Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-12-06

certain on q proposed reduction of the
Dingley tariff rates. #5.@ II. =#$.
The powers hesitate In their move
against Turkey, awaiting I move by.
Great Britain, which because OF home
complications tis slow to net.
Americans. in London gave q Thanks
giving banquet at which Ambassador:
Reid was the principal speaker. DR..
Nevin conducted service at Rome. "
The most Important needs Of the
Philippine tslands are = market, q bank
and better transportation, says the
chief Of the bureau OF insular affairs
In his report to the war secretary.
The warehouse Of the Standard OIL
company at Armourdale. Kan. was
destroyed by fire. causing loss Of
$175. 900. 81 !. . #s.ss e.; ss :.
The President and Mrs Roosevelt,
accompanied by two Of their children,
left Washington for Plain Dealing,
their country home In Virginia, where
they spent Thanksgiving quietly.
Fire destroyed four business blocks
In the center OF the town OF Peters.
burg, Ind. Loss, 350,000.r =. - e.
Gov. Herrick, 81 Ohio, issued =
Thanksgiving pardon to Jefferson
shanks. OF Miami county, who was
sent up for life July 6, 1898, for muir
der. 81 ~...>.~. - =
> Herbert Parsons, candidate for pres
ident Of the New York republican
county committee, issued a statement
repudiating all bosses. 80. =.
Drugs worth from SIS, 900 to $780,
900 have been stolen from wholesale
chemists In New York during the last
few months, according to detectives
who arrested two men. z,
Robbers wrecked the safe Of the Cit.
liens national bank, at Owl, l. T., and
escaped with over $4,000. III. -
Mine owners of the interstate dis
trict offer miners an increase of five
per cent. in wages to prevent strike
next month. 49, -
The Chicago drainage canal, Illinois
and Michigan canal and the Illinois
river will hereafter be regarded by the
national government as navigable
streams. ..,:s' ...,..- .
According to figures given out by the
census bureau nearly one-tenth OF the
people in the United States are litter
ate. 80, SO; - 1,
Secretary Root accepted tne resigna-
ton of Herbert G. Squiers as minister
to Cuba, the vacant post being taken
by Edwin J. Morgan. ~: '-~E~. e
The wrecks of three more big great
lakes steamers were discovered after
the storm. Fifteen survivors Of the Ma
taafa disaster rescued after night Of
terror on board the hulk. Nine per-
ished. *ft r. s@*2@s $'is ~
Robbers smashed a window at No. Is
Madison street, Chicago, at six o'clock
at night and stole diamonds valued at
$1,000.
Korea will make q strong appeal to
President Roosevelt to continue diplo-
matte relations, urging this as the only
means of preventing absorption by ia
pan. -
The senate commerce committee has
received copy Of the rate bill pre-
pared by the interstate commerce com
mission, in which it asks for rate-mak-
ing powers. .-. .s..' - >. <z,. -. 49,.
New York university council, in spe-
cial meeting. decided to follow Colum-
bias lead and abolish football. :: = r.
Senator w. B. Allison, of Iowa, in an
interview in Chicago, said he expected
congress to pass railroad freight and
insurance laws. >, = -.
Philippe Bunau-Varilla; the French
engineer, lecturing before the National
Geographic society at Washington,
urged q canal 500 feet y4decand IS 1eet
deep. forming the, Straits OF Panama"
as . final solution of the question: :
The sultan of Turkey will ybe careful
not to carry his obstinacy to such
lengths as to cause the allied powers
to send a feet to Constantinople.
Edwin Hurlbut, editor of the Wis
consin Free Press, and one of the old
est writer's In the state, died at Ocono-
mowoc, aged SO years. Death was due
to old age: ey-a. !. ...s :.r
The plant Of the Illinois Match com
pany Was totally destroyed by Are at
Joliet, Ill. LOSS, $50 900. The body, Of
William Schran burned to a crisp was
found in the ruins. ~ s.
Fire in the cigar factory of Ellis &
Gantadine,; in the heart Of the manu-
featuring district of San Francisco,
burned fiercely for six; hours, despite
= heavy rain, and caused 2: a :. loss OF
}250,000. ILL.,: ..-s.z. ..:if ,s...
The Colorado state supreme court
fined United States Senator Thomas M.
Patterson $1,000 and costs for con-
tempt of court. The contempt consist
ed in the publication of cartoons and
editorials rejecting on the court in
the senator's two newspapers He has
appealed the case to the supreme
court of the United States. y. .ass
William T. Reid, JE, Harvard's head
football coach, has been summoned to
the white house by President Roose-
welt to talk over the football season. .
Seventeen vessels, including big steel
steamers, were wrecked in terrific
storm ON the Great Lakes. Twenty
six men are reported lost with one
ship, beached near the harbQrS Of sDu-
luth. Property damage of $4,000, 900
was sustained and deep. snow and in
tense cold ID the northwest tied up
Hand tran1c and added to- the. suffering.
A board Of regents Of the University
Of California has just concluded the
purchase Of the Bancroft library. Il The
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