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


Harry Clark, son of Rev. E. P. Clark,
of South Lyon, Mich, aud Miss Sarah
Fisher, of Ypsilanti, were killed by the
cars at railway crossing in South
Lyon
The North Dakota Milling company
at Grand Forks, capital $15o,oco, made
an assignment.
Fred Wolhoupter, Ed Nav and Will
liam Turner were killed by a snowslide
near Brigham City, Utah.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
S6,979,000 bushels; corn, "a, 100000 bush
els; oats, 1861, 900 bushels; rye, $780,
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
The business portion of the town of
Berea, o., was nearly wiped out by fire,
the total loss being 100000.
Floods were still doing great damage
in the south and Vicksburg, Natchez
and other river points were crowded
with refugees.
During the month of March there was
received in free and dutiable goods in
this country total of SIC, 1879, 731, while
our exports were $s7,271,521. The i'm
ports for the month were in excess of
those for any month since April, 1898.
A police census just concluded shows
the population of Washington to be
Ell, 483, an increase of 1911 during the
last two years.
Buffalo gnats have killed 500 horses
in west Tennessee and others were dy-
ing daily.
~ cold wave swept over the states of
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan, ice forming half an inch thick in
some places.
A millda,n broke at Pinckney; Mich,
carrying away eight bridges and all
fences, trees and buildings along the
stream.
The Bostons and Philaqelphias played
in Boston the first bali game Of the
National league season, the latter club,
winning by score of to $.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor met in Wash
ington to consider the question of an
eight-hour work day.
William Haas and William Wiley were
electrocuted at the penitentiary in Co.
lumbus, O. The offense of Haas was
the murder July 3, 1896, of William
Barber and his wife at Cleveland. Wiley
murdered his wife at Cincinnati, July
%, 1896. These were the first electrecu-
tons in Ohio.
James J. Corbett has formally chal-
1enged Robert; Fitzsimmons to meet
him again in the prize ring and de-
posted $4,000 in New York as forfeit.
Jesse Hidden, one of the two men for
whose supposed murder George Jones
was hanged about three years ago at
Tort Smith, Ark, has been discovered
in prison at Wichita, Kan.
Reports from all over the country
chow that the last ten days have been
bad for crops. aa1 .z%x2< :,
The river at Vicksburg, Helena,
Natchez and all along from St. Joseph,
La. to Bayou Sara, La, was falling.
The thirty-second international con-.
vention of the Y. M. C. A. convened in
Mobile, Ala. - ~ { ~ - ...
: At the funeral in Cynthiana, KY, Of
Miss Lizzie Wagner 20 years of age,
daughter of wealthy parents, six young
women very prominent in society acted
rs pail bearers. = =
Frank Corners and Ben johnson ia
tally wounded Jailer Charles Fay at
the Wyandotte s(Mo:) county jaiIin at
tempting an escape. d Ss&$.. S%@ q
Eight children were bitten by mad
dog in Chicago.
Ii, The remains of the late Andrew j.
Carney, who died in Southampton, ar
rived in New York. TWAS Garvey's tes-
;timony that clinched the evidence
against Tweed, who was charged in
1872 with defrauding the city. - If
Two deputy marshals We're killed in Il
fight near Pawnee, I. r., with a gang of
outlaws. ...s9.< ~-,.
B The Texas legislature has passed
bill taxing sleeping and dining car COM
panies ten cents per mile Of travel.
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