The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-09-01

rates within the state of Illinois we're
made at Springfield by the Illinois
railroad and warehouse commission.
Existing tariffs were slashed in two
In many instances and on small pack
ages the reduction is in excess Of SO
per cent. The reduction is made eff.
fectfve October Is, and the companies
are preparing for finish fight.
The audit Of the s42,500 election ex-
pense account Of Joseph c. Sibley, Re-
publican nominee for congress from
Pennsylvania, has been postponed IN
til September IS.
Harry M. Daugherty Of Columbus Is
sued formal statement declaring his
candidacy for the United States sena-
torship from Ohio. ..
The Roosevelt, Commander Robert
e. Peary's ship of discovery, narrow
ly escaped serious injury from fire at
Weehawken. N. J.
Scientists on the leper island in the
Hawaiian group, It is reported. have
discovered bacillus that will soon
cure the disease.
Census Director Durand. in a rough
estimate at Washington, says the pop
ulation of the United States is nearly
90,ooo.000
The Kansas insurgent Republicans
had a good working majority in the
party council at Topeka and carried
everything by storm. The standpat-
ters, realizing the overwhelming vote
Of the primary, decided not to make
any effort to oppose the insurgents.
Senator Curtis was the only one who
even made an attempt to stem the
tide. He tried to get an unqualified
Endorsement of President Taft into
the platform, but failed.
Charles A. White was recalled to
the stand in the Lee O'Neil Browne
trial at Chicago in an effort Of the de-
Tense to lay the foundation for i'm
parchment Of his testimony. He was
asked one question and was followed
Immediately by witness who de.
clared that Whites reply was false.
The Central Boxboard company
plant. owned by Armour & Co. at Ster-
ling, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire with a
loss of $150.0OO
At New York the bull leaders in
the cotton market have issued a state.
ment predicting the greatest cotton
famine the country has known since
the Civil war, a crop of not more than
100000 bales. and 20-cent cotton.
Thnndnra Do4,ouo1k ho. laarstaIv
aligned himself with the progressives
OF New York state in a statement
which he issued on the train as he
was travelling across Iowa. He de-
clared that the main issue in the fight
In New York was not a specific re-
form measure, but bossism. Bossism,
he declared. frequently led to corrup-
ton. and he promised to wage war
on corrupt alliances between business
and bosses.
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., Of New
YORK city, aged thirty-two, is acting
as president Of the New York Central
lines, and is said to be the youngest
man who ever filed a position of the
kind.
Because of the serving of quail out
OF season at dinner given by Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish In New York and
also because no action was taken by
the game commission. an investiga-
ton is being conducted at Albany.
N. Y.
August cotton sold at 20 cents
pound on the New York cotton ex-
change, establishing a new high record
for the staple. not only for this move
ment, but also marking the highest
price at which cotton has been sold
since 1873.
The town Of Heaton, N. D., II miles
west Of Darlington, on the Turtle Lake
branch of the Northern Pacific rail-
road. was struck by a cyclone which
demolished nearly the entire village.
Three persons were killed and four
others more or less seriously injured.
4 mob Of 1900 people battled with
the Columbus, O.. police and militia
when street car rioting broke out with
fresh fury. Struck down by the clubs
of policemen, four were seriously in
jured, one, a deputy sheriff, mistaken
for rioter. may die. Fifty rioters
were arrested and locked In the city
prison.
Vice-President James 8. Sherman,
in an address at Decatur, ILL.,, on THE
Gospel Of Republicanism." failed 10
follow the lead of President Taft In
advocating gradual revision of the
tariff In accordance with recommends.
tons Of the tariff commission.
Salt Palace, structure built on
salt, and one Of the scenic features of
Salt Lake City, Utah. was destroyed
by fire. entailing an uninsured loss of
$4,000. Defective wiring was the
cause of the blaze.
With three companies of state MI
litia under personal command of Adjt.
Gen. Elliott on guard and a machine
gun in front Of the county jail at
Huntington, w. Va. no further rioting
is anticipated by the mobs which for
two successive nights stormed the
Jail in an effort to lynch John Wayne
and Charles 0lyburn. alleged negro
muTuererS.
A letter from Godhaven, Greenland,
received at Copenhagen, says 1t is
certain that DIR. Frederick A. Cook Is
on his way to find the records which
he claims to have left near the North
Pole. The letter says everybody in
Greenland still believes that DR.. Cook
reached the North Pole and that some
day he will return with the proofs.
Twenty-eight new cases Of Asiatic
cholera, or Of suspected cholera, were
reported In Berlin and Spandau. a
suburb OF some 10000 people. nine
miles west Of Berlin. The health au.
thorities state that, In all, only three
cases have been definitely established
to be true Asiatic cholera; of these,
one died In Berlin and one died in