Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
DOMESTIC.

Criticism of the Wabash manage
ment by employees and disapproval of
the court for issuing an Injunction is
discouraged by brotherhood leaders,
who fear contempt of court proceed
ings.
The new United States monitor Ne
vada has been placed in commission at
the navy yard in Portsmouth, N. H.
Democratic United States senators
predict thatthe extra session will close
by April l.
Charles r. L. Henderson was hanged
at Duluth, MIMI. for the murder on
june II last of Ida Mccormick.
Inc legislatures proposal
Tor a national conference on the negro
question is favored in the north,
william Ross was executed at Bot
tlneau, n. D., for the murder of Thorn
as Walsh on July 5, 1902.
The old Lincoln homestead near
Hodgenville, KY, the birthplace of
Abraham Lincoln, will be sold under
the hammer.
Inc Arkansas legislature has passed
Dill requiring street car companies
to operate separate cars for white and
colored people.
Because of swollen rivers the stu
atlon from Paducah, KY, to Cairo
ILL.,, is the worst that has been
known for 10 years.
Inc South Dakota and Idaho lcgis-
latures have adjourned sine die.
Influenza is epidemic in St. Louis
where $4,000 persons are said to be
suffering from the disease.
st. Louis authorities have killed
race betting in that city.
The governor of Washington has
signed the law making gambling a
felony in that state.
Plans for Henry Ward Beech er
memorial were presented at a Brook
YIN IN. W meeting at which Grover
Cleveland and Justice Brewer deliv-
cred addresses.
Connecticut citizens are interested
in Rev. H. L. Hutchins' charges that
villages of that state are filed with
depravity.
Seventeen men were drowned by
the caPsizing of a ferryboat used by
workmen at Spier Falls, N. Y.
Six persons were burned to death
and one fatally injured in a hotel
fire at Letter, w. Va.
The cruiser Chattanooga was
launched at Elizabeth, N. j.
Seven persons committed suicide in
Chicago on the Sth.
Director of the Census w. r. Mer-
riam has resigned, to take effect
May Is.
Illinois miners and operators have
reached an agreement on wage scale.
Daniel Leroy Dresser & Co., silk
merchants in New York, made an as
signment, with liabilities of $780,
900; assets $750,0O0.
Congressman Cannon will go on a
West Indies cruise as the secretary
of navy's guest.
The salaries of 1900 employees of
the Union Pacific railroad have been
Increased from IL to Is per cent.
Heavy rains have sent the Cumber-
land and Tennessee rivers booming
and much property has been de-
stroyed in Kentucky.
One hundred families living below
Alton, ILL.,, have been rendered home
less and many lost their belongings
by rise in the Mississippi river.
Three hundred families living in
Columbus, Neb., have been compelled
to leave their homes and seek higher
ground because of floods.
Twenty-Five persons were killed
and over so injured by burning oil
thrown from exploding tanks in a
freight wreck at Olean, N. Y.
The department. of agriculture has
issued an order quarantining the state
+ Of New Hampshire because of the foot
5 and mouth disease.
VI The sixty-third general assembly
OF Indiana has adjourned sine die.
/. !: A go-as-you-please automobile race
from New York to Chicago will be
held in August. sssE i sS S4s .:s*=F%~ ,z,@%za
Homer Bird, who murdered two com.
panions on the Yukon river, was
8 hanged q Sitka. Alaska. ..s