Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21

Christian Herald of New York $4,000
for the relief Of the famine stricken
Japanese as the result of the appeal
issued by President Roosevelt.
Sir Francis C.. Burnand has resigned
the editorship of London Punch. Bur-
nand has been associated with that
periodical for a. years and edited it
for a quarter of a century. He will be
succeeded by Owen Seaman.
Two persons were burned to death,
another died from over-exertion and
excitement in trying. to save victims,
and five others were injured in rail-
way wreck at Columbus. Kan.
Rev. John N. Mccormick, rector Of
st. Marks Episcopal church of Grand
Rapids, Mich, was consecrated coad-
jutor bishop of the Episcopal diocese
Of western Michigan, the first in the
history Of the diocese.
John A. Mccall, ex-president of the
New York Life Insurance company, is
very low, the last rites of the Catholic
church having been administered.
F. Augustus Heinze has sold his
great Montana copper interests to
Amalgamated, receiving $25,000,000 In
money and stock. Seven years. legal
war between Heinze and the Amalga-:
mated, involving $400,000,000, is thus
ended.
Chicago cigar manufacturers protest
against the contemplated reduction of
the duty on tobacco from the Philip
pine islands.
Persia's reform movement pro-
crosses rapidly and shows trend to-
ward constitutionalism.
Venezuela's answer to France de-
clares Castro is right in his acts, but
offers to submit to arbitration.
Count and Countess Castellane, after
adjusting financial matters, may agree
on mutual separation.
A group Of New York men plan
theater similar to national houses in
Europe, to foster and develop dramat-
ic art.
The war department has taken steps
to mobilize troops at Manila to be
used in China in case of an emergency.
After ten years of litigation George
J. Carney, of Boston, was awarded
1850 at Cambridge, Mass, in a suit
to recover $22,316 for services as finan-
cial agent to the late General Benja-
min F. Butler.
In a railway collision near Maurice
Station, KY, Engineer Peter Murphy
and Fireman Joseph Stout were killed
and five persons were injured.
Sheriff Anton Nielsen, of st. Paul,
Minn., faces loss of his job for violat-
ing the law in permitting a newspaper
man to witness the hanging of Will
liam Williams.
J. F. Wenslick, formerly of Chicago,
committed suicide in a lonely cabin
near Lincoln, Mont, his body being
found hanging to rafter.
Attorney General Hadley, Of Mis-.
souri,, announced at the close of a
hearing in Iowa that the Standard Oil
company will be ousted from Missouri.
The Ohio house defeated bill to
give women the right to vote at local
option elections by a vote Of IS to so.
Fire caused by the end of a broken
electric wire dropping in a pot of var.
nish damaged the Colorado & Southern
railroad shops in Denver. Col, to the
amount of 100000. Eight shopmen
and firemen sustained burns.
Julius Marquesee, Of New York city,
has purchased at Janesville Wis, q
100 cases Of the 1904 tobacco crop. The
deal is estimated at $4,000.
William H. Phillips, past grand mas
ter of the Michigan Masonic grand
lodge, dropped dead in Menominee,
Mich. The cause of death was heart
disease.
The new British parliament began
it's sessions. James William Lowther,
formerly speaker, was reelected unani-
although he is a conservative,
while the majority of the house is lib
eral, in conformity with the custom
which makes the speakership a non.
partisan position.
The annual convention of the Lin
coin League of Indiana, in session at
Marion, adopted resolutions advocating
the nomination of Vice President
Charles w. Fairbanks as the Repub-
lican candidate for president in 1908.
Mary E. Holmes, founder of the
Mary E. Holmes seminary at West
Point, Miss, an industrial school for
colored girls, and prominent as
scientist, died at her home in Fock-
ford, Ill.
Senator La Toilette has declined the
extended by Thomas w.
Lawson to become member of the
committee to vote the proxies of a
of policyholders of two Of the
life insurance companies of New York
at their meetings this year.
The Iowa senate passed unanimous
ly the new Berry pure food measure,
a drastic bill prohibiting commerce in
foods. -. 800
Resolutions directing an inquiry into
the ownership of coal mines by rail-
roads and the allegations of COM
bination in restraint of, trade have
been passed by the United States SEN
ate and both branches Of the Pennsyl.
vania legislature. !:
The state encampment of the Wis
consin Grand Army will be held In
Marinette on June IL and 13. D.,
Delegates appointed by the govern.
ors Of AZ states will assemble in Wash
ington next week to further the move:
ment for uniform divorce laws. -:
A Pennsylvania passenger train
crashed into q trolley car at One Hun.
dred and Eighth street, Chicago. crush