Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-17

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aged couple. were Drained with an az
at their home. four miles from Wat.
kinsville, Ca. and their bodies drag
ged to. the front porch. Their little
store had been burglarized. 2os
The Connecticut legislature. in joint
session, formally declared Frank B.
Brandegee elected United States sena-
tor for the unexpired term OF the late
Senator O. HI. Plat, which began
March 4, 1908.
The Minnesota state census bureau
rules that women cannot be compelled
to give their age when questioned by
enumerators.
The federal grand jury in Chicago
has begun an inquiry into the connec-
ton between big packers and the poul-
try and game business.
The Michigan Central railroad broke
the grip OF the Armour car lines on
the Michigan fruit trade by ANNOUNCE
ing that it will use it's own refrigera-
tor cars and reduce icing charges to
actual cost.
The government report suggests a
winter wheat yield promise on May 1
of 461, 100000 bushels. The yield in
1904 was S25,0O0,0O0 bushels; in 1903,
401 $4,000 bushels.
John D. Rockefeller will continue
his benefactions to needy institutions,
despite criticisms as to tainted
money .
The Mckinley National Memorial
association approved design for a
mausoleum for the late president.
Republican members of the senate
commerce committee criticise Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Taft for
interfering in rate legislation.
The launching of National Frater-
nal Sanitarium for Consumptives near
Las Vegas, N. NJ. was made possible
by $1.000,O00 gift from the Santa Fe
railway.
Twenty-nine lives were lost in tor
nado that wrecked part of Marquette.
Kan, and did much damage in that vi
entity. A total Of ii perso1s were in
jured.
Ira Green and William Dillon were
hanged at Belleport, Pa, for the muir
der of Jerry Condo, turnkey in the
Center county Jail.
Arthur Haserot, Yale senior. living
in Cleveland, O., was shot to death in
his room in WEIGH hall, one of the
campus dormitories. Accident or sui
eide was the cause of his death.
In head-on collision between two
trolley cars on Staten Island 80 per-
sons were injured.
The interstate commerce commission
is making close inquiries in Chicago
into the peculiar rate situation which
enables packers to buy lard pals more
cheaply on the Pacific coast than in
Wisconsin.
The arrest of a man giving his name
as William Daily in Stroudsburg, Pa.,
disclosed the fact that the Equitable
Life Assurance society has been the VIC
tim of large fraudulent loans on a pol
icy.
Rev. J. T. Mason, of Albany, Mo-, has
been indicted by the grand jury of San
canon county, ILL.,, for the alleged SIAN
der of Rev. L. D. Lamkin.
Reluctance Of shippers to give their
side of the case is a drawback to the
rate inquiry in the senate
The residence of John Jacob Aston at
Observation-Disclosures was robbed
of many valuables and other property
was destroyed.
The federal court appointed receivers
for the New York and Boston offices OF
the Haight & Frease company, a big
brokerage firm.
The estimate Of Mr.. North, director OF
the census, of the population of the
United States at the present time is g.
$4,000. -eI
Protestant churches in Chicago plan
a big tent revival campaign for the sum-
mer.
Secretary Taft estounded members
of the international railway congress
at banquet by stating that railway
rate regulation must come. President
Fish, of the Illinois Central defended
the attitude Of the railways.
The weekly crop bulletin reports un-
favorable conditions due to frost in the
north and rains in the middle states.
Thirteen Jews are reported killed in
riots in Melitopol, Russia, and IL are
dead and so wounded in Zhitomir as a
, result of the recent massacre.
+ Daniel O'Connell was sentenced to
the Chicago bridewell for three
months for attempting to vote illegal
ly in the Eighteenth ward at the last
city election.
Fritz Nelson, aged 80 years, killed
himself in a barroom at Mound City,
Ill.
A prediction was made at a dress
makers meeting in Chicago that every
woman will wear hoop skirts by fall.
Bishop Potter, speaking at the an
nual meeting of the Actors Fund of
America in New York, declared that
the influence of the stage is for good.
Pat Grove, the alleged kidnaper of
Eddie Cudahy, son of the millionaire
packer OF Omaha, and for whose arrest
rewards aggregating $4,000 have at
different times been offered, has turned
up at Omaha. Neb.
Professors Won Glanvell and Pet
ritsch, Of Graz university, and an offic-
ial named Stopper were killed by an
avalanche while they were climbing the
Foelzstein, in the Hochschwab group
Of the Syrian Alps. T..
Herbert w. Bowen, American min.
lister to Venezuela, arrived in New York
on the steamship Philadelphia.
Chicago records for speed in divorce