Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-05-04
Sixty thousand Albanian rebels and

cept where a constitutional question
Is involved. This feature of the pend
ing railroad bill is the one most in
sisted on by President Taft.
As the result of a conference here
between Michigan Republican leaders
! in Washington it is announced that
Senator Burrows will remain In the
senatorial race. At the September
primaries Burrows and Representa-
tive Townsend will be candidates.
Alexander Bourtzeff, the sherlock
Holmes" of the Russian revolutionists,
is defendant in suit for alleged libel
brought by A. M. Evalenko, Russian
resident of New York, asking 100000
damages, charging that Bourtzeff &C.
cused him of being in league with the
car.
Search Of the sea for the British
sealing steamship Aurora with a crew
Of 1877 men, which has been missing
since April I, has revealed no trace of
the vessel. While it's owners are hold
ing out hope that ice conditions may
have kept the ship from reaching st.
Johns, N. F., and that she is safe, cap
tains Of the fishing fleet are pessimis-
tic
One man was killed and many Gagged
animals were thrown into panic at
Jersey City when a huge circus tent
was wrecked by storm.
Sister battled against sister in the
Hyde murder trial. Miss Margaret
Swope, who it is charged DR.. Hyde
attempted to poison, testified to her
illness and the typhoid epidemic in
the Swope home. Behind DR.. Hyde's
attorneys sat Mrs. Hyde, directing the
fight on her sisters testimony. Mar.
garet Swope has not fully recovered
from typhoid. She is Fl years old.
Mrs. Logan 0. Swope watched the
duel. Her sympathy was with the
younger girl-the mothers witness
against disliked son-in-law.
A drastic clause in the new Quebec
timber regulations prohibits the ex-
portation Of pulp wood to the United
States. The new law, which has been
signed by the lieutenant governor,
was published in the Official Ca
zette
Chang-Sha is quiet and the rioting
in the inland towns throughout the
province of Human appears to be sub
siding. Nevertheless, as measure of
precaution, practically all the foreign
ers have left the capital and gone to
Hankow. The new governor, Yang
Wen Ting, has arrived and taken
charge of affairs.
Before the Citizens Industrial asso-
citation at st. Louis Vice-President
James s. Sherman predicted that the
Payne tariff bill will be the paramount
issue of the coming congressional and
state campaign. He said it was his
duty as protectionist to defend the
policy.
Half the south's billion-dollar cotton
crop devastated; the destruction of
the fruit crop IN the middle west
completed; spring wheat, corn and
vegetables frozsn to the ground in
northwestern states; markets in all
good staples mounting by leaps and
NuANop NoAIA1SOCO OAONnduC VI oAAP-
ping on the great lakes-is the accu-
mulated toll Of the almost country
wide storm. Reports of the enormous
losses to cotton come from Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and
parts of North and South Carolina.
The damage, not only to cotton, but
to vegetables and the staple grains,
grows hourly and $50,000,000, spread
over 10 states, may prove to be a con-
sentative estimate.
A congressional investigation will
be asked in the effort to find some
trace of 100000 supposed to have
been raised years ago for the erection
of a Lincoln monument in Washing
ton. The entire amount seems to have
disappeared in very mysterious man.
ner and with no traces whatever left
of its disposition
The late Charles T. Yerkes himself
wrote the catalogue describing works
in the art collection recently sold at
New York, according to Thomas E.
Kirby, who conducted the sale, and
who adds that criticisms of certain
works were directed toward the Chi
cago collection.
Two undergraduates of New York
university, in their zeal to perfect
themselves in, parts as "yeggmen" for
college play, fell into the hands of
a policeman at New York as they
were emerging from the college bakery
with load of "swag."
Passengers on the Portuguese pack
ct Pescador sacrificed their baggage
as fuel to keep the steamer going to
it, destination, New Bedford. Mass,
where it arrived.
Mary Guthrie Of Carthage, ILL.,, was
arrested at Prairie City, a., on the
charge of blowing up the house of J.
A. Quick, a farmer, at which her for.
mer sutton and his bride were guests.
The situation in Human, China, prov
ince is reported as critical. Foreign
women and children are fleeing for
their lives from Chang Sha, the cap
ital. Several villages near that city
have been reduced to ashes by native
mobs. The country is placarded with
threats to kill all foreigners.
immigration to the United States
for 1910 promises to reach 100000
people for the first time since 1907.
when the record was 1,2S5,349 aliens.
Fire in lumber mill at Ridgeway,
Pa, destroyed the mill, seven business
blocks and several dwellings, causing
a loss estimated at 100000.