Willmar tribune., 1909-11-17


A young woman and q man are
near death as the result Of an auto
mobile accident on Long Island and
their identity is concealed. The num-
Der on the wrecked car is that of an
automobile owned by Rodman Wana.
maker.
Mrs. Jeanette Ford.Stewart, ac-
cused by c. L. Warriner, the default
ing Cincinnati treasurer of the Big
Four Railroad Company, denies that
she shared in his peculations by
blackmailing him, and declares she
will tell the whole story in court.
She says her tale will disclose some
sensational facts.
President Taft, in q speech at
Richmond, Va, outlined his annual
message to congress and put reclaim
tion and irrigation first in Importance.
with antitrust, interstate commerce
and postal savings banks following.
On the eve of final adjustment, the
litigation between the American Sugar
Refining Company and the Pennsyl.
vania Refining Company came to
sudden halt at New York when the
United States circuit court granted
restraining order forbidding the com.
promise agreed upon by the two con-
Germs.
A jury at Chicago acquitted Valen.
tine B. Caugh of the killing Of John
A. Sjosladt. who died following
blow struck by Caugh in defense of
several girls. In their verdict the
jurymen lauded Caugh for asserting
his manhood.
President Taftsarrived in Washing
ton in splendid spirits from his $4,000
mile journey through the west and
south with 266 speeches to his credit.
Solt pedals and other equipment
for the famous chimes of Trinity
church, New York, now being put in.
are intended to make the chimes play
with feeling"
An aviation meet to last three days
began at Latonia race track. Cinctn'
natl, with aeroplane and dirigible air.
ship contests.
The executive council of the Ameri'
can Federation of Labor, in session at
Toronto, have recommended to the
convention that an appeal be taken
to the United States supreme court
both in the Bucks Stove & Range
Company's Injunction case and In the
contempt proceedings growing out of
1t, which brought sentences to prison
upon Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison.
Sufragettes broke a window with
stones and yelled defiantly in
hall where Sir John Knill, the newly
inaugurated mayor of London, was
about to propose toast to King Ed
ward at banquet in honor of the
monarch's sixty-eighth birthday. which
for time caused a semi-panic among
the guests. Three suffragettes were
arrested.
Prof." Frank L. Hill, the herb"
doctor indicted for manslaughter in
causing the death of Amelia st. Jean
of Woonsocket, has made a confes.
sion retracting his previous plea of
not guilty in the district court at
Taunton, Mass, and pleading guilty.
The dismembered body found in Tiv-
erton. r. l., month ago was that of
the st. Jean girl.
Frank Gotch had no difficulty in
winning his wrestling match from
Giovanni Raicevich, the Italian cham.
pion, at Chicago. The first fall was
obtained in 6:2S, the second in 5:26.
Robert Simpson died at Somerville,
N. j., while under the hypnotic influ-
ence of Prof. Arthur Everton of New
ark. An autopsy showed Simpson
died from aneurism. Everton was ar.
rested.
The shortage of the financial de-
partment of the Big Four railroad
through the defalcation of Charles L.
Warriner, formerly Cincinnati treas.
urer of the road, reaches 100000 and
1t Is believed that figure would be
considerably exceeded.
A loss of $5OO,OO0 was caused by an
electrical storm near Beaumont, Tex,
when lightning struck number of oil
tanks, destroying them by fire.
George w. Foster, the contractor
who built the great lock at Sault Ste.
Marie, died in Cincinnati, aged 70.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Medical association opened in New
Orleans. Pellagra and the hookworm
disease will be among the subjects
discussed.
Trapped in an inferno of exploding
and lava-like celluloid, nine persons
perished in 100000 fire which de.
stroyed the Robert Morrison & Son
comb factory at Brooklyn, N. Y. Many
others were injured in the panic OF
employees and in attempts to save
the injured.
The Kansas board of health has is.
sued decree against the roller towel
and that feature of the country hotel
will have to go in Kansas.
Dies for five-cent piece bearing the
head of George Washington, TO take
the place of the coin now in circula.
tion, have been prepared by engravers
at the mint in Philadelphia. If the
government adopts this coin 1t will be
the first to bear the head of the first
president Of the republic.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided against the com.
plainants in the case of $4,000 Choc.
taw and Chickasaw Indians excluded
from the citizenship rolls by Secretary
E4ifchcock ~ tho inforior dono ~ uoonH