Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-05-29
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At Niagara Falls William Guard
house, of Brampton, Ont, committed
suicide by jumping into Niagara
river and going over the falls.
Fire destroyed the country home of
Thomas B. Wanamaker at Meadow
Brook. Pa.
Percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 10th were: Cincinnati,
.619; New York, .5ss; Pittsburgh,
.571; Boston, 500; Philadelphia, 500;
Brooklyn, .A50; St. Louis, 400; Chica-
go, 400.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American association for
the week ended on the 10th were:
Chicago, sos; Detroit, sos; Ralti-
more, .647; Washington, GIL; Boston.
.444; Milwaukee, .34s; Philadelphia,
.315; Cleveland, 1851.
The death of Weston Rowland, the
discoverer of the method of refining
petroleum, occurred at Fairhaven,
Mass, aged IS years.
In Albany, N. Y, the great street
railroad strike has come to an end.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 2Oth was: Wheat,
42,49S,O00 bushels; corn, 15,913,000
bushels; oats, 1O,724,0oo bushels; rye,
562, 900 bushels; barley, 9ls,000 BUSH
els.
Col. Alexander Edwin Sweet, foun-
der of Texas Siftings and humor-
list of national reputation, died in
New York, aged 60 years.
Formal opening of the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition at Buffalo was
marked by an address by Vice Tres
ident Roosevelt and a message from
President Mckinley, who started the
machinery by touching a button in
San Francisco.
It has been decided by the Sover-
eign Camp Woodmen of the World to
expel members who engage in the
liquor business.
At the age of so years Gen. Fitz John
Porter, formerly major general of the
United States army, died at Norris
town, n. J.
Ex-Congressman Charles A. Bou-
telle, of Maine, died in an asylum at
Waverly, Mass, aged 63 years.
Burglars failed in an attempt to raid
bank at Cambridge, Mass, partially
wrecking the bank building with dyna-
mite.
Admiral Schley arrived in New York
from Europe.
Fire swept away nearly the entire
business portion of Lily Lake, Ill.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The condition of Mrs. Mckinley
was so much improved that she was
able to sit up for awhile. The gen
eral belief was that the crisis was
past and that she would continue to
gain strength. The president and
members of the cabinet, GOV. Nash
and party and thousands of specta-
tors saw the launching of the battle
ship Ohio at San Francisco.
Fire destroyed the village of Stouts-
Vile, Mo.
Everett Conway, aged ~, after a
quarrel, shot and killed c. w. G:rri-
son and wife in Evansville, Ind, IA
tally wounded Patrolman Benjamin
Wallis and then killed himself.
Near Boone, Ia, the Kate Shelly
Bridge, which spans the Des Moines
river, was formally opened.
To enlist in the navy Fred Mcneil,
of Ashley, ILL.,, rode 266 miles to Chi
cago on mule.
The wife of President Mckinley
passed another favorable day, and he
was encouraged to make engagements
for informal appearance on public oc-
casions.
Promoters of the Charleston Is. CO.
say they have ample re-
sources and that the display will be
ready for the opening in December.
A movement has been started by
the Protestant Episcopal church to
divide the United States into prov
inces, with an archbishop over each
and metropolitan over all.
The A Fort Sheridan Ill.) soldiers
who disappeared on pay day are still
for.
The wife of Elmer Quimby, a farm
err near St. Louis, killed her two chill
dren by giving them morphine: and
then took dose herself. ".'
At Osceola, Ia, Elmer Lane cut his
wife's throat and then used the knife
on himself. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
Many houses were wrecked by
cyclone at Fort Mill, S. c.
From the wreck of the City of Pa
lucah near Carbonate, ILL.,, two more
bodies were recovered, making the
total loss of life 81. r.,
A national congress of mothers
opened at the Auditorium in Colum-
bus. O.. -t.. .@<... IF
In his annual address Bishop w. A.
Leonard ct Ohio, ,excoriated pulpit
Il, r. .5 : 3:
The president reviewed 50, 900 school
q - +'rS L.sE :.