Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-20
EPITOME OF A WEEKS NEWS
:=.> Most Important Happeninss Told in Brief.

sixteen persons were killed and az
many more were injured when the
Monon railroads Cincinnati Limited"
running on the tracks Of the Cincin.
natl. Hamilton & Dayton railroad, ran
into an open switch and smashed into
freight train at 1rvington., southern
suburb Of Indianapolis, Ind. "
Upon Mrs. Helen Dwelle jenkins
testimony that she has no real estate
and that nearly all her personal et-
fects were turned over to Deputy Sur
veyor Parr for loans made to her, JUS
tice Schmuck. IN New York. appointed
Philip. Dunn receiver Of her prop
erty. # :
AS penalty for having caused the
death of John McNamara, a car con-
ductor. through a blow of his fst,
Joseph Bush was ordered by Justice
Crane of the New York supreme
court 10 pay: to .McNamara's widow
the sum Of three dollars per week for
one year, to aid in the support of
herself and her three children.
Mrs. u. Rappe Myers, wife of the
proprietor Of tho Rape hotel, Green's
burg, Pa, was shot by her daughter
Gladys IN mistake for burglar in
sleeping car on Pennsylvania rail-
road train bound for New York. She
died q short time later in q Trenton
IN. J.) hospital.
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Six men were killed outright and
about thirty badly injured in an explo-
sion which demolished pack house No.
OF theAetna Powder company, three
miles east Of Gary, Ind. Between 1000
and 1000 pounds of new dynamite ex-
ploded, damaging other buildings and
scattering debris over = mile of terri
tory.
William Shapiro, .co.defendant of tho
four gunmen indicted as the actual
slayers *of the gambler. Herman Ros-
entha1. testffying at the gunmen's trial
IN New York for murder, identi-
fed the quartet-"Lefty Louie"
"Gyp the Blood" "Whitle" Lewis and
"Dago" Frank Cirotici-as his passen-
gers In the murder car" which he
drove to the Hotel Metropole.
The clinical congress of surgeons
1T the Academy of Music. Brooklyn.
took steps to start a crusade Of pub.
ucity throughout the country against
cancer. ...
-: Joha schrank pleaded guilty In MIL
waukee ofattempting to murder Theo.
dore Roosevelt, and in his plea he
sought to distinguish between an at
tack upon Roosevelt as menace"
and an attack upon Roosevelt as citi-
ten. Municipal Judge Backus appoint
ed commission to inquire into
schrank's sanity.
Balkan War
Having referred Turkeys request
for an armistice to her allies. Bull
garia is pushing her army toward
Constantinople with all possible haste.
continuing the great and so far sue
cessful movement Of rolling up the
Ottoman defenses.
The report from St. Petersburg that
the Russian government does not in
tend to support Servia's demands for
a port on the Adriatic, together with
an official statement from Constan-
tinople that Turkey is negotiating
with Bulgaria direct, has cleared the
atmosphere materially in European
diplomatic circles. The situation is
no longer considered critical.
Personal
Vincent Astor celebrated his twen-
ty-flrst birthday in New York and
took legal and official title to the for
tune left by his father, Col. John ia
cob Astor. The total amount of the
estate is estimated at $S0,000,000, Of
which Vincent Astor receives approx
Imately $87,000,000.
Mrs. Frederick A: Dow, president
Of the Arena club of Chicago, was
elected president of the Illinois Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, it was an
nounced at the convention at Auro-
"a, Ill.
William Campbell Clark, president
If the Clark Thread works, and prob
ably the best known man In the world
| In the thread industry, died at his
home In Newark, N. j., from clogging
Of the internal ducts by blood clots.
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| It was announced by the British for
eign office that the resignation Of
James Bryce as ambassador to Wash.
ington had been received and that Sir
Cecil spring-Rice had been appointed
to succeed him. ...
Foreign
Eleven persons per1shed when the
steamboat Mayhower sank In the Ma.
dewska river, Canada. Three surviv.
ors are 80 weak that they can tell lit
tie about how the accident occurred.
The body of the. Spanish premier
Jose .Canalejas. who was assassinated
on Tuesday, was entombed in thu
Spanish pantheon with the highest ma
tlonal hnnora The entirA nation II