The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-09-30
GENERAL NEWS.

ING B0udIOTldl buUCOhluAtI00 oh
privileges and elections. which con.
vened at Chicago to investigate the
alleged fraud and corruption In the
election of Senator William Lorimer
decided to proceed at this time with
the taking Of testimony, and not to
postpone action until after the No
verlber elections. as urged by the
senator's attorney, Elbridge Hanecy.
at the first open session Of the com.
mittee.
Twelve passengers on o street car
on the Appalachian exposition line
at Knoxville. Tenn, were injured In
a stampede that followed the burning
out Of fuse. Mrs. A. 8. ]. Davis
may die. She jumped and was
trampled on.
Sixteen persons lost their lives and
thirteen others suffered injuries in
the wreck two miles east O. Clayton.
Kan, of west-bound Rock Island pas
senger train No. 81. Most Of the dead
and injured were in the smoker and
one of the day coaches. The wreck
was the result Of cloudburst which
carried out a mass Of earth at long
I'LL. washing out nearly . thousand
feet Of track.
A work train on the Southern In
diana railroad was In collision with .
passenger train q few miles south of
Terre Haute. Ind, and 10 persons
were injured. four Of them perhaps
fatally.
Boodlers, grafters and legislative
corruption are denounced in strong
terms in the platform adopted by the
Democratic state convention, held at
East st. Louis, Ill. The initiative
and referendum, an anti-corrupt prac-
tises act, and an honest extension of
civil service, are given as the rem
edies for crookedness in public once
and administration. The Deneen ad-
ministration, accused Of broken prom.
Uses on civil service, was denounced.
Charles A. White, Democratic repre-.
sentative whose confession that he re-.
ceived $1,000 for voting for Lorimer
for United States senator precipitated
the bribery and Jackpot" scandals
repeated before the senatorial investi
rating committee conversation which
he said he had with Representative
Joseph 8. Clark of vandalia In which
Clark told him he received $1,000 FOL
voting for Lorimer and was dissatis
ned because the amount had not beer
larger.
Georges Chavez, the Peruvian ayia
tor, few from Brig, Switzerland, over
tho simplon pass and arrived al
Domodossola, on the Italian side Of
the Alps. In alighting Chavez fell
beneath his machine. He was badly
injured and his monoplans was Do
stroyed.
Gov. M. u. Hay of Washington has
sent to the governors Of the Pacific
coast and mountain states letters
asking their view on holding another
conservation congress at which there
might be . frser discussion Of con.
servation as viewed in the west. than
there was at st. Paul.
Bobby" Leech of Niagara Falls
Ont, went through the whirlpool rap
ids In a steel barrel. having started
from the Maid Of the Mist landing or
the New York shore. He drifted about
the whirlpool during IS minutes be
fore friends caught his barrel ant
pulld him ashore.
Mrs. F. Carl Schwenker of Red
bank, N. j., was expelled from the Ma
tional Poultry association and the
American Game Bantam club for hay
ing an alleged painted Red Pyle bantam
game cock on exhibition at the Allen.
town (Pa.) fair In an attempt to de.
ceivs the Judges.