Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-03-15

An army Of approximately 10000
men, representing all branches Of the
service, is mobilizing along the Mexi-
can border Of the United States. It IL
officially stated, and the Taft admin.
istration made special efforts to sub
stantiate the statement, that the sole
purpose Of this unusual mobilization
was maneuvers on grand scale for
the training of officers and men.
.
President Taft, Col. Theodore Roose-
welt, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
Secretary Of War Dickinson, Woodrow
Wilson, governor OF New Jersey, to-
gether with all the governors of the
southern states and some Of the fore
most business men Of the nation at
Atlanta, Ca, at the opening Of the
Southern Commercial congress.
Suit to break up an alleged build
ing trust" In New York has been be-
gun In the United States circuit court
by several manufacturers of building
materials and trim through the Ameri-
can Anti-Boycott association.
Mrs. John Dietz gave birth to
12-pound baby boy. This event caused
delay in the Dietz trial at Rice
Lake, Wis.
New York enters the field as a mag.
azine publisher. The city's health de-
partment will issue a monthly poblica-
tion of thirty to one hundred pages,
designed to instruct the citizens on
hygiene.
Two guards, armed with Winches-
tiers and instructed to shoot to kill
anybody who may seek to destroy or
modest the sign which Overseer Voliva
has erected near Zion City, ILL.,, depot
are on duty. and will be maintained
indefinitely, pending a truce between
the Voliva and Independent factions
The budget of Columbia university
for 1912 calls for an expenditure OF
$2,775,000, the largest on record. Full
professors in Columbia hencefore will
receive from four to eight thousand
dollars annually.
Personal
Maj. Gen. Frederick D. Grant. at
present commanding the department OF
the east, has been selected as military
aid on the STAFF Of John Hays Ham
mond, the special ambassador to repre-.
sent President Taft at the coronation
Of King George V.
Ex-senator Thomas H. Carter of
Montana has accepted a place on the
commission established under treaty
with Canada for the adjustment OF
controversies over the question OF
water routes and other border priv
ileges.
Rev. Charles F. Aked has resigned
the passionate Of the Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist church Of New York city and will
accept the call to the First Congrega-
tional church of San Francisco. His
resignation, effective April 9, was &C.
cepted by the board of trustees.
What Is said to be the most elab.
crate golden wedding anniversary
ever celebrated anywhere in the world
took place at Pasadena, CAL, with Mr..
and Mrs. Adolphus Busch as the CEN
trail figure. The most beautiful and
costly of the presents was the diadem
presented to Mrs. Busch by her hus-
band. 1t is a crown Of gold, studded
with diamonds and pearls. and valued
at 100000.
Enrolment Of the First Methodist
church Sunday school of Brazil, Ind,
has reached $500, which is said to
make it the largest Sunday school In
the world.
Official announcement was made at
Washington that Charles D. Hilles,
assistant secretary of the treasury,
would succeed Charles D. Norton as
secretary to the president April 4.
George Bernard Shaw, the English
playwright, extols divorce as a pam
acea for marriage in his latest book,
Getting Married." He would make
divorce as easy and cheap as mar
rage.
Foreign
Members of the Mexican revolution
lists at Washington issued statement
to the effect that President Diaz is
dead. They stated that they had re-
ceived a number of kilograms to sub
stantiate this announcement, but ad-
mitted that they had received no au-
thentic information. A message was
received at the Mexican embassy from
Enrico Crel, minister of foreign af-
fairs, reading: ''The health of Presi.
dent Diaz is excellent"
Count Conrad De Buisseret. Bel
gian minister to the United States,
was appointed minister at St. Peters
burg. He will be replaced at Wash
ington by E. Haxenith. now minister
to Persia.
Rar0n Vincenzo Patorno 1uho u,i11