Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-17
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOME STlO.


pense was proposed in the Rock River
Methodist conference at Aurora, Ill.
Sir Thomas Upton proposes to offer
$4,000 cup to be competed for in races
across the Atlantic by fast yachts Of all
nations
A $1,000 steer roping prize at South
McAlester, l. T., was won by Miss Lucille
Mulhall, 10 years old, over we'll known
cowboys.
A census shows the civilized portion of
the native population of the Philippines
to be 100000. The uncivilized popula-
ton is placed at about coo, 900.
During September there were 129 de-
sertions from the battle-ship Maine, or
one man in every four of the crew.
The grand jury of Moore county, Ten
nessee, has returned % indictments for
murder against the members of Z mob
who lynched a negro in Nashville.
William B. Wright. of Bingham, has
been elected grand master Of Illinois
masOns.
Manufacturers who are members of
trade associations of the country have
started campaign to crush the weaker
labor organizations.
The seventh annual convention Of the
League of American Municipalities began
in Baltimore.
John Decker, of Norwich, Conn, me-
chanic A years old, entered the white
house in Washington, was arrested as a
crank and sent to an insane asylum.
Gustave Becker, an 1S-year-old STU
dent, died in Chicago from injuries re-
ceived in a game of football.
Chief Justice Fuller arrived in New
York from three-months' tour in Eu-
rope.
Orville B. Smith, who has cheated ho-
tel keepers'in every big city in the union,
was sent to the Cleveland workhouse
for three months.
Peter A. Schneider, widely known as
composer of church music, was found
dead in bed at his home in New York
city.
Fire which started in the Stone opera
house at Binghamton, N. Y, completely
Quilted the structure, entailing a loss of
$150,O0O.
Prof. Langley explains the failure of
his aerodrome to fly as due to an error
In the launching ways.
Sir Thomas Upton sailed from New
York for England on the steamer Cedric.
The Ellsworth homestead in Windsor,
Conn.,, has been formally presented to the
D. A. R. by the descendants OF the third
chief justice of the United States.
w. B. Given, president of the Lam
caster (Pa.) Railway and Light company,
resigned on discovery of $1o0, 900 discrep-
ancy in his accounts.
Albert Nudge & Son, Boston, Mass,
printers, have failed with assets OF $780,
600 and liabilities of $4,000.
Corn having ripened in all parts of
Kansas, no damage will result from
frost.
monument to commemorate the
deeds of Maryland soldiers who partic-
ipated in the battles around Chattanooga,
Tenn, was dedicated at Orchard Knob.
No information hereafter will be given
out by anybody connected with the white
house concerning the doings of cranks
intent toward the president.
Prosecuting Attorney Folk Of St. Louis
conferred with President Roosevelt on
the subject of extending the extradition
laws so as to include bribers and embez-
Zlers.
Of three masked bandits who held up
street car at Aurora, ILL.,, one was killed
by the police and another wounded in a
subsequent battle
Municipal ownership of street railways
was defeated in San Francisco by the
voters.
Fire destroyed the Updyke grain ele-
vator at Missouri Valley, Ia, the loss
being 100000.
The funeral of Wilson S. Bissell, for
mer postmaster general, took place at
Buffalo, N. y All the courts in the city
adjourned as mark OF respect. The
body was cremated.
The federal grand jury at st. Louis
returned indictments against w. A.
Morrow, assistant private secretary to
Gov. A. K. Dockery, and Thomas E.
Barrett, formerly marshal of the st.
Louis court Of. appeals, for aiding and
abetting fraudulent naturalization.
A receiver has been appointed for
Julius Myer, Sons & Co., a department
store firm in st. Louis. The total
acknowledged Indebtedness is $16O, 039.
Announcement Of the resignation Of
III. A. Castle, auditor for the post Office
department, is made = 81 u
= William Won Hodge Of Galveston, Tex,
is thought to be the long-lost Charlie
Ross Of Philadelphia. a friend Of the fam
lily recognizing marks Of Identification.
Prot. s. H. Langley's. e0-foot flying
machine was wrecked in the Potomac
river at Whitewater. Va, after totally
failing 70 work. Y 53 II,