Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
While playing in front Of a grate,
the three-year-old child Of Chris
Parker, of Ireland, Ind, was burned
to death.
Herbert Moore, ~ years old, while
playing with shotgun, shot and
killed playmate, Charles Heffner,
aged II, at Richmond, Ind.
The Ohio house by vote Of SIS to
Al practically defeated the resolution
providing for the submission to the
people Of an amendment to the con-
stitution prohibiting the traffic in in
toxicating liquors by referring it to
the committee on judiciary.
Spread Of the miners strike In
France causes the government to mass
troops in anticipation of trouble
Boer war demands for damages
have reached $310,000,000.
Railroad mileage of the United
States will be increased during 1906
by 21,447 miles by building Of new
lines.
President Roosevelt received a me-
mortal from Samuel Gompers and q
delegation from the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor setting forth the de-
sires OF labor in the matter of legis.
lat1on, and in reply declared that the
requests, in a number Of instances. are
against what he considers good ma
tional policy.
Chattanooga lynchers are facing
punishment at the hands Of the Unit
ed States supreme court, which had
1ntervened in behalf Of the mob's VIC
tim.
Iowa representatives passed a bill
aimed at the Standard Oil company,
preventing rate-cutting In one part
of the state to kill off competition
while prices are being raised in an.
other.
reforms in Russia are shown to
be fictitious, and workmen, realizing
that the government is attempting to
trick them, jeered at the emperor by
formally electing dog as their dele
gate to the assembly,
A committee of the New York as
sembly favorably reported the bill
which will legislate out of Office all
directors and trustees of mutual life
insurance companies.
Federal Judge J. Otis Humphrey In
Chicago granted the immunity pleas
OF the 16 individual packers indicted
for conspiracy in restraint Of trade,
but held the five packing firms for
trial.
I. W. Triplett, Of Tahlequah, I. r.,
died at the federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. While a clerk in
the federal court at Tahlequah, Trip
lett was found guilty of embezzle-
ment and was sent to the penitentiary
for five years. Heshad served three
years.
In recognition Of his services at
Washington, Sir Chentung LANG
Cheng, Chinese minister to the United
States received a cablegram from his
government announcing his appoint
ment as chancellor of the grand coun.
Gil of China.
Morris Buck was convicted at Los
Angeles, CAL, of murder in the first
degree for killing Mrs. Charles A.
Garfield, wife of the millionaire oil
operator.
Robbers entered the bank Of Mag
ara, N. D., demolished the safe and
secured $3.50 in cash.
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, the
Salvation Army leader, is to retire
from active work as the result Of q
breakdown.
Lyman j. Gage, former secretary OF
the treasury, Is to resign as president
of the United States Trust company OF
New York.
William Carr, negro, was lynched
at Bayou Plaquemine, La. Saturday
night for stealing and killing COW.
President Roosevelt announces him.
self as heartily favoring the idea ad-
yanced by Prof. Edmund ]. James to
invite Chinese students to study in
American institutions.
Health Commissioner Whalen, of
Chicago, says the drainage canal al
ready has saved nearly 5000 lives by
reducing the death rate from typhoid
and diarrheal diseases.
The Ohio house passed a bill fore
ing witnesses before legislative inves-
tigating committees to talk.
Report of. the United States Steel
corporation for 1905 shows surplus
earnings of 343,365, 900, an increase Of
$3S,317 900 over the 1904 surplus.
Refusal to quash :, the Indictment
against Congressman Hermann for
Oregon land frauds was made by the
District Of Columbia supreme court !.
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