Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-07-19

have been recovered, and the death list
will exceed l20. TN. u / y. .5... $.: y.
~ Postmaster General Cortelyou is
sued fraud order: against the Peo-
PIES United States bank Of St. Louis,
barring it from the mails. President.
Lewis, it Is declared, drew $2,O0O,O0Os
from the Peoples for stock and loaned
himself 100000, ~ ~. .9 81 s=%.5 =
Fully 500 Minneapolis flour mill en-
ployes are idle, owing to the fact that
nine Of the % mills are shut down. The
shutdown is indefinite, owing to the.
poor demand for -four. =, sJ~'af
An appeal for help has been sent to
Gov. Johnson, of Minneapolis, on behalf
Of the food-stricken farmers along the
upper Mississippi. The high waters
which have prevailed in the northern
part Of the state have caused great havoc
among the river farms.
After saving his wife and two-months-
old baby from flames which were de-
stroying their home, Samuel E. Howard,
a young farmer, living near Shambaugh,
Page county, Ia; went back after some
household goods, and was burned to
death.
News has been received of the drown
ing of over 500 Chinese as a result of the
collapse of an overcrowded mat shed
on the banks of the West river, near
Canton.
The twentieth annual reunion of the
Benevolent Order of Elks will be held
in Denver in 1906. One ballot decided
that at the grand lodge meeting in Buff
falo.
John T. Foster, one of the most FAM
GUS inventors in the United States, I'M
der whose direction the first gold pens
were manufactured in New York city,
died in Arlington, N. ].
The dates for holding the thirty-tirst
annual convention of the American
Bankers association at Washington
have been changed to October II, y and
13, 1905.
A thousand delegates at the statehood
convention at Oklahoma City adopted
resolutions asking immediate admission
Of Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Secretary Wilson, though he is held
gulltless, may retire as head of the de-
partment of agriculture, on account of
the cotton leak scandal.
A negro named McGill murdered ten
men, woman and a baby, and caused
the scuttling of the boat in which ali were
sailing from Utilla, on the coast of Hon.
duras, to the mainland. He was cap
tured. a.y.- .-
W. B. Howell, a millionaire cotton
planter of Pine Bluff, Ark, committed
suicide in New York because physicians
are unable to save him from blindness.
Sixty-seven indictments against 25
individuals, most of whom are former
county officials, were handed down by
the Milwaukee county grand jury.
This batch of true bills, added to the 80
returned ten days ago, makes a total
of los. Nearly all the indictments
charge bribery.
Vice Admiral Birileff has been ap-
pointed head of the Russian admiralty,
in succession to Admiral Avellan, who
resigned. $685. .
It is understood that Prince Charles
OF Denmark will be willing to accept
the crown Of Norway if King Christian
and the Danish government consent.
Fire swept large area of the bust
ness portion of Guntersville, Ala:
Loss, $4,000.
Walter Scott, the mining Croesus of
Death Valley, who left Los Angeles
on special train, arrived in Chicago
Al minutes ahead of schedule, having
covered the distance of 2,265 miles in
"A hours and 81 minutes.
William B. Lyons, former chief of
police of Baltimore and for many
years one of the best-known detectives
in the country, died at the age of Y,
from the result of fall from a street
car in June.
Secretary Wilson has turned over to
the attorney general all the papers in
connection with the cotton leak inves-
tigation. It is intimated that this is
done with the expectation that prose-
cution of the several persons men,
toned in the report of the secret SER
vice officers will follow.
A murder and suicide in Atlantic
City, N. j., ended the lives of Edward
O. Doughty and Mela S. Clyde, of Phil
adelphia. Doughty was jealous of the
woman.
Equitable disclosures started clam
or for the scalp of Chauncey M. Depew,
who may be forced out as director of
the society and lose Yale trusteeship.
Rodney B. Swift sued the Information
al Harvester company in Chicago, ask
ing the court to force it to return to rail-
way corporations $2,000,8e0 secured by
rate rebates. ..
The weather bureaus bulletin shows
the wheat and corn crop to be promising,
though the heavy rains have injured the
cotton crop in the south.
Appraisers appointed by Referee Max
we'll, of Milwaukee; to appraise the as
sets of F. G. Bigelow, reported the total.
value at $284,644. Claims amounting to
$2,191 ,989.37 have been filed against the
estate and approved.
A French member of The Hague peace
tribune, urges his country to intermedi-
ate between Sweden and Norway. >.e-.
France sent to the sultan of Morocco
formal acceptance sof, the invitation to
take part in the proposed international
conference. =: ~
Walter Kittredge, poet and author of
"Tenting on the Old Camp Grounds"
died at his home at Reeds Ferry, n H.
Death was the result of infirmities due
to old age. .-e5 - -
Orville Glassford, aged u years, and
his brother, Iced Glassford, aged 16,