Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-06-20

The national executive committee
of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea ordered per capita assessment of
S cents per. week on the working
membership. -
In behalf Of more than 10000 chill
dren of San Francisco, who are de-
prived Of educational advantages a
school reconstruction committee has
been empowered to receive subscrip-
tons for rebuilding destroyed school
houses.
Orders for private cars to be used
by Independent coal mining companies
were placed with the Pressed Steel Car
company by the Pennsylvania railroad
company and paid for by that corpora
ton, which afterward had settlement
with the coal companies.
That the multi-millionaire should
not be eligible to a seat in the United
States senate was one of the senti-
ments expressed in the address Of Su-
preme Court Justice-Elect William H.
Timlin, of Milwaukee, at the COM
mencement exercises Of Ripon col
lege.
DR.. E. J. Farr, Of Eau Claire, was
elected grand master of the grand
lodge Of Free and Accepted Masons Of
Wisconsin. Spencer M. Marsh, of
Neillsville, was elected deputy grand
master.
The Western Federation of Miners
convention adopted resolution ad-
dressed to Judge Smith, Of Idaho, de-
handing that he release the impris-
oned federation officials at once on
reasonable bail.
Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Cudahy
& Co., and the Nelson Morris Packing
company were found guilty in the
United States district court at Kansas
City Of accepting rebates from the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railway on
export shipments on packing house
products.
The story of an attempt to collect
$4,000 from liigants before the ILL.,
nois supreme court under a promise
that the decision Of the court would be
influenced for the litigant by paying
the money was made public by the
court itself. It looks like the start of
the NEST sensational happenings in, the
history Of Illinois Jurisprudence.
Justice Day, of the United States SUI
preme court at Canton, O., granted a
writ ct appeal and consequently stay
of execution on behalf of Lawyer T.
Patrick of New York.
The house OF representatives, having
under consideration the sundry civil
bill, on motion Of Mr.. Williams, in
creased the appropriation for the
Vicksburg National Military park to
100000.
The jury at Edwardsville, ILL.,, in the
case Of Joseph Nolan, for the killing OF
Fred Haynes and William Sonnet, two
fishermen, returned verdict of guilty.
Nolan was sentenced to 81 years i'm
prisonment.
The trial against five bridge compa-
MES and five of their agents at San
dusky, O., ended with Judge Reed find
ing them guilty and imposing a fine of
$500 in each case. They were jointly
indicted for alleged violation of the
Valentine antitrust law.
The business section of Leclaire, Ia,
was burned. Buildings destroyed in
clude the hotel, the Knights of Pythias
hall and several stores. Loss, s115, 900.
During balloon ascension at Mon
roe, S. D., Bert Ward, the aeronaut,
fell from the parachute and was In
stantly killed.
The Berwind- White Coal Mining COM
pany Is allowed seven cents a ton by
the railroad company for handling it's
cars on the Harsimus pier. The work
is performed, however, by Pennsylva-
MIA railroad crews witch railroad loco
motives.
Mrs. William Ellis Corey, wife of the
president of the United States Steel
corporation, filed petition in the Sec
ond district court of Nevada at Reno
for an absolute decree of divorce.
The labors of the special grand jury
which has been investigating insurance
abuses at New York bore fruit when
indictments were returned charging
forgery and perjury against DR.. Wal
ter B. Gillette, and forgery and filing
Of false statements against Robert "A.
Granniss, both former vice presidents
Of the Mutual Life Insurance company.
A spark from a passing locomotive
set fire to the warehouse of the Waters
Pierce Oil company; at Springfield Mo-,
which was burned with a loss esti
mated at $4,000.
E. r. Townsend, former city editor
of the Iowa City Republican, shot and
killed himself.
The municipality Of Berlin has de-
cided to build crematory for con-
demned> meat, at cost Of about $780,
900.
A formal decree was entered by Unit
ed States Circuit Court Judge w. H.
Seaman in the so-called rebate case,
instituted by the government. The de-
cree restraints and perpetually enjoins
the Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit
company and representatives from in
any way soliciting, accepting or receiv-
ing, and the defendant railroad COM
panies from paying or giving any re-
bates CT concessions whatever.
Mrs. Moses Kaufman, wife of a
wealthy Sioux Falls brewer, was ar
rested on the charge Of manslaughter
in connection with the death Of Miss
Agnes Polreis, who was employed as a
domestic in the Kaufman home.
A tornado in Chouteau county,
Mont, has destroyed an immense
| amount of property.