Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25

Oral arguments were concluded be.
fore the Supreme court in the pro-
posed dissolution OF the Standard Oil
company. Attorney General Wicker
sham and John c. Johnson, chief coun-
sci for tho oil corporation, were the
final pleaders. WI. y
A bill for the segregation OF Asiatic
pupils In the public schools of Califor.
MIA was introduced In the state legis.
lature by Assemblyman Hall (Dem.)
Of Bakersfield.
That the practice OF vote selling has
been carried on In Danville, ILL.,, the
home Of Speaker Cannon, for many
years, and by both parties, was the
charge made here by the circuit court
In its instructions to the grand jury.
man describing himself as Harry
Miller, an American, twcnty-eight
years Of age. was found bound to a
tree In the woods near Joinville-le-
Pont, six miles east of Paris, France.
He said robbers had tied him after ia.
king $1,000 from him.
This Is the year for the seventeen.
year locusts to appear. They are due
along the Atlantic seaboard from Vir-
glnia to New York, but DR.. Raymond
L. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx zco
said that he believed the Hudson
river would check the pest.
The sixth annual National Western
Live Stock show opened in Denver
with a parade through the business
section OF the city. Prominent among
the visitors Is party of Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Iowa packers and stock
growers who arrived in two special
sleepers as guests of one of the mack.
Ing companies.
Searchers recovered one of the six
bodies supposed to be in the ruins of
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
building, destroyed by fire. It was
that OF Brent Marshall, vice-president
Of the Early & Daniels Grain CON-
pany.
Moving picture shows in Russia
have become SO popular that prac-
tically every town and hamlet
throughout the empire boasts at least
one OF these places of amusement. &C.
cording to Consul-General John H.
Snodgrass, at Moscow.
William F. Sheehan was nominated
by the Democratic caucus of the New
York legislature for United States
senator to succeed Chauncey NJ. De-
pew.
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge was renominated without oppo-
sition by the Massachusetts Republi-
can legislature caucus.
Prof. S. ]. Hunter of the University
OF Kansas says the solution of the
grasshopper problem is to disk the
alfalfa fields in the spring, just after
the frost has left the ground. This,
he says, kills the eggs of the hoppers.
The three daughters of Peter Blu.
bee, aged one, four and six years, were
burned to death in their home at
Knife River, Mimi. by the explosion OF
a gasoline stove.
Carl V. Storey, the former Univer.
sity of Illinois student, who was shot
by Mrs. Alice Poehler Of Guthrie, Ind,
In hotel at Indianapolis, is dead and
charge OF t1rst-degree murder has
been placed against the woman.
1t having been reported to the state
department that President Cabrera OF
Guatemala has allowed armed bands
to cross the frontier into Honduras to
help destroy the government Of Presi-
dent Davilla. Secretary Knox tele-
graphed the United States minister at
Guatemala City that Guatemala must
observe the agreement which provides
against the aiding of one republic by
t1libusters from another republic.
Emphatic endorsement of Capt.
Robert E. Peary as the discoverer of
the north pole was voiced by Presi-
dent Taft in a speech at the annual
banquet of the National Geographic
society at Washington.
Constantine J. Erdman, author of
the arbitration labor war, which has
been called into play during several
important strikes in the past ten
years. died at his home at Allentown,
Pa.
"A boy was killed and four persons
were injured, two probably fatally,
when a bobsled upon which the party
was coasting struck moving motor
car on a street crossing in Kansas
City.
The battle for the senatorial success
sion tn Tennessee will assume a new
phase when Gen. Luke e. Wright of
Memphis, former secretary of war and
former general Of the Philippines, en-.
tiers the contest.
Speaker Cannon came out loser in
a new battle over the rules. As a re-
suit Of the clash many of the stirring
scenes of the famous fight of last
March were re-enacted, Insurgents and
Democrats showing united front to
the Republican regulars. By a vote
of 145 to 1875 tho combined forces raj
lied to the support of Mr.. Fitzgerald
(Dem., N. ~ and sustained him in
his appeal from the speakers ruling.
Railroad communication throughout
the republic of Portugal is practically
paralyzed as result Of the strike of
employees. Portugal is cut Off by land
from the rest of Europe.
The application OF Rear Admiral
Edward B. Barry for retirement has
been approved by President Taft, and
Barry has been transferred to the re-
tired list Of the navy. But retirement
will be no bar to general court-mar-
tial or examination by medical ex-
perts. who may examine him as to his