Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-20
The village Of Heppner, Ore, was
nearly destroyed by cloudburst and

The village Of Heppner, Ore, wa.
nearly destroyed by cloudburst and
500 persons were probably drowned
A wall of water 20 feet high swept the
gulch where the village is located.
The report of the interstate com:
merce commission for the fiscal year
shows that the total number of cas-.
ualties to persons on account of rail
way accidents for the year was 49,
$50, including 8,568 killed and 1860
injured.
President Roosevelt replied to the
B'nai Birth society's plea on the
klshineff massacre by expressing hor-
ror at atrocities reported, but de-
clared his belief that Russia would
punish those responsible and prevent
repetition.
The amount of three and four per
cent. bonds so far received at the
! treasury department for exchange
into two per cent. consols is $72,2O6,-
$50.
| President Roosevelt was the guest
of honor at the grand concert of the
Northeastern Saengerfest association
at Baltimore.
Fred Mink, the murderer of New
ton Harris and Sarah Mink, surren-
dered to the Pittsfield Qll.) sheriff
and a militia company escorted him
to Jail to prevent lynching.
President Roosevelt received the
new Chinese ambassador, Sir Chen
tung Liang-Chen, and was presented
with gifts from the king of Italy and
the president of France by the en-
voys of those nations.
A. j. Cassatt and other officials of
the North Jersey Street Railway
company will be tried at Newark for
manslaughter as the result of an &C.
cident that killed several children.
Charles F. McFarlane, superintend-
ent of the ANTHOLOGY society. was
murdered at New York by William
Spencer. against whom he was about
to testify.
The governments weekly crop re-
port shows vegetation east of the
Rockies hindered by cold. but cultiva-
ton rapidly progressing; New Eng
land drought relieved; corn unusually
late; winter wheat harvest under way.
New gifts to the University of Chi
cago, aggregating $621.155, were an
nounced at the convocation.
The collapse of the approach to the
bridge at Eau Claire, Wis. dropped 200
carnival sightseers to the river. Scores
were hurt.
Miners and operators reached an I'M
derstanding at Scranton and there
will be no strike in the anthra cite field.
The Chicago restaurant and hotel
employees strike will be submitted to
arbitration.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
arranged to leave the white house for
oyster Bay on June q, where they will
spend the summer
Postmaster General PAYNE has do
clded to prosecute ex-Congressman
Edmund H. briggs, of New York, on a
charge of bribery.
Lisbon. O.. celebrated it's centennial
anniversary.
Later reports from Heppner. Ore.
indicate that at least 300 persons lost
their lives in the flood The bodies
OF many of the victims have been re-
covered.
One million acres of government
land has been thrown open to SETTLE
ment along the line of the Santa Fe
railroad from Nogales to Maiave. in
California
Rev. John R. Chadwick, chaplain in
the United States navy, has rendered
his resignation to President Roose-
welt.
Henry Shaghorn. aged 50, shot and
killed his wife, aged AZ. in Philadel-
phia, and then killed himself.
An insurance company with a cap
ital of $1oo,ooo,ooo is being formed by
the National Association of Manufac-
turers to protect it's members from
loss arising from strikes.
President Roosevelt in an address
at the University of Virginia t. Char
lottesville declared that all who re-
ceive university education are debt
pense only by service to their fellow
men.
The post office department has COM
pleted arrangements with the GOV
of Peru for an exchange of
money orders with this country.
Four men were killed at a grading
camp near Cheyenne, Wyo., by the fall
of a trestle.
Three election judges in the Eigh-
teenth ward, Chicago, were found
guilty of permitting illegal voting and
sentenced to three months each in Jail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gen. Alexander Mcdowell McCook, U.
S. A., retired, died of paralysis at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles
in Dayton,O
Maj. W. h. Gibbes, who is said to