Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-07-11

The National Educational associa-
tons convention opened at Boston.
Admiral Dewey has resigned as pres
ident of the Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal association, and Lieut.. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles has been elected to-
succeed him.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada in June amounted to $14,-
684,350, against $10,245,350 in the
same month last year.
Three persons were killed and Ii in
jured by the explosion of paper cap
compound in factory in Chicago.
Rear Admiral Evans, commander OF
the Asiatic station, has been given 500
more marines at his request, to pre-
pare for possible complications in
China.
Senator Hanna denies that he has
retired or will retire from business.
Joseph J. Gill, of Steubenville, men,
Der of congress from the Sixteenth
Ohio district, has resigned because OF
Ill health.
The Colorado legislature will meet
in extra session July 20 to pass an ap-
preparation bill for the. support Of
state institutions.
William Rudolph, charged with MUIR
der and robbery, escaped from jail at
st. Louis by sliding down an electric
light wire.
Mabel Brown, daughter of q Chica-
goan, and another woman were MUIR
dered by strangulation at Denver.
Charles E. Magoon. acting chief of the
bureau of insular effairs, sent the first
government commercial cable message
over the new Pacific cable line to Manila.
John Crowley, aged Is, cried himself
to death In New York upon hearing of
the death by accident of his uncle.
The Colorado river broke through the
levee near Yuma, Ariz., and flooded a
large fertile valley.
Shamrock III. sailed over the 30-mile
w1ndward and leeward course off Sandy
Hook in 2 hours So minutes and 81 Sec
E. l. Hammond and L. L. Whitman,
OF Pasadena, CAL, left for trip to New
York in an automobile.
Five hundred militiamen with a Cat.
ling gun battery are in control of Ev-
ansville, Ind. Nine persons are dead
and 50 injured as a result of rioting.
and negroes are fleeing in large num-
bers to Kentucky for safety.
According to an opinion by Attorney
General Knox, Secretary Wilson may
seize and conf1scate adulterated import
ed food products.
David Schaud, who shot and killed
MIS-. Ida Becker and Policeman Cyrus
Shaeffer, was hanged in the jail yard
at Lebanon, Pa.
1t Is announced that anthracite coal
has been discovered in Routt county.
COL, and the fields are believed to be
as extensive as those of Pennsylvania.
Cato Garrett, negro who stabbed
Harry Stout to death, was hanged by a
mob near the scene of his crime at
Vicksburg, Miss.
J. Marshall Funck, city solicitor Of
Lebanon, Pa, and one of the best
known lawyers in that section, COM
m1tted suicide in his Office by hanging
himself.
The governments weekly crop report
shows most favorable weather Of the
season and corn greatly improved and
growing fast
William O'Connor was electrocuted
at Clinton, N. Y, prison for the mur-
der of Matthew Wilson, at Cobleskill.
in November, 1900.
A B. Young, Pittsburg attorney.
murdered his wife and committed sui
eide at Washington (Pa.) hotel.
The United States battleship Kear-
sarge broke all ocean records for speed
in the battleship class in its voyage to
Kiel, making the distance of 9,345 miles
from New York to the Needles at the
average speed of 1862 miles an hour.
The first election in the United States
for Cecil Rhodes scholarships will take
place between February and May, 1904,
qualifying examination to be held in
each state and territory.
Twenty-four persons were killed
near Charlottesville, Va, by head
on collision between a passenger and
freight train, and 10 others were in
jured.
A big slump in cotton on the New
York market is said to have wiped out
100000 of the paper profits of the
New Orleans bull clique.
The United States, Great Britain and
Japan are maintaining an independent
attitude concerning Manchuria pending
the conference of Russian officials at
Port Arthur.
In Brooklyn. N. Y, NJ J. Sheridan,
of the Pastime Athletic club, hurled
the discus 1873 feet, breaking the
worlds record this own) by five feet
two inches.
Representatives Of all creeds and call
ings have signed petition to the car
requesting that he lead the way to re-
ligious liberty.
President Eliot, of Harvard, In an