Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-19

spices of the Knights of Columbus
a great costumed pageant in which
the replicas Of the caravals were used.
Six hundred members of the Ma
tional Association of Master Horse
shoers are in convention at Grand
Rapids, Mich. A resolution was adopt
ed favoring the creation Of a national
board of arbitration, to which all labor
disputes shall be referred.
Judge Dixie in the criminal court of
Kings county, New York, sentenced
Harold l.. Decker, twenty years old,
said to be a son of Theodore A. Deck
er, Chicago, to a term of two and one
half to five years at hard labor in Sing
Sing prison on a charge of abduction.
Sheriff Lacy and Miss Katherine
Kerl, while engaged in religious exer-
cises in the Jail at Santa Ana, CAL,
were thrown into cell by two pris-
oners, who made their escape. A
posse Is In pursuit.
Charges of murder In the first de-
gree were formally laid against John
F: Dietz, the Cameron Dam defender;
Leslie Dietz, his son and Mrs. John F.
Dietz, his wife, by the verdict of the
coroner's jury, which met at Winter,
Wis, to investigate the killing of Dep
uty Sheriff Oscar Harp during the as
sault on the Dietz cabin.
The body Of George Ide Malcolm,
board member of the New York stock
exchange of Malcolm &, Coombs, was
found in Long Island sound off Fort
Schuyler. He ended his life by jump
ing from boat a week ago.
Fourteen persons we're injured when
Chicago & Alton train No. 80, from St.
Louis to Jacksonville, ILL.,, jumped the
track two miles south of Jerseyville,
Mo. Split rails are supposed to have
caused the wreck.
Disease has added it's horrors to the
suffering of the refugees from the
great forest fires. One hundred and
ninety typhoid fever victims have
been removed from old Baudette to
the newer town and there are several
cases of the disease among those who
sought safety at International Falls.
Estimates CT the number of persons
killed range from 100 to 400, while
hundreds Of settlers who fed before
the flames are missing.
Patrolman Daniel Santon was shot
and killed by Robert Robertson, ne
gro, in a Jones avenue tenement at
Pittsburg, Pa. Collins Wells, a negro,
was killed In revolver battle with
police and detectives at Coraopolis, a
suburb.
The new government of Portugal
has ordered all religious bodies to
leave the country at once and has
granted amnesty to all political pris-
oners.
Fffty-two miners were entrapped in
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company's
mine at Starksvil!e, COL, by gas ex-
plosion. Rescuers hope to extricate
the miners through galleries running
to other mines.
The first American International HUI
name conference met in Washington
with delegates present from a score of
countries.
A great national congress Of In.
dams met in Muskogee, Okla, to con-
slider and recommend legislation con-
corning the Indians.
! Festivities in celebration Of the cen
tennial of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, be-
gan in Cleveland with an elaborate
! program. Dallas, Tex, was the host
| of the American Association of Pas
senger Agents which met in annual
convention.
The annual conference of the Ma.
tional Grain Dealers association open
ed in Chicago
It is announced that Yale univer.
sity's residuary share in the estate OF
the late Samuel H. Lyman of New
York city will probably exceed $780,
900. His will has just been probated
there. The gift to Yale ranks as one
Of the largest college benefactions OF
the year.
The eighth international prison con
gress ended at Washington, D. c., with
ratification of the selection Of Sir Eve.
Ign Ruggles Brise, K. c. B., as presi
dent, and the selection Of London as
the place for the next meeting in
1915.
| John F. Dietz, the "Outlaw of Cam
eron DAM" surrendered to the Wis
consin authorities after seven hours
battle, in which Dietz shot and killed
Deputy Sheriff Harp, wounded anoth
er deputy, and was himself shot in
the hand. Dietz, his wife and son Clar.
ence are in jail at Hayward, Wis.
The Lorimer Investigating commit
tee have finished taking testimony in
the bribery case at Chicago. Further
sittings will be held at Washington be.
fore report is made to congress. Sen.
ator Lorimer did not testify at the
hearing.
After 80 years of waiting James
Cummings of Custer, Mich, who is too
modest to tell of his own bravery, has
received from the treasury department
at Washington gold medal for his
part in saving a. lives from the wreck
of the grain barge J. H. Rutter oil
Ludington, Mich, on November l.
1878.
Charges against Willis L. Moore
chief of the weather bureau, have been
filed with Secretary OF Agriculture
Wilson by James Berry, former li
vision chief of the weather bureau. In
general terms "gross mismanagement