The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-08-11

clared Benjamin Ide Wheeler, presi
dent Of the University of California
who is in New York after a visit te
Germany. M
The members OF the Ohio Legislature
gathered at Cedar Point. O.. for tneir
yearly reunion.
Lee O'Neii Browne must undergo
another trial on the charge OF bripins
Representative Charles A. White Win
/ $1,000 to vote for United States Sena'
tor Lorimer. Declaring that the con-
tentions Of the defense, II upheid.
would render the bribery law fruitless,
Judge Kersten at Chicago denied q
motion to quash the indictment
against Browne and ordered the ac'
cused to trial.
| There was no disorder in the Basque
provinces. General Weyler's order that
the soldiers shoot to kill on the first
provocation insured peace. His action
In sending cavalry to Sebastian and
nearby towns stopped all the efforts
OF the so-called Carlists.
The birthplace of Rutherford b.
Hayes, nineteenth president Of the Uni
ted States, was destroyed by fire at
Delaware. o. The building was two.
story brick, 100 years old.
Not only Jacob l.. Hamon. but also
]. +. McMurray was named as would.
be briber in the investigation of the
$30,OO0.000 Oklahoma Indian land deal
before the special congressional com.
mittee at Muskogee, Okla. McMurray
Is the holder of the contracts with the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians to pro.
mote which in congress Gore charged
he was offered a bride.
The feature of the hearing at Meal.
lister, Okla, before the congressional
committee which Is inquiring into the
McMurray contracts with the Chicka.
saw and Choctaw Indians and the
! charges of attempted bribery made by
Senator Gore, was the testimony given
by d. c. McCurtain, son of Governor
McCurtaih. who was recalled to the
stand.
Twelve persons were killed In a
head-on collision between a passenger
train and terminal engine Of the Cal
ifornia & Northwestern railroad near
Ignatio, Cal. The passenger train was
carrying a delegation of Red Men on
their way to attend the state conven-
ton at Santa Rosa. The train was
running at high rate of speed when
the collision occurred.
Uh. an, the beautiful black son Of
Bingen, driven to wagon by his owner.
c. X. G.. Billings, trotted a mile in
2:01 at Cleveland, o., clipping ~ Sec
onds from his own record to wagon, al
ready the record for trotting geldings.
The Payne-Aldrich tariff law has pro-
duced in its first year revenue larger
by $75.000,OOO than the sum collected
in any IL months in the country's his
tory, except the banner year 1907, &C
cording to treasury department fig
ures.
Six thousand rifles were seized by
the Spanish authorities on tug which
had been chartered to go to San Sc
bastian, where the anti-government
demonstration was proposed to be
held.
Portugal, like Spain, is nearly on the
verge of an open rupture with the
Vatican, due. among other causes, to
friction over the governmental censure
of the Roman Catholic archbishop of
Braga for suppressing Portuguese
Franciscan newspaper without first
submitting the order to the Portuguese
government.
The steamer Merida, from Vera
Cruz and Havana, has reached New
York city with a cargo of flies. The
insects are to be used for chicken
feed
Russia's scourge, the cholera, con-
tinues with alarming rapidly, particu-
larry In tn southern mining districts
and in ST. Petersburg. Figures show
that in the week from July 24-30 there
were 1924 cases and 6.944 deaths.
That one-third of the babies in Iowa
under one year old have died since the
hot weather set in was the alarming
condition revealed by DR.. G. H. Sum-
ner, secretary OF the state board of
health. Doctor Sumner attributes the
unusual rate to four causes: Cholera
infantum. infantile paralysis. poor milk
and improper care.
That the house Of Savoy has at last
withdrawn its opposition to the long
heralded engagement of the Due d.
Abruszi to Miss Katherine Elkins.
daughte. Of the United States senator
from West Virginia, and that the an
nouncemens will be officially gazetted
in a few days is the substance Of a
statement made here by person high
in the esteem of the members Of the
royal family.
So serious has the forest fire situa.
ton in northwestern and western
Montana become that Governor Nor
ris has telegraphed the presidents of
the three transcontinental railroads
beseeching their cooperation in fight
ing the flames.
New Orleans is to boom its location
for the proposed Panama canal expo
sition by issuing pamphlets printed in
Esperanto. The Esperanto congress
also will be held In that city next
week.
After writing two notes. Ralph G.
Nichols of Rockford. ILL.,, marine who
has been stationed aboard the battle
ship Virginia, shot himself in the right
temple at o Boston hotel.
The Supreme court Of the United
States when 1t opens next October will
take up litigation regarding the con.
stitutionality of the Kansas bank de.
pository guaranty law.
A supposed attempt to kidnap e. B.
McLean's eight-month-old child. the
heir to millions. was made at Bar
Harbor, Me. Aroused by the burglar
alarm, Mr.. Mclean fired at a fleeing
intruder.
Eighty passengers and the crew Of
the steamer Princess May, which