Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
GENERAL NEWS.

That Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford
shot and tried to kill Edgar S. Cooke
Of Chicago at New York several years
ago Is asserted by Prosecutor Henry
Hunt OF Cincinnati, after an investiga-
tion in connection with the Warmer
embeZZlement case.
Being upbraided for the late hours
b, kept, Patrick J. Rafferty, killed his
wife at Brooklyn with a razor Then
he fractured his mother-in-law's skull
with broomstick and cut his own
throat. Both Rafferty, and his mother
in-law are near death.
Secretary Dickinson, in his annual
report, recommends to the president
many sweeping changes and reforms
in the army, including the centraliza-
ton Of troops in forts erected ada
cent to the principal cities of the Uni
ted States, the abolishment of the
Roosevelt physical tests for officers
and governmental control of wireless
telegraphy.
a man. believed to be insane. shot
and seriously wounded Cen. Verand
on the steps of the Hotel Continental,
Paris. just after President Fallieres
had left King Manuel of Portugal upon
whom he had been calling.
1t is officially reported at Bluefieids.
Nicaragua. that President Zelaya is
willing to resign and leave the selec-
ton of his successor to congress. The
proposition is absurd, for the reason
that congress in reality does not exist
and his statement is regarded as
merely another instance OF Central
American diplomacy.
One human being is killed every
hour and one injured every ten min.
utes of the day on American railroads,
according to statement of w. L.
Park, general superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, at
the annual meeting of the New York
and New England Association of Rail.
way Surgeons.
Under a writ of habeas corpus Min.
ME Sprong of Fresno, Cal, recovered
her four-yearold daughter, Ruth, held
by Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Holland for
debt The Holland couple claimed $50
for care of the girl. Judge Church
said the holding of child under lien
or chattel mortgage is not to be con.
sidered in a civilized community.
1t is urged by the post-office depart.
ment at Washington in an official cir.
cular that persons who contemplate
mailing Christmas packages for deliv.
cry in rural communities post them
as early as possible to avoid conges.
ton and delay at post offices supply.
ing carriers on rural routes.
Hearing OF testimony offered by the
respondent in the custer suit of the
attorney general OF Missouri against
the international Harvester Company
OF America was resumed at Jefferson
City, Mo. About fifty witnesses, all
agents CT dealers from the northern
half of the state, were present.
Tribute to the memory of the late
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
was paid by President Taft, Gov
Hughes, former United States Sen
ator Charles Towne and others a,
meeting in New York city under the
auspices of the American-Scandina
Wan society.
When an auto struck a street en-,
squarely in the side in Portland. Ore
Mrs. A. J. Olds of Weiser. Idaho. had
her skull fractured. She is not ex
pected to live.
Coroner MaIm has begun an tnquir,
into the causes OF the St. Paul mint
disaster at Cherry, Ill.
Walter Wellman, in statement
issued at Washington, analyses tn,
claims of Commander Robert r
Peary and DR.. Frederick A. Cook an,
declares that of the former is ..cred
jbie in every particular" but stamn,
that OF Cook as "self.evident an.
deliberate imposition"