Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-29
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

There were 1S9 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1872 the week
previous and 20s in the corresponding
period of 1898.
It is reported that Whitelaw Reid,
of New York, is to be offered the post
of minister to Spain.
The historic and fashionable Wind
sor hotel, Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth
street, New York. was destroyed by
fire, and 16 persons lost their lives, 43
were missing and AZ were injured
Among those who were killed was Mrs.
Warren Leland, wife of the proprietor
of the hotel and her daughter, and Mrs.
James S. Kirk, a wealthy Chicago
widow. Mr.. Leland has become insane!
The property loss is estimated at ST.
100000.
Gov Gambler, of Georgia, is very Bit
ter in his denunciat ton of the Palmetto
affair, in which nine negroesw shot,
and says the perpetrators will be pun
ished
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,S45, 172.6S9, against $1,910,473, O27 the
previous week. The increa se compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was42.9.
The state of Iowa is out of debt.
The comptroller of the treasury
holds that the men who enlisted in the
regular army or in the volunteer serv-
ice for the war with Spain are entitled
to extra pay.
The United States steamer Path
finder had her official trial trip on Long
Island sound and exceeded her speed
requirements.
In a battle in Alaska between Ameri-
can and Canadian miners few miles
off the Dalton trail four men were
killed.
In a train wreck near Volland. Kan.
William Freeman was killed and 26
other persons injured
Adolph Meyer, agent of the Equitable
Life Assurance company, and at one
time a wealthy merchant in Omaha
was found dead in bed in his room in a
Chicago hotel.
y
toward the formation of a mosquito
fleet for the Philippines.
The latest estimate with reference to
the Windsor hotel fire in New York
places the number of dead at is; in
lHred. 81; missing, As. It is suspected
hat the fire was the work of thieves.
At Bowie, Nd. Mary A. Clarke. aged
to
Clarke. aged As, her sister, was fatally
injured by John Berry, 15-year-old
negro.
Fire in the business section of Ames-
bury, Mass. caused loss of 100000.
In fight between the police and Gen.
Gomez partisans in Havana four per-
sons were killed and 30 wounded.
NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador,
called at the department of state and
served formal notice of the signature
of the peace treaty at Madrid.
The army beef court of inquiry ar
rived in Chicago from its Investigating
tour in Missouri ard Kansas.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Vim
cennes. Ind.
Charles L. Backman, an engraver,
aged "a, fatally shot his wife, aged %,
in Chicago, and then killed himself.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
The Eighth Illinois regiment (col-
ored) arrived home in Chicago from
Cuba.
English capitalists have organized
company at independence, Kan, with
acapital of $780, 100000 to compete with
the Standard Oil company.
Eleven persons were killed and IS
injured in a cyclone near EdwarGsville,
Ala. Ten of the dead are Lewis Coffee
and his wife and children. The cyclone
swept the country for IL miles and it's
path was from 100 to 200 yards wide.
Rob Roy, Ark, a town of 800 inhab-
itants, is in ruins, every building in
the place being leveled by cyclone.
Of the 80 bills passed by the Okla
homa legislature Gov. Barnes vetoed
G5: only "a becoming laws
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
29,o92,000 bushels; corn, 80, acc, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 1i,o74, GOO bushels; rye, 1,503,-
Goo bushels; barley, 2,546,o0o bushels.
The Second Illinois and the One Hun
dred and Sixty-first Indiana regiments
have been ordered from Havana to be
mustered out. Including these two
regiments, II have now been ordered
home. ~:
1t is reported that the location of the
keyboard by which the United States
battleship Maine was blown up in Ha-
vana harbor February Is, 1898, had been
found in a gunroom of the Fuerza
prison. IT,
q Mrs. Martha, Place, who murdered
her young stepdaughter in Brooklyn,
was executed at. Sing Sing prison. She.
was the first woman to die in the cleo
trio chair in the state of New York. :.
III President Mckinley and parry ar
rived at Jeky island, near Brunswick,
Ca, and on the pier to welcome them
was Speaker Reed. III. IL.