Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

George w. Perkins, partner Of ]. r.
Morgan, was arrested on the charge of
grand larceny in connection with a gift
OF funds of the New York Life Insur-
ance company to the Republican CAM
paign fund, and is paroled in custody
of his lawyer pending argument on
aabeas corpus In the supreme court.
Mystery surrounds the murders OF
ok Italian laborers found hacked to
pieces in Minneapolis.
Former Consul Generals Goodnov,
4cWade and Williams were arraigned
ON serious charges in the inspection re-
port OF Assistant Secretary of State
Petrce, submitted to the house.
Veterans OF the civil war from the
north and south met In Atlanta to form
= new fraternal organization.
A boy hold-up in New York was SEN
fenced to three years In the reform
school for stealing q cent from O little
girl.
Hundreds of families in Waterloo
and Cedar Falls, Ia, were made home
less by the breaking Of levees, which
flooded portions of both cities.
Canal Legislation at this session is
improbable and the administration, in
case no action is taken, will build lock
canal.
Floods demolished a great irrigation
dam in Wyoming, seriously retarding
the government reclamation project.
President John Mitchell created a
sensation In the Indianapolis confer
'ence by accusing railroads of being re-
sponsible for the strike
Petitions of ex-Gov. Richard Yates
and Senator Shelby N. Cullom for
election to the United States senate
were filed at Springfield, Ill. The
Yates list has $4,000 names and the
Cullom 121,6O1.
George Barney and George Isock
were burned to death while fighting a
IRE at the Dodge colIery at Scranton.
Pa.
Charles E. Baines, mayor of Milford,
ILL.,, who, with Gilbert Vennum, pol
1tician, was indicted by a grand jury
two months ago on charge of enticing
Myrtle Taylor, aged 16 years, and Es-
sic Childs, aged 10 years, was acquit-
ted
The Sankey bill, providing for a
two-cent railroad fare in Iowa, was
killed in the Iowa house by a vote of
81 to 40, after hot argument.
The Iowa senate, by vote of AZ to
2 ordered the investigation OF Iowa in
surance companies. The bill provides
for commission of Ave senator's and
representatives. An appropriation OF
$4,000 is made for the Investigation.
Two additional bodies were recov-
cred from the Century mine in West
Virginia, running the death list to &c.
All others have been accounted for.
John A. Locke and H. G. Harris are
under arrest in San Francisco on the
charge of safebreaking and train rob-
berry, committed near Richmond, Ind.
Coal-carrying railroads, believing q
strike In the bituminous coal fields
certain. refuse to carry coal to mar.
ket, and will store it for their own
use. Prices probably will rise at
once. Nine million tons of anthracite
coal are now in storage yards to
meet the threatened strike
Chattanooga people appealed to Pres.
1dent Roosevelt to prevent federal
prosecution Of the lynchers Of the
negro hanged after the supreme court
had granted stay.
The Wisconsin state railroad com.
mission will hear arguments in the
two-cent rate fight early in April
Twentythree miners are believed to
have lost their lives in the recent mine
explosion, at Century, w. Va. Twenty
two bodies have been recovered,
Russian ofncials are unable to stop
agitation caused by Schmidt's death,
which threatens new danger to the
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