The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-12-20

/ Lewis Auu EVeTStt DuIour Dy jury
at Washington on indictments chars
ing the use Of the mails to defraud
in connection with the operation OF
the National Trust company and
other concerns.
| A tariff debate was precipitated in
the national senate by Senator Cum
minis of Iowa, and 1t brought out the
fact that Insurgents are not alone in
their proposition to revise the sched-
ules piecemeal. Senators Aldrich and
Lodge were outspoken in their opin-
ions that the schedule should be Ia
ken UP one at time.
| A shirt despatched with red ink
figured in the suit of Mrs. Ethel B.
Garrett Of Atlanta, Ga, who won a
! divorce from her husband, who she
| said caused her to faint when he pre-
sented himself wearing the CORY shirt
and said: "See what you have driven
| me to-"
Each of the four dreadnoughts-
the Utah, the. Florida, the Wyoming
and the Arkansas-in process of
building for the United States navy
advanced about per cent. toward
the finishing point In November, the
navy department at Washington an
nounces.
Reductions in the prices of meat,
eggs, poultry and vegetables, which
began about a month ago on New
York markets, have suddenly been
followed by a reversion to the old
high prices that prevailed last year.
The Missouri supreme court SEN
fenced Mort Holman to hang in Pike
county for an attack on a woman and
Eugene Tucker to hang in Green coun-
ty for murder. Both executions will
be on January 26, 1911.
Works of art, bric-a-brac and house
furnishings which had been admired
by the guests Of Robert Emerson
Davie, the missing boy broker, were
sold at auction in Boston and brought
$1,000.
Conductors of the Boston IL" sys-
tenn will receive lessons in voice cul.
ture. Posters were sent by the COM
pany to all its car barns giving in
struction on how to breathe, how to
twist the tongue and how to hold the
mouth.
An unusual gift to Williams college
has been announced. A fund Of $10.-
500 has been deposited with the col
lege officials. the income of which is
to be devoted to improving the quality
OF the dairy products served to the
students.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of Associate Justice
Edward Douglass White to be chief
justice of the United States Supreme
court and the senate Immediately con-
firmed 1t. The president also sent In
the following nominations: To be as
sociate justices of the United States
Supreme court, Judge Willis Van De-
vanter Of Wyoming and Judge Joseph
Rucker Lamar of Georgia.
Mrs. F. A. Hilliard, seventy.six
years old, a widow of Milwaukee, Wis,
was burned to death in her room in
the Hotel Bristol, New York. She set
fire to her clothing in attempting to
light a candle.
The subcommittee of the senate
which has been investigating the
charges of bribery in connection with
the election of Senator William Lori
mer of Illinois, decided unanimously
that the testimony does not prove any
Of the charges made. Following this
action the subcommittee's report will
be prepared for the full committee
at once, and the report will be sent
to the senate within a short time.
Announcing that conspiracy under
the Sherman antitrust law is con-
tinuing offense the Supreme court Of
the United States held good the in
dictment in New York in 1909 of
Gustave e. Kissell and Thomas B.
Harmed under this law, as far as the
statute Of limitation was concerned.
The two men were identified with
the sugar fraud cases.
Henry w. Ley, an electrician on
board the United States submarine
Grampus, was injured by the blowing
out of an intake valve and died at
San Diego. Cal.
After narrowly escaping death in
a shipwreck, the 106 persons who
were on the steamer Olympia when
she was driven on the rocks Of Bligh
Island, Prince William Sound, dur.
ing furious gale, have been landed
in safety at Valdez, Alaska.
Thomas Fowler, a deputy sheriff,
was shot and killed at Hutchinson,
Kan. by an unidentified man, whom
he had arrested on suspicion that he
was burglar. The man escaped and
500 men in Hutchinson vow vengeance
should the slayer be caught.
The body Of Bert e. Corbin, vice
president of the Union Savings, Build
ing and Trust company of Boise
Idaho, was found near Big Springs,
Idaho. He had been missing since No
vember 10. and died Of exposure while
hunting.
Attorney General Wickersham's re-
port told of the success Of the govern
ment In prosecuting smugglers and
those who undervalue imports and
promised continuation Of the unre-
lenting efforts to end such frauds.
Six Olympia (Wash.) women. all
prominent suffragists, were drawn to
serve as Jurors In q case to be tried
before a justice of the peace. The
jurors chosen include the private
stenographer of Governor Hay.
The total population of the United
States. according to the thirteenth
census, 10, 93,402,151, an increase or
200 per cent. over the population In
1900. This includes Alaska, Hawaii
and Porto Rico. but not the Philip
pine islands. The population OF the
United States. with all her posses
sions, is about 101. 100000.
George d. Horras. formerly bank
er of Sioux Falls. s. D., was released
from the Leavenworth federal peni.