The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-12-30

Five PROMINENT Weubtcueo mcn
we're injured, one dangerously, when
an automobile in which they were hur-
rying to the Wenatchee-C Chicago foot
ball game, skidded and crashed into .
telephone pole in Seattle.
Jeffersonian Dem ocrats are wrought
up over the preparations for the Jack
son day banquet to be given to the
democracy Of the nation in Baltimore
January II. The principal cause Of
the excitement is the price per plate,
which has been fixed at IS.
Women Of the independence Ave
nue. Methodist church, the Wabash
Avenue Christian church and several
other churches in Kansas City have
organized to suppress long hatpins
and stiff feathers with sharp points.
An armed man, supposed to be in
sane and seeking the life Of John d.
Rockefeller at his summer estate,
Forest Hill, near Cleveland. ex-
changed shots with Bert Knapp, the
keeper. and Marshal Steamberger Of
East Cleveland. The stranger es-
capped.
Three million people are slowly
starving from famine In the Kiang-
Su and An-Hui provinces. China. The
international board of foreign mis-
sionaries In Shanghai made an appeal
for $1,000, 900 to aid the stricken peo-
pie.
Prominent economists, sociologists.
scientists, educators and labor lead.
ers from all over the country gath
cred in st. Louis attending the con-
vention Of the American Economic
association, American Association for
Labor Legislation, American Stats
teal association, American Political
Science association. American So
Geological society and the American
Home Economic association.
The Cook House, Ann Arbor's
(Mich) famous hostelry. was almost
completely destroyed by fire Of an
unknown origin. The few guests and
employees escaped to the streets clad
only in their night clothes. Loss.
Sc, 900.
A package believed to contain .
$4,000 prize music score, addressed
to George Chadwick. director of the
New England Conservatory Of Music
in Boston, was stolen from an express
wagon standing in front of q New
York city uptown dwelling house.
The Llewellyn iron works at Los
Angeles, Cal. were partially wrecked
by an explosion, presumably Of dyn-
amite. Who placed the supposed
charge Of dynamite is unknown. but
It 10 believed to have been the out
como Of the general labor troubles Of
Los Angeles, In which the Llewellyn
company has been prominently in
volved.
Four mail clerks and helpers were
killed and several men were injured
in the wreck Of passenger train No.
16 Of the Norfolk & Western railroad
In tunnel No. 6, near Williamson, w.
Va.
Branding Knud Rasmussen. the
Danish explorer as "a literary faker
and muckraker who has stopped 20
the lowest depths to get public atten-
tion," DR.. r. A. Cook, the Brooklyn ex-
plorer. has issued a statement in re-
ply to Rasmussen's attack, published
November 8. that neither he Cook
nor Peary reached the north pole.
Mediation efforts Of United States
Labor Commissioner Charles F. Neill
at Chicago succeeded In averting the
threatened locomotive engineers
strike and bringing about settlement
on the basis of an increase Of 10 1-3
per cent. In the wages Of the men. A
compromise peace proposition Of
fered by Neill as last resort was
accepted by both sides.
Oscar Chitwood, q mountaineer.
was killed by mob in the heart Of
Hot Springs. Ark. Chitwood was
awaiting trial for the murder, recent
ly. Of Jake Houpf. sheriff, In Hot
Springs. As deputy sheriffs were at
tempting to spirit Chitwood from
the county jail to the city prison Off,
GERS and prisoner. were attacked by
30 masked men. VINO riddled Chit
WOods Dody with bullets.
Arch Hoxsey Of Pasadena, Cal, fly
ing a Wright biplane In the teeth Of
q gale Of wind blowing at the rate Of
80 miles an hour. established a new
worlds altitude record at Los Angeles.
Cal. by ascending 11,474 feet above
the surface Of the earth.
Fearing the outbreak Of another
revolution In Honduras. Secretary
Meyer ordered the gunboat Yorktown.
stationed at Corinto, Nicaragua. to
proceed to Amapala, Honduras.
Dave Smith. middleweight champion
Of Australia, Monday scored decisive
victory at Sidney. N. 8. W.. over Billy
Papke, the claimant Of the middle
weight championship Of the world.
The fight was given to Smith m the
tenth round on q foul.
Acting on the recommendation OF
the Indiana state board Of pardons,
Governor Marshall refused to extend
clemency to William 4. Hinshaw, the
preacher convict. serving a life SEN
tence for the murder Of his wife.
The supply of skilled and unskilled
labor on the Panama canal at present
Is in excess OF the demand. except In
the case Of boilermakers. This situa.
ton has caused the isthmian.canal
commission to issue warning.
The first producing oil well in Gin
ton county, Illinois. has been struck
two miles northwest Of Carlyle by
Pittsburg oil men.
Jack Burns, the California heavy
weight fighter, was SO badly beaten up
by Bill Lang Of Australia, at London,
that the referee stopped the battle to
save the former from further punish.
ment.
Twenty-four Is the number Of dead
in the stockyards fire, with the recov.
cry ef all bodies from the ruins Of
the beef house of Morris g. Co. The
flames were under control after bat.
tie lasting 81 hours.