Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-07

$81 100000 in 1905, as compared will
the previous year, while the value o.
policies surrendered has tripled. !
The prosecution of Joseph Letter
owner of the Zeigler coal mines, or
trial at Benton, ILL.,, charged with vic
lation of the state mining laws on sew
eral different counts. has been post
poned for one year.
An offer Of $125,000 from John D
Rockefeller for a hospital for children
suffering from tuberculosis has been
announced by r. Fulton Cutting, pres
ident of the New York Association fol
Improving the Condition Of the Poor
News Of the breaking Of the terri
BILE drought which for years has para
lyzed the industries Of Australia is
brought by the steamship Ventura
which has just arrived in San Fran
cisco.
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation imposing the rates of du.
ties provided by section Of the Ding
ley act upon imports from Germany
in return for Germany's concession OF
minimum tariff rates on United States
products.
Joseph Wilder, a negro, was con.
victed in st. Louis police court OF
having seized and Rugged two white
girls on the street, and was fined
$1,000, the maximum penalty. He was
unable to pay, and was locked up.
Beatrice Osborn, aged five, was
burned to death and Lizzie Osborn,
aged seven, was fatally burned, dying
later, by the explosion of a can OF
gasoline with which they were play.
ing at Burnett, Ind.
Maj. Cassius e. Gillette has resigned
from the United States army and has
been sworn in as the chief Of the bu-
reau of filtration of Philadelphia.
Under Sheriff John E. Sealy was
shot and killed at Hurley, Wis, by
George Greenwood, a Wisconsin Cen
trail operator, who mistook Sealy for
a burglar. Sealy likewise mistook
Greenwood for q burglar.
The newspaper Vita at Rome denies
that Dowager Margherita of Italy is
going to the United States in the
spring.
Gov. Folk says he will use all the au-
thority of his Office to stop bookmak-
ing in Missouri.
Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Olden
burg was married to Prince Eitel Fred
erick, Emperor Williams second son.
The Mutual Life Insurance company
explaining why it withdrew from Mis-
souri,, says the plan to examine tlsc
company's books was illegal.
The Indiana Republican state con-
vention will be held at Indianapolis
April IL and IL.
The Wisconsin United Commercial
Travellers convention will be held in
La Crosse on June Is and 16.
An explosion Of nitroglycerin at the
Marietta Torpedo company's plant,
Williamson, w. Va, wrecked the stor-
age building and killed a shooter
named Kerr.
The Iowa primary bill was defeated
in the state senate at Des Moines by a
vote OF ~ 10 IL.
Rev. George G. Ware, formerly an
Episcopal rector in South Dakota. was
at Omaha to a year in prison
and fined $1,000 for participation in a
land fraud.
The United battleship Ohio sailed
from Manila to Hongkong. American
troops are preparing for service.
American, British and French gun
boats are on their way to the scene of
the latest massacre.
Railroad officials say that the influx
of immigrants is greater than usual and
that at present there are ships on the
ocean bound for the United States,
which contain 10000 foreigners.
Mardi Gras festivities at New Or
leans were brought to close by the
brilliant ball of Comus, at which Rex
and his queen presided.
Henry Rustin, a well-known elec-
trical engineer, who designed the illum-
nations of the worlds fair at Chicago
and the expositions at Buffalo and
Omaha, died at his home in Florence.
Neb.
Former Premier Balfour vas re-
turned to parliament from a London
district by a large majority over the
liberals.
One man was killed and two over
come by smoke In a fire in a Chicago
rooming house.
President Roosevelt, in an address to
the navy, quotes Admiral Togo's warn
ing to the Japanese on the need Of pre-
paredness for war.
A corporation with a capitalization
OF $50.000,000 is about to be formed by
the Rock Island and Lake Shore rail-
roads with the Reed system of electric
interurban lines to tap all the cities OF
any size in Illinois and Indiana with
a terminal in the La Sale street sta
ton, Chicago.
Five men we're burned, two fatally,
by the explosion of a gasoline lamp In
the corridor of the county Jail at Law
ton, Okla.
B. S. Sledme1l. president of the Ma
tional Purity federation, founded by
the consolidation Of all the purity
organizations in the country, has
called national purity convention to
be held at Chicago October 9, 10 and
II, 1906.
The paper mill Of ]. E. Henry 4
Sons, at Lincoln, N. H., was burned.
The loss is estimated at $15O,O00.
It is said large life insurance COM
panies plan to invest $1,000, 000, 900 in
the west.
A member of parliament introduced