The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-10-21

sassinated the empress of Austria II
1898, Is insane. On several previous
occasions Luccheni Is reported t,
have died or to have become insan,
from the seventies of the prison.
Mistaking his wife for a burglar, M
J. Simmer of Chicago fatally shot hel
In their apartment at Richmond
(Va.) hotel. gss-
The second night of the so-cailed
free speech" campaign by the Indus
trial Workers Of the World, at Fresno
Cal, brought eight arrests In the bust
ness section. A free-for-all fight oc'
Cured when officers appeared. In jail
the prisoners raised a disturbance, but
were quieted when a hose was turned
on them.
Twelve hundred bags of bleached
-four which were seized by the fed
eral authorities at Nashville, Tenn,
as they were in transit from Kansas
City to Atlanta have been condemned
and confiscated as an adulterated ar.
ticle of food and have been ordered
destroyed by the United States mar
shall.
The state of Massachusetts, has q
population Of 3,366,416, according to
the enumeration made in the thir-
teenth census, as announced by d.
rector Durand. This is an increase Of
SCI ,070, or 20 per cent, over the popu-
lation Of 1900, when the total was
1906, 346.
The French railroad strike was for
mally called of. This was decided at
a meeting of the strike committee Of
the National Railroaders' union. Work
was resumed on all lines. The col
lapse of the strike was due to the
stringent measures taken by Premier
BRAND, who called to the colors the
majority Of the strikers, thus COMPEL
ing them to do service as reservists.
With Bender pitching magnificent
ly, the Philadelphia American base
ball team defeated the Chicago Ma
tionals in the first game Of the worlds
series played at Philadelphia before
crowd numbering more than $4,000
persons, and won by a score Of 4 to 1.
The fifth international balloon race
was started from st. Louis, Mo-. when
ten monster aerostats, representing
four countries of the eastern and
western hemispheres, assembled amid
the plaudits of thousands Of enthus-
lasts. They sailed toward the north
west, and were out Of sight within a
few minutes after the words Let go"
were given to the pilots.
All the army officers in the depart
ment Of the east must walk at least
twelve miles week or do equivalent
athletic work in the open air for one
hour day, four hours a week, year in
and year out, rain or shine. These
are the latest orders promulgated by
Major General Grant.
Customs officials in New York have
discovered a new type of fraud. Art
and antique dealers have been enter
ing objects worth $1,000 to $4,000 at
from $4,000 to $4,000 to deceive
purchasers. There will be no prose-
cutions.
Thirty thousand men marched
through the streets Of Pittsburg as a
protest against the use of profane Ian
guage. The demonstration was made
by the Holy Name society.
Staggered by the enormous growth
shown by the returns of the new cen.
sus for a number of western cities.
Director Durand of the census bureau
ordered an investigation, the result Of
which appeared in the announcement
that gross frauds had been perpetrat-
ed. Mr.. Durand gave out also let
ter from President Taft, directing that
persons implicated in the alleged
frauds should be prosecuted.
Standing four to three on a divided
bench. the Illinois supreme court de-
cided against the nominee three"
idea and upheld the number Of house
nominations decided on by the sena-
torial committees in the various dis
tricts before the primaries. The de-
cision does not pass upon the consti.
tutionality of the little" primary act
covering nominations for the legisla
ture.
Henry Pages Dennis Of Foxboro,
Mass, a son of the late State Senator
8. X. Dennis Of Worcester county,
Maryland, and Miss Caroline Eaton.
daughter of President Eaton, Beloit
college in Wisconsin. were drowned in
Pitts creek near Pocomoke City, Md.
Mounted on a fleet horse and fit
In 70 Tor
officials believe. Offset the combined
efforts of the men who were fighting
forest fires covering Is square miles
near Miramonte. Col. A patrol to
hunt down the man was told of.
Cord Meyer. a leader among New
York an-Americans and for sew
eral years chairman Of the New York
state Democratic committee, Is dead
at his home at Great Neck, L. l. He
left a fortune estimated at more thar
81 ,000, 900.
Twenty persons were injured wher
the grand stand at Aux Vase, Mo.
occupied by street-fair spectators, col
lapsed. Ten of the victims were seri
ously hurt, two probably fatally. The
latter are e. L. Boyd and J. T. Atkin
son. both internally injured.
From the West Indies to the Flor
ida coast, throughout the region Of
the Tortugas and from the Florida
coast to Mexico in the gulf the seas
are in the grasp of hurricane which
is striking terror to the hearts Of the
people of the whole immense area.
The United States. the greatest cot
ton.producing country Of the world
imported In the fiscal year 1910 S.,
037.6s1 pounds Of raw cotton, valued
at $15.S16.13S. the second largest
years importation of cotton In the his.
tory OF the country.
Twenty-Five persons we're hurt when
runaway car In the Bronx. N. Y.
going down hill. crashed into an ele
waited road pillar and was cut in two
A table compiled by New York Gus