Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-21

sE6O0 Moros, wiping out m entire rebel
band in battle lasting two days on
the Island of Jolo. The victors lost
Is killed and So wounded. The fight
y took place in the crater Of volcano
2,10o feet high, the Americans being
compelled to hoist their artillery for
distance Of 300 feet at an angle of
!60 degrees.
| Moro women and children were
killed in the fierce encounter in Jolo,
the troops being unable to discrimin-
ate. Nine hundred, it is now said,
were killed or wounded in the four
days. fighting.
The president and Secretary Taft
justified Woods soldiers in killing
Moros In answer to q senate request
for Information regarding the battle.
The total number Of Christian En-.
deavor societies throughout the world
is 67,512, according to reports Of Of
flcers Of the Worlds Christian En-
deavor union. !.
Joseph Cardiff and Harry Chamblin,
boys, were drowned at Mason City,
ILL.,, while skating.
Judge w. C. Marshall, of the su-
preme court of Missouri, fled his res
ignation with Gov. Folk. to take effect
April 1. q;
President Amador, OF Panama, au-
thorizes denial Of the report that he
intends resigning.
| While nine men. were sitting in
little grocery store at !; jamestown,
Ind, remarking on the possibility OF
the collapse of an adjacent building,
three Of them were killed and five in
jured by the collapse of the Odd Eel
lows hall, which crushed the grocery
store like an egg shell.
| Ohio Democrats plan bold scheme
to overthrow Senator Foraker and send
Tom Johnson to the United States SEN
ate.
BY the overwhelming vote OF 474 to
SO the British house of commons de-
clared in favor of the free trade prin-
ciple.
Countess de Castellane asks French
court to amend her petition for sepa-
ration so as to allow her absolute di-
vOrce.
Andrew Carnegie, who arrived in
Richmond, Va. on his way to Hot
Springs, Va, gave $4,000 to the rail-
road Y. M. c. A. there and increased
his library offer to that city from
100000 to 100000.
The Vatican authorities fear the
Catholic church in France will suffer
more from present cabinet than under
Rouvier.
A volcano on the island of Savaii, in
the Samoan group, is pouring rivers of
fiery lava into the ocean.
Fred r. Green, former cashier Of the
defunct Fredonia National bank, plead
ed guilty at Buffalo, N. Y, and was
sentenced to six years in Auburn pris-
on. Green was indicted on counts
charging abstraction, .embezzlement
and false entry. .~.
Commander-in-Chi Tanner, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, writes to
Chairman Tawney, protesting against
reduced salaries for aged civil service
employees.
Another railroad strike is feared in
|
is preparing for trouble.
An extraordinary session of the Ken
lucky legislature was called by the
governor to levy a .rectitiers' tax:
Plain intimations. are made by the
anthracite coal operators that inter-
vention by the president in the settle
ment OF the hard coal situation will be
most unwelcome, and that they and the
miners should be permitted to work
out the problem now confronting them
without outside influences.
In the destruction by fire of the
home of Charles Grimmett, at Ameri-
Gus, Kan, one of his children was
burned to death.
The Iowa house, by vote of u to 6.
passed the Gilleand resolution calling
upon Gov. Cummins to make good his
charges that railroad influence was
used to defeat the primary bill. The
goevrnor promises now to make sen.
sational disclosures which he claims to
have regarding the work of the lobby
lists in the state.
With the passage by the Iowa senate
OF the child labor bill, the measure will
become law, as Gov Cummlns will
sign it at once. The new law prohibits
the employment of children under IS
in any gainful occupation which would
injure his health.
Walter Juntgen, on trial in Danviile,
ILL.,, charged with Misrepresentation of
funds of a bank at Paris, ILL.,, was ac-
quilted by the jury.
The United States supreme court de.
cided the Chicago 99-year traction case
in favor of the city. The decision leaves
the municipality in control CT it's thor
oughfares, practically all franchises
having expired.
Shrinkage in values of Chicago Trac-
ton stocks as result of the supreme
courts decision in the 99-year case
show losses aggregating $1O,80O,0 OO..
Sheriff William Thomas shot and in
stantly killed Harry Barker, while the
latter was in the act of committing
burglary in the Office of George
Browns iron works at Red Oak, La.
A dispatch from Sana, Arabia, where
the Turkish troops are operating
against the rebellious tribesmen, de-
clares that more than $4,000 natives
have been massacred by the Turks,
and that the latter are resorting to
cannibalistic practices.
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