Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-12-11

Joseph II. Ransdell, senator-elect
from Louisiana, was elected president
Of the National Rivers and Harbors
congress at the closing session in
Washington.
Because the Mexican federal govern
ment has shown itself unable to af-
ford protection to Americans In Mex
leo, the war department authorized
General Steever, in command of the
troops on the border, to send quant1-
ties of carbines and ammunition to
American ranchers and miners at Her.
mosillo, Sonora and Durango.
Secretary Of the Navy Meyer in his
annual report said the United States
peeds a navy Of Al battleships and
other vessels in proportion.
President Taft In his second mes
sage to congress since the short ses-
sion began points out that the bust
pess situation of the country could
hardly be better and that an unexam-
pied era of prosperity Is at hand.
Amended to authorize complete in
vest1gation into the question Of inter-
state carrier corporations stock and
bond issues, the bill by Representa-
tive Adamson, empowering the inter
state commerce commission to make a
physical valuation of the property Of
railroads and other common carriers,
was passed by the house at Washing
ton without dissenting vote.
Attorney General Wickersham sub
United his annual report, in which he
asked legislation permitting his de-
partment to combine it's litigation
against the United States Shoe Ma
chinery company and the so-called
coffee trust.
The initiative and referendum and
recall of judicial decisions, as amend
ments to the federal constitutions,
were proposed In two resolutions in
Produced in the senate by United
States Senator Bristow of Kansas.
A statement filed with the clerk Of
the national house of representatives
in accordance with the campaign pub
licity law shows that it cost the
Democratic national campaign com.
mittee $1,159,455 to elect Woodrow
Wilson president of the United States
In the November election.
For the ninth time in the history Of
the United States, its most plenary
power-impeachment proceedings
was exercised by the senate. Robert
w. Archibald, associate justice of the
commerce court, was the defendant
His impeachment trial began, with a
committee of seven representatives
acting as prosecutors.
Domestic
| Judge Hough in the United States
district court in New York quashed
the indictment returned by the federal
grand jury July 1, 1909, against the
American Sugar Refining company,
John e. Parsons, Washington B.
Thomas and other officials of the com
pany, which charged conspiracy in re.
straint Of trade.
The bodies Of Mrs. Bertha McNama.
"a, twenty-six years old, and Harry
Houseworth, eighteen. were found on
. lounge at the home of the boys
brother, Benjamin Houseworth, at
Marion, o. Both had taken poison.
! Trapped in a burning barn at Uni.
versal, Pa, three small children were
slowly burned to death, while their
mothers listened to the children's
screams and tore frantically at the
weather boarding Of the barn in q
futile attempt to save them.
The body of Miss Minnie Turner
was found In a room In hotel in
Catlettsburg, KY, when the door was
forced. James York of Huntington
W. Va, was dying, and second
woman, appeared in no way able to
account for the death.
Jack" Johnson, negro prize fighter
married at Chicago Lucille Cameron
the white girl who escaped the Gus
tody of her mother. Ragtime music
and scenes of revelry followed the ex
change of vows and the wedding
feast given by Johnson.
To rescue his passengers from pos
sible shipwreck, Capt. Robert Will
Jams plunged from his stranded vessel
into the Potomac river and swan
ashore for help, with the result that
four army officers, two women and
fourteen enlisted men reached Forts
Washington and Hunt shivering and
cold, but safe. The army boat went
hard aground OF Giesboro point, Nd.
in heavy fog. ..z.:% ..:s.> .1 .: !,
Champ Clark, speaker OF the house
Of representatives. in = letter to an