Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-04-19

blown open and robbed. The town was
awakened by the explosion, but before
the thieves could be captured they OBJ.
tanned hand car and with the booty
estimated all the way from $1,000 To
$4,000 escaped. .,s p
The supreme court of the United
States holds that portion of the Alaska
code providing for jury OF six men
to be unconstitutional. The opinion
was by Justice White, and was based
on the ground that Alaska is a part
OF the territory of the United States
in the full sense of the word.
James Malloy, fisherman OF Barry
town, N. Y. started across the Hudson
river in rowboat at that place with
six Polanders and before reaching the
other shore the boat capsized and Nal.
10y and four of the Polanders were
drowned.
J. J. C. Howard, representative OF
the Kentucky legislature from the
Seventy-tlrst district, was shot and
killed in a saloon near his home in
Clay county by Tilford Benge. The
men had quarreled.
A destructive storm swept over
southern and southeastern Ohio and q
portion of Indiana causing one fatility
and considerable damage to property.
Federal authorities seized six trunks
in safety vault at Chicago which are
believed to contain private papers OF
packers.
Both sides in the controversy between
Montgomery Ward & Co. and the team.
sters at Chicago say the battle will be
fought to a finish. Other employers side
with the mail order firm.
Edward F. Dunno took the oath of Of
flee as mayor of Chicago in the presence
of great crowd.
Twenty passengers were hurt in a col
lision of the Chicago express and Cali
fornia limited at Kinsley, Kan.
The Baptist Missionary society in Bos-
ton has accepted the original 100000
Rockefeller gift, and also another of an
equal amount.
President w. r. Harper, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, returned from the
east greatly improved by new X-ray
treatment and by fresh air.
The United States supreme court de-
cided against the interstate commerce
commission in it's case against the Lake
Shore road.
Commissioner Garfield has begun the
oil inquiry in Kansas by a conference
with Gov Hoch.
Britons drank less beer and spirits in
1904 than in any year for Is years past,
according to the report of the chancellor
of the exchequer to the house of CON-
mons, in which the total revenues ex-
ceeded the treasury estimates by $15,-
O00, 1000.
Silk thieves are believed to have
started a fire at KING. tstown, Ind,
when destroyed dry GOODS store and
grocery, causing loss OF 1913: 200.
r. b. Grover & Co., at whose shoe fac
tory in Brockton. Mass, IS lives were
lost by ar explosion March 20, made an
assignment.
J. Morgan Smith and his wife dropped
opposition 10 extradition proceedings
in Cincinnati and voluntarily went to
New York, where the third trial OF Nan
Patterson was postponed a week to
await their arrival
Martin Ebelt, who murdered his young
wife at Mount Vernon, N. Y, III 1908,
paid the penalty for his crime in the elec-
trio chair in Sing Sing prison. 49,
The Campbell Street schoolhouse at
Evansville. Ind, was set on fire by light
ming and destroyed. Loss between $780,
900 and $75.000
The plant of lumber company, with
the entire town of Horton. w. Va, con-
sisting of about $50 company houses and
millions of feet of lumber, were burned
by fire started in the woods by sparks
from donkey engine. The twin town
of Whitmer was threatened.
Frank Ayres and Edward Goodrich.
prominent Dixon Qll.) men, were
drowned in Rock river while fishing.
Xavier Pezbilinski. of Appleton, Wis,
voluntarily pleaded guilty to numbering
his wife by beating her over the head
with stove lid, saw and spade be-
cause she would not let him go out OF
the house. He was sentenced to life i'm
Fifteen more have been indicted .or
land frauds on the Pacific coast.
More than 400 workmen were killed
or injured by the collapse of new
water reservoir in Madrid, SPAIN
Automobiles must now pay q toll
OF one cent mile for machines hold
Ing two persons, and two cents a mile
for three persons or more on all toll
roads in the state of New Jersey.
James H. Hayes, negro lawyer of
Richmond, Va, has been selected as
consul at Guadalupe, French West
Indies. Since Prof. Greene has been
retired as consul at Vladivistok Hayes
will be the only negro consul Ia the
service.
Judge Green formally overruled tho
motion for new trial in the case Of
Otis Bolts, convicted of wife murder
at Peoria, ILL.,, and set the date for the
execution as June 16.
Moses SimmonE' and Miss Mary
Pearer, young people, were killed at a
railway crossing in Ardmore, ]. r.,
their buggy being struck by freight
train.
A prairie fire in southwest Greer
county, Oklahoma, has resulted in tho
destruction of several thousand dol
lars worth Of foodstuff, many outbuild-
ings, some live stock and several num-
dred acres of growing crops.
The Japanese government has or
dered 100000 gunstocks from q manu-
facturer in Cedar Rapids, la.
One man was fatally and many Sc