Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-11
EP[T0ME
Of 4
WEEKS NEWS
Most Important Happen
ings Told In Brief.

AxS0 OAO LA DAA~As
Washington
DR.. F. L. Dunlap OF the department
Of agriculture, bureau Of chemistry,
who was the chief accuser Of DR.. Har-
vey w. Wiley in the controversy
which shook the department last
spring, has resigned his position. He
has accepted place with chemical
concern in Chicago.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer denied
that he had decided to resign from the
cabinet on account Of i'll health, az
was reported. There ls absolutely
no truth in this rumor," he said. L
Inn not to leave the cabinet. My health
Is very much improved"
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson has
arranged to hold hearings on the
white pine blister rust September Is,
On the Mediterranean fruit fly Sep
kember Is and the potato wart Sep
tember 20, preliminary to proposed
weeping quarantine proclamat1ons
against these agricultural menaces.
The assault upon DR.. Luis Lazo
Arr1ga former Honduran minister to
Washington, at Guatemala City re-
gently, was purely a personal one,
reports Senior Mendez, Guatemalan
minister, who called at the state de-
partment in Washington and said he
had a telegram from his government
showing that the assault was COM
mitted by Lazo's own servant.
Theodore Roosevelt is expected to
appear October 2 or 3 before the spe-
cial senate committee investigating
campaign contributions, to testify re-
Earding the allegations of John D.
Archbold and Senator Penrose that
the Standard Oil company gave $780,
300 to the Republican national COM
mittee of 1904 with his approval.
President and Mrs. Taft entertained
the foreign and American delegates
10 the eighth international conference
pf applied chemistry.
Domestic
Snow fell in the mountains west OF
Carson City, New, covering the range
to a depth of several inches. This 1s
fVyn
years.
Fire in a steamer trunk cost the
life of Patrick J. Reilly, chief of the
Holyoke (Mass.) fire department.
Reilly was riding to the fire In an
automobile when a hose wagon
struck his machine.
Joseph Drago, an employe on John
D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico
Hills, N. Y, was approached by a
member of the BLACK Hand" society,
who demanded $500 from him. Drago
refused to pay and pistol duel took
place. The BLACK Hand" agent was
shot in the leg, but escaped.
Suffering from a severe fracture OF
the skull, the bandit who, single-hand.
ed, robbed the New York Limited train
on the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road twelve miles east of New Or
leans Wednesday night, later to be
felled by the locomotive driver, was
brought to New Orleans and placed in
the charity hospital.
After entering the house Of his pros
pective father-in-law, Gerrit J. Dieke
ma of Holland, Mich, former congress
man, and, it is charged, stealing $4,000
worth of diamonds and jewelry, A. 9
Brusse, twenty-seven years old, sale
to be of a wealthy family of Vancou
ver, B. c., was arrested at Milwaukee
More than 500 students at Colum
bia university worked their way
through college last year, earning
$4,000, according to the report Of the
committee on employment.
Private detectives who have beer
keeping 4 close watch over the Johr
d. Rockefeller estate at Pocantict
Hills were equipped with a squad o.
watchdogs which will assist them II
pursuing Italian bandits who have
been responsible for recent holdups
and petty crimes on the estate.
Thirty-one indictments against tire
Clinton county (1a.) officials, two for
mer officials and three contractors an
supply men were returned by tn
grand jury which has been at wor
since last April on the county court
house scandal.
A campaign for an increase q
wages and better working condition
for hotel employees In Boston has bee
advanced by an agreement of tw
large hotels to grant Is per cen
increase In wages and other conce,
sions.
Piano manufacturers in New Yor
were considering formal letter fro1
the Musical Instrument Maker
union giving them until September
to reply to a demand for a IL pr
cent increase in wages. 1t is pro
able that the demand will be ignore