Willmar tribune., 1909-10-06
GENERAL NOTES.

Prof. Jerome H. Raymond assumed
the presidency of the municipality
owned Toledo university, Toledo. O..
and Prof Harry B. Hutchins became
acting president of the University of
Michigan, the resignation of DR.. James
b. Angel going into effect,
President Taft visited the Alaska.
Yukon-Pacitic exposition at Seattle.
Wash, and was the center of interest
for the great crowds at the fair.
In the Long Island automobile
derby, while running IS miles an hour.
6O-horse power machine overturned.
killing Mechanician James Bates and
seriously injuring Driver Herbert
Lytle.
President Taft preached sermon
on amity between the people at the
Mormon tabernacle, Salt Lake City.
TO large audience who cheered him
most enthusiastically.
The south is honoring the memory
OF Admiral Raphael Semmes, the
naval hero of the confederacy, this
being the one hundredth anniversary
OF his birth.
"A romance in the wake of the Louis
lana storm became known. A young
woman OF Leesville, La, lost her
trousseau in the storm, and appeared
at the altar in improvised attire, while
the groom met her bare-footed, with
his garments misfits.
ID. }. Vent, one of the striking train
dispatchers of the Mexican National
railroad, who is now seeking emplov-
ment in the United States, has fallen
heir to 100000 in Scotland.
The SEVENTEEN session of the Rock
River conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church opened in Rockford,
ILL.,, with Bishop Goodsell of New York
presiding
The National League of Veterans
and Sons, organized two years ago to
benefit men who have served in the
regular army or National Guard and
their sons, met in annual session at
Bay City, Mich.
Eight stockmen from Montana were
killed and II other men injured at
Chicago when the Panhandle flyer"
crashed into the rear end of a stock
train in the st. Paul yards.
President Taft, properly clothed, de-
scended 1900 feet into the famous
Leonard copper mine at Butte,
Mont. He expressed himself much de-
lighted with the experience.
One thousand children, terrified by
'Black Hand stories, became panic
stricken in a Jersey City IN. J.)
parochial school when they heard fire.
works exploding on the outside. One
child was fatally injured and 1a
others more or less hurt.
President Taft in a speech at Spo.
kane declared he would ask congress
to authorize the issuance of $1O,OOO..
600 in bonds to complete irrigation
projects already begun.
United States District Attorney
Sims has unearthed evidence that
white slave traffickers are operating
again on large scale in Chicago,
Raids and prosecutions are probable.
Wilbur Wright successfully circled
the statue of Liberty, New York har.
Dor, in his heavier-than-air aeroplane,
The meeting between Presidents
Taft and Diaz will be strictly inter.
national affair, according to the official
program just issued.
w. J. Bryan and Senator Bailey Of
Texas will hold joint debate on the
tariff at Atlanta some time In DC.
tober.
Grand jury at Chicago will INQUIRE
into the reports that men having evi.
dence in the jury scandal case were
being tampered with.
Members of Russian sect engaged
in revolving ceremony at Los An.
geles when they danced around the
nude body of a: girl on an "altar."
Harry Whitney, the important wit.
ness to DR.. Cooks claim that he dis.
covered the north pole. is hurryine
to New York from Labrador. Whit.
ney has telegraphed that Peary would
not permit anything belonging In
Cook to be placed aboard the steamer
Roosevelt.