Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-07

oA IL III uedi buUte, MOut., tuIee weeks
ago, pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to 20 years. imprisonment.
Six persons were drowned while try
ing to cross the Ohio river a Hickman.
Ky.
The public debt statement issued on
the I'd shows that the debt decreased
$5,969,665 during the month of Febru-
airy. Cash in the treasury, 1914, 543 ,470.
Total debt, less cash in the treasury,
$o37 ,972 1898.
Patrons of western railroads have
been warned that no favors of anyk kind
can be accorded them under the provi-
sions of the Elkins law.
Government receipts in February
were $43,029,179 and expenditures
$37,75o,749, leaving a surplus for the
month of $5,277,430.
At the close of business February
20 the total national bank circulation
was 1882, 796,645, an increase for the
year of $24,363,978.
Data gathered at the University of
Michigan shows that of the 1885
women graduates in the past ten
y
At Philadelphia several thousand
union garment workers struck for
better conditions, higher pay and rec
ognition of union.
Farmers along the Wabash in In
diana have lost about $15O,000
through floods.
The coinage at the minis in Feb
ruary amounted to $9,196,8s0 as fol-
lows: Gold, $7,456,510; silver, ST.
$4,000; minor coins, $1s7,370.
By an explosion at the Edison CO.
ment plant at New Village, N. j., six
men were killed and rs injured.
Fifteen horses were cremated in
fire in the livery stable of F. j. lie
mer at Milwaukee, Wis.
The president has signed the army
appropriation and the Philippine
coinage bills.
The United States government crop
report for March shows winter wheat
to be we'll protected during the cold
weather and conditions satisfactory.
The body of Mrs. Hannah G. Knapp,
third wife of Alfred Knapp, the. Ham
ilton CO., stranger, was found in the
Ohio river at New Albany, Ind.
The president has called an extra ses-
sion of the senate to meet March to
consider treaties.
An injunction against ordering a
Wabash railroad strike, or urging en-
ployes to quit work, was issued by the
United States district court at St..
Louis against the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen and Locomotive Fire
men.
The state departm emit has. secured an
extension of the option for the pur-
chase of property and franchises of the
Panama Canal company.
Admiral Crowninshield, displeased
with his flagship, asked to be placed
on the retired list and his request was
granted.
The fire loss in the United States and
Canada in February was $4,000, 600,
against $21, 100000 in the same month
in 1902.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael Her
bert have exchanged ratification of the
Alaskan boundary treaty.
The terms of 80 members of the
United States senate have expired, but
the political balance of power remains
the same.
Thousands of cattle dead and dying
in the snow on the plains in Colorado
can be seen from every railroad
throughout the range country.
Gov. Pea body, of Colorado, called out
troops to protect the United States re-
ducing plant from strikers.
Gen. William Booth, in farewell to
America at New York meeting, says
he loves this country and believes in
it's destiny.
Many southern Illinois jails and aims
houses are declared by the state
charity board to be dangerous to
health.
Gov. Bailey has issued proclama-
ton calling upon the people of Kansas
for contributions to aid the famine
sufferers in Sweden.
A National and International Good
Roads congress will be held in St. Louis
from April ~ to May next.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan arrived in San Francisco from
Manila with nearly 1900 soldiers
Andrew Carnegie has given Prince
ton university $1,0O0,O00 for the con-
struction of graduate school.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
John C. FILLMORE, founder of the Or
der of United Commercial Travellers,
died at his home in Columbus, O., aged
IS years.
Former Congressman Jehu Baker
died at Belleville, ILL.,, aged 81 years.
He had served also as minister to
Venezuela.
Ex-Congressman Rodney Wallace
died at his home in Fitchburg, Mass.
Gen. William Farrar Smith, better
known as "Baldy" Smith, one of the
prominent figures Of the civil war,
died at his home in Philadelphia,
aged 80 years.
Delaware's long senatorial fight
has been ended by the election of J.
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