Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-06-22

aoCoVeIeu. AueSe were 1Oun0 along the
river banks tossed high by the food or
left stranded as the waters subsidized.
Niagara's first international carnival
nearly came to tragic end when
Oscar Williams, local steeplejack,.
who essayed a trip across thu gorge
on wire, hung at the base of the
cataract, sustaining his weight by his
teeth, came t. stop when about the
middle OF the river and hung As min
utes until rescued by the Maid of the
Mist.
The Republican leaders in congress
advised the president to cancel his out
| of-town engagements. They told him
that If all goes we'll they expect to
bring about an adjournment Of con-
| gress by Saturday, June Is.
Retrenchment threatened By the rail-
| roads because of federal activity in
preventing, or at least delaying, a pro-
posed increase in freight rates is being
put in force in the northwest part of the
country. So far it has meant the laying
off of about 10000 laborers in the
| northwest.
The conferees of the senate and
house reached complete agreement
on the railroad bill and Senator Elkins
Immediately presented the report to
the senate. The agreement was in &C.
cordance with an announcement made
at the conclusion Of a conference at
the White House.
lon
er Van Herdt has been wrecked on
the northeast coast of Curacao. The
captain, crew and passengers, with
the exception of four sailors and one
passenger, were drowned.
The insurgents in the prefecture of
Jurua, in the Acre district of west
ern Brazil, have driven out the gov.
ernor and declared their independence.
The torpedo boat Foote was taken
to Southport, N. c., by the steamer
General G. w. Getty, having been dis
abled in gale and picked up off
Frying Pan shoals.
Francesca Fanciulli, a bandmaster,
has sued the Roosevelt reception COM
mittee for $50,000 alleging that the
committee engaged his band to play
on the committee boat and later en-
gagged different organization.
Charles w. Freeman of Alton, ILL.,,
after obtaining a good position, is
forced by the government to live up to
contract regarding mail-carrying
agreement in Yellowstone park. He
must accept or pay fine.
The estate of the late Lucky"
Baldwin of Los Angeles, at one time
said to be about $25,000,000, is found
by appraisers to be only $10,930,S01.
Charles K. Hamilton ran the first
aerial trip between New York and
Philadelphia, and, carrying letters be-
tween two governors, set swift pace
for special railroad train above
which he flew. He sailed from Gov
ernor's island to the Quaker city and
back again, but on the return trip he
was compelled to make a long stop.
In his hurry to get away he neglect
ed to clean his spark plugs; they
fouled, the engine baked and he was
compelled to make a disastrous land
ing in swamp.
Vice-President Sherman, while at
Utica, N. Y, attending the wedding of
his niece, said that he believes the
1nsurgent movement in political af.
fairs Is subsiding,' basing his opinion
on conditions found in Wisconsin and
Iowa.
At the thirty-third annual conven-
ton Of the Danish Evangelical Lu-
theran Church of America, in session
In Ludington, Mich, Rev. X. G.. Bod
holdt Of Racine, Wis.,, the president
for eight years. was reelected for that
Office.
In feud battle in Breathitt county.
Kentucky, two members of the Craw-
ford family were shot to death and a
member of the Johnson family fatally
wounded.
In a wild automobile drive in the
midnight hours, the seal Of the state
Of Oklahoma was brought from Guth-
RE to Oklahoma City, following the
announcement that Oklahoma City
won in the state capital fight by a ma
jority OF more than $4,000 votes over
Guthrie and Shawnee. Oklahoma
City probably will be proclaimed the
state capital.
AS the result Of President Taft's In.
sistence that the new railroad bill
should include some provision look.
ing to the control of the new issues
of stocks and bonds by railroad COM
panies. it was decided at a White
House conference that a paragraph
shall be added to the bill providing
for commission to investigate and
report at the next session Of congress
the best means of dealing with this
situation.
Henry Miller and Andrew Friliski.
IA years old, Chicago runaway boys.
who are bent on hunting bandits, were
arrested at Golden, Col.
Word reached Washington that a
woman calling herself Mrs. Taft is
aboard a lake steamer somewhere be-
tween Ashtabula, O., and Duluth,
Minn.' She has been posing as the
presidents wife and has given away
souvenir postal cards with the al
legged autograph of Mrs. Taft. The
secret service division of the treas
ury department Is looking for the
bogus "Mrs. Taft"
The seal of Oklahoma was taken In
the midnight hours Of Saturday from
Guthrie to Oklahoma City, following
the announcement that the latter city
had won the state capital fight by So
COO votes. Jane Haskell, II years old,
the governors daughter. was stoned