Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-23

sz a score OF persons were more or less
seriously injured in st. Louis as the re-
suit Of a violent wind and rainstorm.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson will
ask congress to amend the law requir-
ing the unloading and feeding of live
stock each 2S'hours. .s== 4.
A census bulletin prepared by Prof.
w. +. Wilcox Of Cornell, declares that
the birth rate in the United States has
been steadily declining since 1860. @
The United Verde copper mine of
Jerome, Ariz., for controlling interest
in which Senator Clark, of Montana,
paid 800, now earns for it's owners
100000 q month. ~ .a~. =. );
Four persons were killed in one day
while climbing the Alps 10, ~ ~.s..@:
Booker T. Washington, in q conven-
ton OF negroes in Washington, declared
he south is the place for the black man.
Thousands Of acres of Indian land IN
Utah have been opened to homeseekers.
Vice President Fairbanks was orator
OF the day at the dedication of monu-
ment to Ethan Allen, at Burlington, vt.
The stable attached to the summer
home of Craig Biddle, at Radnor, Pa,
was burned. All of the horses and car
riages were saved. The loss is $4,000.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson criticises the
action of the Norwegian storthing and
declares for republic.
The coroner at Cleveland, o., in his Of
fetal decision, says the night telegraph
operator at Mentor, O., threw the switch
that caused the wreck of the Lake Shore
Twentieth Century Limited, in which 10
persons lost their lives.
Delegates from all sections Of the
country talked at the first days session
Of the big Chicago trade convention in
favor of plan for reciprocity as cure
for the evils of American commerce.
The annual report of the interstate
commerce commission says 10,O46 per-
sons were killed and S4.155 injured in
railway disasters in the United States
during 1904.
President Roosevelt, in letter to the
convention Of the National Negro Bust
ness league in New York, says self-help
is the hope of the black man and the So
A"sAoAA VI NAC 0CC p1OU1cM.
President Roosevelt, in an address at
Chautauqua, N. Y, favored enforcing
the Monroe doctrine, but not aggran-
dizement, and asked wise control of big
corporations.
A fast east-bound passenger train on
the Nickel Plate road collided with a
west-bound freight train at kishman,
O., resulting in the death of II persons,
while at least Is others were injured,
eight of whom will probably die. Blum
der of the freight crew is believed to
have been the cause of the disaster.
Mrs. Harvey Mcpherson Null,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree in having, it is alleged, poisoned
her husband, well-to-do farmer, and
H. c. Kelley, a farmland, charged
with aiding and abetting her in the
crime, have been arrested at Pratt.
Kan.
Twenty thousand citizens of Quebec
witnessed the unwilling of monument
to the Quebec soldiers who lost their
lives in the South African war. Earl
Grey unveiled the monument.
The ancient three-story and attic
house at Elm and Prince streets, New
York. in which President Monroe died
on July 4, 1881, was partially destroyed
by fire.
DIR. Austin Drake, of Springfield, ILL.,,
won 20-year contest for $4,000, 900
estate in New York.
James Showley and Ernest Campbell,
both young men, drove into a barn
near Wynn station, Ind, to escape a
storm. Lightning struck the barn,
killing both men.
Dispatches received at the state de-
partment from China show that Shang-
hal is the only place where the boy
colt against American goods has as
sumed anything like serious aspect.
At Canton the movement has made
some Roadway, but at other points it
has not been successful.
Ambassador Tower has been asked
to represent the United States at the
international earthquake conference
in Berlin. 49,
Five thousand idle workmen, armed
with rifles, are roaming through parts
OF Spain. Many others seek jails to
get food and shelter. Farmers and
land owners ask the government for
relief.
Wong Kai Kah, Chinese imperial
trade commissioner, comes to the
United States to discuss the boycott
and proposed a new exclusion treaty.
BY a modified order President
Roosevelt makes about $4,000 more
acres of public land subject to entry
In the Uintah Indian reservation.
Marshall Field, the Chicago mer-
chant, will pay taxes on $4,000, 900
worth Of property, 100000 being in
personal holdings in his residence.
John d. Rockefeller's gifts are re.
ported to exceed his income, and he
is mentioned as rival of Andrew Car
gle in the race for poverty.
The war department may soon or
der arrests, as the result of an expose
showing that the government has been
defrauded Of $150,000 on fur contracts
! at the Schuylkill arsenal. 49,
The teamsters' convention at Phil
adelphia adjourned, after exposure of
Chicago strike secrets. Chicago will
be the next meeting place.
Secretary Taft told Filipinos who
asked for a promise Of independence
that self-government is far distant
and the United States will brook no
interference with plans. ~ ~