Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-16

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called to assist the striking street cal
employees Of the Rapid Transit Com
pany. has to all purposes and intenta
reached the beginning Of its end. az
there were many OBJECTIONS from the
ranks Of the sympathizing strikers as
we'll as from those Of the street cal
men. Four persons were shot by al
legged nonunion men who were bent
upon revenge because a fellow work
man had been stoned by strike sym
pathizers. The men took a car from
the barn in the Kensington district
and, riding wildly down Frankfort av
enue, fired at random into the crowds
on the streets.
Commander Peary has declined tc
submit to congress the proofs of his
discovery of the north pole, on the
ground that by so doing he would vic
late contracts with his publishers.
Fire swept the German battleshir
Posen at Kiel, but through the hero
Ism of the city's f1remen the. vessel
was saved from destruction.
Because the skull of Caleb Cox was
abnormally thin, a Traverse City
(Mlch) court freed Frank Hardy. who
Killed him with blow, merely assess
Ing 500 fine for assault.
Judicial separation of Prime Min.
1ster Herbert Asquith and his wife is
the tavorite topic Of conversation in
London society. The affair is no
longer regarded as a mere rumor. but
mas arrived at the stage where actual
proceedings are believed near at
nand. Although news of an actual
oreak was surprise to many, the
Asqu1ths long have been known not
to live happily together.
Miss May Boiler, the young woman
who eloped from Providence, r. l.. to
Montreal with Philander c. Knox, Jr.,
the son of Secretary Of State Philan.
der c. Knox. declared that she and
Mr.. Knox had been married in Bur.
hngton, Vt. Young Knox has left
providence, having been discharged
from the Morris Heights school there,
one OF the SWEETEST preparatory
schools in New England.
The charge that there is a corrupt
lobby working for the enactment of a
snip subsidy law was again before q
subcommittee of the judiciary com.
mlttee of the house. Representative
STEVENSON of Minnesota, who made
the original charges on the floor of
the house, submitted a number of let.
ters said to show that several con.
gressmen were being threatened with
oe1eat Tor reelection If they opposed
ship subsidy.
Mrs. Cordelia Botk1n, serving a life
sentence at San Quentin for the muir.
der in 1898 of Mrs. John P. Dunning
OF Dover, DEL, by poisoned chocolates
sent through the mails, died at the
penltentiary. Mrs. Dunn1ng was the
wife OF former San Francisco news.
paper man, with whom Mrs. Botkiu
was infatuated.
An explosion of dry starch powder
IN the plant of the American Maize
Products Company at Roby, Ind.
Killed two men, injured % others. two
probably fatally, wrecked a three-story
building and broke windows in South
Chicago and in Hammond, Ind, three
and five miles away.
DIR. Bennett Clark Hyde is a prison
er IN the Jackson county Jail at Kan
sas City, charged with the murde,
IN the first degree of Col. Thomas
II. Swope and Christman Swope
death of Moss Hunton, and attempts
to poison eight other persons, mem
bers of the Swope family, their guests
and servants.
Powerful influences were brought tt
bear to prevent prosecution of Joh1
T. Cudahy, the millionaire packer
who found Jere F. Fills. president O.
the Western Exchange bank, in hi.
nome Sunday morning and slashet
and cut him In the exaction of fiend
Ism revenge on the man he branded
as the wrecker of his home. In so fa1
as punishment of Cudahy is con
cerned, the affair is ended. When the
case comes to trial March IS it has
been assured that Cudahy will be dis
missed with nominal fine on &
charge of disturbing the peace.
On the conclusion of Clifford Pin
chot's testimony in the Ballinger in
vestigation, the former secretary o.
the interior, James r. Garfield. wa:
called as witness.
Of thirty-two Cornell university stu
dents who have been awarded hon
ors by election to the Phi Beta Kappa
nineteen are women and only thirtee1
men.
Tangled in the wreckage of a col
lapsed dirigible balloon, L. L. Hill, {
San Jose (Cal.) aeronaut, fell $50 fee
yesterday before crowd of severa
thousand spectators at the local race
track. He was not injured
Since President Taft's election the
Unitarian church which he attends IL
Washington has suffered from the dep
relations of visitors who have twice
carried away cushions, books, etc.
while service actually was in progress
Friends and foes of woman suffrage
will appear before the New York state
legislature this week to discuss thu
proposed constitutional amendment tt
extend the franchise. Mrs. Clarence
H. Mackay and Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont
head the suffrage forces.
E. M. Gale, son of Jesse S. Gale, one
Of the best-known cattlemen in Colo
RADIO, was instantly killed neal
Greeley, COL, in an automobile acct
dent. The elder Gale is now in Au
rora, Ill.
Two robbers locked the night opera