Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-11-10
GENERAL NOTES.

The deep waterway convention at
New Orleans adopted set Of fiery
resolutions making the project ma
tional political issue. They demand
that definite and vigorous policy Of
waterway improvement be put in
operation by federal government at
once. A committee will go to Wash.
ington when congress convenes to
present the resolutions to that body.
Bold plot among county jail prison
ers at Chicago to kill the guards and
hberate those confined therein was
frustrated through 'trusty" inform
ing the jailer just before the hour the
attack was to be made.
The Japanese general. Okubo, and
his chief of star held a meeting to
consider means for the suppression Of
the unrest which has swept over
Korea since the assassination Of
Prince Ito. The mailed fist will pre-.
vail, dispite the promises of lenity.
The entire police force of Gary,
Ind, was arrested on orders by Gov.
Marshall by the sheriff of Lake coun.
ty and the National Guard company at
South Bend were ordered to hold
themselves in readiness to move on
Gary In case of election riots.
Herman c. Baehr (Rep.) was elect
ed mayor of Cleveland over Tom l..
Johnson by about 4,500 plurality.
The Diamond Manufacturers Asso.
citation OF New York is planning to
raise fund to make war on the SNUG.
Cling of gems into the United States.
In 1907 duty was paid on $37,O00,000
worth of precious stones.
In an effort to reach the theatrical
folk with the Gospel. the church and
labor department of the American
Board of Home Missions of the Pres
byterian church has started a move.
ment by which it hopes ultimately to
conduct religious service in many
of the vaudeville theaters of New
York and other cities.
William J. Gaynor (Dem.) was elect.
ed mayor of New York city by a plu-
rality of 70,471 over Otto T. Barnard
(Rep.). His lead over Hearst was
95,321.
The district court of appeals affirmed
the decree of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia adjudging
Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and
John Mitchell, all officials of the
American Federation of Labor, guilty
of contempt of court in the Buck
Stove case. The effect of the de-
cision will be that the defendants will
have to go to prison.
DR.. William J. Dodd, a New York
physician, who left an estate of $780,
BOO, feared he would be buried alive
and in his will requested that his ra-
dial artery be cut before his burial.
The administrator In probating the
will said the artery was cut as re.
Quested.
Believing that the automobile in
which she and her husband were rid
Ing was about to collide with taxi.
cab, Mrs. Mary Blakeley, at Chicago,
leaped from the car and was crushed
to death. She, however, saved her in
FAINT child from injury by tossing it
upon the grass of parkway.
Mayor Pogue of Bemidji, Mimi, and
three other men had a thrilling ex.
perience when freight train struck
the auto in which they were riding.
Pogue and companion were carried
on the pilot Of the engine for some
distance. All were injured, but not
fatally.
The thirty.fifth annual meeting. of
the Southern Illinois Medical associa-
ton was held in East st. Louis.
among the interesting papers being
one on hook-worm in southern Illinois.
Pekin Chinese are attempting to
bring about an anti-Japanese boycott
in Annoy.
The plant Of w. ]. Hughes & Sons
Lumber Company at Louisville. XIV.
was destroyed by fire with a loss Of
$4,000.
The seven-story warehouse of New.
ton & Davidson at Winnipeg. Mani.
toba, was Quilted by fire. The loss
was 100000.