Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-26

The Northern Pacific coast train No.
Z, west-bound, left the track a mile
and half west Of New Salem, N. D.,
and piled in the ditch. Fourteen per-
sons were injured seriously.
Four thousand families in the low
er Allegheny river valley and on the
lower north side Of Pittsburg left their
homes for the night when warned by
the United States weather bureau
that the ice gorge at Freeport would
surely break
Italy, Spain, Turkey, Switzerland
and some parts of the British empire
are favored as trade customers of the
United States in proclamations issued
under the Payne tariff law by Presi-
dent Taft. Germany and France are
on the outside.
John r. Walsh, 70 years old, bank
president, railroad magnate and pub
Usher, whose name was once a
synonym of all that is powerful and
Influential in the business world, en-
tered the federal prison at Fort Leav-
enWorth, Kan, exchanged his name
Tor a mineral, and took his place
among the thousand convicts there.
He lost In his long battle for free.
dom In the final legal skirmish when
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals denied his application for new
trial.
President Taft received the govern.
ors OF 30 states, who have gathered
at Washington to discuss problems of
state and national interest. at the
White House.
The Lumber Carriers association of
the Great Lakes held its annual meet.
ing in Detroit.
The Argentine naval commission
has advised the government to author.
lie the construction of two Dread.
nought battle ships Of $4,000 tons each,
The proposed vessels are to have a
speed Of % knots an hour and will
carry IL guns of twelve-inch caliber,
Fire applied by her present owners,
a junk concern, destroyed the famous
old frigate and Massachusetts nautical
training ship Enterprise at Point of
Pines, Mass. The vessel was burned
to secure the metal used in her con.
struction.
Subway franchises passed as the
last act of Tom l.. Johnson's admin.
stration as mayor were repealed by
the city council on strict party vote
The plan for $75,O00,000 subway sys.
tenn was included.
Edwin D. Faber, a constable from
Mendoza, ILL.,, shot and probably fatal.
~ wounded Miss Sadie Tauser in a
crowded cafe at La Sale and then
killed himself, falling dead over her
body.
A step toward the deportation OF
Japanese insane in California institu.
tons, sending them to Japan to be-
come charges of their own govern
ment, has been taken by Consul Gen
eral Nagai at San Francisco.
With main and mizzen top gallant
masts carried away in a storm last
Thursday, the ship w. H. Smith, from
Chemainus, B. c., for Port Natal Az
RIGA, was picked up in distress OF
Astoria, Ore, by the steamer Washte-
nav.
Patients in one of the wards of the
Beth Israel hospital at New York be-
come panic stricken and the safety of
400 was endangered when bottle Of
ether was ignited and set fire to the
furniture in the room.
Residents in New London, Conn,
thought an earthquake had overtaken
them when William Bennett deliber.
ately placed stick of dynamite close
to his breast and touching off the fuse
blew away half of his body.
Carl E. Kitchen, fireman, was
killed and ten persons injured, in
collision between the ST. Louis Mem.
phis special on the Illinois Central,
bound for st. Louis, and freight
train near Pinckneyville, Ill.
The Turkish government is holding
$4,000 troops in readiness to be sent
to Crete.
The petition for writ of certiorari
in the case of John r. Walsh, former
president of the Chicago National
bank, and owner of several railroads,
under sentence to five years imprison.
ment in the federal prison at Leaven.
worth, Kan, on the charge of misap.
plying the funds of the bank, was de.
MED by the supreme court of the Uni.
ted States.
To fill IL vacancies in the New
York city hall 1924 applicants for
jobs as office boys took the civil serv-
ice examination.
Three deaths at the city hospital In
st. Louis from tetanus, or lockjaw,
due to freezing of the feet, have
aroused physicians. All cases of the
kind hereafter will be treated with
antitetanus serum.
A great conference on uniform legis.
lat1on by the states, called by the Ma.
tional Civic Federation, opened in
Washington, President Taft making
the first address.
Cutting the estimates nearly $1,000.
600, the committee on appropriations
reported to the house of representa-.
tlves the urgent deficiency appropri.
alton bill for the current fiscal year,
carrying altogether $5,003,S16. The
largest items are for $1,56S,490 for the
military establishment and $1,023, 500
for the treasury.
The annual convention OF corn
growers and stockmen and the free
school for housekeepers opened at
the University of Illinois in Cham.