Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-17

The Chinese minister 1t Washington
has telegraphed his government tina
any satisfactory legislation on the ex
clusion act is improbable.
The general assembly of Virgini.
convened at Richmond. The governor.
message opposes convict labor, recon
mends reorganization of the state
treasury, favors civil service as Il
clerks, and advocates public school ant
road improvement.
The National Negro Business league
of New York city, has been Incorporate
ed to promote the commercial anG
financial development of the negroes Of
the United States.
Formal announcement of the suspen
sion of the firm of Denison, Prior &
Co., investment bankers and brokers
was made on the floor of the Cleveland
stock exchange.
Ben Harris, the negro charged with
the assassination of Ore Polk, at Der.
lngs Mill, Tex, was taken from officers
by mob and lynched at Moscow, Tex
! The Waverly car barns of the United
railways, which company controls all
the street railways of Baltimore, Md,
were almost entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Adam Hauck, Is years, and Christian
Clauser, IS years of age, of Eureka, S.
D., blew out the gas when retiring at q
hotel at Aberdeen, s. D. They were
found dead in the morning.
Postmaster General Cortelyou asks
that his estimate of 8,825, 900 for the
maintenance Of rural free delivery in
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1907, be
reduced to $27,799,000.
Angered at being made scapegoat
for scandals in the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, Richard A. McCurdy,
former president of the company, says
he will reveal the true conditions, and
it. is expected new scandals will be ex-
posed.
Japan is said to be preparing to give
SIS 100000 in rewards for services
during the war with Russia.
James J. Hill declares the govern
ments prosecutions of railroads
charged with rebating are prosecutions.
The Minnesota State Agricultural
society denounced the automobile as
a modern juggernaut. II will urge
the legislature to pass laws to curb
insane speeding
The University of Wisconsin fac
ulty voted to recommend to the COL
lege conference in Chicago the aban-
donment of football for period of two
years.
Entangled heavily in disastrous stock
speculations and, it is believed, fear
ing exposure of his losses, Leland w.
Prior, a member Of the brokerage firm
of Denison, Prior & Co., committed sui
eide in Cleveland.
John H. Converse, of PHILADELPHIA,
has endowed chair of homiletics and
pastoral theology in the Omaha Theo-
logical seminary, Presbyterian
school, with $4,000.
Fire destroyed the stable and yards
OF the Overland Freight and Transfer
company in San Francisco. Twenty
horses, many vehicles and a quantity
Of valuable freight stored in the sheds
were burned. Loss, $15O,000.
By a decision If the United States
court of appeals in Cincinnati the Chi
nese exclusion act was upheld and six
Cinnamon ordered deported.
A role to be played by America in
the Moroccan conference causes great
anxiety throughout Europe.
Mrs. Virginia Troup was found
guilty in Chicago of the murder of her
husband and sentenced to II years in
the penitentiary.
In quarrel over politics, Sheriff w.
J. Thompson, of La Plata county. and
Policeman Jesse Stensel, of Durango,
COL, exchanged dozen shots with re-
volvers, on the main street in that city.
and both were mortally wounded.
Thompson died later.
Near Crane, Mo-, while laborers on
the Missouri Pacific extension to
Springfield were thawing out dynamite.
the explosive caught fire. Two men
were killed.
The governor of Pennsylvania issued
call for an extra session of the legis-
1ature for the purpose of enacting
legislation on number of subjects.
Cow Broward, of Florida, has issued
a death warrant for the execution of
Isaiah E. Cooper, who was convicted in
March, 1908, of the murder of J. Fl.
Bowman, marshal of the town of Pun
ia Gorda, Fla.
The president has announced the an
pointment Of Leopold G. Rothschild to
be collector of customs at Indianapolis,
to succeed Collector Young, the ap-
pointment to be effective February Is.
Both houses Of the Kentucky general
assembly elected Judge T. H. Paynter
United States senator, to succeed J. T..
S. Blackburn.
George H. Thayer, who held the
unique distinction of having been in
the employ Of the Northwestern rail-
road for As years, is dead at his home
in Norwood Park, ILL.,, at the age of GO
years.
Sharp fighting is reported near
Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, and
many are said to have been killed.
The asphalt company's negotiations
with Castro have failed and the Unit
ed States may now take energetic
measures.
The New York personal assessment
for 1905 foots up ,492,o15,B $50, divid-
ed among $4,000 persons. Emile
Grigsby, protoge Of Charles T. Yerkes,
is assessed on 100000.
Mrs. Yerkes has arranged that the