Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-14
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:.... Monday, April 6.
A statue in honor of Thomas Jefter.
son is to be erected at New York. .
The English people think Chamber.
lain is trifling with the Egyptian stu
alton.
The firemen's strike at Vienna has
collapsed and the men are returning to
their posts.
The South Dakota Grand Army en-
campment at Watertown will be held
June 1884,.
Tammany has engaged the Audito-
rum for headquarters during the Dem.
ocratic convention.
The Smith Crisp financial debate in
Georgia has been declared off owing to
Mr.. Crisp's bad throat.
Reports show large increase in the
money order business Of the postoffice
department for the last year:
A foreign syndicate has offered
$4,000, 600 for the privilege Of running
Erie canal boats by electricity.
Fire at Clinton, Ia, destroyed the
Andersen & Winter Manufacturing
company's plant causing loss of $40,-
600 and throwing 70 men out of work.
Tuesday, April I.
Efforts are being made to establish
mulct saloons in Kossuth county.
The friendly Arabs have routed the
dervishes at Hoyet, killing 20 of them.
The next annual convention of the
national W. G. T. U. will be held at St.
Louis Nov. 12 to 20.
J. B. Scanlon, Union Pacific police.
man, was fatally stabbed by an TN
known tramp at Pocatello, Ida.
The Pittsburg strike of journeyman
painters has ended. They secured an
advance of rs cents q day. or half what
they asked.
The Rev. Stephen Vincent Ryan,
bishop of the Catholic diocese Of Buff
falo, is seriously ill. He is about 70
years of age.
BY an explosion in the engineroom of
the Murphy varnish works, Chicago,
several men were seriously hurt. It is
feared two of them will die.
Wednesday, April, s
The presidents children have the
measles.
Premier Greenway of Manitoba will
enter Dominion politics.
Five hundred coal miners ut Mar.
shall, Colo, are on a strike.
The American Steel Barge company
will build two more steel barges.
The Democrats of the Twelfth Indi-
ana district have nominated James M,
Robinson for congress.
The Great Northern agent at Lang.
don, N. D., is short $4,000 He at.
tempted suicide by poison.
The bank at Stillman Valley, nls.,
was broken into. The attempt to blow
open the safe was failure but the
vault and portion Of the building was
wrecked.
James J. Corbett and his sparring
partner, Mike Connolly, were arrested
at Havelin's theatre, st. Louis, charged
with holding boxing contest contrary
to law.
Thursday, April Q.
The municipal council of Barcelona
has decided to equip battalion Of vol.
unteers.
The governor of Canada has cabled
to London, offering Canadian militia
regiment for services in the Soudan.
Thomas H. Tongue of Hillsboro has
been nominated by the Republicans to
succeed Binger Hermann in the First
Oregon district.
The senate in executive session con.
frmed the nomination Of Benjamin J.
Franklin of Phoenix, Ariz, to be gov.
ernor Of Arizona
The New York senate has passed the
assembly bill, which forbids sparring
exhibitions except under the auspices
Of legally organized athletic clubs.
The act originating in the senate to
authorize the lease Of lands for educa.
cAVA"A pAA pOo0S LII 6aI1AOAd, U0CSaul0 u
law without the presidents approval.
One span Of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railroad bridge over the Maumee
river near Toledo went down under
heavy freight train. One man is
known to be drowned.
;: Friday, April 10.
Missouri's taxable wealth is figured
at $946, 000,378
King Menelik Of Abyssinia seeks an
alliance with the dervishes.
The house of commons has reas.
sembled after the Easter holidays.
The North Dakota supreme court has
dismissed the Trail county seat case.
H. w: Schyke, supposed to be George
Krasnow.: the nihilist, says he is not
Krasnow:,
It is now stated that in the attack
made by the Matabeles on Captain
Gifford's laager, $50 of the hostile ma
tives were killed.
Henry Fitch, a brother of George K.
Fitch, one Of the PROJECTORS of the San
Francisco Bulletin and San Francisco
Call, committed suicide at Washington
by shooting himself through the head.
Saturday, April II.
An air line railway from Cumber.
land, Wis, to Superior is proposed.
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