Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-23

j Fourteen men were hurt, three 81
them fatally, ii: the National Tub.
works at BenWood, w. Va. The per
were working on . scaffold which col
lapsed under, the weight Of a huge cast
ing .5.5 IS s:55 RAJ
A strong association has been formed
at Osaka for the purpose Of supplying
the markets Of Manchuria with cotton
goods, which constitute te most impor.
tant item of trade with that country.
The M. E. general conference l. al
Birmingham, Ala, elected the follow.
ing new bishops: DR.. Seth. Ward, as,
sistant missionary of the M. E. church >;
DR.. John Tigert, book editor; DR..
James Atkins. Sunday school editor.
To about rs officers and members Of
the merchant marine league, who
called upon him, the president ex.
pressed himself as heartily in favor OF
the ship subsidy bill now pending in
the house. - IS. i. ] ;:ss, Xii .s>
The.last imperial garrison in Can
ada, that of E;squimalt, which has been
replaced by Canadian troops in accord
ance with the recent decision of Can.
ada to take over her own defenses from
Great Britain, left for England.
Louis Jungbauer, the young bank
clerk who pleaded guilty to having en-
bezzled funds OF the State Savings
banks of St.; Paul, was sentenced to
the state reformatory in st. Cloud.
Beside the dead body of her father,
Mrs. Anna Sheehy, of Cincinnati, not
withstanding the strenuous efforts of
her husband to prevent her, drank car
bolic acid, and. died before help could
be secured. -"
The big steel companies have booked
an aggregate of 100000 tons of steel
rails for delivery in 1907.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Boone
Cereal company, at Boone, Ia.,, owned
by Fred Frear & Co., of New York
city. The loss is 100000. Insurance,
| $43,250. Dan Weston, an employee, was
| injured.
Michael Davitt, the Irish leader who
| was twice operated on for blood poi
soning, Is reported better.
That the oil report of Commissioner
Garfield and the accompanying mes
sage to congress by President Roose-
welt are inaccurate and unfair is the
burden of long statement issued to
its shareholders by the Standard Oil
company. The company denies that it
profits by secret rebate agreements with
railroads and lays special stress on the
competition which 1t declares it is
forced to meet in every section of the
United States.
The Illinois house, by a vote of II to
So, adopted the conference committee
report on the Shurtleff bill. The SEN
ate passed the conference committee
bill by vote of 81 to IA. The legisla-
ture adjourned after the senate had
passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
payment of the expenses of the ses-
sion.
A sensational charge Of campaign
fund grating was made when Insur-
ance Commissioner Zeno M. Host testi-
fled before the legislative Investigating
commission at Milwaukee that Secre-
tary of State Walter A. Houser had Of
ferde him bride Of $4,000 to render a
decision in favor of the Equitable Life
Assurance society of New York.
Resolutions favoring the erection of
bureaufor the test Of the health and
product of all breeds Of cows, to be
conducted by the department of agri-
culture, was adopted by the American
Guernsey Cattle club, held at New
York.
The national association of man
ayers of newspaper circulation meets
at Louisville June S. 6 and z.
Elbridge G. Jordan, of Eau Claire,
who was on the United States gunboat
Pontiac during the civil war, has been
allowed $16.49 as his share of prize
money for the capture of a confederate
g,lnboat on the Savannah river in
1865.
The Carnegie hero fund commission
made rs awards, including $10,50O dis
tributed to the several benefciaries.
Miss Lucy Ernst, of Philadelphia, was
awarded silver medal for saving the
life Of Harry Schoenhut, Is years old
when he was bitten by a rattlesnake
Miss Ernst applied her lips to the
wound and sucked away the poison.
Fever sores on her lip made her act
particularly heroic and dangerous.
William Todd, of Nookmis. ILL.,, a
prominent attorney of Montgomery
county, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
The Wisconsin Democratic state con-
ventton. for the adoption of a platform
of principles will be held in Milwau-
kee June ~ and %.
The Cuban senate passed the house
bill amnestying all who have engaged
in revolutionary attempts, but amend
| ing it so as to exclude participants in
the Cienfeugos trouble of September
%, 1905, and the Guanbacoa outrage of
February "a, 1906. ~-......
At Hennebont, France, striking
smiths ignited the outhouses at the
residence of factory manager where
detachment Of troops was billeted,
and also cut down a number of tele-
graph poles. -. s.-.
Fire at Monument Beach, Mass,
burned IA cottages and the passenger
station of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford; railroad. The loss is $780,
900. r.
While the torpedo boat Vesuvius was