Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-28

f. Mrs. Emma Drake, of Covington,
Ind, worth $4,000, has been arrested
on a charge of numbering her husband,
Robert J. Drake.
The straits of Mackinac are now
open for navigation.
The governor of Texas has signed
bill prohibiting betting on horse races.
Treasurer Harry E. Nirdlinger, of
the Marguerite Sylvia Opera company,
was robbed of $4,000 in Milwaukee.
The danger from the flood in Mem
phis, Tenn, and vicinity is considered
practically over.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children will
spend the time during the presidents
western tour at Sycamore hill, Oys-
ter Bay.
A complete revision of the names
of Indians in the United States is
now being made by the. government.
Five cattlemen persisted in a biz
zard in the Sweetwater country in
Wyoming.
Mrs. Edwin L. Burdick, wife of the
Buffalo murder victim, concluded her
testimony at the inquest by declaring
she had no knowledge as to the slay-
er's identity.
''Whitey" Sullivan was electrocuted
at Dannemora prison for the murder
of Matthew Wilson at Cobleskill, N.
Y, November 26, 1900.
Jack Pierce killed Mrs. Barney He'd
igar and a man named Patten and
then killed himself at Gilt Edge, Mont.
The men had quarreled over the
woman.
McCauley's sawmill near Wickliffe.
KY, was destroyed by an explosion of
the boiler and three men were. blown
to atoms.
Secretary Moody has selected Guam
tanamo as the principal United States
naval station in the West Indies.
On and after April 1 mine employees
who desire to join the United Mine
Workers will have to pay $40 as an in
itiation fee.
President Roosevelt has made ap-
plication for membership in the
Oyster Bay a.. ~ board of trade
The United States Steel corporation
has put in operation more than 1900
new coke ovens on Tug river in West
Virginia.
At the national convention in New
Orleans of the American Women's
Suffrage association Susan B. ANTHONY
was elected honorary president and
Carrie c. Gait, of New York, was elect
ed president.
A new counterfeit two-dollar silver
certificate, series 1899, check letter
&C." Lyons. register; Roberts, treas
urer. has been discovered
Thirty thousand acres were flooded
by the breaking of levee around La
coma Circle, Ark.
Senator Tillman, Of South Carolina,
in speech at Detroit, Mich, alluded to
Sherman's army as "bummers. chicken
thieves and carpet-bagg and. was
violently Kissed.
The supreme court of Ohio has de-
clared constitutional the state local op-
ton statute.
Thieves raided Plainville; Ind. rob-
bling the post office, depots and three
stores
Hazing at the University of Michigan
continues, and it is said at least 60 stu
dents have been shorn of their locks.
1t is reported that control of the
New York Central railway has passed
to the Morgan ckefeller-Pennsyl-
vania com bination.
Seven packing concerns purchased
last summer by Armour-Swift-M Morris
interests have been merged in the Ma
tional Packing company, with SIS, O0o,-
900 capital.
A temporary injunction has been is
sued by Judge Kohlsaat in the federal
court at Chicago against Indiana coal
men, to restrain their combination.
Western railroads are engaged in a
bitter struggle for the government mail
carrying contract between Chicago and
Kansas City.