Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-01
Mrs. Alice Webb-Duke was arrested
In New York on Texas fraud indict-

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The interstate commerce commission
Is to Investigate private railroads."
United States warships in tho Carib-
bean sea have been ordered to Santo
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Edward Payne Cone, prominently
identified with many patriotic and other
organizations, died suddenly. in New
York from an apoplectic shock. Mr..
Cone was born in Connecticut 20 years
ago.
While Gov Vardaman, of Mississippi,
was returning home on Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley train he arrested Jim
Hannah (colored), charged with killing
two men in Holmes county.
Sarah Burley (colored), Is years old,
was convicted Of manslaughter by jury
in the criminal court at Baltimore for
the killing Of James Edwards (also COL
ored), nine years of age. The girl con-
fessed having stabbed Edwards. and
said she q I'D SO because he had lied
about her.
NV. ASOOCAL V1. AtA II ollCtlC, vi " U.s.
consin, was nominated for United States
senator to succeed J. V. Quarles. He
will be elected. as the republicans have
a majority in both houses.
Charles NJ. Houseman, cashier of the
East Side savings bank, of Columbus, O.,
shot himself in his ROOM The suicide
is said to be due to business worry. A
run was started on the bank when the
bank was closed by orders of the court.
The creditors of the Strauss-Green
company, owners Of the Fair store at
Toledo, O.. have filed a petition in invol-
untary bankruptcy against the firm.
The liabilities will amount to $4,000,
and assets about 100000.
Mrs. E. S. Terry, formerly Miss Flor
ence Grooves, of Chicago. was found
dead in a Milwaukee hotel, having left
notes indicating that she and her hus-
band had agreed to die together.
The village of Brookfield, about -
miles west Of Milwaukee, was nearly
wiped out by fire. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
The plant of the Menominee (Mich.)
Electric Manufacturing company was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000. Incendiarism is sus-
pected.
The republicans of Missouri, in mass
meeting at Jefferson City, urged the cleo
ton Of T. X. Niedringhaus to the United
States senate
A Russian admiral. prisoner at
Toxic, says Stoessel was incapable and
characterized Port Arthur's surrender as
disgrace.
Admiral Kamimura has left Toxic to
rejoin his feet, and the Japanese navy
department is making every prepare
ton for the next stage of the war.
DR.. A. r. Cushny, professor of ma
terra medica at Michigan university, re-
signed his chair to go to the University
Of London, England.
Senator Reed Smoct, of Utah. refused
before the senate committee, to reveal
endowment ceremony secrets.
w. G. De Baugh, of Chicago, we'll
known as band leader, died from the
effects of an operation in New Orleans
hospital.
Andrew Yates, who was arrested in
Chicago for robbery, confessed to hold
ing up hotel guests in San Francisco
and stealing $1,000 worth Of diamonds.
William J. Bryan, at a banquet in New
Haven, Conn, appealed to all democrats
to aid President Roosevelt in his
worthy reforms. He declared the moss
corrupt state is Indiana, with Connecti-
cut close second.
Rouvier has picked his colleagues in
the French cabinet. which shows that
Combes' policies will remain.
Minority members of the house have
agreed to support the Davey bill, Civ
ing the interstate commerce commits
sion power over freight rates.
A new interstate commerce commits
sion, with power to fix rates, and court
OF commerce, to which appeals in traffic
cases may be made, are the main features
OF the Hepburn bill for the solution of
the railroad problem.
A head-on collision between two
freight trains, one double-header on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad. at
Shawnee, Tenn, resulted in the death Of
four railroad men and the injury of six
others, two of whom may die.
Reports from all parts of the world.
show that the year 1904 was the most
progressive the Christian Endeayor
movement has known. More than 49,
900 of the $4,000 societies are in the
United States and Canada.
An engine attached to a Baltimore E.
Ohio freight train, exploded near Noun
tain Lake Park, Ind, Sunday. Several
cars were derailed and Brakeman F.
Johnson and Fireman J. l.. Simpson
were killed.
About to be placed on trial for mis-
treating his family, Charles Tuxhorn. q
farmer living near Mcpherson, Kan.
killed his two SONS, young boys aged six
and ten years, burned his house and barn
with all of the contents, and shot and
killed himself.
Four Americans and one Mexican were
ambushed and slain in Mexico by the
Yaqui Indians
Great Britain encourages Russian rev.
olutionists and fears she may be drawn
into war;
The strike at the Corr cotton mills in
East Taunton, Mass, is ended. The
Weavers voted to return to work under
the reduction of 1211 per cent. in wages.
Reed Smoot. United States senator
from Utah, on the witness stand declared
his belief in revelations from God, and
said he would obey them, but in case