Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-04-27

mortal sermon at Lima, O., in honor Of
Ralph Ewing, fell In the pulpit from a
paralytic strike and was carried from
the church ina dying condition. Y
A dispatch from Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich. reports the 500 river free of ice.
At Bay St. Louis, Miss, fire destroyed
IL buildings in the business part of the
town, including the post office.
The bureau of statistics of the treas
ury department says the damage caused
agricultural interests by the Missis-
sippi river flood is over $14,Oo0,000.
The curfew ordinance is now law in
Springfield, O.. and boys and girls under
is years must be in their homes by nine
o'clock in the evening.
E. L. Carpenter, of Salt Lake City,
paymaster of the Pleasant Valley Coal
company, was robbed of $500 by two
burglars.
The New York legislature has passed
bill taxing inheritances.
Terrific sandstorms swept over the
Arkansas valley in southwestern Kan
sas. doing great damage.
At Lima, o., Clinton Hawk fatally
shot his father and fatally wounded
Fannie Watkins. No cause is known
for the deed.
In Lake county, Tenn, Jose Cans and
his entire family-wife, two sons and
daughter-were drowned by the up
setting of skiff.
The Western league baseball season OF
1897 opened in Indianapolis, the home
team beating the Grand Rapids club by
score of 10 too.
Fire destroyed block of nine houses
in the business part of Shoals, Ind.
George Hobson, the clerk of the courts
of Hamilton county, o.. has been found
short $4,000 in his accounts. He is in
sane.
Frost has done damage amounting to
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
early fruits in Maryland. Virginia. Della
ware and North Carolina.
John McCleash, aged 40, and John
Coyne, aged Is, were burned to death in
fire in Chicago, the former losing his
life while trying to save the boy.
The business portion of the town of
Tullahoma, Tenn, was destroyed by
fire.
AS the result of a landslide near
Sheep Creek, B. c., on the Red Noun
tain railroad, six railroad employees
were killed.
Joseph Mccoy (colored) was lynched
by mob at alexandria,, Va, for assault
ing his employers two daughters.
Sanborn's tower elevator was burned
at Port Huron, Mich, the loss being
100000.
Frank Evans died in San Jose, CAL,
from the effects of blow received in
prize fight, and William Vernon died in
Philadelphia from the same cause.
President Mckinley nominated and
the senate confirmed Harold NJ. Sewall,
of Maine, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Hawaii.
A memorial was presented to the
president and members of the cabinet
by the executive council of the Fedora
ton of Labor urging the enactment of
legislation calculated to relieve the
wage-earners.
Fire destroyed SO houses at Potters-
Vile, Pa
Mai. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, command
err of the army, has been authorized by
the president to go to Europe to witness
the war between Greece and Turkey.
The National league baseball season
opened, the percentages of the clubs
at the close of the games being as fol-
lows: Philadelphia, 1000; Brooklyn,
1000; Baltimore, 1000; Cincinnati
1000; Pittsburgh, 1000; Louisville,
1000; Chicago, 900; New York, 900;
Washington, 900; Cleveland, 900; st.
Louis, 900; Boston, 900.
The paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind,
were burned, the loss being 100000.
Dispatches from all the flooded Sec
tions in the south report no substan-
tial change in the situation.