Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-31

Oberlin CO., college chapel, seating
LOO persons, was destroyed by fire.
Conductors, brakemen and yardmen
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have
been given ten per cent. advance in
wages.
Coal is scarcer in Chicago and prices
higher than before the grand jury in
vestigation began.
Aman named Shaffer shot and killed
Richard Smith at Veray, Ind, and when
lodged in Jail hanged himself.
A treaty with Canada for arbitration
of the Alaskan boundary dispute has
been signed in Washington.
C. Herbert OFT, Michigan university
student from Hillsdale, ILL.,, died in Ann
Arbor from overstudy.
Harley Edkins, conductor, and Ed
ward Darling and Thomas Swank,
brakemen, were killed in railway
wreck near Satterfield, Pa.
Lorrin Andrews, of New York, has
been appointed attorney general of
Hawaii by Gov. Dole.
Thirty citizens of Stratford, Ia, were
arrested for holding up a coal train and
Selling several cars of fuel.
Dora Meek, the 17-year-old girl of
Centralia ILL.,, who has been asleep 100
days, has revived and is reported as
rapidly recovering.
Judge w. R. Day, secretary of state
under President Mckinley, has &C.
cepted an appointment to the United
State Supreme court to succeed JUS
tice Shiras.
Philip Doblin, of New York, con-
fessed perjury before the house COM
mittee in declaring he offered a $4,000
bride to Representative Lessler, of
New York.
Joe Thomas, a negro desperate,
was caught by mob and burned at
the stake near New Orleans for the
murder of Sheriff Curry.
Railroad officials declare lack of
motive power deprives them of one
third more traffic.
At the United Mine Workers. con-
vention in indianapolis a report
against government by injunction"
was adopted. John Mitchell was re-
elected president.
Boughton, Ford & Co., bankers at
Burton, O., made an assignment, with
assets of 100000 and liabilities of
100000.
Max Waldenburger, representative
of German horse meat company, is
en- route to Chicago, where he will
establish a horse slaughtering plant.
The Kansas legislature has ap-
pointed a commission to investigate
the coal famine.
Printing unions in conference at In
dianapolis reached an agreement for
harmonious action in labor and other
matters.
Three men robbed the Bank of
Steeleville, ILL.,, of $4,000 and escaped
in carriages.
Gov. Yates sent his secretary to
indianapolis to offer to John Mitchell
a place on the Illinois board of arbi-
tration.
The business portion and number
Of residences of Buck Creek. Ind.
were burned.
Four men robbed the Citizens bank
of Waterloo, Neb., and escaped with
$500 in cash.
The G. B. Markle company contin-
ued the presentation of it's case be-
fore the anthracite coal strike COM
mission in Philadelphia.
The Utah university" (Salt Lake)
sophomore class struck sooner than
apologize for throwing vegetables. at
dramatic exhibition.
William McKinley's birthday ami
versary was celebrated at Canton, O..
with a banquet at which President
Roosevelt was chief guest and
speaker.
Soft coal miners announced at the
Indianapolis convention that 1879
cents ton wage increase will be de-
manded and strike ordered if neces-
sary. The convention adjourned.
Further progress has been made
by Minister Bowen in negotiations
with allies for settlement with Ven
ezuela and raising of the blockade is
expected soon.
twenty-five person were killed and
dozens hurt, many fatally, in COL
hsion on the Central Railroad of
New Jersey near Westfeld.
The "get coal" convention in Wash
ton decided that enforcement of
present laws will correct evils.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
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