Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-06
After nine weeks of id1eness seven
cotton mills resumed operations at

ii After nine weeks of id1eness sever
cotton mills resumed operations al
Lowell, Mass.
An explosion destroyed the plant al
Elmira, N. Y. where jovite, high ex
plosive, was manufactured, and three
men were killed.
Mrs. Anna N. Noggie and Mrs. Hiram
johnson, the oldest twins in the United
States, celebrated their eighty-eighfh
birthday at Monroe, Wis.
The total circula ton of national
bank notes May 20 was $406, 443 ,205, an
increase for the year of $49,696,021.
In the Chicago judicial election the
democrats elected II and the repub-
licans three judges.
President Roosevelt witnessed q
wild west show at Cheyenne, where he
was given a beautiful horse, which he
rechristened Wyoming.
Eighty-five persons were killed and
40 fatally injured at Gainesville, Ca,
by a cyclone, and property aggregat-
ing 100000 was destroyed.
Prof. John F. Hicks, botanist at the
state agricultural station at Wooster,
!
of his sweetheart by some unknown
person.
The floods are subsiding at Topeka,
Kan, and the height of the peril is
believed to have passed. Thirty-four
| persons are known to have persisted.
United States supreme court passes
| upon number of important cases and
adjourns for the term.
The total coinage executed at the
minis of the United States during May
| was $1,78O,4s6.
Twenty-Five hundred square miles of
the most fertile valleys of Kansas and
Missouri, including populous cities, are
covered with food waters.
Whitaker Wright, the British fnan-
cial operator under arrest at New
York for alleged fraud. was refused
habeas corpus by the supreme court.
Water four feet above the danger
line is predicted for St. Louis by the
government weather bureau
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, of Grayling,
Mich, is charged with causing the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. John Murphy
and their daughter by giving them
poison.
A treaty with the Uintah Indians has
been closed which will throw open in
Utah 1880, 900 acres of reservation land
for settlement in October, 1894.
The floods were subsiding at Kansas
City, Mo-, and conditions were much
improved.
The New York building trades strike
is practically ended and work will be
resumed at once. Drivers and la
borers get no concessions and waive
union recognition.
President Roosevelt made stops at
several towns in Iowa on his home
ward journey. In an address at Du-
buque he favored a national policy
which refrains from wronging the
weak, but refuses to accept wrong
from strong nations.
The deaths from the tornado at
Gainesville, Ga, number 100. One thou
sand survivors are homeless and with
out food or clothing.
Six railroads have made peace with
the freight handlers union and thus
averted a strike in Chicago
Former Speaker Thomas B. Reed left
personal property valued at $431, 900,
according to report filed by the ap-
praisers at New York
Topeka has decided to solicit outside
assistance for flood sufferers, doubt
ing its ability to care for 10000 sick
and homeless refugees. Four hundred
refugees are still unrescued.
The Ferris wheel, which cost $780,.
600, has been sold to wrecking COM
pany in Chicago for 81, 800 and will be
removed as junk.
Another general strike of anthracite
coal miners is threatened by the execu-
tive board at Wilkesbarre, Pa, because
of the operators refusal to recognize
the miners representatives on the con-
Citation board, as promised under the
arbitration agreement.
The Mississippi river was above the
danger line at St. Louis and an addi-
tional rise of five feet was predicted.
with enormous loss.
Oleomargarine manufacturers must
pay ten cents a pound tax if any COL
oring matter is used, according to
Commissioner Yerkes' ruling.
The cruiser Tacoma was launched at
the ship yards of the Union Iron works
in San Francisco