Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-22

OF quincy, ILL.,, and 1Or the last sever
years prominent member OF the Chi.
cagO bar, is dead.
A. squadron of British warships COM
manded by Prince Louis of Battenberg,
will visit American waters in October. +
A crusade against corsets has been
launched in the Wisconsin assembly.
The salary of President w. H. New
man, Of the unified Vanderbilt system.
it is said, will be $4,000 year, with a
New York home and an elegant private
car
Robert Bremner, pioneer merchant
OF Chicago, who settled there in 1S4S,
died at Orland, Ill.,. at the age of IS
years.
The epidemic Of cholera in Russia is
threatened in the spring, and the au-
thorlties show their alarm. Typhoid is
practically epidemic, in St. Petersburg.
The Kansas house adopted a resolu-
ton urging federal action to contro!
Standard Oil.
Secretary Taft, in an army circular,
opposed the anti-canteen act.
James H. Hyde's fancy dress ball, at
which Nine. Rejane is said to have
danced the can-can, may cost him the
leadership in the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society, where revolt is assuming
serious proportions.
The New York Women's Republican
club voted down a motion to oppose =
bill In the legislature providing that
woman must pay household bills if the
husband fails to meet them.
The live stock losses this year will
be the greatest since the great blizzard
year OF 1886. The number of head lost
on the range in western Kansas, west
ern Oklahoma and the Handle of
Texas, is estimated at $4,000 head.
President Roosevelt declines to pre-
sent the arbitration treaties, as amend
ed by the senate, to the countries with
which they were negotiated.
Hundreds of deer have died in north
ern Wisconsin from the intense cold.
The ice in the Mississippi river at
st. Louis has an average thickness of
three feet and in the vicinity of Eads'
bridge extends almost to the bottom of
the river.
Lincoln's birthday anniversary was
generally observed throughout the
country.
Mrs. Mary Armstrong, her sister,
Mrs. Cynthia Ford, and her daughter,
Mabel Armstrong were asphyxiated by
natural gas in the formers residence
in Buffalo, N. Y.
William S. Miller. who was pardoned
by Gov. Higgins OF. New York, after
serving less than five years of a ten
year sentence for his connection with
the notorious Franklin syndicate, has
been released from prison.
Secretary Hay announces that the
arbitration treaties will be dropped.
Mrs. Catherine Alden, aged SO years,
said to be seventh in line of direct de-
scent from John and Priscilla Alden,
died at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
A dispatch from Kobe, Japan, re-
ports that the small steamer Natorig-
ava collided with the harbor works
at Osaka and sank, and that "a persons
were drowned.
A train on the Burlington road
drawn by two engines, was derailed
near Prescott, Ia. Engineer E. H.
Allen was killed. Engineer Peterson
and Firemen Sperry and Rossner were
badly scalded.
Another indictment was returned by
the federal grand jury at Portland,
Ore, charging United States Senator
Mitchell, Congressman John N. Will
Hanson and Binger Hermann and
others with additional land frauds.
Anton Westmark shot and fatally
wounded his wife at her parents, home
in Dubuque, Ia, and then blew out his
brains. Jealousy caused the tragedy.
A committee Of Russian ministers at
a conference decide to instruct the
minister of finance to frame scheme
for the relief of the workmen.
President Roosevelt, in an address
at the Lincoln dinner in New York,
spoke of the race problem; said the
south must do much toward its solu-
ton; expressed faith in the honesty
and courage of southern people.
United States Senator Mitchell, Con-
gressmen John N. Williamson and Bin
ger Hermann and others again are in
dfcted by the federal grand jury in
Portland, Oregon, on the charge of
conspiracy to defraud the government
of land.
A cold wave caused much suffering in
Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, the Dako-
tas, Kansas and Colorado. Several
deaths from freezing are reported. The
lowest temperature reported was 80 be-
low zero at Fergus Falls, MINI. The
storm in Colorado was the worst since
1886. Great loss of livestock is re-.
ported.
Andrew Carnegie has been summoned
to appear in Cleveland on March 6 to
testify in the Chadwick case.
Fire in the downtown wholesale dis
trict of Chicago caused loss of nearly
100000, blocked elevated railroad traf-
fic and threw 200 persons out of work.
Ice gorges in the Ohio river caused a
half million dollars damage to shipping.
A Peoria Qll.) court quashed the in
dictments against T. J. Noonan and J. E.
Cumming in t3e Iroquois theater disas-
ter case.
Postmaster General Wynne, the only
member who is to quit the cabinet, will
become consul general to London.
The Kansas supreme court holds that
the law does not forbid the soliciting of
a bride by public officer.
AS the result of a previous quarrel
over game OF cards, G. B. Phillips shot
and instantly killed J. Boehme in the
waiting room of the depot at Whitman,
Noh