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

OF disturbance IN business circles. ).
No tips can be given in Wisconsin.
The anti-graft bill recently passed by
the legislature has been signed by Gov.
La Toilette and no gratuities of any kind
can be given to employees Of any firm by
outsiders without danger of arrest and
fine, .:
G. NJ. Lefhngwell, of Evanston. leaves
woman worth $500, 0O0. is sued for di-
vorce by another and for breach of
promise by third.
Treasury experts fear government
deficit this fiscal year will be $3O, OOO,-
900. 49,
Announced that gift of $500, 900 stu
dent hall to Columbia was made by
member of class of 'O5.
Ambassador Mccormick presented
his credentials to President Loubet, of
France, at Elysee palace.
New railways building through Eu-
rope. Asia and Africa will permit or a
direct journey from England to Khar-
tum and open up much historic terri
tory.
United Shoe Machinery corporation
is incorporated in the state of New Jer-
sey for $50,0o0,o00.
Prices of meat rise high in Germany
and people clamor for foreign products
now prohibited.
Fire in the plant Of the Pagan iron
works in Jersey City destroyed the new
er portions of the plant. Loss. $100, 900.
While removing an old cistern wall
from an excavation at Fort Madison.
Ia, Contractor James J. Malley discov-
cred in the debris bags containing $l1,-
500 in gold and two small casks of wine.
Franklin Ravens, secretary of the Al
bany, N. Y, board of fire insurance I'M
derwriters, was shot by Miss Julia
Craver. clerk in his employ, in his
office, and died soon afterward. Miss
Craver claims the shooting was acct
dental.
Mrs. Lucia Ames-Mead. of Boston, the
chairman Of the peace department of
the National Council OF Women, has
sent out letters to the % national Or
CARNATIONS affiliated with the council,
requesting them to arrange peace meet
ings on May Is, the anniversary of the
opening of The Hague conference.
Commodore Somerville Nicholson, u.
S. NJ, retired, died in Washington, aged
81 years. He was navigating officer Of
Commodore Perry's flagship on the
expedition to Japan in the fifties,
and was present at the signing Of the
American treaty with that country.
Fire at the works of the Household
Sewing Machine company in Provi-
dence, r. T., entailed loss of between
$150.0O0 and $4,000.
Allen Sheldon, a well-known capital
list and former business partner of Zach
ariah Chandler, died at his residence in
Detroit, Mich, after an illness of sew.
eral weeks. He was - years of age.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia.
has given 100000 for Young Mems
Christian association buildings at
Pekin, Seoul and Kyoto.
A movement to merge the companies
engaged in the manufacture OF street
railway cars of the entire country is in
progress. 1t is planned to have one cor
poration with a capital Of about $50,
100000.
The Orange Grove Touring mills OF
the c. A. Gambrill Manufacturing com,
pany, valued at $500. 900, on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, ten miles from
Baltimore, have been totally destroyed
by fire..
Philadelphia, near bankruptcy, pro-
poses to lease its city gas plant to the
United Gas improvement company tor
Is years for $25,oo0,000.
Trustees of Columbia university ar
nounce gift of $500, 900 from an anony-
nous donor for erecting and equipping a
hall for undergraduates.
Arrangements for meeting OF the Pres
byterian general assembly at Winona
Lake, Ind, on May Is, are completed
James H. Hyde asked the court for
permission to carry out the new plan to
.mutualize the Equitable Life.
Doctors in New York examined DR..
Harper and say his cancer is rapidly dis
appearing.
The public debt, according to state
ment at the close of business April 30. is
1897 PIT ,941, an increase for the month of
$8,59S,384.
Postmaster Cortelyou, according to an
apparently we'll founded report, has been
asked to become president of the Equita-
BILE Life Assurance society.
Two horses attached to a plow were
instantly killed by bolt of lightning and
the owner, William DUMMY, rendered un-
conscious near Sterling, Ill.
Frederick Mouden accidentally killed
his six-year-old sister, Ada, with ma
nure fork near Seatonville, Ill. The child
ran into the fork and the tines penetra+-
ed the skull.
The cars Easter ukase RENTED
$35, 100000 peasant taxes; took seals
from affairs of the old faith, and made
religion free to all but Jews.
William Plankinton, the Million
aire packer of Milwaukee, is dead.
Secretary Taft has ordered Minister
Bowen to come to Washington and has
named w. w. Russell as his substi-
tute.
Laredo, Tex, was swept by tor
nado which killed twenty-one persons
and demolished hundreds of houses.
Two men were instantly killed by
the explosion Of tank in the electric
light plant at the Broad street station
of the Pennsylvania railroad in fhila-
delphia.
Captain A. Raibourn, twenty-ninth
infantry, U. S. A., committed suicide
at Fort Douglas, Utah, after making a
murderous assault on Lieutenant Will
liam H. Point, also Of the twenty
ninth infantry. Point was shot twice