Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-06-07

a. |" DlodAlaSL given IN honor OF her
e1ghty-sixth birthday by the New Eng
land Women's club in Boston.
Three foreign consuls will bring
damage suits against Joseph Letter of
Chicago for the death of their coun-
trymen In the Zeigler, ILL.,, mine ex-
| plosion.
President Roosevelt in a Memorial
| day speech at Brooklyn declared a
righteous cause alone can be justiflca-
tlon for nation going to war.
Paul Morton, when he retires within
few weeks from the office of secre-
tary of the navy. will become president
OF the New York subway system at a
salary Of $4,000 a year.
The thirty first annual convention of
the American Bankers association will
be held at Washington October Is, &c
and ~. The convention of the trust
company and savings bank section will
be held October "a.
Gov. Herricll has pardoned John X.
Thurman, who was sent to the peni-
Tertiary from Hamilton county, Ohio.
November IL, 1889, for murder in the
second degree. He served in the civil
war and drew pension of $24 month,
and left the institution with 5000.
The Presbyterian general assembly
| closed its annual session.
The Philadelphia 'gas gang sur
rendered, the company withdrawing it's
offer OF $25,oo0,000 for the city plant.
King Oscar refused to sign the law
creating separate consular system for
Norway. The council of ministers re-
signed and break between Norway
and Sweden is feared.
Judge Fancis C. Randolph, one of the
best-known men in Alabama, was shot
and instantly killed in Montgomery by
John Randolph, a second cousin.
twenty-five Armenians and two Mus
su1mans were killed at Nakichevan, in
the district of Erivan, Russia, as a re-
suit of the renewal Of hostillties be-
tween Armenians aud Moslems.
Mount Vesuvius has entered new
phase of activity. Explosions are heard
ten miles distant from the volcano,
| while burning stones thrown 1000 feet
above the crater produce magnificent
spectacles, especially at night.
The large sawmill owned by Akely &
Sprague, at Washburn, Wis, has been
totally destroyed by fire, together with
the machine and blacksmith shops and
large quantity Of sawn lumber. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
James G. Kellogg, of Louisiana. has
| been appointed United States consul at
Colon, Panama.
The Panama commissioners are con-
vinced the steel rail interests are at
tempting to mulct the government in
supplies.
+ The Hessian fly is raiding wheat
fields in the south, but the government
| is taking means to check the damage.
The president promises to deal with
the subject of loss in export meat trade
in his message to congress. due to rep
reservations made by the head of the
National Live Stock association.
Minister Rockhill at Chefoo denies
| that China will boycott American
goods.
Ambassador Cassini protests against
the proposed visit of Secretary Taft to
Toxic, but the president declines to
change plans.
Former governor of West Virginia.
E. W. Wilson, died at Charleston, W.
Va, after suffering for over a year of
tuberculosis.
The Gould family has decided that
the blot on the family escutcheon
caused by the Merchants Trust COM
pany failure must be wiped out. The
members will subscribe $5,oo0,ooo to re-
vive the concern. ~
tive estimate of the damage done by
the overflow of the Rio .Grande north
of Ell Paso, Tex, in the Mexilla valley.
Between 5000 and 10000 acres of farm
lands are under water.
Deputy Sheriff Cole, of Charlotte,
Mich, who shot and killed Charles Ed
wins the night of May Z, was bound over
to the circuit court and furnished $1,000
bail.
John A. Shields, of Benson, Mimi,
who was found guilty of murder in the
second degree, was sentenced to prison
for life.
Japan has placed contracts in the
United States of 5,000,0 900 for tools and
machinery.
Figures for six months show that the
tide of immigration is still rising.
Twenty-four managers of syndicate
theaters in New York city have been
held for trial on a conspiracy charge
for having excluded James S. Metcalf,
dramatic critic, from their play
houses.
Japan may send fleet to the Baltic
sea and lombard Cronstadt.
Russian ministers and press urge Mic
olas to conclude peace, saying Russia
can raise $1,000, 100000.
An engine and -caboose, with Engi-
neer Charles Porter at the throttle, has
made the distance from: Tuscnmbia to
Decatur on the Memphis division of
the Southern railway, AZ miles, in IS
| minutes.
A disastrous fire at Agana,- island of
Guam, destroyed Is houses and render
ed 125 persons homeless. Owing to the
cost and scarcity of materials, it often
takes years to construct house there.
Sheriff John w. Polk was shot and
killed at 1ronton, Mich, while attempt
ing to make an arrest. Bill Spaugh,