Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-06-13

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Mrs. Joseph 1mholte. Jr., and her
dve-year-old son, were drowned near
Clear Lake while driving across the
river at Elk River, MINI. ~ ...z*. - 9. {
Gen. Toledo, In command of the
Guatemala revolutionary party, says
that he has, in two engagements, bad
~ routed Cabrera's troops and as his
forces are being reinforced by the ar
rival of large bodies. Of men he has
! no doubt OF his success and triumph
ant advance to Guatemala City. T.. 49,
Proceedings in the court-martial of
Capt. Robert F.. Wynne, Of the United
States marine corps, on q charge of
characterization were suddenly halted
after DR.. J. G. Decker testified the
physical condition of Capt. Wynne was
such as to blind him to the face that
as a military officer he is under obli-
cations to obey the orders of his SUI
perior. -
Doss Galbraith and Hill Gooch,
blacksmiths, were arrested at Spring
field, Mo-, charged with murder in the
first degree for their alleged participa-
ton In the lynching Of three negroes
on the night of April Ia.
The National Liquor Dealers ASSOC
citation, In convention at Louisville,
KY, issued an address to the people of
the United States, in which the belief
of it's members In temperance is ex-
pressed; obedience to. the law is in
dorsed; the work of the various tenn
perance societies is commended, and
the statement made that intoxication
should be considered crime.
A resolution was introduced before
the southern states immigration COM
mission requesting congress to allow
the importation of laborers by en-
ployers, the contracts between such
laborers and their employers to be filed
with the government at any port of
entry and the wages to be not less
than the recognized standard of the
locality in which the work is to be
done.
The final order Of the Illinois rail-
road and warehouse commission makes
a ten per cent. reduction on the sixth
class, and eight per cent, reduction on
the seventh class, material reduction
being made on the eighth, ninth and
tenth classes. A ten per cent. reduc-
ton is made on wheat, grain, lumber.
salt, coal and hogs.
The seventeenth miners internation-
al congress opened at London with 119
delegates present, representing the
United States, Great Britain, Germany,
Austria. France and Belgium.
Arthur Pue German, United States
senator from Maryland, died suddenly
at his residence in Washington.
While Senator Gormsn had been i'll
for many months, he had shown some
Improvement lately. Heart trouble
was the immediate cause Of death.
His illness, which had lasted for sew.
eral months, was not considered seri-
Gus. He leaves widow and six chill
dren.
Foster Dwight Coburn, the widely
known agriculturist, was appointed
United States senator for Kansas by
Gov. E. w. Hoch to succeed J. Ralph
Burton, who resigned.
Several people were painfully hurt
and about 100, many of whom were
visitors to the Masonic grand lodge SEES.
sion at Des Moines, escaped serious
injury in wreck on the Fort Des
Moines line.
Congressman Hepburn was nomina-
ted by reclamation by the Eighth Iowa
district Republicans. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing President Roosevelt,
1owa's two members of his cabinet and
the Iowa delegation in congress.
All British admiralty and war Office
contracts which have been placed since
the disclosures affecting the meat
packing industry in the United States
stipulate that canned meats are for
British or colonial products.
Thomas O'Connor Jones, son of the
late George w. Jones, one of the pio-
neers of the firm of Jones & Laughlin,
was found dead in his bed at a hotel
in Pittsburg. He had apparently shot
himself and the coroner gave verdict
of suicide.
What is generally regarded as the
most significant feature of the Mis-
souri, Democratic state nominating
convention was the pointed and abso-
lutte Endorsement of William Jennings
Bryan for the presidency in 1908.
Charles Wood and William Baker
were killed in head-on collision be-
tween a wrecking train and a work
train on the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad four miles south of Cadillac,
Mich.
In argument before the Kentucky
railroad commission former United
States Senator William Lindsey, of
New York, urged a general revision of
intra-state rates on all commodities.
declaring that the power under Ken
lucky laws is indisputable.
Henry H. Powers, once a successful
member Of the New York stock ex-
change, but who during the last years
had lost most Of his fortune, commit
ted suicide at his home in Brooklyn
by shooting.
The lower branch of the Russian
parliament suspended consideration
Of the agrarian problem in favor of
the bill to abolish the death penalty,
which, as an urgent measure, takes
precedence. ~