of some farmers frozen gar
den patch or cornfield.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
VERY MUCH IN LOVE.

If thou art false,
Then Heaven is earth-all love a lie
And thy hands clasp of mine tonight
Will sting as doth a. serpent's bite;
And the pale moon will cease to shine
On the false eyes l thought divine.
If thou art true
Then earth is Heaven-all love is true
And my brief sorrow of today
Will pass like April showers away,
And o. er me will stretch anew
Heavens clear unfathomable blue.
Henry Overy In Pail Mall Magazine
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
- - ---------------7-77--
A Gold Brick Swindle.

New York Post.
Three gold bricks" were found in the
room of a man arrested in Cortlandt
street yesterday as suspicious person
by Detectives Formosa and Brown. With
the bogus gold were a lot of letters which
showed that the prisoner had been
robbing Englishmen of large amounts,
and they traced the agent of one of his
intended victims to the Holland house.
His name is G. Plummer Campbell and
he represents Henry Graves, one of the
executors of the estate of Mr.. Graves
father who was at one time land COM
missioner in ireland. appointed by Mr..
Gladstone.
The prisoners name is unknown, but
he signs his letters o. M. Norton of Hot
Springs, Ark. The scheme was to get
from the obituary column of an English
newspaper, the name and connections of
some man of wealth. TIC him he would
write as to Mr.. Graves. representing
himself to be an old friend who had
struck gid In TIRE west and wished to
divide with the man who had. he said.
befriended him. In the Graves case the
dead man happened to have bsen in
Jersey City, where Mr.. Campbell was tn
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
A Travelling Man Missing.

of Charleston, S. c., aged so, who travels
for a book publishing house, and who
has been at Wilmington a month. is
missing, and it is believed has commit
ted suicide by drowning as he had made
threats to take his life. He left his
books, papers and baggage in his, room.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
In a Musical Way.

A school has been established in Venice
which is to be devoted exclusively to
church music.
Costumed musicals are becoming popu-
lar in musical society circles. For in
stance. say the programme is French
one, the ladies VINO perform will wear
pretty Wetteau gowns, which will sug-
gest q French atmosphere. Where
Hungarian programme is chosen the cos
tunes are Hungarian in style. and so onA
1t is only fad. but rather pretty one.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Arms and Ammunition Distributed.

London. April "A dispatch to the
Central News from Cape Town says that
1000 rifles were sent from johannesburg
to Pretoria on Saturday last and to-
gether with ammunition were issued on
Saturday to Beers and railway officials.
This distribution of arms caused the
widest rumors, but the general opinion
is that the arms were given out as pro-
vision against possible developments in
the Matabele rising.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
Revolt Confined to Matoppo Riils.

Cape Town, April 1.-The Matabele re-
volt, according to advices from Bulu-
wayo, is now confined to the Matoppo
hills where the rebellious Matabeles are
concentrated. The authorities of the
chartered company represent that horses
and an abundant supply of arms, am
munition and provisions are required.
and when these have been collected Il is
proposed to sweep the hills with several
columns of troops of about $50 men each.
Five hundred mounted men are accom-
panying Cecil Rhodes from Salisbury to
GWelO