Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-06-01

| $1,000 v w ~ YEA NCAts Ao OIO0IA ~
retroactive and became effective May
l. 1t Is estimated that the company
Will add from $6.000.0O0 to $4,000. 900
TO Its annual pay roll expense. The
new scale Affects employees engaged
IN the company's works and factories,
but the Office men will not be bene.
hted by this increase. Most of the
employees who will get the increase
are laborers. and the advance applies
TO all the subsidiary companies in the
United States. The company has ap.
proximately 10000 employees. The
standard is one of the very few big
concerns of this country which has
never had a strike among it's employ.
ees.
The Michigan Humane association
and Audubon society opened joint
| meeting at Detroit.
! Under the auspices of the. Illinois
Outdoor improvement association a
| conference began at Springfield for
the purpose Of starting campaign for
the Identification of streets and
yards
Probably eighteen persons lost their
lives In collision between the large
steel steamer Frank H. Goodyear of
the Mitchell Transit company and the
steamer James B. Wood, another steel
vessel belonging to the Gilchrist Trans
portat1on company, in Lake Huron
about thirty-ave miles of Point Aux
Barques. The Goodyear sank in 40
tathoms of water. But five persons
| were saved.
The disclosure of one of the most
systematic schemes of grating ever
unearthed in the insurance world, al
though the actual loss is estimated to
be not more than $1,000,000, is indi-
Gated by the developments in the
scandals precipitated by the disap-
pearance of the reserve fund of the
traternal Tribunes company, of H.
linois.
That the tradesmen may suffer no
further loss Of business King George,
queen Mary and Queen Alexandra de.
sire that general mourning for the
late King Edward shall end, according
to an announcement by the Court Ga
zette.
The police authorities of Madrid.
Spain, after careful investigation, are
OF the opinion that the bomb exploded
IN that city May % was intended for
King Alfonso.
Two sensational developments
marked the opening of the trial Of
Lee O'Neil Browne, accused of bribery
IN connection with the election of
United States Senator Lorimer. At
torney Forrest declared that there is
no Illinois law providing punish
ment for an official who accepts
money after he has cast his vote, and
commended that there is no Illinois law
regulating the election of United
States senators.
Inc mother queen, Alexandra, re-
celVed Mr.. Roosevelt at Buckingham
palace. The two had a long chat.
during which her majesty took occa-
sion personally to tell the former
president how much she appreciated
the sympathy exhibited for her in
America at the time of her bereave-
ment.
Chicago was described as a "blot
on this noble country of ours" before
the Philadelphia Baptist ministers by
Rev. w. O. Rcselle, who attended the
Baptist convention in Chicago.
Two thousand miners in St. Clair
county, Illinois, returned to work after
Two months of idleness. They re-
celve three cents ton wage increase
and the companies will pay the shot
firers.
John Jacobs of Galesburg and Bud
Miller of Monmouth were killed in
fire that destroyed the City hotel at
Monmouth, Ill. Edward Calhoun of
Galesburg was seriously injured in
leaping out of second-story window.
Bitten by his pet dog, which he had
been teasing, Jackson Edwards, seven
ty-four years old, of Denver, COL, be-
came alarmed over the thought that
hydrophobia might set in. Two hours
later he was dead.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana has
signed a constitutional amendment
submitting to the voters of the state
the proposal Of a 100000 tax in
support of the proposed worlds Pana-
ma exposition at New Orleans in 1915.
Despite his large vote in the recent
primary election, United States
Senator Charles Dick was refused the
Endorsement of the Cuyahoga county
Republican convention.
A charge of manslaughter was filed
by the police against Miss Theodore
Stark, eighteen years old, who while
driving an automobile ran down and
killed S. B. Shotwell. a st. Paul
(Minn.) broker.
States Attorney Edmund Burke of
Springfield. ILL.,, opened his investiga.
ton Of the alleged use of money in
connection with the anti-local option
bill in the legislature by issuing SUBJ
poenas for seven men prominently
identified with the liquor interests of
the state.
With one hand John A. Hall. for
years treasurer of the South Bridge
Savings bank, Worcester, Mass.
reached into the banks funds and
stole large sums of money. With the
other haru he disbursed the stolen
cash to charity and religion. In the
| last 20 years, Hall says he has ammo.