Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-06-07
Domestic


kee & Puget Sound railroad, was de-
rallied at sharp curve near Marengo,
Wash. Tho engineer was killed and
the fireman and several passengers
we're injured when the engine and six
of the eight heavy cars left the rails.
The department Of justice at Wash
fngton Is giving careful consideration
10 the possible criminal prosecution of
individual members of the tobacco
trust which the Supreme court on
Monday ordered to be dissolved.
All of his possessions will be given
by Rev. Thomas Grieves, pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church Of
Greenwich, N. Y, in payment for the
Tie Of child which was ended by his
automobile.
Theodore Roosevelt was the princi-
pal speaker at the unwilling of a
bronze statue by Gutzon Borglum of
Abraham Lincoln at Newark, N. J.
The colonel accepted the statue in
he name Of the Lincoln post, G. A. r.
of that city, and turned it over to the
municipality with an appropriate eu-
!ogy.-
Frank Mahan, a fourteen-year-old
mill operative, was shot to death by
Samuel Pruett, a fellow operative,
thirteen years old, at Danville, Va.
Mahan had reported Pruett for some
neglect of duty.
Petitions started for the recall of
Mayor A. c. Graves of Pittsburg, Kan,
were Cancelled, when the mayor prom
lsed to discharge the new police force
and appoint new civil service COM
mission.
Michael Korlath, formerly president
and manager OF bank of foreign
exchange at Windsor and Scalp Level,
Pa, was arrested at San Francisco on
Information that Korlath stole $4,000
from the bank he conducted.
Fire destroyed a large part of the
business district Of Snohomish.
Wash, causing loss Of $4,000.
Thirty-fve establishments were
burned.
The yacht Virginia, belonging to E.
G. Benedict, New York banker. went
ashore 120 miles west Of Havana. All
m hoard varo oovaA
A shoe factory at Brockton. Mass. IA
finishing pair Of golf shoes that are
to grace the feet Of President Taft.
Their size il II, EE width.
The United States Supreme court
declared the American Tobacco com.
pany, commonly called the tobacco
trust, II an unlawful combination In
restraint Of trade. Applying the rule
Of reason" laid down In the decision
Of the Standard Oil case, the court
stamped the tobacco trust az a gross
example Of offense against the Sher.
man antitrust law and ordered its
dissolution within the next siz
months.
In a head.on collision between two
fast Burlington passenger trains nea,
1ndianola, Neb., ten people were
killed and twenty-eight wounded
Failure on the part OF the enginee,
of the east-bound train to obey orders
IL supposed to have caused the wreck
A special federal grand jury will b.
lmpaneled before Judge Lands in til.
United States district court at Chica
go June 5 to Investigate certai,
phases Of the lumber business with ,
view to prosecutions under the Sher
man antitrust laws.
While driving his motorcycle on. tn,
wrong side Of the road near Rochester
N. r., George H. Ellsworth was strucl
by an automobile and killed. Mr.
Ellsworth was head Of a painting com
pany and president OF the Rocheste
Motorcycle club.
Military field mass for the spanis]
war dead was celebrated in the shad
ow Of the Washington monument a
the capital before Is, 900 people. Pre-.
1dent Ta8t. members Of the cabinet. a
the diplomatic corps and of cousres