Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-06-20

The. Western Federation Of Miner
virtually reelected Charles II. Meyer
president, and William D. Haywood
secretary-treasurer, by making no nom.
nations for these offices. g, ~.*
AT the commencement exercises OF
Ripon college, DR.. re. Hughes, presi-
dent of the college, announced sub
scriptions aggregating $4,000.
The committee of the Illinois state
board of charities which has been in
vestigating the Illinois Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Normal, ILL.,, reports
discipline lax; insubordination for five
or six years on the teachers staff;
management is incompetent.
Col. Henry A. Dupont, of Whining
ton defeated J. Edward Addicks in the
caucus contest for the vacant seat
from Delaware in the United States
senate.
Edwin B. Hay, a lawyer, known
throughout the country as an expert In
handwriting, died at his home. Mr..
Hay was past grand exalted ruler of
the Elks, and was we'll known
Mason.
The Ohio operators who have been
resisting the demands of the miners,
decided to place the whole matter in
the hands Of John H. Winder, chair
man of the conference. All negotia-
tons for reopening the mines will BIZ
made by him.
Fire Quilted the building occupied by
the oleo department of the Armour
packing plant at South Omaha causing
the deaht Of one man and a pecuniary
loss estimated at 100000.
DR.. Mary Putnam jacob, one of the
most distinguished women physicians
In the country, a prominent advocate
Of woman suffrage and writer Of med.
ical works, sled at her homa II New
York.
Post Office inspectors are working in
Indianapolis to trace the writer Of
threatening postal cards which have
been mailed from Indianapolis to
Speaker Cannon at Washington.
Alexander Hutchcraft, who with
Luther Gillian was indicted for the
murder of William Jones a year ago,
entered a plea of guilty at Carmi, Ill.,,
and was sentenced to 20 years in the
state prison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Turtellout, Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, have offered to
build 100000 academy for the town
of Thompson, Conn. They have prom
ised to endow it with 100000.
Mrs. Susan Charlotte Underwood is
dead. Bryan Underwood, her son, is
fatally i'll, and F. x. Drummer, son-in-
law, is seriously i'll from the effects Of
drinking cream purchased at Kan
sas City dairy.
Circuit Court Judge Withrow at St..
Louis handed down a decision that
corporations are not forced to answer
questions put to them by the secretary
of state as to whether they belong to
sO-called trusts.
Newton Bohannon was arrested at
Okmulgee, I. T., on a charge of MUIR
dering Moses E. Cholde, in Fannin
county, Texas, in 1867. He was locat-
ed on information given by his wife.
The public test at Paris of the mo-
tors OF Walter Wellman's dirigible
balloon America, with which he is
about to depart on his expedition to
the north pole, was eminently success
full.
Chancellor Day, of Syracuse univer-
sity, In his baccalaureate address.
again attacked President Roosevelt,
depicting him in kingly robe, at
tempting to influence courts and con-
gress, and scored the muck-rakers for
uncovering packing house evils.
The attempt Of the administration
senators to modify the amendments
to the Anglo-Cuban treaty so as to
still leave semblance of the most
favored nation privileges has ended in
failure.
A. j. Cassatt, president Of the Penn
sylvania railroad, denies he shared In
the graft in connection with the coal
traffic, or accepted any commissions or
gifts.
Miss lone M. Bum, of West Union,
Adams county, New York, was killed
at Newburgh, N. Y, during storm
by falling tree. Mrs. J. w. Bum,
mother of the girl, was seriously hurt,
and Hazel Goonan, aged IA, of New
burgh, had her leg broken.
The building occupied by Klein &
Wassem, grocers at Mount Vernon.
Ind, was destroyed by fire. The fire
started from an explosion in the pow
der aud gasoline room. Five people
were slightly injured. LOSS. $4,000.
The Rev. A. H. Zechel, of the Wis
consin Anti-Saloon league, was found
guilty at Appleton of violating the Sun
day labor law by purchasing beer on
the Sabbath to secure evidence that a
saloonkeeper had violated the Sundal
closing law.
Gov. warfeld, Of Maryland, has ap-
pointed william Pinckney Whyte, the
noted lawyer and former governor and
United States senator, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of United
States Senator German.
There were rumors that charges
had been filed against a member of
the Illinois supreme bench and that
the secret night session Of the court
in itself an extraordinary proceeding
was held to consider the evidence in
the case.
The Miners International Congress
held Its closing sitting at London I'M
der The presidency of J. P. White, pres
tdent of the American Miners associa-
ton. Resolutions were adopted in IA
vor Of miners old age pensions and the
naturalization Of miners.