Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-12-07

| ueele some years since, making $l2,-
100000 10 be known as the United
States Steel and Carnegie pension
fund. From this there will be paid
to employees Of the United States
Steel corporation all over the coun-
try pensions as warranted In condi-
tons laid down.
Macao, China, dependency of
Portugal is in the hands of the local
garrison and the crew of the gunboat
Patria, who revolted, marched to the
public square and took possession of
the city government at the point Of
the bayonet. All the demands of the
mutinous force were granted by the
governor under threat.
Three masked men broke into the
tunnel Of rich gold mine near Win
nemucca, New, overlooked $4,000
worth Of high-grade ore and departed
empty-handed.
The Carnegie Steel company mills
at Pittsburg began making briquettes
from ore dust. 1t is asserted briquette
making means the saving of millions
of dollars on what has been accounted
as waste.
The largest dry dock in the world
Is to be constructed in the Erie basin,
Brooklyn, N. Y. It will be more than
1000 feet long and will accommodate
the largest steamship planned by any
builder.
In a letter published at St. Peters,
burg Count Tolstoi's son, Leo, holds
Count Tschertkof responsible for his
fathers tragic end. He says that but
for his literary agent Count Tolstoi
would have spent many more peaceful
years with the family who loved him.
The arrival Of Tschertkofr, he says,
was the beginning of the end.
An ordinance prohibiting smoking
at polling places on election day was
passed by the Seattle council The
ordinance is the direct result of the
adoption of the woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
A large number of tribesmen sur
prised and attacked a French detach-
ment in Muluya territory, Morocco,
killing all its officers and a nfmber of
| men.
| "Salome's" fate in Chicago seems
| settled. Announcement was made by
the management Of the Chicago Opera
company that the third performance OF
the gruesome mixture of tragedy and
ton followed a vigorous protest from
Chicagos chief of police, who attend
ed the initial performance
! Demanding that the garment work
ers' strike, which is causing great suf-
fering to citizens and loss of business,
be brought to a "just and lasting set
tlement," the city council Of Chicago
adopted a resolution for the appoint
ment of a committee to bring about a
conference of the manufacturers and
strike leaders.
In response to the offer G. several
western railroads to employ him at
his own salary If he could show them,
as he said he could, how American
railroads might save 100000 day,
Louis D. Brandeis of Boston says he
will, without any charge to the COM
panies be glad to point out to confer
ence of railroad presidents how such
saving could be effected.
During the deer hunting season
which opened November 10 and closed
November 80, there have been 46 hunt
ing accidents in the upper peninsula
of Michigan, 20 of which were fatal,|
establishing a. record. !
An iron safe containing $16,000,'
stolen from the Wells-Fargo Express
company at Muskogee, Okla, was
found under the porch of an aban-
doned house. The safe had not been
opened
A state police in Illinois to take the
place of the National Guard in sup
pressing riots and other disturbances
is suggested by Capt. l.. D. Greene of
the regular army in his report on the
militia organization of the state.
The twenty-fourth case of typhoid
fever developed at the Annapolis naval
academy when Midshipman X. c..
Woodward of the first class was ad-
mitted to the naval general hospital
for treatment.
Abraham Ruef, former political boss
of San Francisco, has been denied a
new trial by the district court of ap-
peals on his appeal from the sentence
of IA years Imprisonment
The Feldhelm company of Chicago
has filed a petition in bankruptcy
against J. R. Whiting & Co. of st.
Clair, Mich, and a receiver has been
appointed for the firm.
Col. Moses G. Wetmore, for years
member of the national Democratic
committee, close personal friend of
w. J. Bryan, died in St. Louis as the
result of injuries received when he
was run down by wagon and horse.
The government of Brazil yielded
to it's mutinous navy. Congress, meet
ing in extraordinary session, voted to
concede every demand of the ulti-
matum presented by the sailors, in
Guiding general amnesty for the men
who, after numbering as MANY Of their
superior officers as was necessary to
place them in complete control,
trained the guns of the warships on
the capital.
Five men were blown to atoms and
nine others were entombed beyond
hope of rescue by gas explosion in
the mine of the Choctaw Asphalt CON-
pany at Jumbo, near Antlers, Okla.
In the list of appropriations for river
and harbor improvements for the ifs
cal year ending June 80, 1912, made
public by Secretary of War Dickinson,
congress will be asked to appropriate
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