Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

A grandson of Alexander Hamilton
is postmaster at Elk Neck, Md.
A large number of anarchists have
been expelled from Switzerland.
The San Francisco police advocate
the establishment of a public whip
ping post for footpads.
One hundred million bushels OF
grain are sent every year to the mills
of Duluth and Minneapolis.
At st. Augustine, Fla, is the only
mill in the world that gets it's power
direct from AN arteSian we'll.
According to the latest returns to
the territorial board of equalization
there are 237,696 cattle in Arizona
valued at $1,57S,625
Some burglars not only stole the
silver plate from house in the sub
urbs of London, but carried off the
owners burglar insurance policy.
In every 100000 of the population OF
Prussia there are twice as many cases
of suicide Of persons under 20 years
OF age as there were 20 years ago.
Shooks empty casks and pine and
spruce to the value of over $4,000 900
were imported into the Argentine Re
public from the United States during
1902
The Japanese are said to be buying
ponies in the Canadian territories, be-
lieving that they will stand the hard
ships of winter campaign in Man.
churia
The town of Eothenhoffen, Bavaria,
noted for its quarries Of photographic
stones, has decided to erect mon,l-
ment to Senefelder, the inventor of
photography.
More than $4,000 pairs of gloves, SO
dozen umbrellas and 100 walking
sticks are included in forthcoming
'two-penny tube
AS regards the exports of Argentine
produce, the United Kingdom is the
best customer for frozen meat, having
taken $4,000 tons, against $500 sent
to all other countries.
Mississippi is to have the only wood
alcohol factory in the world which
uses yellow pine from which to dis
till the alcohol. The factory is now in
course OF erection at Hattiesburg.
The secretary of state has an
nounced that the population of Michi-
gan, as shown by the state census,
taken in June, is 2,530,O16, an increase
of 109,034, or Az per cent. since 1900.
The deposits in Canadian banks
have been increasing steadily until
they have reached the highest in the
history of the country, being nearly
S5O,OOG,000 greater than they were a
year ago.
The experiment made about a year
ago of employing Mexican porters in
Pullman cars has not been successful.
Forty Mexicans entered the service of
tho Pullman Co., and of that number
only five are left
The lowest wages in Germany pre-
vail in the purely agricultural dis.
tricts in the eastern provinces, ad.
Joining Russia. The highest wages
are paid in the German seaports and
in the industrial centers.
The druggists of Rome have formed
themselves into a corporate body in
order to take proceedings against
Baedeker for characterizing their es-
Establishments in his guidebook as be-
ing unreliable and expensive.
Several European newspapers have
recently published the statement that
Messrs. Comte and Levrat, of Lyons,
France, had succeeded in so affecting
silkworms by coloring their food that
they would make cocoons yielding COL
ored silk.
Coal briquettes are in very general
use in France, hardly household be-
ing without them during cold weather.
They are more easily handled and
more readily ignited and they throw
out more heat than coal and make no
dirt at all.
On the docks in London in one year
76,8O0 rats have been destroyed, but
the medical officer of health for the
port is doubtful whether that was as
much as the natural increase of births
over deaths, and more vigorous meas
ures are to be taken.
A plantation belonging to J. C. Hor-
ter, situated in the Pearl Lagoon dis
trict, Nicaragua, about 80 miles north
OF Bluefields, is the Oldest of num-
Der of estates devoted to the cultiva-
ton of the kind of rubber known as
"Castilloa elastica."
July was a bad month for British
commerce, the total volume of trade
inward and outward showing a falling
off of G6,160,486 ($29,980,O05), com
pared with the aggregate of July, 1903,
and Of &5,116,762 ($24,9O0,722), com.
pared with that of July, 1902.
Winter is the characteristic season
in Russia. 1t stamps the. whole life
and character of the people. While
the higher classes turn the winter
nights into day, the peasant, i'm
INJURED in his hut, with doors and win
dows carefully closed, lights a blaz-
ing pine torch and huddles close to
the great stove.
It costs nearly 81 more to go on an
excursion train from Berlin to Basic,
Switzerland, than from Basic to Ber-
lin. The difference is due to the fact
that in one direction the baggage is
free, but not in the other; wherefore,
a reduction is made in the latter case
in the price of the ticket.
The Victoria and Albert museum,
South Kensington, London, has re.
ceived very valuable addition to it's
collections through the bequest made
by the late Mr.. Constantine Alexander
Ionides of all his paintings, drawings,
etchings and engravings, which
amount to nearly 1900 in all:
The electric railroad hot,uoon I'm .