Willmar tribune., 1909-12-22


qua, from an authoritative source that
reign of terror is being maintained
IN Managua and that not less than
900 persons, identified with political
ana1rs. are in chains in the prisons.
A Catholic society has been ordered
to cease sending food to the prisoners,
and these are in fair way to starve
to death. as they are allowed only two
cents a day for food.
Extension of American citizenship
to Porto Ricans for those who desire,
and without forcing it upon those who
do not; is recommended for Porto
Ricans by Gen. Clarence R. Edwards.
chief Of the bureau of insular affairs,
In his annual report to the secretary
Of war.
The big plant of the Racine (Wis.)
Manufacturing Company, manufacture.
ers of automobile tops and piano
stools. the Dania Brotherhood hall,
the Mitchell wagon works and sew
eral residences, were destroyed by
nre, entailing loss estimated at
$650,000. All but $4,000 OF this is
borne by the Racine Manufacturing
Company's plant.
One of the important recommends
t1ons made in the annual report of the
secretary of commerce and labor is
for newer and tighter laws, with an
appropriation of $4,000 to enable the
stamping out the white slave trade
which Secretary Nagel says is an or
ganlzed and extensive business.
With her flag at half-mast, the state
fisheries boat Commodore Perry,
Capt. Gerry Driscoll commanding,
brought to Erie, Pa, the dead and
frozen bodies of nine of the crew of
the Bessemer and Marquette ferry,
No. 2, which left Conneaut, O., Tues
day morning, carrying 30 men, and
which probably foundered in the mid
die of Lake Erie.
Dlsobedience of orders on the part
OF an engineer cost the lives of two
immigrants, resulted in the serious
injury OF score of persons, and
caused damages amounting to over
SzOO,OOO when the north-bound Mil.
Waukee limited on the Chicago G.
northwestern railroad, running over
1orty-1ve miles an hour, plunged over
an embankment at Chicago. The
train struck defective switch and
was thrown of the rails.
julius Gillemo, a Swiss, while riding
on west-bound train near Reno. New,
became suddenly insane and made q
headlong plunge through a window
while the train was gonig 40 miles an
hour.
Three men died of suffocation and
IL others were overcome and rescued
with difficulty as a result of an acct
dent at mine of the Shoemaker Min.
ing Company, near Johnstown, Pa.
John Duley, SO years old, formerly
president of the National State bank
of Maysville, KY, committed suicide
in boarding house at Lexington, by
shooting himself through the head
and heart
Estill county remains dry" as re
suit of local option election held In
k@ntucky. Every precinct in the
county voted against a return to sa-
looms, which were abolished by an
election held three years ago.
Steve Moskier, giving his residence
as Chicago, was arraigned at Pontiac,
charged with burglarizing the post Of
t1ce at Ancona, ILL.,, on the night of
December 9. Thirty dollars worth of
stamps were found on his person.
More than 5000 banks with an ex.
cess of 25,oo0,ooo deposit accounts,
capital aggregating 1855, 1897 1853 and
individual deposits of more than $14,-
OOO,O00,000 are the stupendous figures
revealing the vast extent of the bank
ing business of the United States as
shown in the annual report for the
year ending October 81, of Lawrence
o. Murray, comptroller of the cur
rency. laid before congress. The ag-
gregate deposits on April % last were
about s14,425,523,165.
Inquiry by the coroner's jury into
the causes of the St. Paul mine dis.
aster at Cherry, Ill.,, came to an alb
rupt close without verdict being
reached or any steps being made to
fix the responsibility for the attending
loss OF life. The jurors refused to con-
slider the finding of verdict until two
missing witnesses were produced.
CONSERVATION reigned in D. A. r.
circles at Washington when the
Daughters learned that Miss Sarah B.
MacLay. one of the most prominent
and respected members of the organi-
zation, for II years curator of the so
c1ety, had confessed that for years
past she has been systematically rob.
bing the mail of the organization. The
amount of Miss MacLaay's peculations
is not known and is estimated at from
$1,000 to $4,000.
To avoid arrest after holding his
family in terror, O. E. Boley shot and
killed Sheriff Jacob Bell at Shreve, O.
Secretary Wilson intends by means
OF the federal inspection of dairy
herds to make Washington serve as
an example to other cities in the pre-
vention of the sale of infected milk
Thirty-five passengers on a stree,
car were injured, none fatally. and
few seriously, when the car was
struck by an inbound Pennsylvania
passenger train at an indianapolis
street crossing and hurled 30 feet.
George Preston Sheldon, deposed
| nresident of tho phenix Fire Insurance