Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07
THB WEEKS NEWS
Happenings = the Past Seven
Days in Brief
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS

President Roosevelt had a strenuous
day at the worlds fair. Enthusiastic
crowds greeted him on his tour of the
various buildings. He inspected the ex-
hibits, visited the several foreign build
ings, reviewed troops and attended a
banquet at the Tyrolean Alps. Sunday
he attended Divine service in the morn
ing, took an extended drive in the after
noon, dined with President Francis in
the evening, and left for Washington at
midnight.
Secretary of War Taft, in his first re-
port, gives the present strength of the
army as $4,000 officers and men, and says
they are the best paid soldiers in the
world. The secretary recommends the
abolition of duty on all goods from the
Philippines except sugar and tobacco.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in
his annual report, tells of years pro-
gress on the farms OF the nation. He
shows that the main crops of the United
States for the last year are worth $685.
339,609.
Banks and others have brought suiS
for $267.S00 against Mrs. Cassie Chad
wick. wife of Cleveland (O) physician,
on loans. A mysterious 100000 note
mentioned by the plaintiffs figures in the
case
A dispatch from Kieff. Russia, an
nOunces that 20 persons have lost their
lives there through drinking poisoned
brandy.
Peter Nissen, who started from Chi
cago across Lake Michigan in his boat,
called the Fool Killer No. g." was
found dead on the beach two and half
miles west of Stevensville, Mich. When
the wrecked aquatic balloon was towed
ashore in it was found a note written by
him saying an air hose upon which he
depended to renew his supply of air had
broken and that he was doomed to die of
suffocation.
William Davis and wife, charged with
the murder of Jacob H. Enertz, of Chi
cago, at Wilders, Ind. were held in
$4,000 each for grand jury action, and
on default of bail were committed to
Jail
During the year ended June 80, 1904,
members of life-saving crews rendered
assistance to 1861 vessels, involving
1928 lives, of whom a total of "a were
lost.
A certificate Of election has been given
to Bennett. republican. who was OPP
posed to Kehoe, democrat, in the Ninth
Kentucky district.
The Inauguration of Gen. Porfirio Diaz
as president of the republic of Mexico
for the seventh time and of Senior Don
Ramon Corral as the first vice presi-
dent took place in the city of Mexico.
In an opinion from the appellate d.
vision of the New York supreme court
the CLOSED shop. was declared illegal
and opposed to public policy.
The planning mill and lumber plant of
the A. D. Parr Lumber company was
burned to the ground at Clarksburg,
w. Va. The total loss will J. reach
$5O,0OO
Representative James Tawney, OF
Minnesota, presented to President
Roosevelt fine rapier of the fifteenth
century.
ter into an offensive and defensive al
lance with Japan.
President Roosevelt is said by the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald to have about decided to
abandon hope of tariff revision for at.
least year. The sentiment of leaders
Is found to oppose a change.
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The wives of army and navy officers
are to present a petition asking the
restoration of the canteen to congress,
where it will be met by counter petit
ton from the W. C. T. U.
Queen Alexandra of England OBJ
served her sixtieth birthday anniver-
sary.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows an increase of $2,453,265.
The capture of 203-metre hill and as
sault on Ehrlung and Keekwan forts
are said to have cost the japanese
$4,000 men.
Russia is unwilling to join the powers
in a second peace conference at The
Hague until her war with Japan is
ended.
The new Russian 1oan of $500, 900 900
will be taken up by French and German
syndicates. 'c,
Representative James Tawney pre-
sented to President Roosevelt fine
rapier of the fifteenth century.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition
closed in scene of pandemonium ON
the Pike following day and evening of
celebration in which St. Louis showered
honors and gifts upon President Fran
els, the head of the enterprise. The
total attendance during the fair was
about 100000.
The w. c. T. u, in convention in
Philadelphia, requested the president to
see that treaties prohibiting the sale of
liquor be observed in granting state
hood rights to Indian territory.
David M. Parry, Indianapolis, was re-
elected president of the Citizens Indus
trial association.
The Japanese have captured and hold
20S-metre hill at Port Arthur after a
desperate battle on the summit.
Forty-two hunters were killed and 10
wounded in the open season in the north
woods of Wisconsin and upper Michigan
which has just closed. The number of
deer killed is estimated at 1000.
The shortage in the accounts of A. p.
Nispagel, former cashier of the st.
Charles, Mo-, savings bank, is SIS, 163.
france has conferred upon Speaker
Cannon the rank of chevallier Of the