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Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

More than four-tifths of the ropula-
tion of Mexico are of mixed or Indian
blood.
The Missouri is now claimed to be
the longer by 200 miles than the Mis-
sissippi.
For the first time since the opening
of Oklahoma farmers complain of too
much rain.
Some statistician discovers that the
average woman carries 40 to GO miles
of hair on her head.
Railroads centering in St. Louis ask
their employees to work for the pro-
posed exposition in 1903.
John Wanamaker has been reelected
president of the Pennsylvania State
Sabbath School association.
Chinese viceroys memorialized the
throne to punish Boxer leaoers and
save the empire from disruption.
The Woman's club, of Medford,
Mass, withdrew frcm the general fed
Grafton on account of the race ques-
tion.
Bresci, slayer of King Hambert,
wrote to his wife in New York that
he is kept in damp well ard COM
PEELED to stand all the time. ..
Capt. Hassell, who commanded a
company of American scouts in the
Boer army, thinks the Beers will re-
sumo fighting in the spring. -.,..
Turkey has been taking census of
Islam, and finds mat the number of
Mohammedans in the world is 1885,
800 600. OF these $4,000, 900 are in Tur-
| key. ! f. /. - - H.. s.:- .7
James NJ. Lynch, the new president
of the international Typographical
union, succeeded S. Il. Donnelly, the
retiring president. Headquarters Of
the union are at Indianapolis, Ind. Il
The Fairmount. Park association Of
Philadelphia has decided to erect a
statue of Robert Morris, to cost $15,-
900. His home was meeting place
of the celebrities of colonial days.
Prof. Hilprecht, Of the University Of
Pennsylvania, returned from Meso-
|potamia and tells Of the discovery of
an ancient Baby ylonian library in the
Temple Of Nippur, which sheds new
light on the worlds history, Il.
But five per cent. Of the money and
valuables taken from the Galveston
dead has been claimed, and the money
still. held BY the committee aggregates
many thousa nds OF dol liars, while the
'jewelry is worth at least 500, 600.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
THIS AND THAT.

Insurance for bathers is the newest
enterprise in the insurance line in
England. Penny-in-the-slot machines
are to be erected at the popular bath
ing resorts. *5 .58 4 Es
s "A cube of red sandstone two feet
square, suitably inscribed, has been
erected in the old cemetery at Deer
i held, Mass. It will mari; for the first
time IL an appropriate way the grave
where 48 men, women and children
were buried after the massacre in 1704
by the French and ndians.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Chronicles of days long before those
of Abraham have been unearthed from
the desert sands of Mesopotamia. DR..
Herman V. Hilprecht, curator of the
Babylonian section of the University of
Pennsylvania museum, returned to
Philadelphia from Asia Minor and told
of the discovery of the library of the
temple Of Baal at Nippur. In it were
found records of civilization dating
back thousands of years before Christ.
DR.. Hilprecht with reason regards this
discovery as perhaps the most impor-
tant archaeological work of the nine
teenth century. >..,
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

In Italy the persons c-rested as
anarchists after the assassination Of
the king numbered early 1900. n
addition 70 these scores of persons
were thrown into prison for speaking
IN apology Of Bresci's deed. Arrests
tor this ohense continue to be made
daily all over Italy, followed in due
course BY trial and sentence. During
the month Of August the tribpnsl Of
Ancous alone tried 13e persons for
speaking apologetfcally Of Bresci's
crime, and passed sentences aggre-
eating ~ years Of imprisonment, and
dnss % amount of 1s3, 900 francs.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Pugilist Killed.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. s.-Michael Gold
man, of Bay City, known in the ring as
kid" O'Brien, who was knocked down
and out Tuesday night by Bernard Car
roll, of this city, before the Cadillac
Athletic club, died at St. Mary's hos.
pital early Wednesday from ,concus-
sion of the brain, without recovering g
consciousness. Carroll is under arrest
at police headquarters.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

The Island of Guam is shared like
the sole of shoe, and has presumably
a total area of about $50 square miles,
although it. has never been surveyed.
The narrowest part has diameter of
seven miles and is about Is miles in
length. The water there is not good
to drink, but it IS not missed, for when
anybody is thirsty native climbs a
tree and throws down cocoanut, the
milk of which is refreshing bever-
age.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
. Fatal Fall.

Bay City, Mich, Nov. Z. Frank Nc
Phillips, editor Of the Bay City Trib.
une, fell over the banister of the stair.
way in the old library building at
midnight and fractured his skull. He
died about ten minutes later. Nc
Phillips was well known in many
Michigan newspaper Offices, having
formerly been a printer. N.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Big Price for a Mine.

Denver, Col, Nov. 8. - The Times
says that the Portland mine at Grip
pie Creek has been sold to an English
Syndicate, including the Exploration
company, the Venture company and
Werner, Belt & Co. The price is given
as SIS, 100000. A new company will be
organized to take over the property
and it's stock will be foated in London.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
The Football Gamer.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-Baseball games on
Saturday resulted as follows: Iowa,
II; Chicago, 0. Northwestern, II;
Knox, s. Michigan, 49, Indiana, 0.
Minnesota, s; Wisconsin, S. Illinois,
II; Purdue, s. Harvard, II; Pennsyl.
vania, 5. Cornell, 12; Princeton. o
Yale, 1S; West Point, o. =
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
1T Was Funny.

An amusing incident of the election
occurred at Fort Smelling while four
residents of that vicinity were going
to cast their votes. It appears the
companies were out for drill, and
encountered the four. Without motto
ing them they went through their
ordinary maneuvers, presenting their
arms to them, making them feel very
much like they were in North Caroli-
ma, and finally discharging their blank
cartridges.
Lieut.. Col. Reade, who was drilling
his men, treated the would-be voters
with the same contempt, carefully
taking his notes of the maneuvers of
the men. The latter finally recovered
from the surprise, if it was not fright,
and went to the polls and cast their
votes without molestatlon.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
AaphyxiQted.

Hastings, Mimi, Nov. 5.-Mr. and
Mrs. Lucius M. Drake, aged respect
lively 81 and so, were found dead in
their bed Sunday morning. Death was
evidently caused by asphyxiation from
escaping coal gas, generated by a
heating stove. The aged couple were.
prominent and highly esteemed pio-*
neer settlers Of this town. having
come here in 1864. ..'s.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Most readers are familiar with BY.
ron's famous song, maid of Athens"
The maid in question was Theresa
Maori, daughter Of the English vice
consul at Athens, who afterwards mar
ried man by the name of Black. She
was born in 1909, and died October 81,
1a7S
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Population Increases.

State institutions had a population
of 6, 131 during the month of October,
an increase of 232 over the same month
a year ago.
The figures complied by the state
board of corrections and charities gives
the five institutions for the insane an
aggregate increase of 153 patients, in
total population of $3.50.
Three hundred veterans were cared
for at the Soldiers Home, and 242
children were enrolled at the state
public school in Owatonna.
There was an increase of IS in the
number at the state training school at
Red Wing, and the number at the state
reformatory showed decrease.
There were 467 convicts in the state
prison, six of whom were United
States prisoners from other states.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Within the United States are 159 cit
les with population in excess of 25, 900.
OF this number 10 have population of
more than 100000, 10 between 100000
and 100000, 40 between $4,000 and 1oo,-
600 and 81 between 25.COO and $4,000.
The total population of the 159 cities is
19.794,625, or more than one-fourth of
the total population of the country.
Their increase in the last ten years was
1883, 1856, which is about 81, 400 less than
their increase in the preceding decade.
In 1890 the number of cities in the
United States with over $4,000 popula-
tlon was only 124. H., -. S.. .s5 s}....s +.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.
J She Runs a Farm.

Mrs. Antoinette Van Hoesen Wake
man formerly a well known news
paper woman in Chicago, has put
herd of grade, Jersey and Jersey-Hol-
stein cows on her farm in Dakota
county, and made the first shipment
of milk to the Crescent Creamery COM
pany, of st. Paul.
Mrs. Wakeman believes that Hast
ings is admirably situated to become
point for the shipping of milk to the
Twin Cities. She proposes to devote
her place, which is less than a mile
from the court house, exclusively to
dairy products and fruit, and has built
barn and proposes to have her herd
and milk cared for on the lines indl-
Gated by Prof. T. l.. Hacker, of the
agricultural experiment station of the
state university. Mrs. Wakeman has
has arranged to ship from 20 to 80 gal
Ions of milk daily.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Acquitted.

Chicago, Nov. 5.-After a second trial,
involving a desperate nine days legal
fight, Lloyd j. Smith Sunday was de-
clared not guilty by jury in Judge
Holdom's court. The jury decided that
the former manager of the Chicago
Elevator company was not guilty of
shipping grain without canceling the
warehouse receipts. Three ballots were
taken, the first resulting to for ac-
quittal, the second 10 to 2, and a verdict
being reached on the third.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

1t is a singular fact that more than
half of the present population of the
United States, or their parents, have
lived in the 15e principal cities of the
nation at some time during their lives.
The cities of $4,000 or more have been
largely influential in making the
United States the greatest people on
the earth, but back of them, and push
ing them on, has been the power of
the farms which have created and
maintained the cities.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

"Over Edom will cast my shoe,"
says the psalmist, the throwing of q
shoe being the symbol of new owner
ship, testimony in Israel of posses
sion. In Anglo-Saxon times the ia
ther delivered the brides shoe to the
bridegroom, who touched her with it
to show his authority. The custom
ofthrowing an old shoe after the bride
in England and Scotland signifies that
the parents gaze up all right or do
minton over the daughter.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Ships can now go to sea with frozen
ammunition. A method of utilizing
liquid air on warships has been dis
covered which will render the explo-
sion of magazine, even when the
ship is in action, almost impossible.
The method is to SO place the liquid
mir that it will feeze the ammunition
to several hundred degrees below zero.
In that condition it could not ex-
plodc, even if a shell should burst in
the napaZinc
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Pneumatic tubes for carrying mes
sages are an old story in the largest
European cities. but the largest in
use there, those in London, are only
three inches in diameter. 1t is only in
the United States that the whole bulk
of letter mail is handled between CIV
en- points. In New York a tube reach
ing to Brooklyn is 3h miles long and
eight inches in diameter, allowing the
passage of pouch containing 900 let
fers in about seven minutes.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Sugar Trust Defeated.

Washington, Nov. 6:-The federal su.
preme court has affirmed the decision
of the lower court in the case of the
American Sugar Refining company VS..
the state of Louisiana. This was
brought on a writ of error from the
supreme court of Louisiana and in
volved the right of Louisiana to cx-
empt from the operation of a gen
eral license tax on manufacturers.
planters and farmers who refine their
own product. The court held that it
had been the policy of both the states
and the general government to enact
legislation in favor of home products
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
TRAGEDY in Wisconsin.

Amigo, Wis, Nov. 5.-Tom Baker,
who stabbed John J. Connection at
Bryant, few miles from here, sew
eral days ago, during political row,
has been shot and killed by George
Connection, the latter accompanied by
a deputy sheriff, who was trying to
arrest Baker. Baker is said to have
killed several men in Kentucky, but
to have been pardoned, although once
sentenced to be hanged.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
THE EAST.

Gov. Roosevelt ended his campaign
of eight weeks, in which he Travelled
21, 900 miles and made 673 speeches, a
record never equaled.
In the Tarrant fire in New York the
dead and missing are placed at IS.
On the oath inst the former flag
ship New York will go out of COM
mission at the Brooklyn navy yard.
At sea the Atlantic liner St. Paul
suffered damages of $25o,ooo and
reached New York late
New York laundrymen have de-
clared war against Chinese compet-
itors.
In 3s hours and 80 minutes Alexan-
der Winton rode from Cleveland, O.,
to New York in an automobile.
In Portland, Me-, Charles Davis, aged
30 years, shot and killed his wife and
then shot himself.
At the age of so years J. W. F. White,
presiding judge of Allegheny county,
(Pa.) courts, died at hs home in Sc
wickley.
The death of Rev. DR.. Lafayette NJ.
Gordon. a missionary of the American
board in Japan for % years, occurred
in Boston, aged SO years.
In New York Chief of Police Devery
was indicted for interfering with the
work of State Superintendent of Elec-
tions McCullagh.
The steamships Baron Eldon and
Baron Innerdale arrived at Philadel-
phia from Java, finishing a race of
$4,000 miles within four hours of each
other, the Eldon arriving first.
Fire destroyed the office of the
Observation-Disclosures, the old
est established paper in Albany, N. Y.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Burned to Death.

Georgetown, Ky, Nov. flames A.
Norton, who was one Of the jurymen
in the Youtsey trial, was burned to
death.-in the prison at Sadieyille, in
which he had been put on the charge
of drunkenness. It is supposed the
!sbed clothes caught fire. and ignited
the building s.E#ss sss.5s s.S #
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
in about seven minutes.

A few years ago when there was a
threatened ivory famine, the inventive
genius came to the rescue with that
remarkable imitation known as eel.
luloid, and now the immitation has
itself been initiated, and a German
named Knipers has made discovery
that will furnish still cheaper SUBJ
etitute. It is q preparation of potato
pulp, and will be used largely in the
manufacture of buttons. The in
ventors can furnish a substitute for
almost anything.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Rest rooms for farmers wives are
being established in some towns in
the west. They arc located in the
business center and are made cozy
and comfortable VITA easJ chairs,
lounges, books and magazines. Some
offer tea at the nominal price of three
cents cup. These rooms are sus-
tanned by women's cubs In the cit
1es, or the merchants of the cities
contribute to them, with the idea that
they help to draw trade.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

The Hawaiian band is known to
every visitor to Honolulu and to the
popular music world everywhere. It
has just completed 80 years of con-
tinuous existence, and the present
bandmaster, Capt. Henri Berger, has
been in charge of the organization
during % years of that period.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

This has been year of scares and
catastrophes. We have looked upon
famine in India, wars in South Africa,
the Philippines and China, the great
steamship horror in New York, the
prodigious desolation at Galveston,
and minor events have stirred our
emotions from day to day.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Close the Schools.

The schools of Duluth are to be
further curtailed by the closed OF the
Smithville school on account of small
pox. This IS the second to be closed
for the same cause. The teacher and
children from the Adams that have
been quarantin9d are about to be re-
leased, the disease having run it's
course without serious illness on the
part of any one. Many children whose
parents refuse to permit vaccination
are still out of school, but it is prob
able that test cases will be taken
through the courts at once. The
school board is to open cooking schools
soon in the Washington building, is to
have fire alarm boxes put in each
school is to remove the tower of the
Longfellow school and fit up number
of rooms in basement for school pul.
poses, there being crowding of most
schools in the city,
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
4 WEEKS HlS{;!lURY'
The Important Happe penings Of q
Week Briefly Told. "
MALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
.- ,,". West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
President Mckinley has issued an ex-
ecutive order admitting free of duty
Christmas presents and souvenirs sent
by soldiers in China to friends in the
United States.
In football game John McQuade.
clerk in the war department at Wash
ington, was probably fatally hurt.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

Milwaukee. Nov. s.-John A. Burr.
Jr., night transfer agent of the Unit
ed States Express company at Green
Bay, Wis.,, is missing. Burr is accused
by General Superintendent E. S. Av-
erill, Of the express company, of hav-
ing appropriated between $4,000 and
$4,000. Superintendent Averill has
been investigating Burr's accounts for
the past two days, and what was at
first thought to be comparatively
small shortage turns out to reach the
amount named above.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Bishops Adjourn.

Trenton, N. j., Nov. 6.-The board of
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church of the United States concluded
their semiannual meeting in this city
Monday night. The sessions were all
held in private, and the only business of
public Importance transacted was the
selecting of the bishops to preside at
the different conferences throughout
the United States during the next six
months.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
WEST AND SOUTH.

By an explosion of dynamite in the
coal mines at Berrysberg, w. Va. L.
men were killed and two fatally in
jured.
Through pride, being in need and
ashamed to send home for money,
Elsie Smith, stenographer, killed her
self in Chicago.
In a collision of electric cars near
Cleves, O., II passengers were injured.
A mob handled two Dowie elders
roughly at Mansfield. o.
Two men were killed and three 9TH
ers injured in the wreck of South
ern Pacific freight train near Keswie,
CAL
In Chicago Lloyd j. Smith was ac-
quilted of the charge of shipping
grain without canceling warehouse
receipts.
Burglars robbed the private bank
of Charles Peterson at Benson, Neb..
of $500.
At Jackson Center, O., the Farm.
ers' and Merchants bank was blown
open by robbers, who secured $500.
In room full of gas in the Metro
politan hotel in Chicago William
Segelson, an Iowa cattleman, was
found dead.
The report of Gen. Randall states
order has been restored at Cape Nome
by soldiers.
In Chicago company has been incor-
porated to establish the pneumatic
tube mail and package service.
Indiana's population is 2.516,46o.
against 2,1e2, 4o4 in 1890, an increase of
.s24,o5s, or 14.7 per cent.
The population of Florida is 52s, s,542.
against 391.422 in 1890, an increase OF
1877, ,120, or IS per cent.
David S. Gibbon, principal of the
school of Oshkosh, Wis, died while vis-
iting friends at Kenosha.
C. B. Beardsley accidentally killed
his young wife in Chicago while giving
a lesson in the use of firearms.
As the result of the explosion in the
Berrysburg mines in West Virginia 1a
persons are dead and three fatally in
jured.
Richard Wall and James D. Noe were
drowned in crossing the Ohio river at
Owensboro, Ky.
The constitutional convention OF
Cuba met at Havana.
The Logan left Manila for San Fran
cisco with 27s sick soldiers on board.
During fight over politics at Casey
vile, Ind. Wallace Graves was killed
and eight other men we're wounded.
@ O. o. Bacon (dem.) has been re-
elected United States senator from
Georgia.
One of the jurymen in the Youtsey
trial, james A. Norton, was burned
to death in the prison at. Sadieville,
Ky.
At Midway, KY, Chief of Police
George Woodruff shot and killed Al
fred Stanhope, internal revenue agent.
The tragedy was the outcome of an
old grudge. 49, Fl .>3>
John A. Burr, night transfer agent
Of the United States Express com
pany at Green Bay, Wis, was missing,
and currency and gold coin estimated
to have amounted to between $4,000
and $1,000 had also disappeared.
In q fight at the polls in Denver,
COL, two men were killed and four
wounded. =: s:-~ &~ a.<@.- - !
William j. Sanford, governor.elect.
was suddenly stricken with heart dis
ease at his home in Opelika, Ala, and
his recovery was doubtful. y,
81. In Bay City, Mich. Frank McPhil--
lips, editor of the Tribune, fell over
the banister of the stairway in the old
library building and was killed.
Wyoming's population, as officially
announced by the census bureau, Il
92,531, against 65,7o5 in 1890, an In
crease Of 31,626. sssF D.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Van SAINTS Dlura1itv

Van SAINTS plurality 5000. 4,811
In the estimated counties an effort
has been made to give Lind the long
end of it and the above figures are
therefore believed to be conservative.
Complete returns are in from 63 of the
81 counties and of the remaining 10
there are number in which only one
precinct is missing
1t would seem, therefore, that there is
small doubt of the election of Captain
Van SAINT.
Chairman Rosing, however, doesn't
yet give up the. fight He says the re-
vised returns are helping Lind right
along, and he hopes he will yet win out.
Joel P Heatwole has 6,738 plurality
in the third congressional district.
Schaller carried three counties in the
district, but lost his own. Dakota.
Congressman McCleary has unofficial
returns from the entire second district
showing that for the first time he has
carried every county in the district
His plurality reaches 1880, whereas
the greatest plurality he ever received
before was 5000. This is in spite OF
postoffice fights and his vote on Porto
Rican bill and is splendid indorse-
ment.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon Congress
man Eddy's plurality over Daily in the
seventh had reached 4,338. His total
plurality will not be far from 1850.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Shoots Farmers Wife.

Lacon, ILL.,, Nov. 6.-W. j. Linn went
to the home of Joseph Shafer. who re-
sides ten miles west of this city, Mon
day morning and when the door was
opened shot Mrs. Shafer dead. He also
shot at Mr.. Shafer but missed him. Jo-
seph Shafer is farmer. A month
ago Linn eloped with Mrs. Shafer,
but her husband induced her to re-
turn. Monday morning Linn ap-
peared at the Shafer home, when the
shooting occurred.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
Laws Violated.

It is claimed that the pot-hunters at
Heron Lake have formed combina-
tion to prevent regular sportsman
from shooting in that vicinity. The
combine against spotsmen has been so
strong that the pot-huuters' patrols on
the lakes have succeeded. it is claimed,
in driving every man off the lake who
does not shoot for the Chicago mark
cts.
The shipments from Heron Lake to
game commission firms in chicago have
aggregated from 500 to 1,500 birds a
week for nearly month past. Even
this ruthless slaughter has made no
apparent effect on the supply. Last
week it was reported that the canvas
back and red-heads were coming by
the thousands
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
REELECTED SENATOR.
Georgia Legislature Again Sends
Hon. A. o. Bacon to
Congress.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 7.-The general
assembly of Georgia, at a joint session
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14

The number of farms in the United
States by the last census is $500, 900, an
increase since 1890 of about million
and quarter. .-. -
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
4 roREIGN INTrE],III.lII.1uEHCn. r],yIIlI.,1 al ll

Advices from China state that the
Germans have defeated force of
Boxers near Kaumi. province ol
|ShantunR. killing msny of then. 8.