Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-10

stockmen have lost all their range and
ranch buildings. z:...
A. lib. Spear, cashier OF the closed
Citizens bank OF Oberlin, O., IN the
United States district court In Cleve-
land entered q plea OF guilty to one
count Of the Indictment. charging him
with making false entries In the banks
books. Judge Tayler at once sentenced
Spear to seven years imprisonment ii
the Ohio penitentiary.
=. J. Smiley, secretary Of the Kan.
sas Grain Dealers association, was
placed in jail at La Crosse, Kan. ia
serve 80 days. sentence OF the United
States supreme court, for violation OF
the anti-trust law. q: =S 81. M 7.
Anthony Kaminsky has been given a
Judgment for $4,000 against the Grand
Lodge, Knights of the Modern Macca.
bees, In tho circuit court in Detroit
Mich, for injuries which he alleged
he sustained while being initiated into
the organization. s4 ~.
Eugene v. Debs confirms the report
That he is to head the industrial union
new labor organization which will be
launched soon in Chicago. The or
ganization will be rival of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. Ass.s ..ts.x. 4
Col. Thomas B. Davis, aged a,
brother Of Henry G. Davis, was nomi-
mated for congress by reclamation at
the democratic convention, at Keyser
W. Va. .-.., ~
Vice President Gomez, who is acting
president of Venezuela during the alb.
sence OF President Castro, has released
"a political prisoners @>
FORMER Gov. Yates of Illinois has pc
tltloned Kentucky court to transfer
the Caleb Powers murder case to the
| federal bar on the ground that the
state denies justice.
The senate committee on Interstate
commerce opposes giving the inter.
state commerce commission power to
initiate rates.
Dr. Wesley r. Wales, formerly presi.
dent of the First national bank of Cape
May City, N. j., who has been arrested
in Philadelphia, was taken to Trenton
N. j., and committed to Jail to await
trial on charge Of diverting $40. 900 OF
the banks funds.
Presidents of the worlds great rail
roads attended the opening of the
American railway appliances exhibit in
Washington.
A Good Roads Special left Chicago
over. the Burlington railroad on an edu.
cational tour leading to Portland.
Secret investigation of the tobacco
trust is being made by special agents
sent out by Commissioner Garfield OF
the bureau of corporations.
Celebration of Constitution day in
Poland developed murders and riots in
Warsaw and Lodz. Troops fired on
crowds with fatal effect.
The jury in the case of Nan Patter-
son at New York reported there was
no hope of reaching an agreement, and
it was discharged by Recorder Goff
Chauncey Dewey, the millionaire
ranchman of Kansas, and his cowboys,
charged with killing two members of
the Berry family, have been dismissed
by the court without trial.
Mayor Dunno declares that for $50 ,00O,-
600 Chicago can obtain possession of the
street railway lines. - 49,. - :. -.
4 The Middleton; bank in Wayerly, Mo-,
has failed for $50 900. The cashier, E. H.
Lewis, is accused Of disappearing with
$50, 900 of the, funds: ,.,,,
The May day death roll in Warsaw to-
tailed G., including ten persons who died
in. the hospitals. Probably 200 were
wounded.
c. G. Elliott, has been detailed by the
department of agriculture to investigate
conditions and devise plans for the rec
lamation of the hundreds of thousands
of acres of swamp land in the Kankakee
river valley, in northwestern Indiana
and northeastern illinois. ~ -.
James ]. Jeffries, champion heavy
weight pugilist, will retire from the prize
ring and from the stage, and go into
business with his brother Jack. in Cali
fornia. according to statement made
by him in Cincinnati. 49,.
On the request of the San Francisco
police. Edward J. Smith, a San Fran
cisco tax collector, who is said to be want
ed to answer charge of embezzling
some $4,000, was arrested at the union
station in st. Louis.
The Illinois house passed the Church
gas regulator bill giving municpali-
ties of the state power to fix the price
of gas and electricity, with a three-year
limit on the price when once fixed; e.
A sugar beet factory at st. Louis Park,
q suburb several miles west of Minneap-
oils, MIMI, was entirely destroyed by
fire. The plant, it is said, represents an
investment of $250,00O. :. sE
Robbers blew open the safe of a pri-
vate bank at Gilbertsville, N. Y, and
made good their escape with booty esti-
mated at between S. 900 and $4,000.
Charles Edward Speer, president of
the First national bank of Pittsburg,
Pa, is dead.
Importations to the port of New York
during the month of April show an in
crease of nearly SO ,000, 900 over the cor
responding month of last year. The
whole value of importations during
April was $60,464 SOB.
Railroad men testifying before the
senate committee on interstate CON-
merce declare the present law adequate
and that rebates are or can be prevented
under the existing statutes. %
The interstate commerce commission
has secured federal court injunction
In Chicago to compel western railroads
to obey its ruling in the livestock
rate case. .ls. s*> d. s:. S s 3 49, ;. W.
y. NJ. Howell, former newspaper