Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-07
SUMMARY OF THB WEEKS NEVIS

Two messengers have loft Takutsk
to search for DR.. Nansen.
: The Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern may engage in q time. cattingl
war. 9 = : - So 35SzS . s.z@lsE
. A Texas expedition will leave Gal.
weston within two weeks to Join the
Cuban insurgents. -,sf.r. g
The interior department. has called
Tor bids for pasture leases Of Indian}
lands in Oklahoma. 80 =: ..s-...s
,. Matt ,Mootry, "a negro murderer, was|
hanged at Georgetown, Tex. He con.
fessed on the scaffold. ~ |
= Pork is down to the lowest price
for the season ever known in Chicago.
Cattle are fairly steady.
1t is stated that since the death Of
Victor Hugo the receipts from his
works have reached nearly 81, 500, 600.
-. Tuesday, March 81.
The president nominated BENJAMIN
j. Franklin Of Arizona to be governor
or Arizona. 49,.
At Kansas City Harry Hill, aged 2s,
hotel porter, shot and killed his wife
and then committed suicide.
Roderick B. Seymour, recently ap-
pointed Justice of the Second district
court of Jersey City, is dead.
) Over the championship course at
Newcastle.on-Tyne. Bubear beat Wall. .
ace Ross in scuhing race for purse
Of $2OO.
Lieutenant Colonel Amyott, one of
the French Canadian members of par.
lament, died suddenly at his home
in Quebec. '~7 -.
The St. Paul postoffice did $4,000
more business during the year ending
March 81, than in the year ending
March II, 1895. The total receipts this
year will be about 1926, 900.
Wednesday, April, 4.
The second annual convention Of the
Minnesota Good Roads association is
in session at Minneapolis.
The president has nominated Will
lam A. Little of Georgia to be assistant
attorney general, vice John l. Hall, re-
signed
The Manufacturers club of Philadel.
phia has adopted strong resolutions o.
posing the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver.
The Cutter Silk Manufacturing COM
pany Of West Bethlehem, Pa, has
made an assignment. The failure, is a
heavy one. -
American Bell Telephone company
at their annual meeting reelected the
old board Of directors and voted to in
crease the capital stock 10 per cent to
An order issued by the Austrian min
lister of public instruction has been pub
ished, admitting to registration in Aus
tria Of women who hold foreign medi-
cal diplomas.
Thursday, April 2.
Terms of Office of "a presidential post
masters will expire during April.
Sir William Stuart, brother of Baron
Blantyre and late British envoy to the
king Of the Netherlands, is dead
Charlie Holt and child and John
Jenkins and two children were
drowned in swollen stream in Russell
county, Va.
The Rock Island, Milwaukee, Bur-
lington and Missouri Pacific have filed
charges against the Union Pacific and
the Northwestern for violation Of the
passenger agreement. --........
By decree issued from the superi@
court, the doors Of the Richelieu hotei
Chicago, will be closed in 10 days an.:
the property sold in its entirety, after
the expiration of three weeks.
The American Tobacco company has
declared a regular quarterly dividend
Of . per cent on the preferred stock; q
dividend Of 2 per cent on the common,
and 20 per cent scrip extra on the COM
mon. ~ ~ ~ 5ss -. @',' -
>5 r. g. Friday, April s. =.
The Chinese government has decided
to enter into the postal union.
The telegraph line between Korosko
and Murat Wells, north of Wady Halfa,
has been cut, ,s,zL =.z... r.
Is G. NJ. Murphy, the crack Brooklyn
Wheelman, has, at his own request,
been declared a professional. 8
At Chicago, Fred Payne and James
NICK instry were instantly killed by a !.
train on the Chicago and Northwestern.
road. .5.. . ... O.: 81 H.
. Hon. Bert Van Horne. ex-member Of
congress from New York, died at his
home at Lockport, from cancer in the
stomach. Z.
At Columbus. o. Edward Knuppe,
]. after Wounding Frances Russ, killed