Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.

1ue RESOLUTIONS dis adopted ny Tue
Iowa Republican state convention at
Des Moines dismiss consideration of
the president with the clause, I'VE in
dorse such efforts as President Taft
and his advisers have made to fulfill
the promises Of the national platform"
They do not recognize the revision of
1909 as a satisfactory fulfllment of
the party promise and therefore favor
the creation of an independent non
partisan tariff committee to secure
facts regarding imports
Reports from Dady, Fla, say that
four negroes have been lynched thus
far because of the killing of Bessie
Morrison. Posses are hunting two
more negroes who are thought to have
knowledge of the murder
Without a dissenting voice the four
Christian Endeavor societies of Fair
bury, Neb., voted that a public request
be sent to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
asking her to give up the cigarette
habit.
The "progressives" made almost a
clean sweep in the Kansas primary.
Six of eight "insurgent" congressman
were nominated. Their majorities run
from 500 to $500.
The investigation of charges by Sen
ator T. P. Gore that he and member
Of the house of representatives each
had been offered brides Of $4,000 to
foster scheme whereby the Indians
of Oklahoma were to be deprived of
$16,000,000 profits due them through
the sale of coal and asphalt lands in
this state, was begun at Muskogee,
Okla.
Intimation of the formation of a
new labor union of national scope,
comprising the Western Federation of
Miners, the United Mine Workers of
America, and the steel workers of the
country, was given by President
Charles H. Meyer of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners at Denver.
A reign of terror exists in the north
western section of Holmes county.
Florida, owing to the determination of
the whites to avenge the murder of
Bessie Morrison, a fourteen-year.old
white girl by a wholesale lynching
Of negroes. Already six blacks have
been IyncheI.
Missouri's ten Democratic congress-
men and three out of four Republican
members of the lower house were re-
nominated at the primary election.
Ten passengers were injured when
an interurban car bound from Canton,
O., jumped the track three miles west
of Canton.
Upon the arrival of the steamer
Montrose at Father Point, Canada. DR..
Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel
Clare Leneve, wanted in England for
the murder of the actress, Belle FL
more, were arrested by provincial Of
flcers and taken to Quebec for a hear
ing.
Cholera is raging in AZ provinces
and districts Of European Russia.
Thousands Of dead fish floating in
from the scene OF the practise meet
of the north Atlantic batleship feet
of Staten island are threatening to
put a temporary stop to bathing at
ne1ghboring beaches.
The Carolina and Northwestern
railway shops at Chester, S. c., were
burned, loss 100000.
John Junkin was hanged at Des
Moines for the murder Of Clara Rosen.
AS he went to the scaffold he remind.
ed the sheriff that a medical univer-
sity was to have his body.
Hundreds of delegates from all parts
OF the civilized world were present
when the eighteenth International
Peace Congress opened in Stockholm.
Sweden.
Summer guests made hurried exits
when the Merrill hotel at South Harps.
well, Me-, was destroyed by fire.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision to the effect that
Oklahoma's capital shall remain At
Guthrie until the legality of the cleo.
ton recently held Is determined.
j., Chicago butchers plan to start indie.
pendent abattoirs and promise to cut
meat prices in half.