Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-24
William Dorsey Jelks has been in

William Dorsey Jelks has been in
augurated governor of Alabama
| The Susquehanna iron and steel
mills at Columbia, Pa, employing
1900 men, had to shut down because
of lack of coal,
A wireless telegraph message from
President Roosevelt to King Edward
| was transmitted 5000 miles by Mar
conf from Wellfeet (Mass:) station
to Cornwall, England.
Health officers of 10 states held a
conference in Washington and de-
manded that decisive steps be taken
to stamp out bubonic plague in San
Francisco.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Y.
NJ. C. A. was marked by the opening
of record-breaking convention in
Washington, at which President
Roosevelt was the guest of honor.
Forty-four coal men and corpora
tons were indicted by the special
grand jury in Chicago for conspiracy
in restraint of trade and combina-
ton to regulate and fix prices of
coal.
Narcisso G. Gonzales, the Columbia
Is. CO. editor shot by Lieut.. Gov.
Tillman, died of his wound
A bill has been introduced in the
Missouri legislature prohibiting foot
ball in the state.
committee has been appointed by
the New Mexico legislature to draft
a memorial to congress urging state
hood for the territory.
The Illinois inheritance tax law
has been upheld by the United States
supreme court.
South Dakota divorces granted to
nonresidents have been declared in
valid by the supreme court.
Gov. Yates formally ordered Sher-
if Barrett to end boxing and pugilis-
tic exhibitions in Chicago.
Charles F. Kelly, member and former
speaker of the house of delegates, wa $
convicted of perjury in St. Louis.
There has been general advance of
wages along the entire Delaware e.
Hudson railroad system.
Fearing poverty Mrs. William Han
pa, aged rs years, of Oakland, Ia,
killed her husband, aged rs years,
and then killed herself.
United States senators have been
elected as follows: Hopkins Qn.),
Fairbanks Qnd.), Alger (N1ich.), Platt
Conn.,, Clarke (Ark.), Stone (Mo.),
Hansbrough IN. d., Penrose (Pa.),
Platt On. W, Smoot (Utah), Gallinger
IN. H., Kittredge Is. d..
Minister Bowen reached Washing-
ton to negotiate with European allies
for settlement of the Venezuelan af-
fair.
Euclid Madden and James Z. Kelley,
the Pittsfield (Mass.) trolley car crew
who caused collision with President
Roosevelt's carriage, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter and Madden was given
six months sentence.
The anthracite strike commission
has examined 400 witnesses to date;
ia called by strikers, 155 by nonunion
men and SO by the commission.
John Mitchell, in an address at the
United Mine Workers convention in
indianapolis, advocated increased
wages for soft coal miners
The executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is to begin
an active campaign in behalf of laws
to prohibit child labor.
Engineer Ward. Fireman McCurdy
and Brakemen Clemens and Petrie
were killed by the explosion of the
locomotive boiler of a train near
o.
Nine men were killed and ten in-
jured in a railroad collision on tho
Great Northern at Happy Hollow,
Wash.
Labelle ard Fournier were hanged
at Dawson, Alaska, for the murder
Of Leon Bothvillette. Joseph Con-
stantine and A. Beaudoine.