The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-09-30

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motor parkway and painfully injured.
Robertson was going seventy miles
an hour in practise spin for the
Vanderbilt cup next week.
Stephen Stuper. aged nineteen, en-
pioyed at the Homestead (Pa.) Steel
| works, was instantly killed while fool.
ING with an arc lamp. His hand
came In contact with live wire and
a.soo volts Of electricity passed
through him.
catholic charities opened in Washing.
Ton, Apostolic Delegate Falconi and
Cardinal Gibbons being present.
| indianapolis entertained the foreign
delegates to the international Prison
| congress. y
] William J. Bryan addressed the Ma
tional Irrigation congress at its open
ing session in Pueblo, Col, and dele
gates prepared for a contest over the
question Of state versus federal con
troi OF natural resources, especially
rivers. -
Disobedience to orders by the crew
OF freight car is said to have been
the cause Of the second interurban
traction wreck within three days in
indiana and the disaster cost the
nves- OF six more and severe hurts to .
score. A south-bound freight car
crashed head-on into a north-bound
passenger car on the Indianapolis
and Peru division Of the Indiana Union
traction company shortly after noon.
TWO miles north Of Upton, Ind.
Representatives Of $4,000 members
OF railroad brotherhoods at general
conference at New York decided to
participate in state and national poll
tics and to urge the interstate COM
merce commission to increase freight
rates.
States Attorney Burke of Sangamon
county, Illinois, has obtained informa-
ton that another member Of the ILL
nois legislature received $1,000 for
voting for William Lorimer for sena-
tor. The man who made this admis-
sion OF receiving cash for his vote was
Charles 8. Luke Of Nashville. who
represented the Forty-fourth district
In the house. and who has since died.
A petition for the immediate pardon
OF John h. Walsh. the Chicago banker
now serving q term In Fort Leaven-
worth prison for irregularities In con-
nection with the failure Of the three
Walsh banks. was filed In the depart.
ment OF Justice at Washington by
George T. Buckingham, representing
the wife and sons Of the prisoner.
A plague among the cattle of Rus
sia threatens serious consequences
and the United States may institute 6
quarantine against cattle imports, II
the information given out in Washing
ton.
Four students of Purdue universit,
at Lafayette, Ind, were hurt In the an
nual tank scrap" between freshmen
and sophomores. The freshmen class
was victorious.
Announcement was made at Ell Paso
Tex. by Morris & Co., the packin,
nrm, OF the purchase in Mexico O
100000 acres for one of the larges
ranches in the world. A $1,000 ,0O(
packing plant Is to be built
Capt. John J. O'Connell of the
Twenty-eighth infantry. stationed al
Fort Smelling, near st. Paul, has beer
missing for two weeks, and his su
perior officers fear he has been muir
dered or has committed suicide.
Mathew Walters, at Detroit, Mich.
whose supposed body was buried By
relatives after 1t had been taken from
the river, has been found alive In q
hospital and attended the inques,
which was originally set for his case
The United States census bureau in
Its 1903 Investigations shows that in.
fantile paralysis and pellagra are
found in epidemic form in many parts
Of the country.
1T is our opinion that Porter
Charlton IL Of unsound mind and II.
able to attacks Of impulsive violence,
and that his moral sense is patholog.
ically defective. He should be taken
to hospital for the insane and there
kept Indefinitely" This is the con.
clusion reached by the alienists who
examined the slayer of Mrs. Scott
Castle. the actress. who was Charl.
toms wife. at Lake Como. Italy. last
June.
The 1rst casualty Of the Adirondack
hunting season has been reported at
Glens Falls. N. Y. Mistaken by his
SON for q deer. William Aubre was IA.
tally shot In the mountains near
there.
Within q week an action will be
started In New York by District At.
torney Wise looking to the dissolution
OF the sugar trust. Orders to this eff.
feet have been sent out by Attorney
General Wickersham.
The coroners jury returned a var.
dict Of willful murder against DR.. H.w.
ley H. Crippen. the American dsntist
In connection with the finding In the
Crippen Hilldrop- Crescent residence
last July OF mutilated body supposed
to be that OF Crippen's wife, who was
known on the stage as Belle Elmore.
A colored chambermaid stabbed
and killed her employer. James NAV
den, New York hotelkeeper, wher
he discharged her. When the polio,
arrived the woman was found dyin,
from a stab wound and accused he,
victims wife.
DR.. William Colby Rucksr. was rein
stated as health commissioner of Nil
waukes by the common council. A
the request Of Mayor Seidsl the coun
ell rejected the resignation of DR.
Rucksr. made out after he had beer
arrested on charges preferred BY {
young woman domestic, and Emporium
Cd him to remain at the head Of tn,
board Of health Of the city.
A Hindoo prisoner In the psnitsn
tiary at Vancouver. =. c.. has refuses
to eat the regular prison fare hseaus,
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