Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-08

delphla, declared national control OF
railroad rates and all other phases Of
Interstate commerce Ia of vital imp0r-
lance to the country. The amendment
Of the constitution, II necessary to
bring about the reform, was urged. f
Minister Bowen recommends to the
president that he be recalled and Dip
lomatic relations with Venezuela be sew
cred. and that force be used to bring
President Castro to terms.
The interstate commerce commission
has taken the first stops: to. file suit
against the Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa
Fe railroad for$violation OF rebate law.
President Eliot, Of Harvard. In his an
nual report, denounces football with
out reserve and says it is q menace to
rational academy life.
The Illinois house ordered a thorough
inquiry into the charges of graft made
by Representative Comerford, of Chi
| cago. A committee was appointed to
hear evidence
Victor Roland O'Shea was found
guilty in Chicago OF manslaughter for
having killed his young wife.
Gov. Higgins. Of New York, COM
muted to life Imprisonment the death
sentence imposed on George A. Smith.
Of Churchville, aged IS. Smith was con-
vtcted on circumstantial:evid Of the
murder Of his wife in 1897.
Three wives aided In securing the in.
dictment Of Johann Hoch in Chicago on
charges Of bigamy. T..
Ten women out Of Is in sleighing
party were killed on q grade crossing
near Airport. N. Y, when a train
crashed into the vehicle. 80
An unknown donor has given 81 ,100,-
600 to Union theological seminary, in
GLIDING property near the Riverside
drive. New York. which will be utilized
as new site for the institution.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness January 81, 1905, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
$9S9,929,619. which is an increase for
the month of $4,3SO,29S:
Six persons were injured. four prob
ably fatally, at Grand Rapids, Mich,
when a Grand Rapids & Indiana north
bound passenger train crashed into a
street car.
Fifteen stores were destroyed by fire
| at Stafford, Kan. Total loss $4,000.
The town was saved <by a sacrifice
made by ]. L. Ball, who permitted a
| back fire to be started in his building
on which no insurance was carried.
Rev. James Henry Darlington, d. D.,
rector of Christ church, Brooklyn, was
elected bishop Of the diocese OF Har-
risburg, Pa, on the thirteenth ballot
Chicago and the northwest has been
swept by the flercest cold wave OF the
winter, and the mercury dropped to As
below zero at Redfeld, ST..
An oflcial proclamation conveys the
heartfelt sympathies Of the emperor. the
empress and the dowager empress OF
Russia to the families of those killed In
the street lighting OF January %. They
have placed 5000 at the disposal of the
governor general, Trepoff, for the aid of
the families Of the sufferers.
George E. Smith, "Pittsburg Phil" the
well-known turf plunger, died in the
Winyah sanitarium, at Asheville, N. C..
Smith had been in poor health for year
/ or more. He was about 40 years old.
John Orme and Theodore Brockway
were found guilty of robbing the Peoria.
ILL.,, national bank of $2,221.86 on De-
| cember 10.
Charles Martin was killed in the Hec-
Ia branch Of the Calumet & Hecla mine,
at Calumet, Mich, by falling rock.
While coasting at Bloomington, ILL.,,
| big sled loaded with children struck
| dray and all of the children were
thrown under the horses, which tramp
led the life out of one ond injured four
| others.
Vice President-elect Fairbanks was
the principal speaker at q banquet in
Canton, O.; commemorative the natal
| day of the late President Mckinley, - =
Fire in the plant of the Victor Talking
Machine company at Camden, N. ~
caused a loss estimated at 100000. "''''
Charles Wyman, recently convicted in
San Francisco, Cal, of fraudulent vot-
! ing at the primary election held last
year, was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment in the San Quintan state
prison.
Rev. l. n. W. Irvine has issued state:
ment announcing that he had given UP
the fight against Bishop Ethelbert Tall
| bot. :.
Guayuina Caro-, q blind girl, II years
of age, was found murdered at Lamar,
Col. in the restaurant owned by her
Uncle Julio Rodriguez. where she slept.
Her head had been cleft open with an
Ak.
Thomas B. Knapp, resident of Iowa
Falls, Ia, since 1854, dropped dead at his
home. He had been very prominent in
the republican party and held many po-
litical offices. He was SO years of age.
Princess Victoria, daughter of King
Edward, has appendicitis. ="
The federal grand jury in Oregon
found another land fraud bill against
Senator Mitchell and Congressman Her.
mann.
Under President Roosevelt's order the
heads OF the beef trust may be tried on
criminal and civil charges. -
The Kansas legislature voted to in in
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