Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-09
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

same week in 1902.
President Roosevelt was given an
enthusiastic greeting at Kansas City,
Mo-, and at Kansas City, Lawrence,
Topeka and other Kansas Cities
Killing frosts were reported from
nearly every state in the middle west
and fruits and vegetables apparently
are ruined.
Weekly trade reviews say there is
much activity in manufacturing, with
the exception of some textile mills
Sales are reported good and collections
prompt.
Especial honors were shown foreign
guests on international day" by Off
GERS of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition.
April insurance losses for the United
States totaled $13,149,S55, against $13,-
10000 for 1909.
The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased S6GS,501 during the month of
April Cash in the treasury, 1878, $780,
1877. Total debt, less cash in the treas
ury. $o3S.o35.41s
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the list aggre-
gated $2,115.173, 1888. The decrease,
compared with the corresponding
week of last year, was IT..
The fifth anniversary of the battle
of Manila bay was celebrated by flying
the largest flag in the navy from the
navy building in Washington.
Forest fires in the Adirondacks
north of Utica, y. Y, damaged uncut
timber, camps and villages to the ex-
tent of 81 100000.
j. Wells Champney, famous artist,
was killed by falling down an ele-
vator shaft in New York.
Government receipts for April were
43,32G,100 and expenditures 1,763.-
614, leaving a surplus for the month
of $1,5G32S6.
On April 80 the total circulation of
national bank notes was 1891 1,72S,
an increase for the year of $34,164,-
329
George Williamson Crawford, of
Birmingham, Ala, negro, is one of
the winners in the Francis Wayland
prize debate at Yale.
Mrs. Jennie James has been SEN
fenced to six months in the Cranston
OR. ~ prison as common scold. She
was prosecuted under law enacted in
1856 also under a more recent statute
relating to railers and brawlers
Mrs. Louis Piatt. aged 80, and nine
year-old grandchild lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed the home of
Mrs. Piatt, near West Union, O.
President Roosevelt spent Sunday
quietly at Sharon Springs. Kan
Fire'destroyed the building at 151-153
Wabash avenue, Chicago, causing a
loss of over $15O,OOO.
Safe blowers robbed the post office
at Middlesville, Mich., securing $1,000
in stamps and $50 in currency.
Bob Bryant and Will Morris, the as
sassins of W. H. Legg. were hanged by
mob to the Yazoo bridge at Haynes
Bluff. Miss.
Rev. Walser Ferdinand, of Toledo,
was arrested at Lorain, O., on the
charge of the murder of Miss Agatha
Reichlin. and was taken to the jail at
Elria. The evidence against him is
purely circumstantial.
Saturday was the last day of the died.
1cation exercises of the exposition.
Address were delivered by several gov
ernors, great civic parade was held,
and sites for state buildings dedicated |
A National Civic federation branch
will be established in Chicago to aid
in the settlement of labor disputes. It
will have 100 members and meet
The body of six-year-old Paul Pasz-
kowski was found in a sack at Grand
and Sixty-third avenues, Chicago, with
a bullet wound in the head. Two play
mates, Julius Wiltrox and Willie Elack,
have been arrested.
A fast passenger train on the Grand
Trunk road plunged into crowd of a
thousand merrymakers at Detroit,
scores of persons. Seven are
known to have been killed and about 40
injured.
The Institutional Methodist church,
in Chicago. was partly wrecked by
dynamite bomb after Rev. R. c.. Ran
som, the pastor, HAD preached a STIR
ring sermon on the evils of policy play
ing and started a crusade against that
form of gambling.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 4th were: New
York, .692; Pittsburg, .6ss; Boston,
.68s; Brooklyn, .571; Chicago, .535;
Cincinnati, 400; St. Louis, .374; Phil
adelphia. .313.
Arrangements are practically cor,-
pleted for the ninth annual conference
on international arbitration which will
open at Lake Mohonk, N. Y, May ~ and
continue for three days.
An explosion of powder in the tor
Pedo factory of the Thor Manufacture
ing company at Cleveland, O., killed
four persons and injured 30 or more.
> Policy games are run in ,Chicag 90 with
out interference and nearly $50, 900 are
gathered every day from men, women