Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
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DOMESTIC.
Two of the public schools of Phila.
delphia are closed on account of the
coal supply becoming exhausted.
At Riverhead, L. l.. Louis A. Disbrov
was acquitted on the charge of killing
Clarence Foster a Good Ground on the
night of June 9. The Indictment charg-
ing Disbrow with the murder of Miss
Lawrence on the same night will be
dismissed.
A combine of the independence iron
mills at Muncie, Hartford City, New
Albany, Terre Haute and East Chicago,
Ind; Findlay, o., and Muskegon, Mich.
has practically been completed.
Through its president, Robert Treat
Paine, the board of directors of the
American Peace society has taken
action favoring an interna tional peace
congress.
Two persons lost their lives in a
ire which destroyed dry goods store
in New York city.
The treasury department has in
structed customs collectors through
out the country to put into immediate
effect the act placing coal on the free
list.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
welcomed delegates to the interna-
tional customs congress in New York.
which is attended by representatives
OF nearly all the Latin-American re-
publics.
The industrial situation is seriously
disturbed by the coal shortage, &C
cording to R. G. Dun & Co.'s review.
transportation lines are neglecting
merchandise for coal shipments, but
many manufacturing plants are
obliged to close.
John Mitchell, addressing the strike
commission, says operators are re-
sponsible for the reduction of the
output, which they have charged to
unionism.
Belated and indignant passengers
landed by the steamer St. Louis at
New York gave out resolutions scor-
ing the management and talk of dam
age suits because of the slow and
trying voyage on the liner with leaky
boilers.
Two men are dead and two others
are perhaps fatally injured as the
result of the explosion of freight
locomotive on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near Monrovia. Md. .
Pwo boilers in the Ranney refriger-
ator factory blew up at Greenville:
Mich, killing two men, injuring more
than a dozen others, and causing all
estimated money loss of $4,000.
The State bank of Toronto, Kan,
has closed it's doors. The liabilities
probably will amount to about $685.
900. It is said only small per cent
of the deposits. which amount to $751;
coo, can be paid.
Capt. Streeter, William McManners
and Henry Hoeldtke were sentenced
to Joliet prison for killing Watch
man Kirk in the "District of Lake
Michigan" in Chicago.
In wreck near Sycamore, ILL.,, on
the Great Western railroad, one per-
son was killed and 30 others were
seriously injured. OF these several
may not recover.
William Fitzhugh, mining expert,
declares there is $780, 900 of gold
in sight in Alaska.
The grand jury in Chicago has voted
true bills against 80 coal corporations
. and their officers. The antitrust law
was used, and for the second time in
Illinois corporations themselves are
indicted.
Ireton Bros grain warehouse and
elevator at Van Vert, O., burned.
causing loss of $4,000.
The United Mine Workers four
teenth annual convention opened in
indianapolis and President Mitchell
was given an ovation.
:" The coal strike commission opened
its thirty-seventh days session in
Philadelphia. Much of the testimony
was along the same line as that al
ready given by superintendent of
mining companies.
By an explosion in the Mononga-
hela furnace department of the Ma
tional tube works, McKeesport, Pa.
three men were killed and seven in
sjured. 49,, i, u. - ~
The New York board Of education
has decided against married women %
0Ghod teachers. s.= I. II. .ss..