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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
THE SPANISH CORTES.
Opens in Madrid with a Warm Dis
cussiOn on the Conduct of the
War with America.

Madrid, Feb. 21.-The cortes assem-.
bled yesterday and took up the Ameri-
can peace treaty. Count d'Almenas
said the government was responsib BILE
for the surrender of Santiago and de-
clared that the Spanish generals en-
gagged in the war ought to be shot.
Gen. Primo de Rivera denounced Count
d'Almenas as "contemptible calumni-
ator," and Gen. Blanco defended the
generals, accepting full responsibility
for events in Cuba during his command
in the island,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Feb. n.

!
In a mine at Blocton, Ala five miners
were killed by dynamite explosion.
Three miners were killed at Hooper,
Col, by drinking wood alcohol.
Bachelor broke the four-mile racing
| record at San Francisco, the time being
7:16A.
The transport Sheridan, carrying the
Twelfth infantry. left Brooklyn for
Manila.
Miss Sale Potter, said to be the old.
est woman in Illinois, died in Urbana
aged 102 years.
Mrs. Mahala Gentley celebrated her
one hundredth birthday at her home in
Bloomington, III.
The Union Pacific overland limited
was wrecked at Rawlins, Wyo., and sew
eraI persons were killed.
Gov. Bushnell issued a proclamation
calling attention to the Ohio centennial
to be. held atToledo in 1902.
The total receipts of internal revenue
Tor January last $40, 812, 212, a gain
over the same month in 1898 of So, 476,-
285.
Agoncillo, the Philippine insurgent
representative who fled from Washing.
ton to Canada, left Montreal for Lon.
don.
The plurality for Ashbridge (rep.)
FOR mayor of Philadelphia is 119, 766, the
largest ever given a candidate for that
office.
Charles Miller, of Chicago, won the
six-day bicycle race in San Francisco
gong 2,182 miles and making a new
record.
Joseph H. Choate, the new ambassa.
dor to the court of St. James, sailed
from New York on the American line1
St. Paul.
George F. Baer, president of the
Reading (Pa.) Iron company, ordered a
voluntary advance in wages of its 1900
employees.
Gov. Powers, of Maine, has called a
special election for June 10 to choose
a successor in congress to- the late Mel.
son Dingley, Jr.
Frieberg, Klein & Co., whisky deal.
ers in Galveston, Tex, filed a petition
in bankruptcy with liabilities of $780,.
900; assets, 400.
The post office department ha.
shipped to Porto Rico 100000 United
States stamps with the words "Porte
Rico printed on each.
George B. NJ. Harvey has bought the
North American Review, published in
New York, from Lloyd S. Bryce and
David A. Monroe, for 1925 900.
Gov. Roosevelt, of New York, cele
brated Washington's birthday by affix
ing his signature to the bill to prevent
improper use of the national flag.
John Logan, who was appointed post,
master at Cross Roads, Pa, by Presi
| dent Van Buren,, and who has served
continuously ever since, died at the age
of SO years.
David Bradley, president of the Davit
Bradley Manufacturing company ant
the oldest plowmaker in the country
diedSsuddenly at his home in Chicago
aged SO years.
A corporation composed of 90 PEI
cent. of the builders of iron and stee
bridges in America, capitalized for $50,
100000 and backed by Andrew Carneg ie
is announced.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
Potatoes Frozen,

Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, Feb. 2O.-More
than 100000 bushels of potatoes have
been lost to the farmers of Chippewa
county by freezing in the pits, owing
to the continued cold weather. The alb
sence Of snow on the ground permitted
the frost to work in deeper than it
would otherwise have done.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
Tragedy in Illinois.

Carrollton, Ill.,, Feb. 22.-John Rath-
geber, a prominent farmer residing
near this city, Tuesday morning shot
and killed his wife and then put the re-.
volver to his temple and sent a ball
through his brain. His wife had filed
bill for divorce, alleging drunkenness
and cruelty. This, with dispute over
their large real estate interests, led to
the tragedy.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
Alaskan Railroad Completed

Skaguay, Alaska, Feb. 16, via Seat
tie, WASH, Feb. 21.-The task of build
ing railroad along the precipitous
side of the canyon from skaguay to the
summit of White pass, an elevation of
nearly 1000 feet, has been completed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01
Put Poison in Coffee.

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 21:-Marie An
derson, aged IA, has confessed that she
tried to kill her foster parents, DR.. and
Mrs. A. A. Anderson, on February I BY
putting rat poison in the coffee.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-01

DENMARK.
The minister of the interior has pre-
scented a comprehensive report to the
rigsdag from the railway department. the
estimated cost of the improvements pro-
posed being almost ten million dollars.
The most prominent features of the re-
port are proposition to build bridge
across the Little Belt. a double track
across the Fyen, additions to the stations
at Esbjerg. Aarhus and Korsor, and large
railroad shops in Copenhagen.
Both Politken and Dannebrog assert
that the Cars International peace con-
ference will not be held in Copenhagen.
One minister of agriculture has an
nounced that all cattle imported from
abroad must, be subjected to tests with
tuberculine. The importation of cattle
will be permitted only by way of Copen-
hagen, Helsingor and Fredrikshaun.
One thousand women who are engaged
in sewing gentlemen's clothing in Copen-
hagen have organized themselves into a
union.
Georg Brandes says he has lost tens
of thousands of kroner because there are
no laws preventing Germans from steal
ing, translating and selling his books
abroad against the will of the author.
&s4 The Copenhagen employers union of
1896. threatened to lock out number of
strikers at the Titan iron works unless
they returned to work before Jan. 25.' I
81 A fire in shingle factory in Korsor
resulted in an explosion which killed Mr..
Nielsen, the proprietor. and knocked
down. part q. the building. =. s,..S j.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
A NEW RAIsIN GRAPE.
California's Viticulture Increased by
a Product From Chile.

California is soon to have valuable
raisin producing vine added to her al
ready varied viticultural products. 1t is
known as the Huasco grape, and comes
from the Huasco Valley or District In
Chile. When j. A. Filcher, manager of
the State Board of Trade, was at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago he saw an eX-
hibit of these raisins and with several
other Californians, was much pleased
with their appearance. The raisin is as
large as the product of a muscat, and Is
of a beautiful light color, an almost
transparent white, and the scarcity OF
seeds makes it very marketable article.
When cured without artificial means 1t
looks and tastes like glace fruit.
Three years ago Mr.. Filcher wrote to
several Of the United States Consuls in
Chile. asking them TO send cuttings Of
the vine. but nothing came of the corre-
spondence until yesterday. when a letter
was delivered to him by Captain Thomas
Motley of the British ship Wallacetown,
which arrived recently from the south
ern coast and is now at the Oakland long
wharf. The letter was from Andrew Kerr,
the present Consul at Coquimbo, Chill.
who stated that the letter sent to Consul
J. NJ. Dobbs several years ago had been
given to him to answer. The answer was
that there were about 100 cuttings of the
much desired vine on the Wallacetown.
Mr.. Filcher has sent the cuttings to a
vineyardist at Auburn, and as soon as
the time is ripe cuttings will be distrib-
uted by the State Board of Trade.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
ON ASPHALT COURTS.
Sunshine Has Tempted the Lawn
Tennis PLAYERS Out Again.

Now that the storm has blown over and
the sun shines once more, the lawn ten
mis- players have come out of their hiding
and the asphalt courts again resound to
the cries of love forty" love ALL" On
Saturday and Sunday several interesting
games were played, the principal of which
are given here:
r. N Whitney beat Grant Smith three
straight sets, the scores being 6-2, 6-2 and 81
George F. Whitney and Grant Smith beat
Arthur Chesebrough ard George Bradshaw
three out of five sets, the scores being 60. &c.
Ga, as and Ga.
Dr. Root and R. Bliven beat George Brad
shaw and Harvey Walter three sets out Of
four.
W. S. McGavin beat A. Chesebrough three
straight sets.
Yesterday r. n Whitney beat George Whit
ney three straight sets, the scores being Ga,
rs and ga.
Ralph .Bliven. a well-known player on
the California Clubs courts, has just re-
turned from Manila, having received his
discharge from the First California Vol
unteers on account of i'll health. He is
not playing very well as yet, but will
soon pick up his form. Several ladies
have been on the courts in the last three
days. among them being Misses Eckert,
Bowman, Clarke. Middleton, Cheese
brough, Foster and Eisen.
A special event will probably be ar
ranged for next Saturday and Sunday, the
details of which will be given later.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

less girl. But even then Cleo was de-
veloping those ardent qualities which
afterward made her famous; she al
an Egyptian barytone, with an emo
tional tremolo.
Kibosh comes when the Nile is run
ming low and water famine threatens
the land, and Cleopatra'S papa, Ptol-
emy, is so at his wits end that he Of
fers his daughters hand to the first
magician who can conjure up flood.
Kibosh stands in the way of being kill
ed, anyway, and willingly makes few
magic passes, which cause several eggs
to appear at the indignant lips of
Ptolemy and also an overflow of the
Nile, such an overflow that the good
King and his court are driven to the
tops of the pyramids to keep their san
dals dry.
1 shall not trifle further with the
mysteries Of the plot. AS Kibosh, Mr..
Daniels is just as funny as he was last
week as Able Conn; in fact, he is just
as funny in just the same way. Alf c..
Wheelan plays the Egyptian monarch
with the same plaid-plaited brogue he
wore last week as the Scotchman, and
Will Danforth is the royal weather
prophet with only the Svengali glare
as holdover souvenir of his fiery Gu
ban of the former production. Miss
Helen Redmond, proud, beautiful and
empress of all she surveys, is the
youthful Cleopatra-as lovely a morsel
as ever was set before man or asp.
ASHTON STEVENS.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
Pacific Ocean Exposition.

The committee on permanent organiza-
ton Of the Pacific Ocean Exposition met
yesterday afternoon at the office of ].
B. Reinstein to prepare a plan of organ
ization which will govern the great ex-
position to be held in this city in 1901.
The plan of the Worlds Fair at Chicago
was before the committee, and was ten
tatively adopted, with some slight
changes A director general will be
made manager, with assistants to be ap-
pointed by himself, not exceeding three.
The director generals salary will be
$40, 900 a year; the Salaries of the assist
ants will be fixed by the executive com
mittee. Every branch Of business will be
represented, and there will be twenty
six committees. The committee will meet
again to complete it's work tomorrow
afternoon. 1t is hoped that the citizens
committee, consisting of 200, can be
called to meet next Friday afternoon at
half-past o'clock in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
The Saturday and Sunday Hospital
Association,

The above society held its final meet
ing Saturday, January 81. The executive
board wishes to thank most heartily
those merchants who so generously re-
sponded to the request for permission ~
place the boxes in their stores and places
of business, also the churches which set
apart for this object the offertory of the
Chat day having been named for now and
the future Hospital day'). The reports
showed the following amounts received.
From business houses, $471 70; from
churches, $3.50 70; expenses, $S6 SO: leaving
a balance of $3.50 62. The institutions
benefited by this association are the Cali
fornia Women's Hospital, the Children;s
Hospital. the Home for Incurables and
the Mount Zion Hospital. W. E. Brown
president; P. n. Lilienthal, treasurer.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
DANIELS AND
THE GIRLS IN
A NEW SUCCESS
The Wizard Another
Dudes Delight.
BELLE ARcHER'S RETURN
R1cE,s RAG-T1ME OPERA AT
THE oRPHEUM.
"Men and Women" at the Alcazar
and Bret Harte Drama
at tho Comedy
Theater.

The girls Of the Daniels company
have made deep dent In dudedom,
and every Johnnie In town worthy OF
the name was on hand last night to see
them in the new costumes and capers
of "The Wizard of the Nile From
Ned Greenway In the. frontest row.
smiling enough to swallow the from
bone, to Ward McAllister in box for
getting to be bored for fully fifteen
consecutive minutes, it was grand,
glad night The girls were at their
loveliest,T Daniels at his funniest, ,coors
were bright and costumes gay, the
band played on and everybody except
a stray Shakespearean student or two
from the press had gorgeous time.
Just why they had gorgeous time Is
even harder to answer this week than
it was last Perhaps 1t was the. fippant
scenery, perhaps the condensed comi-
cality of the star, or, what is more
likely, the swing and swish and spell
of the girls. Whatever the cause the
show was a success. Before 1t COM
menced you could see that 1t was going
to be a success, for the crowd came
with it's mind made up.
The Wizard of the Nile" which was
written by Victor Herbert and Harry
B. Smith, makes about the same great
drain on your analytical powers as did
these gentlemen's masterpiece of last
week, THE Idols Eye" The plot Is
carefully guarded by jokes and COM
plieated stage business and the serious
music invariably concealed by absence
Horseplay, girl-gambol, silks, scenery,
props and jingle are whipped to the
very froth of nonsense, out of which
perpetually bubbles the funny little
personality of Frank Daniels.
This time Mr.. Daniels is a Persian
magician by the fatal name of Kibosh,
who visits Egypt in that remote period
which knew Queen Cleopatra as guile
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
TOOK JEWELRY AND COIN.
Morris Windt's Residence on San
Bruno Avenue Entered by a Thief

A thief entered the residence of Morris
Windt, the tanner, at 1924 San Bruno ave-
nue., on Sunday evening while the family
was at dinner. and managed to get away
with quite a haul in money and jewelry.
The thief had a good knowledge of the
house and its contents, as he went direct
to where the valuables were and took such
articles as were easily secreted on his per-
son. He took an excellent pair of diamond
earrings, diamond pin and a lady's gold
watch and chain, belonging to Mrs.
Windt; heavy gold chain belonging TO
Mr.. Windt, and $50 in money.
The police were notified, and after max
ing an examination of the premises ar
rested the Japanese servant pending fur
ther developments. No charge has been
entered against him. He is held on sus-
picion.
The value of the property taken is rated
at over 500, as the diamonds were of good
value and the watch, which was a birth
day present from husband to wife, cost
over $3.50.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

United States into closer relation
ship.
Additional distinguished visitors
are here in the persons of Right
Rev. Joseph II. Johnson, DID,
Bishop of Los Angeles; Right Rev.
William Morris Barker, DID, who
was consecrated Bishop of Western
Colorado in 1893 and translated to
Olympia, Wash, in 1896; Right Rev.
Abiel Leonard. DID,, Missionary
Bishop Of Salt Lake; Right Rev.
John Mills Kendrick, DID, Mission
ary Bishop of New Mexico and Ari-
zona, and Rev. Charles l.. Mel of
Sacramento.
Great interest centers in the con~
secration of Rev William Hall
Moreland as Bishop of Sacramento.
He will be ordained by the Right
Rev. William Ford Nichols, DID,,
Bishop for California. The cere-
mony will take place tomorrow
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
An Unhappy Marriage.

Albert Ryder, teamster, was arrested
January on complaint of Lizzie O'Con-
nor. 40 Jessie street, for betrayal under
promise of marriage. Two days after
ward he married the girl, and Judge
Graham dismissed the charge against
him. Sunday he was arrested on COM
plaint of his mother-in-law on the charges
of disturbing the peace and vagrancy.
The cases were called before Judge Tread
well Yesterday, and Mrs. Harkins, the
mother-in-law, testified that since the
marriage Ryder had been living with Mrs
Alma Donnadieu at % First street, who
had been engaged to be married to him
He refused to live with his wife and was
constantly annoying her. The Judge dis
missed the charges, but warned Ryder to
keep the peace.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
OPpheunn.

Not since Black PATHS Troubadours
has the town seen a coon show as
tropical as the one now play
ing at the Orpheum under the
name Of "Clorindy, or the ORR
gin of the Cake Walk" The skit is
called ag-time opera and the COM
pany numbers thirty dusky dancers
and singers. who are not colored but
born that way. They sing their orig
inal song, "Darktown Is Out Tonight" !"
which we have heard only feebly pi-
rated by other rag specialists, and a
Chicken" song, real rag-timer Of
real dusky syncopation. to say nothing
of half a dozen others of sentimental
and breakdown variety The liveliest
feature of "Clorindy" is the concluding
cakewalk, in which the whole company
takes part.
Papinta, who has made record hit
in her Illuminated dances, is in her last
week, and the rest of the bill is well up
to the average.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
California.

General Shafter. the hero of Santiago,
received a popular ovation last night at
the California Theater that must have
pleased him even more than the formal
reception accorded him a few evenings
ago.
"A Contented Woman" is one Of Hoyt's
cleverest satires, and the company that
played it last night is one of the cleverest
that has been seen here for a long time.
Belle Archer, the Grace Holme of the
play, is fine looking figure and knows it.
She also lets the spectators know that
she knows 1t. This is the only draw,
back; but she dresses harmonfously and
acts. well, barring the self-conscious
strain.
Henrietta Lee, the Mrs. Ebbsmith of
the play, received the larger share of the
honors last night She is handsome wo-
man with a good figure, and gives to the
role all the snap and abandon that
make it even more popular than that of
the heroine
Mrs. Fanny Denham Rouse as Aunt
Jim, and Arthur Gregory as Uncle Tody,
treated the audience to an excellent bit of.
character acting, the makeup of both
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
DUE TO A LIGHTED CIGARETTE.
T. A. Riordan, a Young Man, Sc
verelv Injured in a Gas Explosion.

verely Injured in Gas Explosion.
T. A Riordan, an employe of the new
gas company, was seriously injured yes
terday afternoon by a gas explosion. Ri
ordan and several assistants were sent
to Stockton street, between Suffer and
Post, to make a connection with the
gas main. BY the time they had reached
the spot an excavation had been dug so
as to allow them TO make the connection.
Riordan, who is an expert gas filter, en-
tered the excavation and at once proceed
ed TO tap the main pipe. There were
number of people present, who were at
tracted to the scene by idle curiosity.
One of them was smoking a cigarette, and
1t is supposed that he accidentally drop
ped it in the pit. The next instant there
flame shot upward Riordan was seen
crawling out of the excavation. His face
and hands were badly burned, and as he
emerged from the pit he was at once
seized by the assistants, who took him to
a drug store a short distance away
AS II was feared that he was fatally
burned, his, friends subsequently had
him removed to the Receiving Hospital.
Police Surgeon We'll applied the usual
remedies and then had the injured man
taken to his home.
To a reporter Riordan said he was In
the act Of making the connection when
the explosion occurred.
After ! had entered the excavation"
he remarked, Il noticed a man smoking
cigarette, and called his attention to
the danger. Thinking he would throw
away the cigarette, paid no further at
tention to him, and proceeded to make
the connection. The usual amount of
gas was escaping from the pipe and as I
called to one of my assistants to keen
the crowd back. there was an explosion,
and found myself hurled against the
side of the excavation. After considerable
effort l crawled out of the pit and was as
sisted to drug store and from there sent
to the Receiving Hospital"
Riordan believes that the stranger
whom he had requested to stop smoxfnq
accidentally dropped the lighted cigaro
cite into the excavation, with the result
that the explosion followed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
Gave Away his Transfer.

Michael Freeman, boiler maker, was
arrested at Haight and Stanyan streets
on Sunday on complaint of an employe
of the Market-street Railroad Com
pany for giving away his transfer ticket,
which is a miSdemeanor according 10
an ordinance of the Supervisors. The
case was called in Judge Mogan's court
yesterday, and the Judge expressed his
surprise at such a charge being brought
against respectable citizen. The case
was continued until to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
DISTINGUISHED DIYINES WHO WILL ASSIST.

HE opening services of the
Episcopal Convention to be
1 held in this city during the
next five days will be held in
st. Paul's Church on California
street, near Steiner, this morning
at 10:3O. This convention will be
|. the most important ever held in the
history of the Episcopal church on
this coast. Distinguished divines
; from all parts of the world will be
present to lend their counsel to the
impressive deliberations.
. Prominent among these Is the
Right Rev. William Wilcox Perrin,
3 DID,, the Lord Bishop of Columbia,
. B. c., who represents the Canadian
) church. This dignitary has his
residence in Victoria, and his pres
, ence here RAY be said to be one of
international significance, tending
to bring Great Britain and the
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

morning at st. Luke's Church. Rev.
r. c. Foute, rector of Grace Church,
will be masterof ceremonies. Bishop
Tikhon of the Graeco- Russian
Church with four attendant priests,
will be present, and all the clergy
men of the Episcopal denomination
will assist.
Last night at st. Luke's Church
services of intercession for Sunday
schools We're held. Short addresses
were made by the Lord Bishop of
Columbia, Rev. H. L. Duhring of
Philadelphia and Rev. William Hall
Moreland. Representatives from
all the Episcopal Sunday schools of
the city were present and received
some excellent advice in regard to
the ennobling of their work, which
was described as a life vocation.
AS the Rev. Mr.. Duhring aptly ex-
pressed it, They were engaged not
in the lower blessedness of receiv-
ing, but in the higher blessedness
of giving"
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
TURNER WAS LIBELED.
Receivers Judgment Against W. R
Hearst of the Examiner.

For the second stime John w. Turner,
an attorney of Eureka, Humboldt County,
has been awarded damages in his ac-
ton against w. r. Hearst, proprietor of
the Examiner, for libel. In December of
1898 a story was published in the Examin-
er rejecting on Turner's character. Tur-
ner sued for damages, and jury award
ed him a judgment of $500. The judg-
ment was reversed by the Supreme Court,
however, and the case was remanded for
a new trial.
The second trial came up before Judge
Daingerfield yesterday morning, was sub
mitted shortly after 3 p. m, and an hour
later the jury awarded Turner a verdict
of $50
The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24

on the probabilities The variety bust
ness introduced into the comedy is first
class. led by Miss Bonnie Lottie, whose
songs and dances called forth encore af-
ter encore. Her singing of IF 1 Can't
Have the Drink That Pa Had Yesterday 1
Don't Want Any Drink at ALL" was
fetching, and her acrobatic dancing was
a revelation of black stockings coming
just below the knee and meeting flesh
colored tights and lace lingerie
All the characters are good The pIav
could not have been better suited to the
cast nor the cast to the play than 1t is in
the present company. 1t should draw
great houses