Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-11
Several hundred agricultnrista m

at Greeley. COL. and formed the Colo
RADIO Agricultural Anti.Pest assccia
ton, the purpose Of whichis to furthe,
efforts to exterminate crop-destroyin1
insects. Particular attention was paid
to the grasshopper.
Judge Hanford In the United State,
court at Seattle, WASH. enjoined the
city council from appropriating none,
for the special election called for Feb
ruary to Dust Mayor Hiram c. Gil
from office under the recall provision
Of the city charter.
According to he Journal do Com.
mercio of Rio Janeiro, Joao Candida,
leader Of the recent revolt in the
navy, and forty-four other mutineers
have met sudden deaths. Candida
succumbed to gangrene, twenty-six
OF his associates died from sunstroke
and eighteen others were suffocated
in their cells in the prison on Viii
legainon Island.
Eight additional indictments were
returned against Joseph G.. Robin in
the New York court Of general ses-
sion. Including the original indict-
ment charging the theft of $4,000,
Robin is now accused of the larceny
OF $4,000 from the Washington and
Northern Savings banks, which he
controlled.
minneapolis, Mimi, was plunged in.
to darkness and the commercial life
OF the city almost paralyzed by an ex-
plosion Of the $4,000 wire" leading
into the power plant OF the Mime
apolis General Electrical company.
Fire followed and completed the
demolition of the building. Two men
were injured and the damage to the
property is estimated at 100000.
Several were killed and fifty were
wounded in a pitched battle between
Spanish soldiers and rioters at Zuera.
Spain. The rioting was the result of
the high prices of food.
The factory of Bentley & Olmsted.
shoe manufacturers, at Des Moines.
Ia, completed last year, was burned
to the ground with a loss OF 500, 900,
which included 10000 pears of shoes.
The United States and Spain ar, to
be brought into closer touch with each
other by an improved telegraph serv-
ice between these two countries, &C.
cording to consular reports.
The foreign banking house of P. V.
RoVnianek & Co. of Pittsburg, with
branches in New York and Uniontown,
Pa, was placed in the hands of re-
ceiver. The liabilities are placed at
$1,0O9,000, with assets at $1,4O0,OO0.
The 'parlor" match ordinarily used
in the United States is to be pro-
hibited, If a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Mann of Chicago becomes
a law.
Asleep on his feet, Jacob Seligman,
a baker. staggered into a powerfully.
Ell doughnut mixer in New York and
was drawn into the machine and
chopped to pieces before the power
could be shut off,
Engineer John Shields, Fireman O.
M. Earn and Brakeman w. r. Las
were killed when passenger train No.
Is on the Santa Fe railroad was
wrecked on curve mile and halt
south of Mulvane, Kan.
Chairman Crumpacker of the house
committee on census presented his
bill based on the last
census returns. 1t provides for a house
membership of 433, or AZ more than
at present.
Two thousand soldiers, accounted
for relief work, were rushed into the
earthquake stricken territory OF
Semiryetchensk, Turkestan, Thurs.
day, where fully 1000 are reported to
have been killed or wounded in the
terrific and devastating earth shocks.
Practically 1000 square miles of ter
ritory are said to have been shaken
and whole towns wiped out.
Endorsement of the Democratic
caucus for United States senator was
given to Lieut.. Gov-elect Atlee Pome
rene of Canton, Stark county, 0.
When the legislature meets in joint
session he will be elected to succeed
the Republican senator, Charles Dick.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
has been advised that an approximate
addition Of $500 a day has been made
to the governments revenue from the
lease of Indian oil lands in Oklahoma
and Kansas, through the advance in
the price of crude oil.
With the temperature Is degrees be-
low zero 40 students In st. Joseph's
college, Roman Catholic institution
at CRANKY, QUE, were routed from
their beds shortly before midnight BY
a fire which destroyed the main build
ing of the college.
The second fight of the American
Tobacco corporations against dissolu
ton by decree of the Supreme court
OF the United States under the Sher.
man antitrust law was begun when
their attorneys advanced a fusillade
of arguments in behalf of their cause.
Peru has agreed to submit ita
boundary dispute with Ecuador to the
arbitration Of The Hague tribunal.
This Is in compliance with the sugges.
ton of the United States, Brazil and
Argentina.
The federal government brought
suit in the United States circuit cour,
at New York under the Sherman anti.
trust law against 43 of the principal
transatlantic steamer lines, which are
estimated to control 80 per cent. of the
steerage traffic, worth to them $55,
600, 900 year. Twelve officers Of the
defendant companies, all residents In
America, are named as co.defendants
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