Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-30

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trict attorney and confessed their guilt
IN accepting money for their votes
while members Of the municipal bodies,
and were then rushed before Judge r.
5. Frazer, where they received their
Immunity bath In the way of a sus-
pended sentence. Men admitted SELL
ing their honor for from $50 upward.
Sworn statements and other docu-
mentary evidence intended to support
the charges made against the United
States Steel corporation by the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor were present
ed to Attorney General Wickersham.
The evidence follows the petition of
the organization to President Taft,
who referred the whole matter to the
attorney general.
President Taft spoke in the cause of
| world peace before brilliant assem-
| blage at the Hotel Astor, New York.
he was the honor guest at banquet
OF the Peace and Arbitration league
and the principal speaker. Interna-
t1onal peace was the keynote of every
address, but no speaker advocated the
| immediate disarmament Of nations.
On the other hand all agreed that
armies and navies were necessary until
more utopian universe shall have
come about.
Eugene N. Foss was elected to con-
gress In the Fourteenth Massachusetts
district to fill the unexpired term of
the late Congressman Lowering, beat
ing William R. Buchanan by a ma
jority estimated at $500. Foss was
the Democratic candidate and his re-
markable race against the Republican
choice In the strongest Republican
congressional district in the common
wealth caused sensation. The dis
trict gave $4,000 Republican majority
in the last congressional election.
Theodore Roosevelt has called Gift
ford Pinchot to meet him as early as
possible following the former presi-
dents arrival in Europe, and Mr.. Pin
chot sailed for Copenhagen on the
steamer Grant last Friday in re-
spouse to the summons. He will go to
southern Europe Immediately after
will meet Col. Roosevelt in Naples
The list of the dead in the wreck of
the Rock Island Twin City train has
grown to ~, several passengers having
died as the result of injuries, while
other deaths are expected hourly.
Many of the injured have been taken
to other cities, but the Marshalltown
hospitals are filled with wreck vic
Tins, while others are being cared for
in private residences.
Three persons were killed in col
lision of freight trains on the Louis
vile & Nashville railway near Berea,
KY. The dead are George Devorse,
Richmond, KY; James Rourke. and
G. H. Buster" Sanford, Paris.
To teach the youths of Turkey
American outdoor sports, the trus-
tees of Robert college, Constantinople,
will fit up a complete athletic field
for the institution. The late John S.
Kennedy's $1,500,O0O bequest will be
drawn on for the necessary funds.
Richard Howley and Fred Alexan-
der have been arrested in Seattle,
Wash, on charges Of being involved
in the famous tunnel hold-up of
Great Northern express car in 1909,
when $1,000 was stolen.
Anti-Suffragists will organize COL
lege women to oppose the granting of
votes to their sex. Meetings will be
held Saturday for that purpose at
Smith, Vassar, Wellesley and other
women schools.
Twenty-one years after the Johns.
town (Pa.) flood a Brooklyn man has
mailed to the mayor of Johnstown a
give Of five dollars to be used in the
relief of sufferers from that catas-
trophe
During the debate in the senate on
the administration railroad bill Sena.
tor Clapp of Minnesota made a Sc
we're attack upon the measure which
caused frequent clashes between him.
self and Senator Elkins in charge of
the bill. Clapp declared that certain
provisions Of the bill were revolution.
airy and impossible.
Forty present and former members
of the select and common councils of
Pittsburg, Pa, were indicted and ten
more are held under suspended SEN
fences in bonds of $500 upon their
own confessions of having shared in a
pool of 100000. AS fast as the con-
science-stricken councilmen finished
their tales of disgrace before the
grand jury they ran to Judge R. S.
Frazer, sitting as committing magis-
trate, to take advantage of the i'm
munity bath offered last week by the
district attorney.
John c. Mabray and nine others,
convicted at Council Bluffs, a., of
fraudulent use of the mails in con.
nection with fake racing schemes,
were sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary and to pay $4,000 fine
each.
San Francisco police stopped
worlds championship Marathon dance
Sunday after six contestants had been
| dancing fifteen hours and six min
| utes. The old record was fourteen
hours and fOrty-two minutes.
A shoe in which had been concealed
$500 in money and $500 in jewels,
belonging to Mrs. Anthony hibernate
of Brooklyn, N. Y, was sent to shoe
maker by her maid and was recovered
only after police had hammered on
| the cobbler's door half the night.
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