Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-05-11

senate. me SlaSnlng was not confined
to the upper branch alone, for the
house bored several big holes in the
measure. When the dismantling proc<
ess was halted by adjournment the
Taft measure was so badly disfigured
that Attorney General Wickersham,
who drafted it under the eye of the
president, would have found it diff
cult to recognize it.
Edgar Street Cooke of Chicago, who
has been much in the limelight during
the last several months. was indicted,
by the Hamilton county (Ohio) grand;
jury on a charge of stealing $4,000
from the funds of the Big Four rail-
road.
Grand jury investigation. Of the legis-
lative bribery scandal was temporarily
halted at Chicago by the absence of
States Attorney Wayman, who went
forth supposedly in search of evidence
to corroborate the story of Repre-
sentative Charles A. White.
The funeral Of Bjornstjerne Bjorn:
son, the Norwegian writer, who died
recently In Paris. was held at Chris;
tiania with imposing ceremonies. It
was attended by the king and queen;
the members Of the various legations
and many high officials.
Theodore Roosevelt arrived at
Christiania and was accorded hearty
welcome by the enormous crowd as
sembled at the station. The feature
Of the former presidents visit was the
delivery of his Nobel prize speech In
the National theater. i.
AS climax to day Of greeting old
friends and two short addresses Pres
ident Taft appeared before a brilliant
and enthusiastic throng at the OPEN
ing Of Cincinnati's annual May music
festival as the dedicator Of heroic
statue OF Theodore Thomas, first con-
ductor Of the festivals and former
head Of the Chicago orchestra.
Through the arrest at New York
of two men employed on the Ward
line steamship Mexico, Mrs. Frances
]. DAILY, wife of paymaster in the
United States army, will recover
jewelry valued at $500, supposedly
stolen and concealed aboard the ship
by the prisoners.
Resent1ng an attack on his mother.
Col. Frederick Hale, son of United
States Senator Hale, and who is a
candidate for congress in the First
Maine district, horsewhipped Charles
Thornton Libby, editor of the Six
Towns Times, at Portland, Me.
Under an agreement with their
workmen the brewers Of Washington
grant an eight-hour day, but cut
the allowance Of each man to two
drinks day.
Judge Lands at Chicago has set
May Is as the date for arguments on
the demurrers of the National Pack
ing company and its ten subsidiary
concerns to the Indictment charging
antitrust law violations. The case
will probably not be tried until fall
Two expert witnesses were put on
the stand in the Swope poisoning case.
DR.. Ludwig Hektoen Of Chicago was
grilled by Frank P. Walsh. who read
from the experts own books to dis
credit his testimony. DR.. Walter 8.
Haines' own tests failed to show a
trace of strychnine in the case OF
Margaret Swope or Chrisman Swope.
He could not find cyanide, but found
marked evidences Of strychnine in
Col. Thomas H. Swope's body. In the
capsules he found cyanide.
President Taft ended his two days.
stay in Pittsburg with speech at the
Grant day dinner in which he paid
striking tribute to the secretary of
state, Mr.. Knox. He vigorously de-
Tended and justified the secretary's
Nicaraguan policy, fayed those who
invented the phrase dollar diploma
cy" with the idea of bringing con-
tempt to policy in which he said the
nation Is vitality interested and con-
cluded with the declaration that the
record of the state department during
the first year Of the present admins.
tration was one to which he pointed
with the greatest pride.
An experiment carried out in Lon
don shows it is possible to diagnose
heart troubles by telephone, dis
lance Of 100 miles. Physicians, using
an ordinary telephone, on the Isle-of-
Wight, listened interestedly to the
beating of woman's heart in London.
While a circus elephant was on
rampant at Marietta, O., William
Evans, who had taken refuge on a
wagon, fell and was killed. Samuel
Montgomery was trampled by the ami
NAL and fatally hurt.
Isaac Quigno, the famous old Indian
chief Of Hartford, Mich, will soon
take the trail" for Washington to
consult President Taft about the Chi
cago lake front, which is claimed by
the Pottawatom1e tribe.
Syracuse IN. " police are search
ing for a clever thief, who, hatless and
coatless, robbed the First National
bank there of $1,000 while the pres
ident, Charles W. Snow, was in an
other department.
Because she had made a trifling
mistake in her report to census
enumeration and feared arrest, Mrs.
Julius V. Chiffon, forty-one years old,
committed suicide at Indianapolis,
Ind. by hanging.
One Of the giant trees in the Muir
woods, California, was dedicated and
named in honor of Clifford Pinchot by
tho Cocrof c1,1h Eorror Gov Gooroo