Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-03-20
"a continuation Of disorde rs. the ssui.

B a continuation Of disorders. the sui.,
pension Of service at three o'clock In
the afternoon after an intermittent
and ineffectual service, and the first
move towards intervention by the
commercial interests sof the city
marked the third day of the street car
strike in Louisville, Ky. ii L ..:- ! &
Mrs: Russell Sage has set aside the
sum of $4,000, 900, to be known as the
Sage foundation and to be devoted to
the improvement of social and living
conditions in the United States. ~ 49,
While insane, Irving r. Peckham,
superintendent :, of the Glenark Knit
ting mills, of Woonsocket, shot and
seriously injured his father. Samuel
O. Peckham, at Auburn, R. l., and
afterwards committed suicide.
A dispatch from Hongkong reports
that the British China squadron has
achieved worlds record in light
quick-firing practice, The cruiser
King Alfred made 20 hits in 80 rounds
from three-pounders and 100 hits in
143 rounds from 12-pOunders.
Election results in Maine were sur
prising, the Republicans regaining con-
troll of Bangor while the Democrats
took Augusta and Belfast, as usual,
and routed the citizens party in Bidde-
ford. Brewer went solidly Republican,
no opposition being offered.
Knoxville, Tenn, by a majority of
nearly 1000 votes, decided that the
saloons must go. Six months time
will be allowed them to close.
President Roosevelt stated that, so
far from granting pardon to former
Senator Burton of Kansas, he would
lengthen his term of Imprisonment if
he could
Col. Henry G. Shaw, IS years old,
former newspaper man, recently con-
nected with the customs house in San
Francisco, is dead. Col. Shaw was a
veteran of the civil war.
William c. Salisbury, who was pi-
oneer judge in Ogle county, Illinois,
died at Legrand, la. He was 81 years
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vania he passed settlement of three
log cabins, now the city of Chicago.
Chief of Police George G. Sheets, Of
Salt Lake City, Utah, charged with
conspiracy to defraud tourists passing
through Salt Lake City, was held by
Judge Whitaker to answer to the
criminal division of the district court.
The lroquois hotel in the Michigan
500 was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 100000. 1t was one of the fin
est hotels in northern Michigan, and
did large tourist business.
Capt. Won Behrens was fatally
wounded in a duel near Berlin with a
parsonage of high rank whose iden.
THY was concealed
A huge icicle fell from the Niagara
gorge cliffs onto a trolley car, killing
the mOtorman.
NJ. Casimir-Perrier, ex-president of
France, died suddenly of embolism of
the heart at his residence in Paris.
Henry Kaatz shot and seriously
wounded his friend, Martin Kunz, at
Fairfax, Mimi, and then killed him.
self
Lawson Emerson, former clerk of
the supreme court of Ohio, was indict-
ed for embezzlement.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois designated
Friday, April &c, as Bird and Arbor
day:
President James J. Hill told Min
nesota legislative committee that he
would be glad to have the government
take the Great Northern railroad off
his hands.
Violence! resulting in injuries more
or less severe TO nearly dozen per.
sons; the feeble and spasmodic opera
ton of less than 100 cars for a few
hours under inadequate and lukewarm
tolice protection, and the development
of an apparently general pro-union
feeling on the part of the general pub.
hc marked the second day of the
strike of the union employees of the
Louisville Railway company.
J. Pierpont Morgan conferred with
President Roosevelt for an hour and
a ndlI I'll lAV ploU1CuAo VI SAC
country President Roosevelt agreed
to the suggestion made by Mr.. Morgan
that he meet to discuss. general rail-
road affairs as affected by the railway
rate law with President McCrea Of
the Pennsylvania system, President
Newman of the New York Central,
President Mellen of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford, President
Hughitt Of the Chicago & Northwest
ern, and probably President Hartman
Of the Hartman lines
M. Petkoff, premier of Bulgaria, was
&ssassinated by a discharged employs
of the Agricultural bank at Sofia.
:, President Roosevelt will sign an
order restoring to the public domain
approximately 30,000,000 acres of land
recently withdrawn as coal lands. ..
A man in Dresden killed five of his
children, his wife and himself because
food was scarce.
William F. Sands, secretary of the
American legation at Panama, resent
ing a slur on Secretary Root, arranged
to fight a duel with NJ. Rosenthal, a
French resident. - :, J (.
The post. office department will not
draw the color line in the matter, of
white and negro mail clerks working
together on the same runs, as the
white clerks of the middle west had
planned to ask. r. -
Bert Curtis was arraigned In New
York, charged with having entered the
Misses Lock:voods' school for girls at
scarsdale, n. Y, and stolen $4,000
worth Of gems r e.: $ i I