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

tempted to render him aid, was shot
and fatally wounded. The black man
was charged with arson.
Alva Coan. aged II. has confessed
that he choked Alexander Hoenig to
death two years ago at Cleveland while
he was attempting to rob his victim.
The National Geographic society at
Washington has accepted Commander
Robert E. Peary's evidence that he
reached the north pole, and presented
him with gold medal for accom-
plishing his achievement.
1t 10 said that Speaker Cannon is
making an effort to purchase the fran.
chise Of the South Bend (Ind.) base.
ball club of the Central league and
then transfer it to Danville. ILL.,, his
home.
According to Deputy Consul General
Hanauer. at Frankfort, Germany,
there will be q heavy influx Of foreign
manufacturers to the United States
and the establishment here Of facto,
ries for the production of many ar.
ticles abroad and marketed in this
country. The new tariff law is de-
clared to be the cause Of this action.
The trial of Nine. Marguerite Stein
he'll for the murder Of her husband
and her step-mother has begun in
Paris. and 1t is declared that before
the case is ended the mystery en-
shrouding the death Of the late Presi-
dent Faure. who is said to have been
stricken in Nine. Steinheil's home,
will be cleared once for all.
A motorman lost control Of street
car at Des Moines, Ia, while 1t was
descending hill at high rate of
speed. and 1t jumped the track, killing
one man and injuring IS other per.
sons. With but possibly one excep-
tion all those hurt will recover.
American army officers who will
compete with English in horseback
riding at Madison Square garden in
New York are Lieut.. Lee, Seventh cav
airy: Lieut.. Eben Swift, Jr., Eleventh
cavalry; Lieut.. J. 8. Martin. Four
teenth cavalry, and Lieut. Mont
gomery, Seventh cavalry, all from
Fort Riley.
Capt. Hagemann of the Kronprinzes-
sin Cecilie, which reached New York,
said the life preserver from the liner
washed ashore on the French coast, a
few days ago was carried overheard
In a storm last May.
Ntnety-three ships. both sail and
steam craft, were built and officially
numbered In October, according to a
statement issued by the bureau of
navigation of the department of com.
merce and labor.
Citrus fruit shipments from south
ern California in the season ended
October 81 aggregated 1901 cars,
showing by far the largest season the
industry has known.
BY plurality estimated at $4,000
Francis J. Heney was repudiated at
the polls in San Francisco as prose.
cutting attorney and Charles NJ. Flick
ert (Rep) was elected in his place.
Mrs. William NARROW and her four
children burned to death near Pitts
burg, Pa, when their home was de-
stroyed by fire. caused through the
overturning Of an oil lamp.
President Taft received Joyous
welcome in Columbus, Miss, when he
went to visit the birthplace of Secre.
tary Of War Dickinson and brother.
the secretary with him.
George Baker, recently appointed
corresponding secretary to Gov. Mar
shall of Indiana, committed suicide at
Goshen, Ind. by poisoning because
young lady refused to marry him.
Owing to weather conditions the
Standardization tests on the Rockland
(Me.) course of the battleship North
Dakota, with the exception of the Del
aware, the largest fighting craft in the
world. was postponed.
An antitoxin administered to Albert
Pierce, snake charmer, after he was
bitten by big "rattler" in New
York museum, saved the mans life.
Arrangements are being made by
the United States with foreign coun-
tries by which diplomatic mail will be
put In special pouches, thus avoid
Ing the individual handling en- route
of ordinary mail.
The 13'cent stamp is to be super
seeded by a 12-cent stamp to cover let
ter postage and the new ten-cent
registry fees. The new stamp will
bear Washington's profile.
AS the result of the act of a deputy
sheriff In invading the local Italian
consulate at Denver to serve a sum-
mons on Consul Rossi, the latter may
complain to the officials at Washing.
ton.
Forty miners were entombed in q
mine near Bargoed, Wales, by an ex-
plosion. Eleven bodies were recov-
cred and the remainder Of those
caught are believed to have been
killed.
Earth shocks in northern California
and southern Oregon, lasting from 10
to rs seconds. were more severe than
any felt In several years previously.
But little damage was done. :
John H. Mackle, former business
man OF Columbus, o., was convicted
by Cincinnati jury of embezzling
$4,000 belonging to his wife's mother.
Sentence was deferred.
The thirty.ninth annual reunion OF
the Society Of the Army OF the Ten.
nessee was held in Columbus. O.. Gen.
James Grant Wilson delivering the
address.
The fourth annual convention OF the