Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-15
NEWS OF A WEEK
TERSELY OUTLINED
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST I'M.
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts
Of the Globe-The Latest Foreign
Information.
MISCELLANEOUS.

sin will be reduced practically one
cent per bushel by an opinion of the
railway commissioners. This is the
most important decision that has ever
been rendered by the Wisconsin com
mission. The order will affect all OF
the railroads operating in the state OF
Wisconsin.
1t was reported at st. Petersburg
that 700 persons have been killed or
wounded during renewed fighting be-
tween Tartars and Armenians in the
Shusha district Of Caucasia.
GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, was visited by ter
rife rainstorm, causing several thou
sand dollars damage by the washing
of streets. In one place 200 feet on
Washington street was washed way
for depth Of 80 feet and width of
20 feet. The business streets were
flooded.
Republicans in convention at Ma
con, Mo-, nominated DR.. Edward B.
Clements for congress in the First dis
trict.
Republicans of the First Nebraska
district nominated Ernest NJ. Pol
lard for congress by reclamation.
Jere NJ. Hunt, city passenger agent
of the Chicago & Alton railroad, died
at St. Louis from kidney trouble, az
ter less than days illness.
w. F. Arthur & Co., cotton firm
of Texarkana, Tex, went into involun-
tary bankruptcy on petition of east
ern creditors. The liabilities are
$4,000; assets nominal.
Capt. Truebridge, of the steamship
Northwestern, brings from the north
a photograph taken by an officer of
the revenue cutter Perry of the newly
formed island lying so miles west of
Dutch Harbor, directly between the
Bogoslof islands.
The Roosevelt Home club, which
was organized to acquire possession
of the Roosevelt homestead where the
president was born and to maintain
it as landmark in the city of New
York, has decided that it is not in a
position to fulfill it's mission.
Emperor William has conferred the
Order of William upon Frau Krupp,
the widow of the gunmaker.
The so-called Boykin anti-bucket-
shop bill, adopted by the house of rep
resentatives passed the Georgia SEN
ate by the decisive vote of SO to 3.
Speaker Cannon, of Illinois, and his
daughter, Miss Cannon, will visit Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh at their
Wolhurst country home, Littleton,
COL, between the first and middle Of
October, to remain week or longer.
E. r. Balzer, vice president, and G.
F. Anderson, secretary of the defunct
]. P. Baden Produce company, of Win
field, Kan, were arrested on a charge
of forgery. Anderson also is charged
with perjury.
Paul Morton was cleared of the
stigma of rebating in connection with
the Santa Fe railroad by the inter-
state commerce commission in state
ment issued regarding the conviction
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company.
The United States has again entered
the silver market and for the first
time in 13 years is a bidder for silver
for coinage purposes.
Prince Troubetskoy, aid-de-camp to
the emperor, visited the fortress at
Cronstadt and distributed medals to
the troops who participated in the
suppression of the revolt.
The sentences passed upon the Sc
vastopol mutineers probably will be
mitigated. On the recommendation of
Admiral Skrydloff, Minister of Marine
Birilef, instead of confirming the sen
fences, has ordered a complete rehear-
ing of the cases at the end of two
months.
Copenhagen newspapers are enthusi-
astic over the American suffragists.
especially dwelling on the oratorical
powers of Rev. Anna E. Shaw and Ida
Hustled Harper, and the presidential
ability of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
They print portraits of all the Ameri-
cans.
Prof. Henry D. Smith, general Sec
rotary of Beloit college, died at VIII
liamsburg, Wis. as a result of his ef-
forts to save the life of Miss Ruth
Macumber, who was drowned near
Lake Geneva.
Commander J. C. Fremont has been
appointed naval attache at the Ameri-
can embassies in France and Russia.
Frank Staf1er died at Minneapolis
as the result of fight in which his
brain was pierced by the point of an
umbrella. Staffler and John Harris
quarreled over five dollars.
The Iowa Democratic state conven-
ton nominated a full state ticket.
headed by Claude r. Porter, of Ap-
panoose county, for governor.
A wealthy merchant, who aban-
done number of valuable Jewels on
board the Sirio, has donated them.
when recovered, to the relief fund.
The Anglo-American polar expedi.
ton is we'll on the way in the Arctic
seas.
. William J. Bryan, Mrs. Bryan, Miss
Grace Bryan, Col. Moses c. Wetmore,
of st. Louis, and Mr.. and Mrs. M. 2.
Dunlap and their daughter, of Jack
,sonville, ILL.,, spent day in Venice. r
The Minneapolis Grand Army en-
campment committee announced that
the railroads in the Western Passen..
ger association have extended r. the
time Of reduced rate tickets from Au.s
gust H. to August 10, thus allowing
the visitors to reach the city 3ona day.
earlier than had been expected.