Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-04-12

Fire at Akron, Ia, burned out six bust
ness firms. The loss is $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
1t is now known that Mrs. Jane
Lathrop Stanford left an estate valued
at $7,000,000. According to Mrs. STAN
ford's will, IS, 125 900 is to go for legacies
and requests. The rest goes to Stamford
university.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was granted
a stay of execution by the United States
circuit court OF appeals at Cincinnati.
The Illinois senate adopted a joint res
olution providing for sine die adjourn
ment OF the general assembly on April rs.
w. X Vanderbilt has ordered a pri-
vate car built to cost not less than $780,
OOO
A congress OF Russian doctors in Mos
cow adopted resolutions declaring that
radical political reforms must come or
the nation will suffer an epidemic OF
cholera.
The New York assembly passed the
bills providing for taxing stock trans
fers and mortgages.
Hartman is said to be planning a
merger of the Equitable. New York Life,
Mutual Life and Prudential, with an an-
nual cash income Of $260.000, 900.
The German ambassador advises the
Washington government that his nation
demands the ''open door" In Morocco,
and will not permit France to enter into
control OF the African country.
A30t Gr,,s~ *rvv n11v
Wis, was run over and killed by Wis
consin Central train.
Henry Flock, Of Wabash. Ind, while
laboring under temporary alteration,
shot himself to death.
The Fox River Valley Manufacturers
association plans a northern Illinois
good roads convention in Aurora May 5.
Fire in the residence of Godfrey Wal
| ker in Dundas, Ont, resulted in the
death of Mr.. Walker and his two daugh-
| ters. Annie and Jennie
The personnel of the new isthmian
canal commission is as follows: Theo-
dore P. Shorts, chairman: Charles e.
! Magoon, governor of canal zone; Jonn
| F. Wallace, chief engineer; Rear Ad-
miral NJ. T. Endicott, U. S. ~; Brig.
| Gen. Peter c. Hams, U. S. A., retired;
| Col. Oswald NJ. Ernst. corps engineers,
| U. S. A.; Benjamin H. Harrod.
Police Commissioner Szabalovicz. OF
Lodz, Poland. was seriously injured by
bomb which was thrown at him in
the street. Both feet were torn of.
Lestern Henry, an Indian. said to be a
| graduate of the Carlisle schol. ran amucl;
with shotgun at Little Valley, near
Cory. Pa, killing one Indian and
wounding half dozen others before his
arrest.
! f. D. Conger. former proprietor of the
Grand Rapids Herald, appeared in the
circuit court at Grand Rapids, Mich, for
his second trial on the charge of conspir-
acy in connection with the celebrated
Lake Michigan water scandal
| Preparations are being made for the
meeting of the southern industrial par
lament, which will assemble in Wash
| ington on May %, and continue until the
26th. The object of the meeting is to
formulate plans for the development OF
the material resources OF the southern
states.
Seven Princeton, Ind. industries were
| tied up as a result of the demand made
by the American Federation of Labor
for an advance of Is cents per day fol-
unskilled workmen.
A violent earthquake has occurred in
India, accompanied by serious loss OF
life and great damage to public and
other buildings.
In terrific explosion that blew tc
pieces one of the brick buildings of the
Union Metallic Cartridge company al
Bridgeport, Conn.,. three men were in.
stantly killed.
! Anna Valentino, who was convicted
of the murder of Rosa Salza, at Lodi, n
j., year ago. and whose attorneys have
been making every effort to save from
the galloWs. was resentenced to be
hanged on Friday, May H.
Because his wife refused to live with
him, John Dow killed her, and her father
and mother and another negress at Sui
phur Rock, Ark.
| The executive board of district No. II
| United Mine Workers of America. voted
to donate $4,000 for the relief of widows
and children of miners killed in the ex-
plosion at Princeton, Ind, March %.
! w. H. Delius, Chief Justice Fuller's
son-in-law, killed himself in Chicago
while Respondent.
The four-year-old son of Frank Mau.
pin was burned to death in a fire which
destroyed carpenter shop at Atlanta
Ill. The father was fatally burned try
ing to rescue his son from the flames
Bishop Favier, of the Lazarist mis-
sion, died in Peking. He had resided in
China for 40 years.
| While Prince and Princess Broglj
were riding in a motor car to Naples al
the speed of As miles an hour their cal
ran over and killed woman The prince
was arrested.
The Iowa supreme court handed down
a decision sustaining the amendment to
the state constitution providing for bi.
ennial instead of annual elections By
the adoption of this amendment there
will be no general election in Iowa this
fall, and terms of all officers whose
terms expire then are extended one year
Peter Hardy, aged 26 years, was killed
by President Roosevelt's special train al
Mingo Junction, o., while attempting to
board an east-bound freight train.
Republicans carried the majority OF
the elections in illinois townships and