Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-17

The government lost suit In New
York to compel the estate of H. O.
Havemeyer to forfeit q Stradivarius
violin which the late sugar manufac:
turer bought for $3.50 in 1866, be-
cause duty had never been paid Un it.
A thoroughbred rancy bun rock
rooster was sold for $3.50 by Bernard
N. Duclos, Lenox (Mass.) barber, to
Falls, Vt.
Julius w. Hopkins. paying teller Of
the First National bank OF Cleveland,
Is said to have confessed populations
amounting to $115,000 during the last
eight years. A warrant issued by
United States District Attorney Day
specifically charges him with the theft
Of $4,000.
Julius w. Hopkins, paying teller of
the First National bank of Cleveland,
o., who was arrested, is said to have
confessed to populations amounting to
$115, 1000 during the last eight years.
warrant issued by United States
District Attorney Day specifically
charged him with the theft Of 100000.
Thirty persons were killed and Six
ty wounded in an all day battle be-
tween the defenders of Juarez, Nexi-
co, and rebel soldiers who broke from
the control of General Madero, the in
surgent commander, and attacked the
town. OF the dead five were struck
by stray bullets while on the streets
Of Ell Paso, Tex. Twelve others were
wounded by shots which crossed the
international line.
Forty-three Chicago flremen almost
met death through suffocation from
fumes of gases and dense smoke when
for four hours they battled with flames
which threatened to destroy the Mer-
chants Trust building
President Taft and Attorney General
Wickersham will speak at Columbia
university before a conference to re-
form criminal law and procedure, at
which six important institutions Of the
country will be represented.
Attorney General Wickersham has
written letter of protest to President
Taft against the proposed Rockefeller
foundation, bill for the authorization
of which is in congress.
Christian Scientists are to erect one
of the most magnificent monuments in
the world over the grave of Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy In Mount Auburn GEN.
etery, Cambridge, Mass.
Seventeen students of DR.. Charles E.
Simon, the authority on cancer at Bal
timore, have offered themselves as
subjects for a test cure which has
yielded results when applied to
beasts.
Declaring the entire inquiry being
conducted by the Helm committee in
to the election of Senator Lorimer to
be without warrant of law, Judge A.
J. Petit at Chicago sustained the writs
Of habeas corpus issued to prevent Ed
ward Tilden, William c. Cummings
and George M. Benedict from being
taken before the bar of the state sen.
ate at Springfield to answer contempt
proceedings.
Socialist aldermen at Rockford have
introduced a resolution asking for the
formation Of plan for the city to
take charge of the saloons at the ex-
piration of their licenses. A munich
pal saloon is proposed.
Leaving a note that he was a fail
ure in life, Prot. Fred Lemar Charles.
assistant professor of agricultural ed.
ucation In the University Of Illinois,
committed suicide at Urbana by
strangling himself with a book strap.
One child Is dead and sixty rendered
homeless by a fire which destroyed the
Mary Marilla Hobbs building of the
Methodist Deacons' Orphanage at
Lake Bluff, Ill.
There will be no more Sunday the
atrical performances in any town in
! Kansas il the order of John s. Daw
son, attorney general, just issued. is
observed. They are in violation oil
the Sunday labor law, he says.
An effort to recover his hat, which
had been carried away by a gust Of
wind cost John French his life at But
falo, N. Y. The hat was carried be
meath high pile Of lumber. which fell
on him.
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