Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-30

The American Red Cross received
$50 900 from the Japanese Red Cross
for the reliefzof SAM Francisco. This
brings the Japanese Red Cross contri-
buttons to $500 s= 4. IT,, 4 S .5s
The Missouri supreme court upheld
the lower courts decision in imposing
death sentence on Edward Boteman,
negro, convicted of having criminally
assaulted Myrtle Digby, a white girl.
The supreme court rendered q de-
cision in the case of Senator Ralph
Burton, of Kansas, affirming the deci-
sion of the United States circuit court
for the Eastern district of Missouri, by
which Burton was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment in the jail Of
Iron county, Mo-, required to pay q
fine of $1,000 and deprived of the right
to hereafter hold Office under the gov
eminent. .-. ..- II -
More than 600 marines will confront
liberal leaders on the isthmus of Pana-
ma in case they attempt to promote
riots and revolution at the time of the
election in Panama on June 20.
w. H. Stuart, the American vice con-
sui, was shot and killed from ambush
near his country place at Batum. The
assassin escaped. Mr.. Stuart was a
British subject and one of the largest
ship owners and exporters of Batum.
A noraml increase in the lumber IN
dustry of the United States is reported
by the census bureau. Capital invest.
ed, $517,224,12s, in increase of 20 per
cent; total value OF products, $780,
264, 1899, an increase of 26 per cent.
The Chilean government has accept
ed the invitation of the president to
participate in the naval and marine ex-
position in Hampton roads next year,
commemorative of the tercentennial Of
the settlement of Jamestown.
Richard r. Greener, late commercial
agent at Vladivostok, has received the
order of the Double Dragon Third
Glass from the Chinese emperor for
services rendered distressed Chinese
subjects during the late war.
Charles H. Graves, American minis
ter to both Sweden and Norway, has
been selected to represent the president
as a special envoy at the coronation of
King Haakon at Christiania June g.
Ambassador Casasus, for the Mexi-
can government, and Secretary Root
signed a treaty regulating the. use of
the waters of the Rio Grande, which
will remove what has been for 20 years
source of friction.
At a dinner by the New York Civic
Federation Supreme Court Justice Will
liam J. Gaynor made an attack on cor
porations to which August Belmont,
who was also a guest at the dinner,
made a spirited reply.
Thelma Debaugh, said to be connect
ed with a/wealthy Kentucky family,
ended her life by taking poison in a
Chicago levee resort.
With his wife suicide by poison.
Robert II. Paine, the sculptor, mallet
in hand, quietly entered the studio in
New York and shattered into frag-
ments his masterpiece and life work.
heroic model in clay Of Neptune and
his mermaids.
An effort to bring the coal operators
and miners of Michigan into confer
ence to- reopen the Michigan coal
mines failed
The estimates for all expenses incl
dent to the construction Of the Pana-
ma canal for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1907, are $26,34S,281.
Allan Dowell, 40 years a Masonic
lecturer, died at Kansas City, aged 70
years: He was an authority on Free
Masonry. =
According to statement by S. H.
Pearcy, a large landowner in the Isle
Of Pines, revolt against Cuban au-
mority in that island will occur in the
near future unless the United States
resumes control over it.
Lawrence Muan, aged 80 years, shot
his wife in the head aud then shot
himself. They had difficulty over
money.
The tipple of the Hazel Kirke coal
mine near Bentleysville, Washington
county, Pa, was burned. The 500
miners made their escape.
The federal supreme court refused to
entertain the suit of Joseph Naganab,
a Chippewa Indian, against Secretary
Hitchcock to enjoin the latter from
setting off certain, pine lands in the
Lake Winnibigoshish reservation for
a forest reserve.
The British ship Felucca Consuelo
has been captured of the Anghera
coast by pirates. The sum of $4,000 is
demanded as ransom. -.
President Palma was inaugurated at
Havana in the presence of the diplo-
matte corps in full uniform, cabinet
officers, senators, congressman, judges,
heads of departments and the repre-
sentatives Of economic, agricultural
and commercial associations. None Of
the liberal members Of congress at
tended.
A note received by President Mour-
omtseh of the lower, house, from Pc
terhof, instead of making an appoint
ment for an audience at which he and
the deputation could present the ad-
dress in reply to the speech from the
throne contained the information that
Emperor Nicholas would not receive
the deputation and that. the address
must be presented through the minis.