Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-01-05

nome OF stephen BrQnosky, miner,
ut Sykesville. Pa.
While the police searched: for
George A. Capron, the defaulting cash
Ter Of the Englewood branch of the
United States Express Company at
Chicago. accountants in checking the
records of the local Office learned that
In addition to absconding with $500
OF the company's money, gold bullion
and government currency to the
amount Of $4,000 was taken from the
company's safes.
With tons upon tons of ice piled
high against the piers of bridges span
ming the Ohio river at Pittsburg and
at points below, river traffic has been
entirely abandoned and river men are
prepared to cope with one of the
worst ice packs ever experienced.
There will BE- no new issues of in
terest bearing obligations by the
treasury department before early in
March. This statement was made on
the authority of high official of the
government
President Taft has put the final
touches to special message to con-
gress dealing with the amendments
which he believes are necessary in
the interstate commerce and Sherman
antitrust acts. Recent reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding, it is known
that the president will take up the
antitrust act and deal with it at great
length.
Five woman passengers and the
motorman and conductor on a trolley
car Of the New York & Long Island
Traction Company were imprisoned
for nearly twenty-four hours in
snowdrift on Long Island during the
recent storm.
Coroner Hamburger has reported to
the police and excise department that
wood alcohol is again being sold as
a beverage in New York city. with
death instead of stimulation for the
tipplers who pay five cents a drink.
The old Cunard liner Umbria, which
gave the New York water front a
thrill when she came over for the
first time in 1884, will arrive here on
Saturday on what will be her last
transatlantic voyage.
James F. Roach, Memphis (Tenn)
youth, after shooting his mother, held
at bay, intrenched in an abandoned
house, posse sent to arrest him.
When the posse entered the house
Roach had escaped.
When the steamer Phyllis arrived
at Colon her cargo was discharged
with. care.'' It consisted of over
100000 pounds Of dynamite for use
on the Panama canal.
D Mason and E. Renon, French
aeroplane experts, are in New York en-
route to Los Angeles to participate in
the January aviation contests. Renon
will be Paulhan's chief assistant.
Mason will attempt flights in mono
plane of his own invention.
Nearly the entire detective force OF
Pittsburg is seeking solution of the
death of James Lawrence Friel, a H.
year-old boy, whose body was found
IN an abandoned house on the North
side frozen and with the throat LAGER
ated with knife.
William E. Ritter and wife, aged 70.
were found dead in their farm house
near Washington. Ind. The furniture
was disarranged and evidence points
to foul play. The Ritters are known
to have kept large sums of money at
their home.
Angelina Schiavone, 17-year-old Grip
pied daughter Of lasquale Schiavone,
an Italian banker of Chicago, declared
In her testimony as witness for the
state In her fathers prosecution of
her uncle and relatives, who are on
trial charged with inducing her to
steal money, that she had taken near
ly 100000 from her fathers bank to
pay to the defendants on their promise
that her cousin, Michael, also a Grip
pie, would marry her.
The breach between the striking
switchmen and the railroads of the
northwest was widened instead of a
settlement of the strike being effected
as result of the conference between
representatives Of the union and the
roads: Although the men seem to
have the worst of the clash so far, and
1000 of the $500 who quit work have
resumed their posts, President Haw-
ley and other union leaders are talk
Ing about general strike by all of
the allied orders belonging to the rail-
way branch of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
That the people of the United
States have been the complacent VIC
tins Of system of plumber of the
public forests-crimes often perpe-
trated by men Of high station in COM
mercial and social life-was the open
declaration of Chief United States
Forester Clifford Pinchot in an ad-
dress before number of prominent
publishers at the University club at
New York.
A startling market movement on
the New York stock exchange that
had all the ear marks of Corner
came when the common stock of the
Rock Island company, in five min
utes from the opening rose from 50%
to 81. Then it settled to so after
heavy trading. The governing board
appointed committee to inquire into
the alleged corner"
An exposition will be held in New
Orleans to celebrate the opening of
the Panama canal and incidentally the
two hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the city.