Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-30

discharging the negro soldiers impli-
Gated in the Brownsville, Texas, at
fair.
Fire in Viroqua, Wis, destroyed the
Vernon county bank and the buildings
occupied by the Bell and the La
Crosse and Interurban Telephone
companies.
The house of representatives of
South Dakota passed an anti-lobbying
bill, making it unlawful for persons
interested in legislation to approach
members except through the regularly
organized committees.
The 200 Japanese immigrants who
arrived at San Francisco on the
steamer Alameda, and whose landing
was not allowed by the immigration
commissioner, were permitted to land
later on instructions from Washing
ton
A maid in the service of Queen
Olga of Greece has been arrested
charged with the theft of diamonds
valued at $4,000 from ornaments be-
longing to her majesty. The maid
substituted paste limitations for the
real stones.
The Red Cross sent by cable draft
the sum of $4,000 to the American
consul general, Rogers, at Shanghai
for the relief of the Chinese famine
sufferers.
Ferocious wolves are causing panic
and havoc in the north provinces of
Spain. The heavy fall of snow has
driven the animals into the plains,
where they have attacked flocks and
devoured a man and child.
The Kansas legislature in joint ses-
sion ratified the election of Charles
Curtis as United States senator for
the long term, also for the unexpired
term OF ex-senator Joseph r. Burton.
Porter county, Indiana, grand jury
and the state railroad commission are
probing the wrecks at Woodville,
Fowler and Sanford, which cost in the
aggregate nearly 100 lives.
Three serious fires in Richmond,
Va, did damage aggregating 100000
The armory of the Richmond Blues,
the second oldest military company in
the United States, was destroyed.
Mrs. Narcissa Nance Kendrick,
aged 60 years, niece Of President
James K. Polk, is dead at Uniontown,
Pa.
The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White began in
New York Wednesday.
All grades of fine writing paper are
to be increased ten per cent in price,
according to adviecs from Holyoke,
Mass.
Joseph w. Bailey was reelected
United States senator from Texas by
a vote, in both houses of the legisla-
ture, of 108 to As; necessary to a
choice, SO.
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom was given
the majority vote of both branches of
the Illinois legislature.
Capt. Thomas Peabody, who COM
manded the transport Sheridan when
it ran on a reef off Hawaii last sum-
mer, has been suspended for six
Senator Giuseppe saracco, formerly
premier of Italy and minister of the
is dead at Bistagne. He was
IS years old.
AS result of a revival the entire
male population of Port Republic, N.
j., has "sworn off" smoking.
The vault of bank at Crittenden,
KY, was blown opeen, but the robbers
took only $500, leaving $4,000.
The United Mine Workers of Ameri.
ca reelected President Mitchell and
all the other officers.
The main buildings of the del part
ment of communications, Tokyo, ia.
pan, were burned down, involving a
loss estimated at 100000.
The volcano Of Asama-Yama, in the
island of Hondo, Japan, has been in
active eruption since last Friday.
Jeffersonville, Ind, was thrown into
mad panic by false report that the
waters of the Ohio river had broken
through the Pennsylvania railway
roadbed and were flooding the town.
DR.. H. w. Haslett, of Grand View,
ILL.,, one of the injured in the Stand
ford, Ind, explosion, died at Terre
Haute.
Fire In Richmond, starting in the
building occupied by the Blues armory
threatened the chamber Of commerce
and other fine structures.
The steamer Alameda arrived at
San Francisco from Honolulu with
about 200 Japanese laborers aboard.
They were refused landing by Immi-
grafton Commissioner North, under in
from Washington.
The Cuban steamer Atlantico ran
aground near Porto Padre and was a
total wreck.
The tidal wave in the Dutch East
Indies engulfed the island of Simalu,
drowning 1900 persons.
Gen. Luke E. Wright, American am
bassador to Japan, has made known to
his friends that he will retire from the
diplomatic service next August and
will return to his home in Memphis,
Tenn, to resume the practice of law.
Gov. Deneen appointed B. A. Eek
hart, of Chicago, and J. A. Willoughby,
Of Belleville, members of the Illinois
and warehouse commission.
The cold wave in Europe that caused
intense suffering reached England.
The mutilated body of William Hes
ton was found hanging in cabin near
South Bend, Ind.
Severe earthquake shocks were re-
ported from Alexandrovsk, the port of
Sakhalin and Elizabethpol.
An appropriation of $2.6OO,OOO will
be asked from the legislature by the