Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-06-15

, 6uA a. OAACa6O OcAOIo JuOSe MC0urely
in the criminal court when the first
few Of the special venire Of 100 men
were examined.
The notorious Mad Mullah" MohamA
med Abdullah, who long troubled
Great Britain and Italy in Somaliland;
was captured In a recent fight at
Hardega by friendly natives and shot
to death.
An anti-Japanese rising of serious
proportions Is being plotted, in north
| ern Korea, by Koreans who are op%
posed to the annexation of Korea by
Japan and who are the enemies of the
Japanese generally.
At the end of four-hour conference
with President Taft In the executive
offices, the representatives of the
| Western Trunk line committee con.
! sented to the announcement that they
would withdraw the proposed In.
creases in freight rates which the ad.
ministration had enjoined by the fed.
eral court in Missouri early last week.
With their heads beaten to pulp
with heavy piece Of gas pipe, James
Hardy, aged sixty-flve, his wife, aged
| ffty-eight, and their son Earl, aged
Twenty-Five, were found murdered at
their home. A second son, Raymond
is being held by the authorities.
Sensational charges that rebate
Joker" is contained in the railroad
rate bill are being made by Democrat
ic senators at Washington, thereby
adding additional confusion to the
progress of the so-called administra
ton measure.
Hiram Goddard, a wealthy lumber
| man OF La Crosse, Wis.,, died after an
illness Of three months. He was
seventy-four years old.
Revelations of alleged grating to
the extent Of $1,555,0G0 from the ILL.,
nois Central railroad, carried on by
four minor officials of the company
and five car repair concerns, were
made in suits for accounting filed by
the railroad company in the circuit
court at Chicago. The amount said to
have been obtained by fraud repre-
sents nearly one-third of the total of
$5,233,753 paid these companies for
car repairs.
Damage of thousands of dollars by
frost is reported from Worcester,
Mass.
Two firemen were killed and many
| others were overcome when a ware
house in Washington street. New
York, was damaged.
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wrote into it the threat of eternal pun
ishment was asserted by Rev. B. H.
Barton of Brooklyn at St. Louis.
A thousand delegates, representing
every state in the Union, gathered in
Rochester, N. Y, for the annual play
congress held under the. auspices of
the Playground Association of Amer
lea.
The Worlds Woman's Christian
Temperance congress opened in Glas-
gov, Scotland, with the countess Of
Carlisle in the chair.
The new court of customs appeals
began the hearing Of the cases on
its docket, consisting of appeals from
the general board Of appraisers.
At Jackson, Mich, President Taft
delivered speech at the unwilling Of
bronze tablet in commemoration of
the birth of the Republican party
under the oaks in 1854" He pro-
claimed socialism as the greatest
problem that confronts the American
people, the issue that Is soon to come
and that must be skilfully met.
Chicago Mail. on the Monon rail-
road, collided with north.bound
freight train, two miles south of Low
ell. Ind, and George Galleher, brake
man, who was sleeping in the caboose
of the freight train, was crushed to
death. Several of the passengers on
the passenger train were badly sha-
ken up, but none seriously injured.
By decision Of the federal board
of arbitration appointed under the
Erdman law, $4,000 locomotive fire.
men employed on 40 western rail-
roads will receive a general average
OF ten per cent increase in wages
over the former rates. The increase
granted varies from S per cent on
Oil burning engines to about 10 per
cent. on the heavy types of coal
burning locomotives.
Congressman John Dalzell, who has
been declared winner of the primaries
at Pittsburg by majority Of about
400 votes, has found trouble, and DR..
Robert J. Black, his opponent, who de-
clares he has been counted out by
Dalzells people, began a series Of
suits by which he claims he will force
Dalzel to admit defeat.
The Ohio Bankers association met
in annual convention in Columbus.
Governor Harmon delivering the ad-
dress of welcome.
Henry Lemm, wealthy fish dealer of
Pekin, ILL.,, broke down in the face of
cross-examination by States Attor.
ney Burke of sangamon county and
confessed all the details in connection
with the raising Of the $500 fund to
bride Springfield legislators. He
named John Dixon of Peoria, another
wealthy fish dealer. as the man who
raised the fund.-
W. D. Elwell, former chairman of
the Iowa state Prohibition central
committee and widely known in pro-
htbition circles, was killed by North
western passenger train while walk
Ing from Marshalltown to LaMoille.
A phenomenally heavy rush of Chi
nese to Canada through Vancouver is
netting the government $750,000 Der
annum. This is due to q report in