Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-03
Domestic

Conspiracy on the part of the larg-
est railroads in the country with ore
shippers and dock companies In
granting rebates is charged in seven
teen indictments handed down by the
federal grand jury at Cleveland, Ohio.
Shore, the Pennsylvania, the Besse.
mer and Lake Erie and the Nickel
Plate.
John j. Mcnamara, secretary of the
international Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers association; his broth
er, James w. Mcnamara, and Ortie
E. Mechanical, the alleged dynamite
conspirators accused of blowing up
the Times newspaper plant last Oc-
tober, killing 81 men, are in the Los
Angeles Jail, charged with murder.
Four armed robbers drove up to the
Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, in broad
daylight in limousine car, which
they had stolen, compelled nine per-
sons to lie face downward on the
floor OF a rear room, bound them hand
and foot with pieces of clothes line,
and escaped with jewelry and money
amounting to $4,000.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde, under life SEN
tence of imprisonment for the MUIR
der Of Col. Thomas H. Swope, was re-
leased from the county Jail on a writ
of habeas corpus granted by the sew
en- Judges of the circuit court at Kan
sas City. His bail was set at $780,
600.
William J. Burns, head of the Burns
National Detective agency, who traced
the alleged dynamiters of the Los An
geles Times building, where 21 per-
sons were slain, gave himself up to
the authorities in Indianapolis on a
warrant charging the kidnapping of J..
J. Mcnamara, secretary of the Inter-
national Iron Workers union.
A large stock of parrots, canaries,
monkeys and other pets were either
burned or smothered to death by
smoke at New Orleans fire which
nearly destroyed three-story build.
ing on Charities street.
The Illinois senate ordered the ar
rest of Edward Tilden, president of
the National Packing company;
George M. Benedict, cashier of the
Drovers' Deposit National bank, and
William c.. Cummings, president Of
the Drovers' Trust and Savings bank,
all of Chicago, because Of their failure
to answer subpoenas of the Helm leg
islative committee, (which Is investi-
eating charges that money was used
in the election of Senator Lorimer.
The opening of the Gulf Of st. Law
renee to navigation is delayed by the
continued presence of great quantities
of icebergs and field Ice.
Unity and the way to do 1t" was
the general topic for discussion at the
third congress Of the National Fed
Grafton Of Religious Liberals, held in
New York.
A fire in the new Arcade building
at Kalamazoo, Mich, was put out with
beer carried from a nearby saloon.
The second International congress
on child welfare opened In Washing
ton.
DR.. Charles w. Eustace was sitting
: In his Office in Buffalo, N. Y, late
at night when five policemen walked
in carrying a boy who had been run
down by an automobile. He was hor-
rified to recognize the lad as his seven.
year-old son Charles.
The Colorado house of representa-.
tives has passed drastic anti.c1ga.
rette bill which at the time it was in.
produced was considered a joke The
bill makes 1t misdemeanor to buy.
. sell, give away or have in ones DOS
session cigarettes or cigarette papers.
An unidentified negro entered the
home Of John Marshall, an aged citi-
zen at Bristol, Tenn, and, going from
bed to bed, slashed the sleeping occu-
pants so that one or more may die.
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