Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-28

AAOoANV0S OVAA 40AICAcA1s W Iut OAlI>
ed Mine Workers, declared at Pitts
burg that there will be a strike April
!, but intimated it may not affect the
anthracite field. So
Herbert Farr, aged 40, at one time
a famous Beloit (Wis.) college pitch
er, met death in a mine accident at
Angel Point, Cal. Deceased had been
a mining engineer for many years.
Warren Mitchell was drowned at
Lawrenceburg, Ind, while testing a
device he had invented for saving
skaters who break through thin ice.
Advices from Riga state that Gen.
Oroloff, who is in charge of the forces
sent to quell the outbreaks in. the Bal
tic provinces, has shot more than 700
alleged revolutionists.
Senator Warren Garst introduced a
measure in the Iowa upper house pro-
hibiting the Sunday. theater in Iowa.
The measure carries with 1t the fine
of $50 and applies to all places of
amusement open on Sunday.
TWo-thirds Of the business section
Of Hitchcock, Okla, was destroyed by
fire. Twenty buildings were destroyed,
entailfng an aggregate loss estimated
at 100000.
William A. Shoemaker, formerly sec.
rotary Of the Queen & Crescent rail-
road, but recently retired, dropped
dead at his home in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Silvia Langdon Durham, the
second oldest person in Connecticut,
died at Southington, Conn, aged los
years.
State Secretary-Treasurer Ryan of
the Illinois district, United Mine
Workers of America, advises against
asking or accepting Intervention from
President Roosevelt in the event of a
strike.
Instead of evacuating Manchuria,
according to the Portsmouth treaty,
Russia shows disposition to grasp
even more Chinese territory.
An immigration forecast indicates
decrease of 10000 for 1906.
The board of public safety at Louis
vile, KY, has ordered all theaters and
skating Kinks closed on Sundays.
Fire In the business section of Pat
erson, N. j., caused loss of $500, 900,
wholesale firms being the sufferers.
Delegates at the divorce convention
in Washington adopted a resolution
intended to aid the cause. of a uniform
divorce law.
A woman teacher in Chicago was
fyiv in% "A
real estate dealer accused of kissing
her.
Germany rejected the French pro-
posals on bank and police and break
IT. the Moroccan conference Is. expect
ed by a majority Of the delegates at
Algeciras.
Pope Plus x. in an interview with
the representative of London paper
spoke regretfully ct the church's trou-
bles In France, but expressed hope for
peace to come.
Susan B. Anthony suffered paraly-
tic stroke on the eve of her eighty
sixth birthday and is In a critical con-
dit1on.
Mrs. John W. Waters, former Chi
cago woman, threw her three children
from Fall River (Mass.) steamboat
and then leaped overheard. All per-
ished.
Commissioner Garfield emphatically
denied promising immunity to the
packers in the hearing before Judge
Humphrey in Chicago.
Reformers keep their grip on the
Philadelphia vote. the municipal cleo
ton giving Mayor Weaver enough
councilmen to control that body. Pitts
burg elected a Democratic mayor.
Thirty murders are charged to Moy-
er, Haywood and Pettibone, leaders in
the Western Federation of Miners and
recently arrested for the assassination
of former Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho.
An indictment charging ex-County
Clerk Otis T. Hare and Frank Keogh
Of Milwaukee with fraudulently sub
uniting claim for 1855 to the coun-
ty board in 1902 for printing ballots
was quashed.
Henry Turner shot and killed his
Elisha Howard, at Can
Creek, KY. The men quarreled over
the division of corn owned Jointly by
them.
A negro named Pedigree, who tore ed
an entrance to the home of a promi-
nent white citizen in Andalusia, Ala,
and assaulted young lady, was
caught by citizens and identified by
his victim. The posse started to jail
with him, but he broke away and was
quickly shot to death by members of
the posse.
Edward Drogmund, leader of the or
chestra Of Kansas City, Kan, the
alter, was shot and killed by his wife
az the result of a quarrel.
Fire at Prentice, Wis.,, caused loss
to the United States Leather company
Of $4,000.
Senator Gilliland, Of Mills county,
in the Iowa senate reso-
luton demanding that Gov. Cummins
be forced to prove the truth of his
statement that the railroads of Iowa
were using money to defeat the pri-
mary bill.
W. FL Hardesty, registering from
Fort Wayne, Ind, was found dead In
Rock Island, Ill.,, in room in hotel,
having shot himself in the mouth.
Five persons were burned to death,
three others seriously injured and four
houses completely destroyed by a fire
which originated in the nome of Pat
rick Grogan at Tunnel HILL Pa.
John B. Stetson, the millionaire hat