Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-10-18

States Senator Albert ). Hopkins. 81
pressed the opinion before the Lori
mer investigating committee Of til,
senate at Chicago that four Repuh
lican members Of the 1909 Illinois leg
islature We're corruptly influenced t.
vote for William Lorimer.
Lieut.. BENJAMIN D. Foulois, tn,
army aviator. underwent an operation
for appendicitis At the Walter Reet
army hospital In Washington. TIL.
appendix was badly affected and Il
Is expected he will be confined to thu
hospital for sometime
Pearls and diamonds, said to bt
valued at $4,000, disappeared fror
the stateroom of Miss Helen Wood q
st. Louis while she was passenge
on the Hamburg-American liner Anne,
ika. bound for New York.
Because she was prevented fror
clipping last January, Mrs: Sylvia Ca,
non Of st. Louis has filed suit &c
$4,000 damages against a police of
Ger and farmer who stopped her.
Mrs. Ida Won Claussen, who
fighting divorce suit in New Yorl
will be. examined as to her sanity b
cause she wrote a threatening lette
to the court.
c. H. Townsend, coxswain Of tn
torpedo boat destroyer Whipple, ra
100 yards for aid at San Pedro, Ca
when his right arm was cut of at tn
shoulder after a fall under switc
engine.
Custer proceedings by the state
Ohio against the Hooking Valley raj
road have been dropped on the pledp
OF the company to relinquish contrt
of certain coal concerns and compe,
ing railways. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kraft, proprie
tors OF a roadhouse seven miles from
Detroit. Mich, were murdered.
daughter claims Charles Fuller, a for
mer employee. shot at her and missed
and then killed her parents.
.
After an hours running revolve,
fight Frank Amos, believed to have
been one OF three bandits who held NJ
Missouri. Kansas & Texas passenke,
train near Bartlesville. Okla, on Octo
Der was killed by a sheritf's posse.
United States Circuit Judge and for.
mer United States Senator joseph
Very Quarles died at his home in Mil.
waukee. He had been in poor health
for about q year. Twelve months ago
ne suffered an acute attack OF grip,
and for the last six weeks had been
confined to his home Judge Quarlea
was sixty-eight years old.
Lieut.. Hans Gericke and ]. Ottu
bunker. pilot and assistant respective.
~, OF the German balloon Berlin H..
reached Holcomb, Wis, victors in the
international balloon race In an ex-
hausted condition after a perilous bat
tie with gale that ragged for forty
hours. They had been given up for
lost by the Kansas City Aero club:
Postmaster General Hitchcock IN his
estimates for the next fiscal year in
cludes an item for $4,000 for expert.
mental parcels post in cities and coun.
try districts and for an investigation
for the establishment Of general
parcels post on all railway and steam
boat transportation routes.
The Grain Dealers National associa,
ton opened its annual convention in
Omaha with thousand delegates in
attendance.
The National Life Underwriters
association met In annual convention
in Chicago.
In a speech at Bellingham, Wash,
President Taft predicted that the
Panama canal would be ready for use
on July /. 1913.
Rodney Sackett, one of Senate,
Stephenson's campaign managers
testified before the senatorial inyestt
eating committee in Milwaukee thu;
candidates for the Wisconsin leeis
lature benefited by the $107,793 cam
paign fund now being investigated.
Four men were killed by an explt
sion OF dynamite sixty feet belo,
Central park. New York, on the Cat
kill aqueduct
Sporting
Erwin Bergdoll, a Philadelpb,
amateur driver. won the Quaker CT,
Motor club 20211-mile automobi
race with 90-horse-power Benz c:
in Paramount Park, PHILADELPHIA. H:
time was 3 hours Is minutes and
35-100 seconds.
Exceeding the worlds record for
cross country aeroplane flight, by 13
miles, and speeding 20 miles an hot
at times, c. p. Rogers landed at Ma,
shall. Mo-, on his air voyage fror
New York to San Francisco. Tb.