Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-29

Pleading guilty to rebating on coffee
shipments. the Rock Island railroad
paid = fne Of $4,000 In New York
city. :3=1 Ess. IS y
Complaint is filed by Minnesota
merchants that the Standard Oil ig-
nores the recent law passed by the
state legislature. =
The Thomas House, the leading
hotel at Fairbury, ILL.,, burned to the
ing the loss over 100000.
superman, owned by James r.
Keene, proves an easy winner of the
$4,000 Brooklyn handicap at Grave
send.
The Montreal longshoremen's strike
was settled on the terms of the steam
ship companies.
Rev. Franklin E. E. Hamilton, aged
Al years, pastor the Temple Street
Methodist church, Boston, has been
elected chancellor of the American
university at Washington.
Ensign Alfred T. Brisbin, Of the
navy, who was to have been court
martialed as result of the difficulty
at Santiago, Cuba, between local po-
lice and sailors of the Tacoma, shot
himself through the lung there.
The twentieth annual convention of
the American Federation of Musicians
opened at Cleveland, O., with 1870 del
egates present. President Joseph
Weber, of Cincinnati, declared against
European musicians and the competi-
ton of army bands.
The Presbyterian general assembly,
in session at Columbus, O., after a
lively debate, adopted report favor
ing changes in church government
through the establishment of execu-
tive commissions.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York city, proposes an investigation
of alleged police connection with the
Howard Gould case.
w. E. Corey and his Bride reached
Plymouth, England, after remaining
secluded during the voyage across the
Atlantic.
The law reducing the price of gas
from one dollar to 80 cents is unfair,
as the companies are not earning ex-
cessive profits, and the reduction
would be confiscatory, special master
ruled in the New York city case. The
city probably will appeal to the United
States supreme court.
The Brotherhood Welfare associa-
ton entertained 120 real tramps at a
real banquet in q first-class hotel in
Chicago.
Mayor Busse accepted the resigna-
lions of five school trustees and re-
moved seven others, thus leaving Chi
cago practically without a board of
education.
Mayor Schmitz, OF San Francisco,
alleged that Rudolph Spreckels and
his associates hope to make millions
from the graft inquiry, which they
are backing, and asked for a change
in trial judges.
Strike mobs continued to damage
street cars and attacked the crews in
Evansville, Ind, and the company Of
ficials prey AIRED to ask for troops.
Gun fighters, alleged agents of
mine owners, declared to be seeking
to provoke street fights with witnesses
for Haywood.
Gen. Kuroki visited THE tomb of
Gen. Grant in New York and placed
laurel wreath upon it.
Jailer Whitman frustrated Jail de-
livery in Chicago in which Murderer
Charles Hansen planned to use nitro
glycerin. ..~-
Gen. Sherman M. Bell declared
trial of Haywood at Boise was "a
farce, unfair, and un-American."
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
OF corporations, reported to the presi-
dent that the Standard Oil company,
by accepting rebates and evading the
law with its pipe lines, has throttled
competition until it has gained a
practical monopoly Of the industry.
Junius B. Darby, Chicago elevated
motorman. was shot and probably ia
tally wounded by Mrs. Helga Ander.
son-Waskow, whom he had Tilted.
The army and navy union has adopt
ed resolutions favoring the re-estab-
lishment of the army canteen, OF post
exchange.
Miss Marian Maddux died at St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, from eating strawberries
which had been chemically treated to
ripen them.
Joseph H. Berry, one of Detroit's
leading capitalists and a we'll known
varnish manufacturer, died at his res
idence at Crosse Pointe, Mich. He was
68 years old.
The proprietor of a London west
end music hall has just received from
Evelyn Thaw prompt rejection of
his offer of an engagement at week
ly salary of three figures.
Special prayers for rain have been
ordered in almost all the districts of
Roumania in consequence of the alb
normally prolonged drought. The har-
vest prospects are most discouraging,
and widespread anxiety prevails.
After three hours deliberation
jury at. Council Bluffs. Iowa, returned
verdict of not guilty in the case of
Pat Grove, charged with holding up
and robbing two street cars nearly
two years ago. Grove was Immediate
ly set at liberty.
When the Anchor liner Astoria lust
arrived at New York from Glasgow,
was about 1000 miles east of Sandy
Hook she passed through field of
over 20 icebergs. The bergs were all
medium-sized and were scattered
over wide area.