Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-14
The Ohio. house passed the Yost hlil..

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The Ohio. house passed the Yost MI,
|appropriating &60. 900 for participation
i'm the jamestown (Va.) ter-centennial.
Fire broke out in the business !. dis.
! trict Of 1ronton, Mo-, resulting in the
death of William. Christ, the destruc-
|tion of four buildings and a property
loss of $4,000. -.
Maj. George H.. Hopkins. former de-
Ipartment commander of the G. A. r.,
department of Michigan, died at his
home IL" Detroit, following stroke Ut
paralysis. - -
The Ohio house, by vote of 80 to s,
passed the bill introduced by Mr..
;Werts, Of Wayne county, creating q
railroad rate commission. s<~>'
The arrest of several members of ths
Peoria, ILL.,, school board, under who's,
administration Newton G. Dougherty
stole nearly million dollars, is dc.
manded by residents Of the city, who
have instituted proceedings to GUST tho
board. Co.:
A Russian woman hid a bomb in he.
hair and attempted to assassinate Vice
Admiral Doubasoff at Moscow, but her
ruse was discovered and she was ar
rested.
The claim of Senator Clark Of Mon
tana to 11,400 acres of public lands in
that state, alleged to have been fra,ldu.
lently obtained, 80 Of the patentees
now being under Indictment, is upheld
by the supreme court of the United
States.
H. H. Rogers, according to Wall
street report, has made successful
campaign in Coppers against Heinzc,
whose losses are estimated at from
$11,00O,OO0 to $25,OOO,Oo0.
ThesUnited States Steel corporation
is said to have arranged for a merger
of Great Northern ore lands, Republic,
Tennessee, Colorado Fuel and othe:
steel, iron and coal properties. The
deal involves $1,242,313,OOO.
The Chicago city council, by vote
of 40 to %, passed the ordinance for a
$1,000 saloon license, and Mayor Dunno
announces he will sign the measure.
Democrats carried Muscatine, a., in
the mayoralty election, their candidate.
Joseph Asthalter, defeating r. S. Nc
Mutt, his Republican opponent Re-
publicans were victorious at Cedar
Rapids.
Twenty men and four women were
arrested in Sioux Falls, S. D., on suspi
cion of implication in the death of a
farmer
Announcement is made Of the organ
ization of the Toledo, Fort Wayne &
indianapolis Railroad company to
build line from Toledo to Indianap
oils.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran
was installed as grand sachem of the
Tammany society in place of Supreme
Court Justice O'Gorman, who resigned
recently.
Fourteen bills regulating insurance
companies doing business in Ohio
were introduced in the house of repre-.
sentatives of that state.
Emil Fugine, aged IS, a wealthy
merchant, was burned to death at Ar
cadia, Wis, III the sight of number
of customers, his clothing catching
fire from stove near which he stood.
Sovereign Commander Root, Of the
Woodmen of the World, announces
that the headquarters of the order will
be removed from Omaha because the
state of Nebraska proposes to tax the
reserve funds Of the order.
Mrs. H. E. Jones, of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, died on board a special train en-
route home from Havana, where she
had been for several weeks. Mrs.
Jones was a literary woman of con-
siderable note.
The trial of David E. Sherrick, for
mer auditor of state of Indiana, who is
charged in II indictments with grand
larceny and the embezzlement Of
$145,0O0 of the state funds, began in
the Marion county criminal court at
Indianapolis.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Grand Opera house and did $685.
900 damage to the Observatory build
ing in Des Moines, la. The total loss
will aggregate $4,000.
James Stephen Hogg. who as COVER
nor of Texas waged war against the
trusts and put down the lawless ele-
ments of the state, died suddenly il
Houston.
At the village of Fucecchio, % miles
west of Florence, Italy, house where
a dance was in progress took fire. In
the panic among the guests which en-
sued the floor gave way and 16 persons
persisted.
Disastrous prairie fires have swept
the extreme western section Of the
Texas Panhandle, entailing loss up
to the present time of upwards of ST.
O00, 900. 1t is estimated that SOC, 900
acres of land have been burned over.
Many hundreds of head of cattle per-
ished.
The dead in the Meridian, Miss,
storm and fire are now estimated at "a
and the injured at 46. The property
damage is more than $1,250,00
King Edward was greeted warmly in
Paris, being cheered by crowds, and
entertained President Fallieres and
Premier Rouvier at dinner.
A great chance for American COM
merce in Manchuria as result of Rus
sian development is predicted in state
department. report.
The village of Tayernoia, Italy. was
swallowed up by Lake Iseo.
The Daughters OF the American Rev.
olution have started a movement to
mark the graves, of the heroes of the
revolutionary war