Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-07-18


Suits were filed In the United States
court at Austin BY the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa 'Fe and International &
Great Northern railroads attacking
rates established by the railroad COM
mission Of Texas. -.
Elihu Root, the American secretary
OF state, was entertained at luncheon
at Porto Rico by George Cabot Ward,
at the Union club, Others present
included United States and insular
officials, the military and naval au-
thorities of Porto Rico and several
merchants and bankers.
A cloudburst in the country, just
back of Wellsville, O., sent torrent
of water down McQueen's creek and
Trotter's run, causing loss of thou
sands of dollars.
One killed, another fatally injured,
while three are seriously burned, is
the result of fire in soda bottling
works at Meadville, Pa.
Congressman Henry Cullen Adams,
of Wisconsin, died at Chicago as re-
suit of his efforts at the session just
closed while in a weak physical con-
dition.
President and Nine. Fallieres gave
brilliant dinner at the Elysee pal
ace, Paris, in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth.
The sixteenth annual congress of
the American Whist league opened at
Boston with nearly 200 players pres
ent.
DR.. James T.. Green, superintendent
of the Nebraska hospital for the in
sane at Lincoln, has resigned. DR..
Green has accepted the superintend-
ency of the illinois hospital for the in
sane at Kankakee.
John r. Morgan, aged Is years, a
prominent lumber man and banker,
died at Oshkosh. He was president of
the Morgan company. He was also
vice president of the National Union
bank.
More than dozen passengers were
cut and bruised when trolley car at
Wichita, Kan, jumped the track and
rolled down an embankment. The
track had been weakened by heavy
rain and the car turned entirely over.
A conference between operators Of
the Ohio district known as the Pitts
burg vein, and representatives of he
miners organization looking to a set
Element of the strike troubles in the
Southeastern part of the state was be-
gun at Cleveland.
Several trainmen hurt, one perhaps
fatally, one passenger injured and 9TH
ers shaken up, is the result Of a COL
lision between an outward bound pax-
senger train and switch engine In
the Omaha yards at Saltwater, MINI.
Natal troops have completely sur
rounded and defeated rebel body in
the Umvoti district. Five hundred and
forty-seven rebels were killed and few
escaped, There were no white cas-
ualties.
Five Yosemite valley stages were
held up by a lone highwayman who
obtained considerable amount OF
money and jewelry. The conveyances
were halted in rapid succession at q
curve in the road near Advance, Cal.
The output of asbestos in the U1tted
States for 1905 was 3,109 short Ems,
valued at $42,975. This exceed5 the
production of any previous year, and
represents an increase of more than
100 per cent. in quantity and of almost
81 per cent.
The small wooden steamer Henry
Houghten, owned in Detroit, was
beached in a sinking condition Just
above Windmill Point, in Lake St.
Clair, after colliding with the steamer
Frank Peavey.
It has been decided to hold the ju-
NOR and senior track and field cham
pfonships OF the Amateur Athletic
union Of the United States at Travers
island, the seniors to be held on Sep
tcmber and the juniors on the Thurs-
or Friday preceding.
Former United States Marshal J. II.
Wolman, Grand Christian and Frank
D. Cooper, pleaded guilty in the United
States court at Helena, Mont, of illegal
fencing of government lands, and were
each fined $500 and sent to Jail for "a
hours.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision holding Mayor w. W.
Rose, Of Kansas City, in contempt for
having assumed the Office of mayor
after the court had ousted him for the
non-enforcement of the prohibition
law and the law against gambling.
Judge w. D. Robinson, of the Indi-
ana appellate court, dissolved the tenn
porary restraining order and held that
the action of the city council in GUST
ing Mayor Bidaman of Terre Haute
was legal and that Bidaman had no
claim on the Office.
Henry H. Glauste, secretary of the
commission to inquire into and report
to congress its conclusions concern
ing the laws relative to second class
mail matter, has issued an announce
ment that the first session will be held
at New York at noon, October 1, 1906.
w. w. Rose, mayor of Kansas City,
Kan, was granted a writ of error by
David J. Brewer, justice of the United
States supreme court, which stays the
judgment of the Kansas supreme
court in filming Mayor Rose $1,000 and
demanding that he relinquish his of.
fee.
About one person In every 1900 was
blind and one in every $50 persons was
deaf in the United States in 1900, ac-
cording to special ceusus report on
the blind and deaf in, the United States
In that year just issued by the census
Office.
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