Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-09
GENERAL. NEWS.

It is reported that Gen. Aurelio Es-
trada, brother of the president of the
provisional government of Nicaragua,
has risen against President Madrtz at
Managua.
The passenger train on the Monon
road which left Louisville for Chicago
jumped the track near Bennettsville,
Ind, 1njuring four trainmen. Brake
man G. d. Fowel of Chicago was slight.
ly hurt.
On the tenth anniversary of the
death of William Goebel, a monument
to the murdered politician, erected
by public subscription, was unveiled
at Frankfort, KY.
President Taft and the leaders OF
the Republican party in the house are
IN favor of a thorough and exhaustive
investigation Of the present high cost
of living, and It was determined at a
meeting of the ways and means com
m1ttee that that body should assume
the task Of making full inquiry into
the whole matter.
That Gen. Chamorro had defeated
the Madriz troops under eGn. VasQuez
at Acoyapa In a battle that had con-
t1nued since Wednesday was the def
mite news received from Rama, Mica
ragua, confirming previous dispatches.
The losses were heavy.
pennsylvania flyer No. left behind
it In two Ohio towns a trail of dead
and dying. At Loudonville the train
ran down Roy Covert and his wife. in
stantly killing Mrs. Covert and fatally
1n1urlng her husband. An hour later at
Crestl1ne the Same train crashed into
an automobile, wrecking it and killing
TWO OF the occupants, while third
member of the party was fatally in
jured.
More startling disclosures and accu.
sat1ons against Secretary of the Inter-
Tor Ball1nger were made by Louis R.
dlav1s, ousted land department official,
In closing his testimony before the
Ballinger-Pinchot congressional inves-
ugat1ng committee. The witness will
be recalled for cross-examination on
behalf OF the long list of persons
against whom he has made charges.
A resolution of protest has been an
proved by Woodbury. post No. As. G..
A. H., OF Adrian, Mich, against con-
gress allowing statue Of Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee to be placed by Virginia in
the Hall of Fame in the national capi-
tol
The report Of State Examiners l.. g.
Tatsman and R. A. Tallman filed
with the state auditor of Ohio shows
officers and former officers of Column
blana county to have received ille-
gal fees aggregatfng $21,338.9O. to-
tai OF $5,129.2S has been refunded.
After taking his oneyear-old babv
from Its mothers arms and sending
his s1x-year-old child to the home Of
a neighbor, Claude Fred, a wealthy
farmer of Charleston, ILL.,, shot and
killed his wife and, turning the revolver
on himself, committed suicide,
Fifty-three officers and men Of tho
British torpedo boat destroyer Eden
were rescued off Dover in the breaches
buoy when the vessel went ashore.
Rex, the king cobra Of the Bronx
park ZOO at New York, is dead. lit.
tie black roach had cut through his
head and entered his brain.
Charging Gov. Charles N. Haske,,
and other Oklahoma state officers with
violation OF the state constitution in
the manner In which public moneys
have been expended, Representative
Lester A. Maris, representing the Ra
publican minority, filed an affidavit in
the lower house of the legislature.
The Society for the Suppression 81
Unnecessary Noise of New York CITY
has gathered statistics which show
that in the past seven years Fourth
of July celebrations have been re-
sponsible for 1873 deaths, 33,073 acct
dents and property loss by fire Of
$20,000,000.
While the most imminent peril Is
over, the fall of the Seine has onl,
been 1914 inches. At this rate i
would require fortnight for the rive1
to reach it's normal level. Fortunatel,
tidings from the flooded section.
above Paris give hope Of more raptt
fall.