Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-01

Senator Elkins announces that no
railway legislation will be enacted in
the senate Ut this session.
Maj. Darlington, who was convicted
in Manila Of falsifying vouchers of the
civil government to the amount of ST.
500, has been sentenced to a total Of 60
years and five days Imprisonment.
The will Of Harriet A. Jones, OF Chi
cago, in disposing of an 100000 estate
gives nearly $150,000 to charity.
A New York court dismissed the suit
Of John r. Plat against Hannah Elias
to recover $685. 1856.
A spirit Of revolt sweeps entire region
of the Caucasus and arsenals and ar
mories are being looted.
John Redmond's home rule movement
meets defeat in parliament. but the un-
expected reduction OF the governments
majority cheers the Irish members.
One hundred and eighty-five officers
and employees of the packing companies
in various cities are summoned to ap-
pear before federal grand jury in Chi
cagO March 20 to testify in an investiga-
ton to be conducted under the prOvi-
sions of the Sherman antitrust law.
The national bowling tournament of
1906 will be held in Philadelphia.
Sir Henry Irving is seriously i'll 1T
Wolverhampton, England.
Johnson Richards. a young Chicagoan,
estranged from his bride and mourning
her as victim of the Iroquois theater
horror, found her in a Detroit hospital,
and reconciliation followed.
Railway managers all over the United
States are calling on thei1 army OF en-
ployes to assist in the fight against
law for freight rate control.
The Illinois supreme court holds that
school property under lease in Chicago,
valued at SIS ZOO, 900 to $40, 00O, 900. must
pay taxes.
Congressman Norton P. Otis, of the
Nineteenth New York district, died at
Hudson terrace, his home in Yonkers,
N. Y. He had been i'll for several
months.
Albert La Rue, we'll known among mu-
sicians and musical publishers. as an
arranger and composer, is dead at his
home in New York.
The Missouri legislature may be asked
to take up Kansas fight against tho
Standard Oil company.
On the first anniversary of DR.. Man
uel Amador's presidency OF Panama, he
received congratulations from every
where in the republic without political
distinction.
tits understood that Miss Alice Roose-
welt will accompany Secretary and Mrs.
Taft on their visit to the Philippines
next July, unless other engagements
prevent
Mrs. Carrie Joslyn. who pleaded guilty
to numbering her husband by poison. and
Isaac Swan, her paramour and former
farm hand for the Joslyns, were both
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
state prison at Jackson, Mich.
A man who is believed to be the old
est person in New York city, died of old
age at the age of 1O7. He was Joseph
McGrath, stone cutter and native of
Ireland
Four men are dead and IA injured,
three of them seriously. as the result OF
the explosion of stationery boiler at
No. mine of the Provident Coal COM
pany near St. Clairsville, o.
Two killed, one dying and three or
four wounded was the result of an acct
dent to the Rock Island flyer, which
took place a mile and half west OF
WiOta, Ia.
Fire in the finishing shop of the Bar
ney and Smith car works at Dayton, O.,
destroyed that building, valuable lum-
Der and six practically completed ex-
press refrigerator cars. Total loss is es-
timated at 100000.
The drug and grocery store of the
Harbridge company was destroyed by
hre at Racine, Wis. Loss to stock and
building, $4,000.
Following the example of the Kansas
legislature, the Wisconsin legislature
will soon take up the subject of the
Standard Oil company.
Rear Admiral George F. Wilde. U. $,
~, has retired from active duty. after
43 years service.
Frank Rimieri, who murdered Jaco
Pinto, Brooklyn junk dealer, and
Adolph koneig, who strangled Mrs
Mary Kaufman to death at her home in
New York, were put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing IN. W
prison.
president Roosevelt has ordered At
torney General Moody to make an in
dependent investigation of the Stan
dard Oil trust with a view to criminal
prosecution.
Fire at Charlestown, Mass, de-
stroyed piers and ships. Loss, $1.O0),-
900.
Federal officials believe Mrs. Chad
wick has hidden away over 81, Zoo, 900.
One man was killed and another is
in serious condition as the result of
a fire in a Chicago furniture store.
Pope Plus approves the Society Of
Daughters of the Faith, organized in
New York to work against divorce,
low-necked dresses and gambling. n
John Godfrey, Jr:, charged with kill
ing his father, was found guilty of
voluntary manslaughter at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and sentenced to two to
81 years imprisonment.
4 jury at New London, Mo-, &C
quilted DR.. T. Jones Watson, of Den
yer, of the charge of killing his WIFE,
Admiral Walker declares the presi-
dent sanctioned taking fees from the
railroad by the Panama commits
sioners.
The strikers in St. Petersburg now
total about 10000. The temper of the
men is more threatening and Ccssacks