Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-01-03
Domestic

D0n1estic}
A posse at Cairo, ILL.,, conducted an
unsuccessful search for a negro who
attacked the wife of Turner Johnson.
. negro section hand, and Johnson's
twelve-year-old daughter.
A trolley car carrying IS passen-
gers, nearly all Of whom were promi-
nent residents of Schuylkill Haven,
Pa, on their way to Pottsville to at
tend the performance of comic
opera, Jumped Black bridge into the
Schuylkil river here, injuring every
person on board, some Of whom it is
feared, will die.
Adrian G. cap" Arson, hero Of
many q baseball game, distinguished
himself as a life saver in jackson.
park lagoon in Chicago, when he:
ID two young boys from drowning.
had gone down a second time
1t was necessary for Arson and
npanion to work over him an
before life was restored.
unaway trolley car on King
-, at Toronto killed one woman.
injured seven persons sci. ,usly and
badly bruised 30 others. The motor
man, James Moore, lost control of the
car and 1t ran at terrific speed until
It struck switch, where it toppled
over. The motorman was arrested.
The real hope Of universal peace
lies In an inevitable refusal of the
masses to be led to war over such pre-
texts as the ancient one of beauti-
full woman's face, declared Bishop
Charles D. Williams in q sermon at
St Paups Protestant Episcopal ca
thedral in Detroit, Mich.
A special committee of the st. Louis
board of education has decided that
penny" lunch-rooms in the schools
are self-sustaining and profitable and
they Will be established in all the
schools.
Pleas OF guilty were made by Shell
ton G. Burr, president; Eugene Ii.
Burr, secretary-treasurer; Charles ii.
Tobey, vice-president, and Edwin
Wesley Preston, an official OF the
Burr Brothers, Inc, stock promoters
lat New York. Their offices here were
raided November 20, 1910, by the pos
tai authorities. the men being charged
with using the mails in a scheme to
defraud investors.
Alderman Walter Gibson Of Gary,
Ind. charged with soliciting and &C.
cepting bride in the passage of the
Dean heating franchise in Gary, was
found guilty by jury In the Lake cir
cult court at Crown Point after the
panel had been out but fifteen min
utes. Only one ballot was taken.
Overruled by Judge Carpenter on
every objection they had raised, coun-
sci for the Chicago packers in the gov
ernment's prosecution were forced to
proceed with their defense without
further delay. Replying to the govern
dngham. in an address to the jury, dis
closed, for the first time, the full out
line of the defense.
A music score was transmitted by
wire for the first time in the history
of telegraphy at Toronto, Ont. It was
sent from New York city at an enor.
NOUS cost, which purchased the con-
troll Of a direct wire for the space of
several hours.
A third member of the household
may die as the result Of the poison
Ing of the family of Thomas Register
at Henderson, Ky. Three members of
the family and two negro servants
became suddenly i'll after drinking
beer.
Sam McVey, the negro heavyweight,
was given the decision over Sam
Langford, the Boston tar baby at
Sydney, N. s. W., on points. The
fight, which bristled with hard hit
ting and clever sparring, went the
limit-20 rounds.
Walter M. s., known by the stage
name Of Wright Lorimer, actor and
playwright, disheartened by poverty,
committed suicide here BY inhaline
gas in his apartments IA New York
city. He had been out q an engage.
-ment for some time. z.5s u II I5#. Ms