Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-14

short session the house will pass out
of the hands of the Republicans and
into those Of the Democrats, is taken
into consideration. In the senate
Vice-President Sherman occupies
again the chair of the presiding off,
Ger. There are several vacant seats
in the senate which at the last SEES
sion were occupied. Three members
of the upper house recently have died.
There was q crowd in the senate gal.
leries, as there was in those OF the
house.
The issue of whether or not viii.
liam Lorimer is entitled to his seat
in the United States senate will be
submitted to that body before the
Christmas recess Of congress, accord
ing to the present plans of the sub.
committee that is taking the evidence
in the case. That was the program
announced by Senator Burrows, chair.
man of the committee on privileges
and elections.
George D. Horras, formerly bank
er OF Sioux Falls, s. D., was released
from the Leavenworth federal peni-
Tertiary after serving three years for
violation of the national banking laws.
Horras was only twenty-six years old
when he went to prison.
Seven Chinese girls brought to San
Francisco in the steamer Manchuria
assert they were kidnapped for the
slave trade in Hongkong and confined
on the ship in a locker IA feet square,
into which no light was let during the
whole voyage.
Mrs. James Mckinney, the wife of
Congressman James Mckinney of the
Fourteenth district of Illinois, died at
Washington, D. c., of paralysis.
The funeral Of Mrs. Mary Baker
Glover Eddy took place from her late
residence on Beacon street, Chestnut
Hill, Newton. Only her relatives
members Of her household and the of
f1cials of the church attended. The
services were Of the simplest charac.
ter, In keeping with the wishes of the
founder and leader Of the Christian
Science church.
Exonerating Secretary of the In
terror Ballinger on all the charges
brought against him and condemning
his accusers as having been inspired
by a deep feeling Of animosity, built
upon supposed difference in policy
respecting conservation, majority of
the congressional committee which in
vestigated the so-called Ballinger-Pin-
chot case submitted It's report to con-
gress.
Juan Sancho ACCOM- was arrested
at Washington by direction of the de-
partment Of justice on request of the
Mexican government. Azcona is a
member OF the inner Council of the
Mexican revolutionists He was
known to be closely associated with
Francisco I. Madero, leader of the in.
surrectionists. Azcona is a former
member of the Mexican congress and
a journalist.
Fire destroyed the Fendrich cigar
factory, the largest Independent fac
tory In the world, and several other
business buildings on Main and First
streets, Evansville. Ind. The losses
will run over one million dollars,
partly covered by insurance.
When Harlem IN. W fire company
responded to an alarm John Tierney
sprang from a truck in dismay when
he saw the fire was in the fiat building
in which he lived. He carried out his
two children and guided his wife to
safety.
w. r. Clarke of Kansas City, presi-
dent of the Alberta & Great Water
ways railway, has appealed to Ottawa
and Washington protesting against an
Alberta bill for the confscation Of 49,
100000 subscribed by Americans for
the building of the railroad.
Duveen Bros, the greatest art and
unique dealers and connoisseurs in
America, owe the United States gov
eminent $5,00o,oo0, according to an
announcement made by Collector
Loeb Of the port Of New York.
The federal grand jury at Detroit,
Mich, indicted 80 individuals and 16
firms alleged to control IS per cent.
of the annual output of bathtubs in
the United States. The principal de-
fendant is the Standard Sanitary
Manufacturing company of Pittsburg.
and the individual indictments include
the president, first and second vice
presidents and the treasurer Of this
concern.
An explosion in the garage of DR..
A. ]. Ghiglione, Italian consul at Seat
tie, shattered all the windows and
china ware in the house and broke
windows in other residences.
In the indictments dates are given
when the individual defendants are
alleged to have made shipments over
the lines named at rates less than
those on file with the interstate COM
merce commission.
It is alleged that from western
points to Philadelphia the Millers OBJ
tanned export rates where the law de-
manded domestic rates. This saved
them from one to three cents on every
100 pounds Of grain shipped.
Albert Balk, Waterman, was shot
and fatally wounded by a mailman in
the elevated railroad in New York
The maniac escaped.
Robert Louis Philippe, Eugene Fer.
dinand dOrleans, Due de Charities, q
brother of the late Comte de Paris
and grandson of Louis Philippe, died
at Paris at the age of 70.
Restriction of immigration, espe.
cially Of unskilled labor, is strongly