Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07

aged IL. Hash claims Moore attacked
him while under the influence of liquor
and that he shot in self-defense
Rev, William T. Manning, D. D., vicar
of st. Agnes chapel, Trinity parish, New
York city, was elected first bishop of
the newly organized Episcopal diocese
of Harrisburg.
Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis has
been appointed by the president on the
Dogger Bank court of inquiry. He has
accepted the appointment.
The strike of coal miners in the Mas
sillon, O., district, in which 1000 men
have been involved, was settled, the
employers granting a concession of two
cents more per ton for loading.
Three deaths resulted from the ex-
plosion and fire at the Swiss laundry in
New Orleans, La. The victims are
young girls.
Receipts of the internal revenue
bureau for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1904, were 1892 1904, 004, an increase
of 81, 163,079 over the collections for the
year preceding.
The four states having the largest
production of distilled spirits during the
year ending June 80, 1904, are Illinois,,
41,785,899 gallons; Kentucky, 5000, 1872
gallons; Indiana, POSSESSES gallons;
Ohio, 13,173,537 gallons.
A verdict for $4,000 damages has
been awarded in the New York supreme
court to Mrs. Anna Morhard, wife of a
Staten Island physician, who was killed
a year ago in the cellar of his home by
an electric shock.
Joseph Letter was indicted at Du-
quoin, ILL.,, on three counts on the charge
of bringing armed men into the state
contrary to the recently passed statutes.
One man was killed and three fatally
injured in an explosion at Goes, o. A
press mill of the Miami powder works
exploded with several thousand pounds
OF powder, destroying the building
The American White Cross First Aid
society, intended to supplant the Red
Cross in America, has been organized
in Chicago and embraces physicians OF
the highest note and Miss Clara Barton,
founder of the older organization.
Mrs. Richard Yates was burned while
driving in Springfield, ILL.,, hot bricks in
the carriage letting fire to her skirts
The governor smothered the blaze with
his overcoat before she was seriously
injured.
The city council is preparing to rid
Chicago of the deadly grade crossing,
the work already done in this direction
having cost more than $4,000, 900 and
the expense of other improvements
swelling the total to more than $685.
100000.
Battling" Nelson and Jimmy Britt
are matched to box December 20 in San
Francisco.
King Victor Emmanuel convened the
Italian parliament and proposed bills
to prevent strikes, elevate the working
classes and give Italians more liberty.
The step-father of an clipping Texas
bride killed the groom, his parent, and
wounded another. A mob avenged the
triple murder by killing the slayer
The Citizens Industrial association
in convention in New York adopted
resolutions urging the state to estab-
fish artisan schools as part of a plan
for combating labor unions
More Italians are returning to Italy
at the present time than ever before.
according to statements issued by the
various steamship companies whose
boats run from New York city to Italian
ports.
Miss Nancy Carver Letter, the second
daughter Of the late Levi e. Letter, OF
Chicago, and Maj. Colin Powys Camp
bell, of the British army, were married
in Washington.
Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska. has offered
a reward of 5000 for the apprehension
of the slayer of Lulu Johnson, who was
shot and instantly killed on the night
of October 20, near Valentine, Neb.
The final hearing by the interstate
commerce commission in the matter OF
the complaint of william r. Hearst
against the coal carrying roads was be-
gun in Washington
The will of Richard NJ. Scruggs, a
prominent merchant and philanthropist,
who died in st. Louis recently, provides
for the distribution of $147,5OO among
religious institutions.
The official vote Of Iowa in the recent
election gives Roosevelt, 307,9O7; Par
ker, 149,141; Swallow, II, 601; Debs, A.
847; Watson, 2,207. Roosevelts plur-
atty over Parker is 1896.
A ruling by Postmaster General
Wynne classes guessing contests as
lotteries, and the use of the mails will
be denied their promoters.
The New York state court of appeals
declared unconstitutional the labor law
which prohibits a contractor from en-
ploying his men more than eight hours
day on city, county or state work.
Enocn Sloan, a farmer, went home
from Shelby, KY, in a drunken condi-
ton and shot and killed his wife and
four small children and then shot him.
self dead.
Senator Burrows has issued sub
poenas for 20 witnesses in the Senator
Reed Smoot investigation, and has
fixed Monday, December IL, as the date
for their appearance before the COM
mittee in Washington.
Richard Swartz, engineer, and Will
liam Hoodley, fireman, were fatally
burned by the bursting of steam pipe
in the Bryant paper mill at Kalamazoo,
Mich.
During the performance at Paris on
the Pike, at the worlds fair, one of the
ropes broke during trapeze exhibition
and A. Dibson, the performer, was
thrown to /the stage and instantly
killed.