Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-02
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
rIFTY-sEVENTH CONGRESS.

! Inc OnlteO states senate was not III
session on the 21st. In the house de-
bate ON the Philippine civil government
bill occupied the time. The conference
reports on the military academy and
sundry civil appropriation bills were
adopted.
In the United States senate on the
Esd it was practically decided to put
over until the next session the meas
ure to admit as states the territories
of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Ari-
IONA. In the house debate on the
civil government bill warmed up, the
increased interest being due to the
injection into the debate of compar-
ison of the cruelties charged to have
been practiced in the Philippines with
those which occurred during the
civil war.
Bills were passed in the United
States senate on the Gath creating a
national forest reserve in the southern
Appalachian mountains and for the
suppression of train robbery. In the
house the time was devoted to debate
upon the Philippine BILL general dis
cussion being brought to an end at the
evening session.
FROM WASHINGTON.
No reciprocity treaty with Cuba will
be submitted at the present session Of
congress.
O. L. Spalding, first assistant secre-
tary Of the treasury. has been mott
fled by Mr.. Shaw that he is to retire.
\ dispatch received in Washington
contained news of 4 serious crisis in
Venezuela.
Time for the ratification of the
treaty between the United States and
Denmark for the sale of the Danish
one year.
President Roosevelt left the white
house for Cambridge. Mass. and will
not again occupy the historic struc
ture as his official quarters. Tempo
rary residence has been taken until
the executive mansion is remodeled.
The crop report of the government
announces growth checked by cold in
lower corn belt and retarded by rain
in Ohio valley and lake region. Spring
wheat progress is good.
THE EAST.
Louis H. Ayme, who represented
the United States as consul at Fort de
France following the Martinique dis
aster, reached New York and said the
islands were being deserted rapidly
The mine operators accuse President
Mitchell, of the mineworkers, of mis-
representing facts, and declare there
will be no arbitration.
Railroad companies fear general
miners strike and have begun confis-
eating coal.
f. G. Rathbone. pardoned after con-
viction Of Cuban postal frauds, reached
New York from Havana.
At the Vatervliet On. Y.) arsenal
the largest cannon in the world has
been completed.
At Cataumet, Mass, Jane Toppan
nurse acquitted of murder because
insane, confessed to poisoning 81 per-
sons in ten years.
The striking engineers and some
firemen of the Susquehanna Coal COM
pany at Nanticoke, Pa, returned to
work. and this is regarded as the first
break in the anthracite strike.
At Pittsburg Henry Taylor (col-
ored) was hanged for the murder of
Edward Sewall, also colored, and
Thomas Cromwell (colored) was exc
cuted at Lebanon, Pa, for killing ia
cob Schmidt, an engineer. Gus Ayers
was hanged at Holly Springs, Miss, for
wife murder.