Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28

The frozen body of Frank N. Rich
ardson, banker of Wyoming, ILL.,, who
disappeared Tuesday, was found near
that place Saturday. It is thought he
was insane and wandered away.
A final compromise offer on state
hood bill has been reached by repub-
hcan leaders. Oklahoma would be adj
mitted as one state, Indian Territory
added to it after three years and Ari-
iona and New Mexico admitted at once
as one state and divided later. Quay is
willing.
Minister Bowen refused the demand
of Germany for immediate payment
of e5,500, the request being contrary
to the terms of the protocol for settle
ment of the Venezuelan trouble.
Booker T. Washington in an address
at New York advocated committee of
northerners, southerners and negroes
to settle race problem.
The Illinois coal operators and min
ers' met in joint conference at Spring.
field
Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, COM
mander of the battleship Indiana in
the Spanish war, was'presented with
sword by Indiana citizens.
Washington's birthday was appro-
priately celebrated throughout the
country.
Colonial dungeons where Ethan AL
len and other revolutionary soldiers
were confined by the British were I'M
earthed by workmen in New York.
While gang on the Baltimore &
Ohio road were thawing dynamite near
lockwood, Pa, an explosion killed
four men.
Col. Paul R. Hawkins, of Spring.
field, Mass, was elected commander of
the Legion of Spanish War Veterans at
Lawrence, Mass.
Routine organization occupied most
of the first session in Washington of
the twelfth continental congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Secretary Cortelyou asks for
building for the new department Of
commerce and labor to cost 100000,
exclusive of the site.
Fred A. Bopp, a banker at Hawkeye,
Ia, was killed and 10 other persons
injured in a railway accident near
Athol, S. D.
Philadelphia Methodists will print
daily newspaper without sporting
news and no Sunday issue.
A bitter war in the Chicago cloth
ing trade has been brought to an end
after struggle lasting seven weeks
and costing an immense sum.
Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y.
is in danger of being deserted on
account of the typhoid fever cpl
demic, nearly half of the students
having already gone.
Rev. H. L. Hutchins, in a paper read
at pastors meeting at New Haven,
says polygamy is practiced in certain
towns in Connecticut.
The Illinois legislature has passed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for life
size statue of the late Frances E.
Willard, to be placed in the National
Statuary hall in Washington.
President Truesdale, of the Lack
awanna railroad, in report accused
bituminous coal interests with incit-
ing the anthracite coal strike.
Mr.. Bowen, with approval of the
state department, has suggested to
the allies that the Car of Russia
zuelan question of preferential treat
ment.
The D. A. r. congress in Washing
ton adopted an amendment removing
the obstacle to reelection of the pres
ident general, Mrs. Fairbanks.
Senator Quay has given up the
statehood fight, making unlikely any
session.
Post offices. at Mexico and Denver,
ILL.,, East Atchison, Kan, and Morgan.
Mo-, have been robbed.
Earl Woods, the 17-year-old son of
well-known farmer living near Frank
fort, Ind, shot and killed his father,
fatally wounded his mother and sister,
and then took his own life. No cause
is known for the crime.
Charles Grether was hanged at
Stroudsburg, Pa, for the murder of
Constable Strunk in September, 1901.
Prank Brown, a negro, was lynched
at McDade station, La, for shooting
man AIMED Cornell, but not ia tally.
William Fambro (colored), who in
suited white woman, was shot dead
in his home at Griffin, Ga, by mob.
All the negroes at Webrum, Pa, have
been driven from town by the white
residents.
Mail Clerks G. W. Smiley, F. w.
Kreissman, w. H. Blackwell and L.
w. Walworth, all Of Cleveland, and two
unknown men were killed in a railway
wreck near Berea, 0.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Miss Ellen Smith, who, during the
past Is years has been in turn in
structor, professor and registrar of the