Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-06-08

anu wyoming III search Oh dinosaurs
with three horns on each nose and
horses with four toes to foot. The
museum scientists hope to find speci-
mems Of both varieties.
Although the forces Of President
Madriz gained a victory over the
troops of General Estrada and cap
tured Blueflelds Bluff, which was gar.
risoned by small provisional army,
Estrada succeeded in repulsing the
enemy with heavy losses.
A drenching rainstorm swept over
Pittsbu.g, Pa, and gave great assist
ance in quenching fire which for
seven hours threatened the downtown
part Of the city. The loss is estimated
at $250,000. More than thirty firemen
were hurt but none will die.
Many houses in the village of
Guthrie, w. Va, were destroyed by a
tornado which passed up the Elk val
ley, few miles north of Charleston.
Several persons were injured and
much live stock was killed.
The output of the governments
smokeless-powder factory at Picatin-
ny. N. j., arsenal is to be three times
the present supply and soon after
machinery now ordered has been in
stalled, the plant will be turning out
5000 pounds of this powerful explo-
sive, daily, If needed.
Forty persons were injured when
two cars Of the California electric
railway on the Leona Heights line
ran into each other. Some of the pas
sengers were injured fatally. The
cars were filed with excursionists
bound for picnic grounds.
While Edwin Gould, son of Jay
Gould and worth sixth of 86,OOO,0OO,
ran wild over Connecticut in a hunt
for his son, Edwin, Jr., aged sixteen.
the youth was in jail at New Britain
as tramp. He had been there for
several hours, after three days and
nights of hunger ION the road" He
had run away from school.
Following their release on bail. Sen.
ators John Broderick of Chicago and
stanton c. Pemberton of Oakland and
Representative Joseph s. Clark of
Vandal1a, all made a general denial
OF the charges set out in the indict-
ments voted against them by the
Sangamon county (Illinois) grand jury.
The three legislators entered pleas of
not guilty to the charges and were adj
mitted to bail.
kentucky's handsome new capitol
building at Frankfort was formally
dedicated with ceremonies that lasted
all day. Senator w. o. Bradley de-
llvered the principal address.
The National Assembly of Civil
Service Commissions met in Albany.
N. Y, in biennial session, Joseph G.
Mason of Illinois presiding.
Charles Henry Treat, treasurer of
the United States under President
Roosevelt, died of apoplexy Tuesday
In his apartment at the Hotel Vic
toria, New York city. He was strick-
en- an hour before his death, and did
not regain consciousness,
The long contested order of the In
terstate Commerce commission re-
ducing the freight rate between the
Mississippi river and the Missouri
river, as part of the through rate
on through shipments originating in
the seaboard territory, was declared
to be valid by the United States Su-
preme court.
Following telegraphic advices from
Washington, Is western railroads
were temporarily restrained by United
States District Judge David P. Dyer
from making general advance in in
terstate freight rates. The injunc-
ton was granted on a petition filed
by the government on the allegations
that the advances in the rates were
arrived at by the defendants by agree
ment with each other and without
competition and in violation of the
Sherman antitrust act.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the famous avia-
tor, flew In an aeroplane from Albany
to New York, a distance of 1877 miles,
In 1852 minutes. Never before had
this trip been made by man in the
air. The fight of Curtiss broke the
worlds record for speed in long.dis-
lance test. He maintained an average
of 54.78 miles an hour.
States Attorney Wayman fired a
raking broadside into the fabric of
technicalities raised by the defense
for Lee O'Neil Browne in seeking to
quash the bribery Indictment against
the minority leader and with invec-
tive, sarcasm and ridicule, fortified by
citations from the law books, assailed
the theory that it was no criminal act
under the laws Of Illinois to give or to
take a bride for voting for United
States senator.
Alma Kellner, eight years old, who
disappeared on December 2, 1909, was
murdered. Her body, mutilated,
crushed, partly missing and decom-
posed, was found in an old cistern un-
der parish house of st. Johns Cath.
olic church in Louisville, Ky. Joseph
Vending, formerly panitor at st.
Johns church, is being sought by the
police. His wife was arrested on q
charge of being an accessory to thu
murder.
The navy department received a
cablegram from Captain Gilmer of the
gunboat Paducah, located in Nicara-
guam waters, that the Madriz army
have completely hemmed in the city
of Bluefelds, the last stronghold of
the Estrada revolutionists.
Popular election of United States
senators was given new impetus by
a convincing argument in favor of the