Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-09


John r. Brosseau, custo dian :of TIT
fanny & Co., of New. \ OIL was arrest
ed charged with the theft Of S ,00l
from the company's pay roll of the re
pair department. 5.: ;. " :z=. d
Max Dittrich, a leather worker, who
was arrested at Dresden Saxony,s re:
Gently on the suspicion Of murder, has
confessed that he had killed eight
persons in the course of seven years.
T. A farewell reception and banquet
was given at Bluffton, Ind, to DR.
Walter Newcombe Fowler, who sails
May 10 from New York for Chrisiana
to join the Walter Wellman expedition
to search for the north pole. >|,
The electricians employed by the
Northwestern and Tri-State Telephone
companies. at Minneapolis, have de-
c1ared a strike for higher wages
About 600 men are affected. T.''-
Every building Of the dynamite fac
tory, near Vinterviken, Sweden, be.
longing to the Nitroglycerin company
was destroyed, and four men were
killed by an explosion. the cause OF
which is not known. 49, 49, -.
The Olympic games committee pub.
lished a full list of the winners. The
Americans took II f1rsts,. six seconds
and five thirds out of 20 events, in
many of which, however, the Ameri-
cans did not compete. ~"s:" -. T..
The committee of the international
postal convention in session at Rome
has rejected the proposal for the estab
lishment of universal two.cents post
age rate.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana, il
an authorized statement says he will
not be candidate for reelection tc
the senate.
After denouncing the government
crop reports, and especially the reports
of the department of. agriculture, the
international cotton conference ad
journed.
Harvey M. Hutchinson, for eight
years mail clerk at the Peoria, ILL.,,
post Office, confessed to a shortage OF
1885.
Rev. Thomas Sherman, son of the
famous Gen. William Tecumseh Sher-
man, and a Roman Catholic priest, set
out from Ckicka1nauga to follow the
route of his fathers famous march to
Atlanta. Announcement of his plan
aroused bitter memories among the
people of the south, and the complaints
caused President Roosevelt to call the
expedition to a halt.
Two thousand iron molders and
coremakers struck In Chicago and
many OF the employers granted the
demand for more wages.
Lake commerce is at a standstill at
Chicago, no effort having been made
to fill places of strikers.
In vain effort to rescue her baby
from drowning, Mrs. Jennie Scheid-
ner. of New York, plunged into the
East river and persisted.
1t is reported that Lyman J.. Gage,
former secretary of the treasury, who
recently resigned a high-salaried pc.
sition as president of a New York
trust company, has not only bought
land near Point Iona, Cal, but has
decided to join forces with Nme
Katherine Tingley in the cause Of
theosophy.
Sir Henry Elzear Tascherau, chic.
justice of Canada, has rendered his
resignation from the supreme court
and it has been accepted by the gov
eminent. "." ~: q IT, ="
At Woodbine, a., during a rain and
thunder storm lightning struck a hand
car o. the North western. Fred Ulmer
was Instantly killed and four others
were badly shocked. 49,,
Israel c. Russell, head of the geolog-
lcal department of the University of
Michigan, died in Ann Arbor after
three days. illness of pneumonia.
Mrs. Ann Hughes, who served in the
household Of Queen Victoria for a
number of years, died at the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. C.. A. Cabin, in Mil
She was "a years of age.
Samuel L. Bennett, a banker Of Rob-
[nson, ILL.,, was attacked by Mrs.. Nora
domestic employed in his
house, who inflicted two wounds with
a razor. Mrs. Plunkett accused Ben
nett of misconduct toward her.
Gov. Merrell, of Georgia, granted a
further respite to Rev. J. G. Rawlings
and his two sons to give time for a
1nal appeal to the state prison COM
mission for clemency.
Miss Ethel Clark, the daughter Of
Auditor William Clark, Of
Marion county, Indiana, was awarded
$4,000 damages for breach Of promise
against G. G. Johnson, of Richmond.
AS result of an investigation con.
Quoted under the direction Of State
Insurance Commissioner Charles C..
Gray, the American Reserve Bond
of Kentucky has been de-
barred from doing business in Rhode
Island. =
Were overstocked with Christian
and 80 per cent of those
we have are senseless," said Marayan
Krishna, Brahmin missionary to
America, in speaking at All SoAis
Episcopal church, Kansas City.
Henry c. Rouse, chairman of th%
board Of directors Of the Missouri,
Kansas & Tex: railways, died at
Cleveland of Pneumonia. He repre-
sented John D. Rockefeller in the lat1
ter's railway interests. :
4 strike that will paralyze lake COM
nlerce was begun when the union pr
lots, firemen, water tenders and oilers