Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-11

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y Four Of the six wards In Kansas
City, Kan, having declared in the cleo
ton against Mayor w. w. Roses poll
cy Of licensing liquor joints, the mayor
sent his resignation to the city coun-
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"Old Sport Campana, veteran in
the sporting world, died at a hospital
In Chicago.
John Alexander Dowie will return to
Zion City to resist efforts to depose
him.
Emperor Nicholas of Russia has
made another move for the reconven-
ing of The Hague peace conference.
The American cruiser Brooklyn is
invited to be present at a forthcoming
celebration in Marseilles. -
Constitutional Democrats swept
every ward in St., Petersburg, Whites
party not saving one elector.
The supreme court of the United
States decided the Michigan railroad
tax cases, involving the taxes of all
the railroads in that state for several
years past, against the railroads.
Twelve Natal natives condemned to
death for killing policemen during the
poll tax uprising were executed by
England's order.
The Standard Oil company of Illi-
nois, organized to fight the oil trust,
increased it's capital stock from $780,
600 to 100000 and will become a
powerful rival.
The infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Bovet, Of Chisholm, Mimi, was shot
to death as It's mother held it in her
arms. A stray bullet fired by boys
half a mile away entered window
and penetrated the child's skull, scat
tering it's brains over the mother.
Ralph Ringgenberg, of Wilton, Ia,
aged eleven, was killed at Moscow, Ia,
while jumping of feright train.
Hugh Glenn, of Bellefontaine, O.,
fired two bullets at his wife and.
thinking he had killed her. then killed
himself. She was not hit.
Thomas Wainwright was arrested
in New York, charged with looting the
house of DR.. Pinault, of Minneapolis,
and taking property worth 100000.
A plot to assassinate the entire
royal family of Spain has been un-
covered.
The president has decided to ap.
point Albert Halstead as American
consul at Birmingham, England, to
succeed his brother, Marshall Hal
stead, resigned.
The banking firm Of Teis Smith &
Co. failed to open for business at Pc
kin, Ill. The liabilities, due to de-
positors and other banks. are said to
be in excess of 100000, against which
there are assets Of about $250,00O, a
portion of which is worthless.
The latest advices received from
Japan have shown famine conditions
In Sendai and the northern provinces
to be SO serious that the New York
State Red Cross has determined to
raise not only money but food in this
country for the relief of. the starving
Japanese.
The sawmill of Edward Diefendorf
at Chfttenango, N. Y, was blown up
by a boiler explosion. Edward DEF
endorf, Jr., and Patrick Baker were
instantly killed and John Higgins and
Jesse Kelsey fatally injured.
Part of the plant of the Cornell Iron
works at Cold Spring, N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire and about 200 men were
thrown out of work. The loss will
aggregate about 100000.
The German government has placed
an order with the Krupp's Germania
works for battleship Of $4,000 tons.
Thirteen men, entombed in a French
coal mine 20 days, living on hay and
putrid meat, escape.
Officials of a wireless system claim
to have transmitted 572 words across
the Atlantic ocean, a distance of 5000
miles.
While resisting arrest on minor
charge, Robert Johnson (colored) was
shot and instantly killed by Marshal
Webster Roberts, also colored, at
Wyoming, o.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa-
dor to Washington, received a dis
patch from St. Petersburg announcing
that rumors of probable anti-Jewish
uprisings in Russia are unfounded.
The Ohio senate killed the primary
election bill, for this session, by re-
fusing to agree to the amendments
proposed by the house. This bill has
excited interest all over the state.
The Moroccan conference reached an
agreement on all points, the result
seeming to be victory for France.
Secretary Root will drop reciprocity
for the present and endeavor to settle
other questions with Canada.
The Ohio general assembly has adj
journed until 1908, the terms of the
members having been extended as a
result of the biennial election amend
ment to three years.
Walter Wood and Stuart Wood.
members of the firm of r. D. Wood
& Co., iron manufacturers of Philadel-
phia, were found not guilty in the
United States court here Of accepting
a rebate on a shipment to Winnipeg
The suit was brought under the Elkins
anti-rebate law. !. .<~.
The general store Of c.. M. Hatch, in
which the Bridgeport, Conn.,, post Office
is located, was broken into and robbed,
the robbers getting $4,000 in money
and stamps. ..>9.:. 4.. >.
John Culver, aged "a years, a retired
business man of MCPHERSON, Ia.,
dropped dead from heart failure while
strolling along the platform at the
Union depot at Denver, Col.
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