Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-12

ment with IheOphlle Braga as presl-
dent. A new national flag of red and
green Is flying over all the public
buildings including the town hail. The
warships greeted the hoisting of the
Republican flag with salvos of artil-
lery. 1t is impossible to estimate the
number Of killed and wounded in the
fighting, but it is expected to reach
several hundred.
The Standard Oil company through
Its official publicity representative, ].
l.. c. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated cam
pa1gn to increase the worlds con-
sumption Of refined oil. and is lower
Ing prices OF kerosene In Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
OF August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels l cent a gallon from 9N to SA
cents at the refinery, and refined oil
IN tanks from 61s to 515 cents gal
ION. In part the statement reads:
Inc Standard Oil company has inau-
eurated campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil.
Inc level of prices for refined oil to-
day IN the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as direct result of these prices the
consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
Icy Is now being actively pursued
abroad"
MI
Inc thlrtieth annual meeting of the
Farmers National congress opened in
Lincoln, Neb., with President Joshua
Strange In the chair, and delegates
present from every state in the union.
Inc two-year-old kentucky Futurity,
valued at $4,000, the feature of the
annual fall meeting of the Kentucky
Irottlng Horse Breeders association
at Lexington, was won by Justice
BROOKS who set new worlds record.
His time was 2:11k and 2:09h.
Dr. George F. Kunze, geologist of
national repute, declares that it will
ne impossible to erect a bridge over
the Hudson river to connect New
York with the New Jersey shore ow.
ing to lack of rock foundation.
The senate half of a conference
committee at Denver, Col, invaded
the lower house of the state legisla-
ture, usurped the speakers chair and
remained in possession until the house
members of their body consented to
report of inability to agree.
The dry-farming congress, now il
session at Spokane, WASH, has re-
fused to change it's name, but the
word International will be put on it's
letterheads.
The first appearance of japanese
in New York divorce court has Just
been recorded. The decree orders
John Sa Sa, Japanese tailor, to pay
his wife $500 year for the support OF
herself and their four children. The
wife is an Englishwoman.
There are 500 fewer saloons in
Greater New York than there were a
month ago, according to excise re.
ports. The proprietors of the 500
failed to comply with the conditions
under which new licenses were
granted.
The steamer Chiriqui, owned by the
Pacific Steam Navigation company,
plying between Panama and Buena
Ventura, is reported at Panama to-
have been sunk by boiler explosion.
Seventy persons were aboard. Their
fate has not been learned.
John Armstrong Chanler, brother of
Bob" Chanler, has entered prize
pig at the Virginia state fair, which he
has named Dolgorouki, after the Rus
sian nobleman who has played a prom
inent part as the friend of Cavalieri,
the wife of his brother.
John F. Dfetz, the outlaw of Cam
eron Dam, in the wilderness of north
efn Wisconsin, is practically a pris-
oner In his log house in the center of
his clearing. While Dietz is surround
ed IN his forest clearing, the town of
Winter Is excited, because Dietz has
threatened to invade the place and
shoot every person involved in the
shooting of his two sons and his
daughter. The town is under martial
rule.
The National Association of Com
mercial Executives, whose aim is to
help business by promoting the ideal,
well governed city, met in annual con-
vention in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The German Society Of Pennsyl-
vania unveiled in Philadelphia
bronze statue of General Peter Muh-
lenberg, who left his pulpit to fight
in the American army in the revolu-
ton.
st. Patrick's cathedral in New York
was consecrated, three cardinals.
fifty archbishops and bishops and a
thousand priests taking part in the
ceremonies.
In futile effort to capture John F.
Dietz, near Winter, Wis, the "outlaw
Of Cameron DAM" three of the Dietz
children were shot and two of the
three wounded were captured. The
other escaped to warn his father of
the raid.
Running 20 miles an hour, with its
engineer unconscious of the blunder-
Ing OF the crew Of freight train, a
Lake Erie G Western passenger train
carrying excursionists dashed head-on
into string of freight cars on the
main track at Laporte, Ind. More than
thirty persons were injured, several
seriously.
Four persons killed and twenty
seriously injured several of them
probably fatally-was the sacrifice on