Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-21

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vasion from foreign governments was
sent to the house of representatives at
Washington as secret document and,
after a number of conferences and hur-
ried telephone messages, was returned
to the war department on the ground
the house could not receive a secret
report.
The Mexican federal troops have
completely routed the revolutionists in
Chihuahua and captured the city of
Guerrero, according to telegram re-
ceived at Washington from Ambassa-
dor Wilson at Mexico City.
Seven residents OF Colorado were in
dicted for using the United States
mails to further an irrigation scheme
declared by the officials of the interior
department to be wildly and fragrant
ly fraudulent"
AS a result of an explosion in the
mine of the Bond Coal company at
Greene, six miles east of Norton, Va,
~ men lost their lives. Thirteen were
in the mine and only two escaped, one
of whom died shortly after being taken
out.
Six men were drowned In the Sno.
homtsh river, Washington, when a
closed-cabin launch, rocked by three
men on the roof, turned turtle. There
were II persons aboard. All except
six were able to break windows and
climb to the upturned keel.
Thomas J. Navin, member of the
Michigan Republican state central
committee, died In Detroit He served
five years, from 1885 to 1890, in the
Jackson penitentiary for forgery.
Bobby" Leach's proposed trip over
Niagara falls in safety" lifeboat of
his own invention has been postponed
owing to the wrecking of the boat in a
trial trip, in which it was sent over
the falls without a passenger.
In a disturbance which approached q
riot in the reichstag at Berlin, Ger
many, Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg was called liar by Herr Hubert,
Socialist.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt broke the
silence he had maintained since the
fall elections. Speaking at banquet
given by the New Haven Comm
chamber of commerce, he assailed
those persons who he said tried to
create the impression he was "modi-
fed" anarchist. The colonel praised
the appointment of an ex- Confederate
and Democrat to the chief justiceship
of the United States Supreme court,
and pleaded for equal justice for cor
porations and workers.
Mrs. Aileen Christopher, the woman
whose charges inspired the federal
brick trust investigation at Chicago
but who defed the court in trying to
shield an unknown person involved in
the alleged conspiracy, was sentenced
to 80 days in the county Jail by Judge
Lands for contempt of court. Her
counsel, John A. Brown, was commit
ted for 70 days.
Veterinarians willing to work for
$1,000 a year are too scarce for the
war department to find them and
Secretary Dickinson has asked the
house to repeal the law which limits
IuC pay VI SuCl uuSI.
George BloohaS, eighteen years old,
convicted Of murder at Kalamazoo,
Mich, and sentenced to life imprison-
ment, has begged the officers to hang
him.
Reductions in the prices of meat,
eggs, poultry and vegetables, which
began about month ago on New
York markets, have suddenly been
followed by reversion to the old
high prices that prevailed last year.
The Missouri supreme court SEN
fenced Mort Holman to hang in Pike
county for an attack on a woman and
Eugene Tucker to hang in Green coun-
ty for murder. Both executions will
be on January 26, 1911.
Works of art, bric-a-brac and house
furnishings which had been admired
by the guests of Robert Emerson
Davie, the missing boy broker, were
sold at auction in Boston and brought
$1,000
Henry w. Ley. an electrician on
board the United States submarine
Grampus, was injured by the blowing
out of an intake valve and died at
San Diego, Cal.
James N. Huston, treasurer of the
United States from 1889 to 1891, was
convicted, together with Harvey NJ.
Lewis and Everett Dufour by jury
at Washington on indictments charg-
ing the use of the mails to defraud
in connection with the operation of
the National Trust company and
other concerns.
The viceroy of Manchuria has sent a
memorial to Peking urging that the
three provinces be thrown open to all
nations. The purpose is to Offset jap
anese and Russian activity in Man
churia by the influx from other coun-
tries.
A tariff debate was precipitated in
the national senate by Senator Cum
Minis Of Iowa, and it brought out the
fact that Insurgents are not alone in
their proposition to revise the sched-
ules piecemeal. Senators Aldrich and
Lodge were outspoken in their opin-
ions that the schedule should be ta-
ken up one at a time.
After narrowly escaping death in
shipWreck. the 106 persons who
were on the steamer Olympia when
she was driven on the rocks of Bligh
Island, Prince William Sound, dur
ing a furious gale, have been landed
in safety at Valdez, Alaska.
Announcing that conspiracy under
the Sherman antitrust law is a con-
tinuing offense the Supreme court Of
the United States held good the in