Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-26


president Of the state senate received
$4,000 in connection with the anti
race-track betting legislation and that
Senator Foelker, now q congressman,
received $4,000.
The special session of the Colorado
legislature adjourned after lasting II
days.. An initiative and referendum
bill, a primary bill, registration bill
and railroad commission bill were
passed.
Reelection Of executive officers will
be prohibited in the new state Of New
Mexico If the recommendations sub
mitted to the constitutional conven
ton are incorporated in the final draft,
Safety of the travelling public Is the
principal subject of discussion at the
national convention of the American
Railway Bridge and Building associa-
ton, which was opened at Denver, Col.
That the United States is the ideal
republic was the statement of Cardi-
nal Vannutelli before sailing for Rome
from New York.
His health shattered after a struggle
of fifty-t1ve years in an attempt to free
Ireland from the rule of Great Britain,
O'Donovan Rosa is critically i'll in his
home at New Brighton, S. l.
John Dietz, his wife, Hattie Diet1,
and Leslie Dietz, his son, were bound
over to the circuit court by Judge J.
F. Riordan at Hayward, Wis, on the
charge Of having murdered Oscar
Harp, a deputy, during the siege Of
the Dietz cabin at Cameron Dam.
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen was put on
trial for his life at London, charged
with the deliberate murder of Cora
Belle Crippen, the American actress
known in the profession as Belle FL
more. The jury, a typical body Of
middle-class tradesmen and clerks,
was secured with little trouble. Grip
pen pleaded not guilty.
The West Indies hurricane is
sweeping north along the Atlantic
coast, with the storm center over
northern Florida. Every town on the
Atlantic coast from Key West, Fla,
to Charleston, s. c., is in the grip of
the storm, but as wires are down
where it is worst, little is definitely
known as to loss of life and damage
to property.
The first attempt to cross the At
lantic in a dirigible balloon has
| proved failure. The America, with
Walter Wellman and his party Of five
on board, was picked up almost 81
| miles due east of Cape Hatteras, by
the incoming Bermuda liner Trent.
A report from Geneva, Switzerland
says that Luigi Luccheni, who as
| sassinated the empress of Austria ir
1898, is insane. On several previou.
occasions Luccheni is reported t
have died or to have become insane
from the seventies of the prison.
The second night of the so-called
free speech campaign by the Indus
trial Workers Of the World, at Fresno,
GAL, brought eight arrests in the busi-
ness section. A free-for-all fight &C.
Cured when officers appeared. In Jail
the prisoners raised disturbance, but
! we're quieted when hose was turned
on them.
| The French railroad strike was for
mally called off. This was decided at
a meeting of the strike committee of
the National Railroaders' union. Work
was resumed on all lines. The col
lapse of the strike was due to the
stringent measures taken by Premier
BRAND, who called to the colors the
majority Of the strikers, thus COMPEL
ing them to do service as reservists.
With Bender pitching magnificent
~, the Philadelphia American base
ball team defeated the Chicago Ma
tionals in the first game Of the world 8
series played at Philadelphia before a
crowd numbering more than $4,000
persons, and won by score of to 1.
Customs officials in New York have
discovered new type of fraud. Art
and antique dealers have been enter.
ing objects worth $1,000 to $4,000 at
from $4,000 to $4,000 to deceive
purchasers. There will be no prose
cutions.
| Twelve hundred bags of bleached
flour which were seized by the fed.
eral authorities at Nashville, Tenn,
as they were in transit from Kansas
City to Atlanta have been condemned
and conf1scated as an adulterated ar.
ticle Of food and have been ordered
destroyed by the United States mar.
shall.
Henry Pages Dennis of Foxboro,
Mass, son Of the late State Senator
8. X. Dennis of Worcester county,
Maryland, and Miss Caroline Eaton,
daughter of President Eaton, Beloit
college in Wisconsin. were drowned in
Pitts creek near Pocomoke City, Md.
The fifth international balloon race
was started from st. Louis, Mo-, when
ten monster aerostats, representing
four countries Of the eastern and
western hemispheres, assembled amid
the plaudits of thousands of enthus.
lasts. They sailed toward the north.
west, and were out of sight within a
few minutes after the words Let co.
were given to the pilots.
John d. Rockefeller has increased
his gift to the Rockefeller Institute OF
Medical Research by a donation OF
J $3,820,o00. This brings the total
Rockefeller gift. in the, interest OF
medical research UP to }S;240,000.
Staggered by the enormous growth
J shown by the returns. Of the new cen
sus for q number. Of western cities
> Director Durand. Of the census bureau
ordered an. Investigation. the result Of
which appeared in the announncemen,
that gross frauds had been perpetrat
Cd ! Mr. Dniranld zaiNtas o,its also; a. ,.t