Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-16

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Attorney General Moody has tele-
graphed several United States district
attorneys in the northwest to investigate
the facts as to the interruption OF .tele-
graph service on the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads In view of
the governments duty to keep unob-
structed the avenues of Interstate COM
merce. :.-. ~. J. a.. -
Capt, Jerome B. Osier, nearly los
years old and a resident of Chicago
since 1888, is dead. go.
The Western bank, state institution
at Denver, COL, with deposits of about
$1,000, 900, made an assignment because
run had been feared.
John Walters and his two sons were
drowned in Hickory creek, near Nc une,
Kan, while trying to ford the creek with
load Of hay. Recent heavy rains had
caused the stream to rise.
The dreaded cattle plague known as
blackleg, form Of murrain, has broken
out in Brook6eld, Mass.
A conference is to be held in New
York, having for its object the fedora
ton Of the leading Protestant
churches. n. go.
Socialists at Riga, Russia, compelled
10000 workmen to strike by threat of
death.
WI Ting Fang, in an interview at
Picking, disclaimed responsibility for
the boycott against America, but COM
plains bitterly of treatment accorded
Chinese.
Chicago's big teamsters' strike, for
which Shea, in his speech before the
teamsters' national convention at
Philadelphia, accepted responsibility,
cost $110,620, according to the union
finance committees report.
DIR. Kellogg, the noted Battle Creek,
Mich, specialist, and a close friend of
President Harper of the Chicago uni
versity. after consultation, advised
DIR. Harper to lay Down the duties of
president and devote all his time and
energy to battling with the cancer that
threatens his life
The street car strike in Saginaw,
Mich, on since June 4, has been Off
cially declared of. The management
! OF the railway will take the striking
employees back on individual applica-
ton.
The Interstate Sheriffs' association,
in session at st. Paul, MIMI, chose Of
ticers and selected Des Moines, Ia, as
the place for the next annual conven-
ton.
A collision between the troops and a
body Of well armed Jews was reported
to have taken place at ZhitOmir, Rus
STA. 1t is rumOred that number of
persons were killed and wounded.
A destructive hallstorm passed over
Bottineau, McHenry, Rolette, Pierce
and Benson counties, N. D., and the
damage resulting is estimated at
81 200, 900.
Gen, Emmons Clark, former colonel
of the Seventh regiment, N. G. N. Y.
and a civil war veteran, died at his
New York home, aged 70 years.
Capt. Horace M. Reeve, who was a
member of the general staff of the
army, is dead of typhoid fever at
Washington.
Terrific wind and electrical storms
in several sections of Wisconsin caused
much damage to growing crops and
| property.
Orrin W. Potter, steel trust million
aire of Chicago, we Mrs. Bell, for
mer hairdresser Of New York city, and
sailed for Europe.
A project for representative nation
al assembly of Russians, to be elected by
the people and to have large powers, is
approved formally by Emperor Nicholas,
and manifesto proclaiming the deci-
sion will be issued.
st. Thomas Episcopal church, New
York, one of the costliest religious edi-
fees in America, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being estimated at $250000.
The weather bureaus weekly bulletin
on crop conditions shows winter wheat
about all threshed, corn in excellent con-
dition, good crop of oats harvested and
cotton improving in many states. Rust
is prevalent in spring wheat in the north
west.
Through the short circuiting of con-.
troller box on the front of trolley car
on the Brighton Beach, New York line
two persons were fatally burned and two
others seriously injured
African tribesmen burned many Port
uguese villages and massacred the white
settlers by wholesale.
The Crete village of Castelli was de-
stroyed by a Russian warship because
landing party to take over the customs
house was opposed.
After jealous quarrel over a white
man with whom she had lived as his
wife, Mary Matthews (colored) shot and
instantly killed Martha Martin, also COL
ored, and then committed suicide in New
York city.
One man was killed and six injured by
the fall Of an elevator being used to raise
building material at school building
in Cleveland.
! Frederick J. Mueller, the sixty-sixth
victim of the Bennington gunboat dis
aster, in San Diego harbor, July Fl, ia
dead.
Harry Haas, wanted at Darlington,
Ind, on the charge of bank robbery, was
arrested at Fruitdale, Miss, after an ex-
citing chase over several states.
One manwas killed and IA reported in
tured in head-on collision Of trolley cars
near Norwalk, Va. Z
The interior department at Washing
ton has adopted the policy of leasing
Indian lands for agricultural instead of
grazing purposes, with the hope of de-
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