Willmar tribune., 1909-10-13
GENERAL NOTES.

The Amalagamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America met in annual convention
at Toronto, Can, about 800 officers
and delegates being present.
Richard Updyke Sherman, second
son of Vice-President Sherman, and
Miss Eleanor Miller, of Utica, N. Y,
were married in Utica. The groom is
professor of mathematics in Hamilton
university.
The celebration of the centennial
anniversary of the incorporation of
st. Louis is in full swing and the
fetes will continue throughout the
week.
DR.. ederick A. c. nnounced at
Washington that he will acquiesce in
the proposition that The University of
Copenhagen be asked to waive its
claim to a prior examination of his
records in order that American tribun-
ais may review them.
News of the probable death by
starvation in the Baffin land of Nor.
rison, one of the crew of the wrecked
Dundee whalter Snowdrop, was
brought to St. Johns, N. F., by Will
fred Grenfells missionary schooner
Lorna Doone.
Frank Brown, E. C. Moore and Rus
sell B. Herman. alleged members of
the group of fake racing events
swindlers of which James c. Maybray
is said to be the chief, were brought
to San Francisco from San Jose,
where they were arrested, and COM
mitted to await acquisitions from
Iowa.
A Spanish force accommodating in
the direction of Sokel Jemis, Moroc-
co, encountered the Moors and met
with serious reverse. Four officers
and IA men were killed ond 1872 men
wounded.
-Four persons were killed and 40 in.
jured in a collision at Parnell, Ill.,. be-.
tween an excursion train from Spring
field state fair and a local carrying
delegates to county Sunday school
convention.
The guilt of John r. Walsh, the for.
mer Chicago banker, was affirmed by
the United States circuit court of an.
peals. Unless higher tribunal in.
tervenes Walsh will have to serve five
years in Fort Leavenworth prison.
Aviator Wilbur Wright announces
he will hereafter direct his efforts to
the commercial exploitation of his
machines and will make no more pub.
lie flights.
Costly war In Morocco is RAPIDLY
precipitating a crisis in Spain, which
may bring about the overthrow of
King Alfonso. Spanish affairs are
causing much uneasiness among the
other powers.
Admiral LIE Pord, in command o1
the French battleships at the Hudson
Fulton celebration in New York. has
made public statement that an en-
sign of the French navy was assault
ed by policeman. who struck him
in the face at one of the elevated
stations.
A Mexican gunboat has seized an
American fishing schooner off Pro
greso. Mexico. and. placed the crew
OF seven in prison.
Thirty miners were killed when
SO men were entombed in a mine
through the explosion of gas near Vic
toria, B. G.
The biennial convention of the Ma
tional German-American alliance was
held in Cincinnati. more than 300 dele
gates attending.
The thirty.second annual meeting
tional German-American alliance was
held in Cincinnati, more than three
hundred delegates attending.
Charles F.. Crane, the new American
minister to China. sailed from San
Francisco to assume his duties.
The celebration Of the centennial
of the American Humane association
opened in st. Paul, Mtnn., with Presi
dent Stillman Of Albany. N. Y. in the
chair.