Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22
GENERAL NEWS.

Speaking in support of his resolu-
ton authorizing the president of the
United States to apprehend President
Zelaya of Nicaragua, and bring him to
trial on charge Of the murder of
GrOce and Cannon, the two American
citizens recently executed in Nicara-
gua Senator Rayner of Maryland ad-
dressed the senate at length. His
speech, stirring and denunciatory in
tone and characterized by dramatic
fervor, was an unsparing arraignment
Of President zelaya, whom he desig-
mated as one OF the criminals of the
age.
report on steerage conditions,
based on information obtained by spe-
cial agents of the immigration COM
mission, travelling as steerage passen-
gers on different transatlantic steam
ers. was made public at Washington
through presentation to the senate
with recommendations for legislation
to better conditions. Conditions found
In many of these vessels are de-
scribed as appalling.
Barnett Greenberg, 40 years old,
pawnbroker, was shot and instantly
killed in his place of business, 843
South Halsted street, by highway
man who entered the store on the pre-
tense of wanting to purchase some
jewelry
A telephone message from Dills-
boro, N. c., received at Asheville
states that woman named Belle
Frizzle was killed and her companion,
Cole Bard, seriously wounded by
Elijah Children with shotgun.
With three rOusing meetings, one in
the afternoon to inaugurate total alb
stinence in the army and navy and
two at night, at which prominent men
formers conclave got under way at
Washington.
William Lake of Redwood, O., a
student in the Ohio state university,
and George H. Reed of Bowling Green
we're indicted at Toledo for counter
feiting. They were arrested last
summer while working as bell boys at
manufacturing imitation quarters,
with which they played the slot ma
Chimes
The National Geographic society
will have to receive more proofs of
DR.. Cooks claims to the discovery of
the north pole before it can attempt
any decision as to DR.. Cooks right to
make such claims. This according to
a statement made in Washington by
Prof. James II. Gore, the commission.
er appointed to go to New York to
gather more evidence as to the truth
or falsity of DR.. Cooks story of dis
covery.
David George Mackenzie, son of
Mundo Mackenzie, millionaire cattle
king and one of the largest land own
ers in the west, was shot and killed
at La Beau, S. D. bud" Stephenson,
the slayer, was arrested and is held
in Selby on charge of murder. The
cause of the killing is unknown.
A cry of fire" started when a wom-
an fell downstairs from the balcony
of the Majestic theater at Cleveland
caused panic in the crowded house
President Taft spoke on foreign mis-.
sions before the closing meeting of the
Methodist African jubilee in Carnegie
hall, New York.
The Farmers Hall of Fame at the
University of Illinois was dedicated
and a portrait of Cyrus Mccormick,
inventor of the reaper, was unveiled
by his granddaughter.
The thirty-eighth session of the
State Grange of Illinois was held in
Rockford.
Two women and three children lost
their lives and seven other persons
were seriously injured in tenement
flre at Cincinnati. The fire occurred
in a building which was occupied by
about Q dozen families. 1t was caused
by the upsetting Of kerosene lamp
in hallway on the second door.