Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-24

spirit III puDlc enterprises, died after
an attack of pneumonia. q: II
The Baptist gathering in st. Louis
adopted the report Of committee rec
ommendtng a permanent organization
OF the joint convention OF northern and
southern Baptists. :& .szs.., L..
April foreign trade made q record tn
the value Of exports, the biggest end OF
the gain being on tho side OF manufac-
tUred shipments.
AIRS. Young, widow Of the man Nan
Patterson was tried for killing, has
sailed for Europe.
DR.. Mckendree III. Chamberlain.
president of McKendree college, an
nounced at Lebanon, ILL.,, that the addi-
ton OF $1O0,000 to the endowment fund
Of the college had been effected. DR..
d. K. Pearsons, Of Chicago, pledged
$4,000 upon condition of an additional
$4,000 being raised.
Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick issues state-
ment detailing her financial operations
and showing that since January l, 1901,
her resources have been $S,21O,OOO, of
which 5000, 900 was borrowed.
DIR. Frank Billings, of Chicago. has
been elected president Of the Associa-
ton Of American Physicians, now in
session in Washington.
Otto Kroeschell, rich manufacturer
OF Chicago, who had been missing sever
al days, was found dead in the river.
Gen. Horace Porter, the retiring
American ambassador, was given
farewell banquet at Paris.
William Hudson shot and killed his
wife at their home at Milton, KY, and
then committed suicide.
Homer Ramsey was caught by ma
chinery at the oil pumping house on
John Keener's. farm near Upland, Ind,
and killed.
The home Of A. l.. Comstock, three
miles east of Waynesville, O., was
burned and Mrs. Comstock and her
eight-year-old child persisted in the
flames.
The National Association of Manufac
turers, in convention in Atlanta, adopted
resolutions which in effect are opposed
to President Roosevelt's plan for law
to regulate railway rates.
The thirty-flrst annual encampment
OF the Iowa department, Grand Army
of the Republic, opened in Oskaloosa.
The enrolment of delegations was the
largest in years.
Elsie Houser, 20 years of age, and
Charles Ele, 10 years old, sons of farm
ers living near Cassville, Ind, were
killed on crossing Of the Pennsyiya-
mia railroad.
+. 5. Mason, a prominent business
man, was shot and killed at Yoacum.
Tex, by NJ. A. and P. A. Newman,
brothers, who were concealed in the
Lans hotel, and who used rifles. An
alleged wrong to a sister is the SUD-
posed cause of the deed of the murder
ers, who are under arrest.
The Missouri supreme court affirmed
the decisions of the lower courts and
sentenced Lampert Niehaus and Henry.
Heusack, both of St. Louis, to hang in
St. Louis on June "a, for murder.
Emperor Nicholas has signed the ap
peintment of Baron Rosen to be am
bassador of Russia to the United
States.
Judge John H. Foster, of Evansville
(rep.), was elected to congress from
the First district of Indiana over Mai.
G. V. Menzie (dem.), of Mount Vernon
He will succeed James A. Hemenway,
who was elected United States senator.
Toxic has received conflicting reports
regarding the presence of German
troops in Haichou, Chinese port, one
being that the district has been seized,
and another that the Teutons are merely
surveying.
The secretary of the interior has set
aside 100000 to be used in connec-
ton with the klamath irrigation pro-
ject IN California and Oregon. It is es-
timated that $4,000 acres of land will
be reclaimed by the project.
The tenth annual gathering of the
National Association of Manufacturers
of the United States, representing more
than three-quarters of the 100000 O0,-
900 Of invested capital of this country,
| assembled in Atlanta, Ga.
Kirke La Shelle, the well-known
theatrical manager and playwright,
died at his home in Bell Port, L. l.,
from diabetes. He had been ill only
about one week. Mr.. La Shelle was 43
years of age.
Gen. Greedy has received cablegram
from Valdez, Alaska, informing him
that the cable between that point and
Fort Liscom has been laid and is in
operation.
1t is omcially announced that King
Edward has appointed King Alfonso of
Spain a general in the British army.
The appointment dates from May II,
the birthday Of the Spanish king.
| Mai. Gen. Sokolovsky, governor gen.
eral Of the province of Ufa, was fired at
several times and seriously wounded in
the public garden, during an enter
tainmcnt. His assailant disappeared
Gen. Sokolovvsky's life is despaired of.
| It is said that President Roosevelt,
having been assured that the next con-
gress will pass rate measure, has aban-
doned the idea of calling an extra ses-
sion. r.
John b. Lawrence, q broker, was SEN
fenced in the Baltimore criminal court
to four years In the penitentiary for OBJ
tanning $4,000 from a patron through
false pretenses. - s,s
At Memphis, Tenn, Thomas Mccall
shot and killed Edith Ferguson and Hal
Williamson. The murderer an hour
later killed himself. Jealousy caused
the tragedy:
! Santa Fe passenger train No. II was
ditched by train wreckers a mile east