Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-09

Mrs. Grace Gayou, 10 years old,
was shot and killed at a Kansas City
store by Louis Hillson, who killed
himself after he had beaten Jack
Doyle, a rival for Mrs. Gayou's affec-
tions. ~
Prosecutor Garven requested Judge
Swayze of the New Jersey supreme
court to issue an order requiring the
packing companies indicted last week
to produce the minutes of their direc-
tors meetings and their own records
before the grand jury which Is ma.
king further investigations into cold
storage affairs.
A joint resolution will be introduced
In both houses of congress at Wash.
ington next week asking for a thor
ough investigation Of the death OF
Lieut.. James S. Sutton at Annapolis,
Nd, October 7, 1907. Despite the
recent finding of board of inquiry
the mother feels certain that her boy
did not die by his own hand.
Marooned for seven days by snow
slides In the Cascade mountains, the
Seattle & Spokane limited train on
the Great Northern railroad was
struck by an avalanche near We'll
lington, Wash, and was swept down
the mountainside into a gorge, and
was buried under tons of timber,
earth and snow. At least % passen-
gers, possibly 40, that were on the
train when it left Spokane, were
killed. The major portion of the
town Of Wellington was reported car
ried away with a loss of about so
lives.
President Taft summoned Senator
Aldrich, Speaker Cannon and Senator
Crane to the White House and after
an extended conference the following
agreemnts were arrived at: That the
postal savings bank, the railroad, the
statehood, the Injunction and the con-
servation bills are to be considered in
the order named, so far as is pos
s1ble, and rushed to speedy passage.
Secretary of War Dickinson pro-
posed before the senate committee on
1nteroceanic canals that the antitrust
law be invoked to break up the mo-
nopoly which the Pacific Mail Com
pany and the Hartman transconti-
mental lines have on business be-
tween Pacific coast ports and the
1sthmus of Panama.
By vote of ten to eight the house
committee on interstate commerce
voted to create the interstate COM
merce court, which is one of the prin-
cipal features of President Taft's
amendments to the interstate COM
merce bill. This is the provision for
which the president and the attorney
general have been fighting to have
kept in the bill.
Though Ohio's inland rivers are re-
ceding the flooding of score of cities
and towns has cost at least one life,
caused a serious train wreck, damaged
property to the extent of hundreds of
thousands and has made homeless
hundreds of Ohioans.
Warrants were issued in Jersey
City for the arrest on a charge Of
criminal conspiracy in restraint of
trade of the 81 directors of the beef
trust who were indicted. The war
rants call for the immediate appre-
hension of the men whom the Hudson
county grand jury believe are re-
sponsible for the high price on beef.
Among them are millionaire members
Of the Swift, Armour and Morris fami-
lies of Chicago.
"A general strike of all the working
women in the United States, whether
employed in the kitchen or in the fac.
tory, is proposed in the interests Of
woman's suffrage by officers of the
Shirtwaist Workers union of New
York city.
Gen. Estrada, head of the fnsurgent
movement in Nicaragua, in telegram
to the consul-general at New Orleans,
La, confirms the defeat and death of
Gen. Romero at Ell Merrito and the
capture of 200 prisoners by insur-
gents.
Attorneys for Clifford Pinchot may
demand the presence of President
Taft as a witness to repeat White
House conferences bearing on the
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, accord
ing to Washington dispatch.
Representatives from Wall street
flooded the internal revenue collectors
office at New York with applications
bearing on the new corporation tax
law, the time limit for which expires
March /.
Eleven hundred passengers on the
liner Uranium, which arrived at Hall.
fax, N. S., had a stormy voyage of
10 days from Rotterdam. One passen-
ger on the Corsican, from Liverpool,
leaped into the sea because Of the
ships plunging End was drowned.
Warrants issued by the Adair county
circuit court on report by special
grand jury resulted in the arrest Of
Mrs. Alma Proctor Vaughn and DR..
James R. Hull of Monroe City. Mo-,
on the charge of numbering, by
strychnin poisoning, Prof. John T.
Vaughn. Mrs. Vaughn surrendered to
the sheriff and DR.. Hull was arrested
at his home. Mrs. Vaughn was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
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