Willmar tribune., 1910-08-24

nOu1ueuS f1Orueyer OF ST. Louis tlaC
she tainted at the graveside and three
hours later died of grief.
At least eleven people were more or
less injured. some quite seriously,
when two cars came together head ON
on the gorge railroad three-quarters
of mile north of Niagara Falls, N. Y.
New York police are engaging them
selves with the theory that James J.
Gallagher, the would-be assassin of
Mayor Gaynor. had an accomplice.
Gallagher denies this, but a man with
police record is under suspicion.
At Wallace. Idaho, hundreds OF
pounds of dynamite. hung to the limbs
of trees on high points surrounding
the city and exploded in the hope that
the effect might produce rain to check
the devastation wrought by forest
fires, is said to have had a result, fol
rain began falling for the first time
in two months.
The tariff, trusts and an increased
money supply are the three substan-
tial causes for the high cost of living
in the United States, according to Sem
ators Johnston Of Alabama, Clarke Of
Arkansas and Smith of California,
minority members of the select senate
committee appointed during the late
session of congress to Investigate and
make a report on wages and the
prices of commodities.
The British Bank Of Commerce. q
small private London concern, has
closed its doors. The bank started
business in 1908.
There Is dissension in the ranks of
the New Jersey State Federation of
Labor because the executive commit
tee at the convention took quarters at
a nonunion hotel.
A graft scandal rivaling the council
aldermanic explosion was partly laid
bare in Pittsburg when it became
known that DR.. G.. Leonard Levan. one
OF the best-known society physicians
OF the North side had been arrested
and placed under $4,000 bail charged
with having solicited bribes from city
dive keepers.
Theodore Roosevelt suffered
sharp defeat at New York when the
Republican state committee. by a vote
OF 20 to Is, rejected a resolution
naming him as temporary chairman of
the state convention to be held at Sar-
atoga September 27. Vice-President
sherman was chosen unanimously to
act as temporary presiding officer.
Bill Lang of Australia and AL Kauf.
man OF California. constituting the two
pugilist1c ''hopes" of the white race.
did not get an opportunity at the
Fairmont A. c., New York citv IN
demonstrate which is entitled to the
most hopeful hope" Acting Mayor
Mitchell ordered the police depart
ment to prevent the contest and his
orders were carried out.
Fairfax Harrison, vice-president of
the Southern Railroad COMPANY. was
elected president of the Chicago. 1n-
dianapolis & Louisville (Monon) rail.
way, to succeed the late Ira G. Rawn.
high tariff schedules, trusts and
an Increased money supply, are held
accountable for the increased cost If
living by Senators Johnston of Ala
bama, Clarke of Arkansas and Smith
OF South Carolina, whose minority re-
port as members of a United States
senate investigating committee has
been made public.
Several Italian laborers were killed
and a large number were injured nv
the collapse of part of a dam of the
T: A. Gillespie company, at Massena.
N. Y, on the big power canal.
1t has been reserved for an Amerf.
can citizen to perform one of the most
daring feats In the history of aviation.
Jonn 3. Moissant of Chicago flew
across the English channel from "a.
la1s to Tilmanstone. with PASSENGER
and by this achievement far surpassed
the feats Of Bleriot, De Lessons and
the unfortunate English aviator. Rolls
who afterwards met his death at
Bournemouth.
Fifty out of sixty-nine ven1remen
or the sixth panel in the trial at Chi.
cago OF Lee O'Neil Browne, the legfs-
lator charged with bribery, were ex-
cused by Judge Kersten when thew ,d-
mltted that they had either been an
preached personally or through their
families by men interested in the case.
Daniel Cummings, storekeeper at
the county hospital at Chicago. was
shot on the steps Of his home. in the
presence of his wife, by Thomas J.
Bent, discharged night watchman at
the county institution. CUMMINGS
died later. Bent believed that Cum
mings was instrumental in his dis
charge
Arrayed only in night robe and
stockings, Miss Columbia Cheek. a
society girl, was married at three
o'clock in the morning in Atlanta. Ca
to Guy II. Buchanan. Earlier in the
night Miss Cheeks parents learned
that the couple had planned to clone
and they locked the girl in her room
after taking away her clothing.
Yee Hong, a wealthy Chinaman in
business at Ell Paso, Tex, twenty
three years, has been ordered de-
ported. Hong went to China to visit
his mother and was refused readmis.
sion.
ihe coal operators of the northern
Colorado fields, where miners strike
Is In progress, have appealed to Gov
ernor Shafroth for military protec-
tion.