Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-02-10

the joint committee from the Kansas
house and senate, after consultation
with Gov. Stubs and other admins
tration leaders, will be introduced. 1t
provides a levy of one-twentieth of one
per cent on all bank deposits.
I The alleged carelessness of a negro
porter In putting man in the wrong
berth of sleeping car was the basis
of a $4,000 suit brought in the fed
eral court at New Orleans by Mrs.
Amelia M. Dubourg against the Pull
man Company.
The annual maneuvers of the naval
reserves will be held at Toledo this
summer at the same time that the
maneuvers of the United States army,
department of the great lakes, are
being conducted.
The administration of Thomas F.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers OF America, was supported by
| the delegates to the national conven-
ton in indianapolis. A roll call showed
| 1927 approving and 1854 dissenting.
Secretary Taft inspected the Guile
bra cut and approved the Gatun dam
of the Panama canal.
| The supreme court of the United
States decided against the wall paper
trust In suit filed against Lewis
Weight & Sons, jobbers of Cincinnati.
Jacob F. Gmelich, Republican, was
inaugurated as lieutenant governor of
Missouri, following a recount of the
votes by the legislature.
| A resolution declaring against JAP
anese immigration was introduced in
the Nevada legislature and President
Roosevelt was censured for his stand
on the matter.
In a fire among a fleet of Chinese
| flower boats at least $50 men lost their
lives, being burned or drowned.
The attorney general of Venezuela
has begun preparations to sue former
President Castro for the plot to assas.
sinate Gomez.
Herman Billik is now convict No.
1,139 at the penitentiary in Joliet,
where he is a member of the force
making brooms.
Owners of the steamers Republic
and Florida both began suits for DAM
ages in the court of admiralty at New
York, the White Star line asking
| 100000.
The Turko-Bulgarian deadlock over
the amount of money to be paid be-
| cause of Bulgaria's declaration of indie
! pendence has been settled on a plan
proposed by Russia.
| Failing to give bond, F. r. Melon
| aid, deposed secretary-treasurer of the
| 1llinois-Indiana council, No. 4, 1nterna-
tional Union of Electrical Workers,
went to jail on charge of larceny as
| bailee.
In preparation for the observation of
! the Lincoln centenary at the birth
place of the emancipation, near Hodg-
enville, KY, the cabin in which Lin
| coin was born was removed to the me-
mortal farm.
Without amendment the senate
| passed the house bill making Febru-
airy -, 1909, the one hundredth ami.
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin a legal holiday and recommend
ing it's celebration throughout the
United States.
George Busse, brother of Mayor
Busse of Chicago, who accidentally
shot and killed Mrs. Lucius Tucker
man, was exonerated by the coroner's
jury which investigated the tragedy.
The widow Ut Father John OF Kron.
| stadt, the well-known Russian priest
who died about month ago in St.
Petersburg, has been given a yearly
pension of $4,000.
The supreme court of the United
States denied the application of the
Consolidated Gas Company of New
York for rehearing. The case in
volved the validity of the SO-cent gas
law.
Commissioner of immigration Keefe
issued invitations to more than
score Of labor leaders to meet in
Washington February 10, to discuss
matters pertaining to the welfare of
Americas workingmen.
c. H. Labodie of South Bend, Ind,
has arranged to file suit in behalf of
the Labodie heirs to recover the site
of Walkerville, Canada The suit will
involve $2O,000,000.
In fierce storm on Lake Michigan,
| car ferry No. Is of the Pere Mar
| quette battled for IS hours to reach
Milwaukee, the voyage usually taking
II hours. The crew was nearly
| frozen.
A furious storm of snow. sleet and
rain, accompanied by a wind which in,
| places reached a velocity of IS miles
an hour, held the United States in it's
grasp from the eastern slope of the
| Rockies to Detroit and from the Cana
| dian boundary to southern Texas. The
storm brought with it loss of life. in
juries to many persons, suffering to
live stock, delay to railroad trains, tie
up of street car service, partial paraly
sis of telegraph service, destruction OF
| telephone lines and general damage
and Inconvenience.
President Roosevelt will lay the
cornerstone of the memorial hall to be
erected at Hodgeville, KY, the birth
place of Abraham Lincoln on Febru-
airy IL. Several prominent men are to
deliver addresses.
The relations between President Co.
mez and Vice-President Zayas of Cuba
became seriously strained over the
appointment of man to fill the post
of chief of the secret police.
Friends of G. w. Morse the con-