Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-07-17
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C0ADENSED.FORM|
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE
At HOME l AND ABROAD

Happenings That Are Making History
-lntornnatlon Gathered from All
Quarters Of tho Globe and
Given In 4 Few Lines.
Washington
Secretary Of State Knox informed
Great Britain, through Alfred Mitch
ell lines, counsellor of the British
embassy, that the United States must
decline to defer action on the Panama
canal bill, now pending in the senate
until the receipt of the formal British
protest against the passage OF the
bill.
BY a vote of 223 to i, with ten mem
bsrs present but not voting, the nation
al house of representatives agreed to
present the thirteen articles OF I'M
parchment against Judge Robert w.
Archibald of the commerce court to the
senate. Representative Parr OF Penn
sylyania was the lone member who
voted against tho resolution to I'M
peach.
Tho Republican national committee
In 1904 raised $1,900,000 for the Roose-
velt presidential campaign, ACCORDING
to testimony given by George B. Cor.
telyou, then chairman Of the national
committee, to the United States SEN
ate committee investigating campaign
contributions. He denied knowledge
Of any contributions from the COAL
steel or beef trusts or from tho rail-
roads.
Robert O. Bailey of Illinois, who has
been an assistant secretary OF the
treasury, has been advanced to the
assistant secretaryship recently re-
signed by A. Piatt Andrew, who quit
with the charge that Secretary Mac
Veagh displayed such lack OF ous1-
ness ability that good work could not
be done by his subordinates.
Information as to the relative stand
ing of the various states in the amount
Of postal savings bonds applied for on
July l, and comparison of this stand
Ing with that of January l last, was
made public by Postmaster General
Hitchcock. The total amount OF
bonds applied for on July 1 was 1884,
$50.
Figures collected by statistical ex'
perts seem to show that suicide Ii
increasing at rapid rate throughout
the United States. Reports from 100
cities show a general rate of 1873 q
100000 of population last year, a
against it, for 1910.
Representative Akin Of New York
introduced a resolution in the house
Of representatives demanding that Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson tell the
house whether he had become the
tool Of irrigation companies" 10 as
list his son, Jasper Wilson, who Is en-
ployed on the Stanley dam project In
Colorado.
Samuel H. Piles, former United
States senator, was called by the de-
tense in the congressional investiga
ton of United States Judge Cornelius
H. Hanford at Seattle. He declared
that he had never seen Judge Han
ford drunk and that the jurist drank
no more than "a gentleman ordinarily
E. drank on such occasions" at the ban
quets both men had attended.
when we got through it was not
worth WHILE" replied Thomas Tag
CART, chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee in 1904, when asked
by the senate campaign expenditure
committee If he ever figured up the
receipts and expenditures of his com
mittee during tho Parker campaign
Mr.. Taggart swore that he burned
the treasufer's books before turning
over the organization records t.
Norman e. Mack, in 1908.
The senate judiciary committee u
Washington decided to report favor
ably tho nomination of William N
Bullitt of Louisville, KY, to be soltc
t~r general to succeed Mr.. Lehman
Domestic
Fire marshals and flre commission
!, prs from nearly all the states bega1
their annual meeting In Detroit.
Il Miss Elsie Moore and Miss Mildre.
Minor, society girls Of Batesville, Ark
were drowned in White river in tn
} presence of a hundred companions
passengers on barge being towed b,
gasoline launch. Their bodies wer
recovered.
Joe Patchen H., the great son of Jo'
Patchen and Bessie sBonehill, driver
~ Will Fleming, was an easy WHINE