Willmar tribune., 1911-02-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Orders have been issued by the war
department to move United States
troops, with pack trains, from Fort
Sam Houston to Brownsville, Laredo,
Eagle Pass and Del Rio, to patrol the
Mexican border and prevent further
shipments of arms and ammunition
to the Mexican revolutionists from
their agents in tho United States. /
A permanent tariff board of five
members to investigate all questions
for the benefit of congress is pro.
vided for in bill unanimously
agreed upon by the house committee
on ways and means. The bill, effec-
tive July /, contains substantially the
provisions of tho Longworth and Dali
zell bills.
With renewed rioting. in which
two clothing shops were wrecked, q
new walkout of several hundred gar
ment workers and an addition of
more than $1,000 to the strikers cam
paign funds, the Chicago garment
workers strike broke out again with
greater bitterness than has been dis
played at any time since the begin
ming of the long controversy.
President Taft issued peremptory
orders to the American minister at
San Domingo that there must be no
war between San Domingo and Haiti.
These two nations have been quarrel
ing for over year about frontier
line. Both armed for the conflict and
sent troops to the scene Of trouble.
What is believed to be the fastest
railroad trip on record between Wash
ington, D. c., and New York was made
when J. Pierpont Morgan was whirled
from one city to the other over the
Pennsylvania railroad In three hours
and fifty-six minutes.
Svendens, the Danish aviator, while
flying at Copenhagen in a Voisin aero
plain, discovered when at consider
able height that his machine was on
fire. Descending as quickly as possi.
BILE. he reached the earth just in time
to avoid serious injury.
The health of William Sprague, for
mer governor Of Rhode Island, who is
In Paris, Is such that his death would
not be surprise to his family, al
though his physicians say that he may
live many months.
In the stomach of Sallie L., an in
sane woman who died at the Missouri
state hospital at St. Joseph, were
found 1,446 separate articles of hard
ware and household utensils. These
included kEQ no{1o
pins, lis hairpins, 1856 common pins
and . quantity Of table utensils.
A plan to assault the Vermilion
county Jail at Danville, ILL.,, and lynch
Harry Thomas, negro, confessed as
sailant Of Detective Charles Saunders,
was discovered by Sheriff John T.
Shepard. A score of deputy sheriffs
was rushed to the Jail and an armed
patrol placed around the building.
Luke Lea, Independent Democrat.
practical owner Of the Nashville Ten.
nesseean-Amercian, and youngest poll
tician In Tennessee with any degree Of
success, was named by the general as
sembly OF that state to succeed to the
reat held by U. S. Senator James 3.
Frazier.
New Orleans won the first round Of
the fight for the location of the Pana.
ma exposition, when the exposition
committee Of the house at Washing
ton by vote OF 9 to 6, decided in "a
yor of it as the site for the fair to
celebrate the opening of the Panama
canal In 1915.
Protesting against certain decora-
tions on the battleship Utah, Mrs. H.
0. Owen In Washington spoke of Brig.
ham Young as ''treacherous rebel"
Word was received in Winnipeg
from Montreal that Chief Engineer
Switzer of the Canadian Pacific rail.
!. way had died there Of pneumonia.