Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-09

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~ years in prison for 1 crime Of
which Nc was innocent. has been placed
on Andrew Carnegie's pension list by
IN order %of the steal master. 10th
land his family win receive $40 I
month. 10th was sentenced to hang ii
March. 1889. for murder.
J. Miss Harriet Quimby Of California
was created the first American ayia.
tress when the officials OF the Aero
club Of America awarded her an .'air
pilots" license at the Hampstead
Plains. IN. ~. aerodrome. She il
the second woman In the world to get
a flying license.
Seven persons were drowned in the
st. Lawrence river when the ferry
steamer Sirius struck shoal eight
miles below Massena, N. Y. capsized
and hurled its rs passengers in to the
river.
Acting Fire Chief John Kenlon was
appointed by Fire Commissioner john
son to succeed. Fire Chief Croker Of
New York. who recently resigned.
The police are searching for James
H. Gore, chief clerk Of the National
Sugar refinery at Yonkers, N. Y, on
warrant which charges him with the
theft of more than 1000 barrels OF
sugar, valued at nearly $4,000.
John Ridgely Carter, minister to the
Balkan states. is to be appointed min
lister to Argentina, succeeding Charles
H. Sheriff.. who may 60 to better
post. ..~.
Nearly 500 conductors and motor
men employed by the Des Moines
(1owa) City Railway company voted
to strike in the event of failure to OBJ
tain arbitration in the case Of con-
ductor recently discharged.
Two persons are known to have
been killed, score are injured and
practically every business house in
Abilene, Texas, is more or less dam
aged as the result Of storm Of wind
and hail which swept over that region.
1t has become known in New York
that Mr.. and Mrs. Francis r. Arnold,
the parents of Miss Dorothy Arnold,
who disappeared from her home De-
cember II, have gone to Italy. 1t is
declared their visit is made In con.
nection with their search for their
daughter.
The long expected shake-up at the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth'
Kan, came when Frank H. Lemon,
deputy warden, resigned by request.
His removal as an officer Of the pris-
on was recommended by Attorney
General Wickersham following an In
vestigation OF prison affairs by two
inspectors of the department Of JUS
uce.
Because of their scarcity potatoes
have become legal tender at Milliken.
Colo, where man gave one for two
glasses of beer and received s cents
change.
Sporting
With seven pounds of lead on his
back Hedgewood Boy. by stepping
handsomely in 2:02%, the best per-
Torrance of the year, won the grand
river weight handicap, freefor.all pace.
the feature Of the final day of the
Grand Rapids (Mich.) first grand cir
cult meet.
st. Croix tombstone, a Chicago avia-
tor, broke the American endurance
records for monoplanes and biplanes
at Mineola, N. T., when he remained
in the air for hours minute and
81 seconds, circling the aviation course
Of about five miles 80 times.
Personal
The engagement of Col. John Jacob
Aston to Miss Madeline Force, q
younger daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Force Of New York city,
was announced by the parents of the
young woman. No date has yet been
set for the wedding.
1t is announced at the residence Of
Clara Morris, the actress, at Yonkers,
N. Y, that under the treatment Of a
famous European specialist she is
gradually regaining her eyesight.
Seven hundred retail jewelers. as
sembled in Richmond, Va, for the an
nual convention of their national as
ISOLATION.
The yearly convention Of the
knights Of Columbus opened in De-
troit delegates being present from
every state, Porto Rico, the Philip
pines. Cuba. Canada and Mexico.
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About twenty leading publicity men
from England were the guests of hon
or Of the Associated Advertising Clubs
of America whose annual meeting be-
gan in Boston.
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Martin O'Brien, eighteen years one
of the guards at the White House and
the last ten years known as the presi-
dents body guard. died in Washington
Of heart failure: