Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-28

peach growing sections Of Georgia in
dictate loss Of 50 per cent. from the
recent cold weather. a. so per cent.
damage to the crop would mean q
probable loss Of 100000 to Georgia
growers. '~.% Z @.@z=t'
Rev. Louis Kelly, the Baptist minis
ter who was a partner of the late
Rev. George Simmons in the defunct
Peoples Savings bank, Peoria, ILL.,, has
been indicted for embezzlement.
The American bowling congress in
session at Louisville. KY, decided to
hold its next annual convention in
st. Louis and elected as president,
Robert H. Bryson, Of Indianapolis.
Representative George r. Patterson,
of the Twelfth Pennsylvania district,
aied suddenly from heart failure.
Andrew Hamilton, former legisla.
tive agent for the New York Life In.
surance company, sent a reply to the
Fowler investigating committee of
that company, declining to appear be.
but held the five packing firms for
to his work for the company.
AS the. officials were closing the Mu.
tual Credit society's bank in Moscow,
Russia, 20 armed men surrounded the
building, which is near the bourse,
and, covering the employees Of the
bank with pistols, they pillaged the
place, getting away with $685.
Work of American consuls is badly
crippled by the lack Of funds. The
appropriation has been exhausted and
congress will not vote more cash to
provide for ordinary expenses.
Mayor Weaver, Of Philadelphia, won
the most notable victory Of his reform
fight by forcing the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company to agree to disgorge
franchises worth millions of dollars,
acquired as the result of the famous
midnight steal"
! The commerce commission will force
officials of companies under trial to
answer questions or subject them to
punishment on refusal.
Admiral Dewey urged an .1S,000-ton
battleship and smaller craft at hear
ing before house committee.
Mrs. Florence Siegel, Of Trenton, N
j., was killed, and her husband, Sam.
uel Siegel, had leg broken as a re-
suit of jumping from a. third-story
window of their home while the house
was on fire.
The Ohio senate passed a bill pro.
vlding for the fine and imprisonment
of students found guilty of hazing and
Of members of college faculties who
permit it.
Gov. Gen. 1de sent Secretary of War
Taft a cablegram justifying the fight
ON Mount Dado.
A terrific norther along the coast OF
Vera Cruz, Mexico. killed 10 people
including two Americans.
| Members of Chattanooga mob who
lynched negro may be punished by
federal authorities through the SUI
preme court connection with the case
"a new mutiny among Russian sail
ors and massacre of officers is report
ed at Sebastopol.
George F. Baer, chairman of the
committee of seven of the anthracite
operators, addressed letter to Johr
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers., accepting Mr.. Mitchell's
proposition to have another confer
ence.
Just before an officer entered his
room in a Hot Springs (Ark.) hotel tt
arrest him, J. H. Claibaugh, a sheet
writer from Chicago poolroom. drank
an ounce and half of carbolic acii
and died few minutes later.
In fight between a foreman and
Italian laborers on the South & West
ern railroad, near Marion, N. c., the
foreman, In defending himself, dubbed
seven Of the men to death with crow
bar.
Mrs. Cornelfa Botesma, and her one
year.old child were struck by a Mich.
igan Central passenger train nea,
Grand Rapids, Mich, while driving
across the track. The child was in
stantly killed and the mother died al
Butterworth hospital.
Another contribution of $4,000
came to the state department through
the Red Cross from the Christian Her
aid. Of New York, on account of the
Japanese famine fund. This makes
the total contribution from that pub
LEGATION up to date 100000.
August Buhr and A. G. Seebert, EN-
ployes, were cremated in an explosion
at the gas works in Cedar Falls, Ia.
while third man is missing.
The giving of political contributions
from the funds of life insurance
company by the officers of such a
company does not constitute larceny
or any other crime, in the opinion OF
District Attorney Jerome, submitted
to Justice O'Sullivan in the court OF
general sessions in New York.
According to the London Daily Tele.
graphs correspondent at Toxic, it is
now estimated that several thousand
persons were killed by the recent
earthquake in Formosa.
In the Atlantic storm of March 19
and 20 at least a dozen vessels were
wrecked or damaged and six lives lost
off the coast of MASSACHUSETTS,.
A collision between two passenger
trains near Florence, COL, in which
20 and probably IS persons were
killed and more than 30 injured, was
caused by a telegraph operator, who,
| worn out by sc hours of constant
| work at the key. fell asleep.
The GOODNESS of teachers resulted in
saving $50 pupils from a burning
building at Haverhill, Mass.