Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-11
TELEGRAPH news.
Of The DAY IN
CONDENSED FORM

to give but the following short sum-
mary of the telegraph news OF the
day:
Opposes Popular Election.-ln the
senate at Washington, sectional feel
ing was aroused by Senator Root, who
in a speech in opposition to popular
election of United States senators at
tackled the franchise laws of the south.
Bacon and Fletcher came to the de-
Tense of the south, which only brot
out sharp rejoinders from Root in
defense of the position he has taken
in the matter.
Chinese starving.-A telegram from
the consul at Shanghai, China, states
that unless relieved two million Chin.
ese will die of starvation and that
half a million dollars is needed i'm
mediately to relieve the situation.
Support Statehood. - Senators
Bourne, Brstow, Brown. Clapp, Cum.
Minis, Dixon and La Toilette have
been pledged to favor statehood for
Arizona.
Appeals to Farmers. - President
Taft delivered an address on Canadian
reciprocity at the Columbus Ohio Ma
tional Corn exposition. He made a
direct appeal to the American farmer
and declared that the proposed treaty
would not hurt the farmers of this
country in the least. The hall In
which the speech was delivered seats
1000 people, and was crowded to
overlooking. Taft will close his re-
ciprocity campaign with a speech at
Champaign, Illinois, tonight.
Riley to the Pen.-Thomas B. Riley,
formerly an employe of the interstate
commerce commission, has been SEN
fenced to serve six monthse in the
penitentiary for furnishing sugar
trust" information to the magazines.
The conviction was under the law pro-
hibiting the publication of private
documents without the permission of
the owner.
Plenty Of coin.-According to the
census figures given out last night,
there is in circulation in the United
States at the present time 1921, $780,
465, as against $3,125,586,720 year
ago. The increase is represented in
gold coinage.
Mrs. Roberta G. Hill of New York
was confined in the Tombs prison
for the night last night and fined ST.
900 for attempted smuggling into the
country sable coat and other goods
valued in the total to over $4,000.
The grand jury at Danville, Illinois,
returned ZIG true bills in the alleged
vote buying cases, and a large num-
Der of supOenas were issued last even
ing and are returnable next week.
The grand jury has adjourned until
Monday. The city attorney is said
to be one of the parties against whom
the true bills have been found.
Tri.state Weather. North Dakota:
Fair, warmer Saturday; snow at night
or Sunday. South Dakota: Fair Sat
urday; Sunday unsettled. Minnesota:
Increasing cloudiness and warmer on
Sunday; local SHOWS at night or Sun.
day.
Reciprocity Makes Progress. Can
adam reciprocity agreement made
some progress in congress today thru
discussions of the house ways ana
means committee and conference of
democratic senators, but action in
both cases was deferred, the commit.
tee adjourning until tomorrow morn
ing, and the democratic senators ad-
forming unti1 Tuesday
Miners Observation-Disclosures lives
were lost in mine explosion at Cokes.
dale, COL, last night, and at an early
hour this morning fifteen of the bodies
including that of the assistant super
intendent, had been recovered. The
explosion Of car of blasting powder
caused the disaster.
Gotch Beat swiss.-Frank Gotch
threw George Eberly, the Swiss wrest.
Ter, twice last night at the auditor
ium at St. Joseph, Mo. The first fall
was secured in IS minutes and the
second in little over ten minutes.
Eastern Editor Dead.-Jamcs Elver.
son, aged 70 years, proprietor and edi-
tor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, died
at his home last evening, after an
illness of several weeks.
Separate Church and State.-A bill
has been introduced at Lisbon, Por-
tugal, providing that the church and
the state shall be separated and the
churches will be placed at the dispos-
al of the clergy.
Minnesota Wins.-The Minnesota
university basketball team defeated
the quintet from Iowa last night at
Minneapolis by score of 81 to z.
Won On a Foul.-Young Brown of
Hibbing won a boxing match from
Jimmy Murphy of Chicago on a foul
at Duluth last evening. There were
several INTEREST," preliminaries.
Would Control eooks.-Dr. Glover
and DR.. E. J. Eddy have served notice
on the mother church that they will
demand control of Health and Sci.
ence" and other works of DR., Mary
Baker Eddy when the copyright ex-
pire. There is huge income derived
from the publications.
Young sperry Arrested. - Clyde
sperry, who few days ago is said
to have made a confession of know
Ing the guilty parties in the mvsteri.