Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-06-26

voted Aye" Tor the platform In q
chorus of "boos' and cat-calls.
fornia family as the result Of the set
Element Of an old lawsuit In st. Louis.
The money will be paid by the holders
pf real estate in the commercial cen
ter of that city, who were defendants
In the suit that was decided in favor
of the California plaintiffs. Those to
whom this fortune will go are Ludlow
Chambers, resident Of San Francisco
md his three daughters.
The captain Of the British steamer
[lford. from Galveston. found three
bodies of Titanic victims $40 miles
from the scene of the disaster. Pa
pers on the bodies identified them as
three stewards of the Titanic. The
bodies were buried at sea.
Arthur w. Shaw, formerly president
and general manager OF the A. w.
Shaw Boot & Shoe company of Free
port, Me-, was sentenced to from three
to five years in state prison for the
theft of $4,000 from the company.
A bandit who held up the passen-
gers of two San Joaquin river launches
about forty miles south of Stockton,
CAL, was beaten to death after he
had shot Samuel M. Grfscom, en-
Eineer of one Of the boats. through the
shoulder.
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Mrs. Annie Hibbard of Tompkins
Corners, N. Y, fell and fractured her
skull while attempting to hang por-
trait of Colonel Roosevelt. " q:
Mrs. Susan Merritt, Harry K.
Thaw's former landlady, testtfying in
the Thaw insanity hearing at White
Plains, N. Y. said that on one occa.
sion Thaw beat two young girls almost
into fhsensibility and that when she
broke into the room he rushed at her
and she feared he would kill all three
United States Judge Hanford at Ia,
coma, Wash, denied the motion for
q rehearing In the case Of Leonard
Olson, the Socialist whose naturali-
cation papers were revoked on the
ground that they had been obtained by
fraud. The case figured prominently
IN the charges presented by Congress.
man Berger for the impeachment Of
Judge Hanford. .~
The National Assembly of Civil
Service Commissions met at Spokane.
Wash. for it's fifth annual convention,
with delegates present from federal,
state and municipal boards and com.
missions throughout the United States.
President Taft pardoned Franklin
P. Mays on the ground that govern
ment prosecutors had pursued i'm
proper methods in obtaining his con-
victton Of land frauds ut Portland,
Ore. In 1907. This is the second par
don granted by the president in the ia
nous Mitchell Hermann land cases.
Willard N. Jones was pardoned few
days ago.
Twelve is the verified death toll Of
an explosion in the new mine Of the
Victor-American Fuel company at
Hastings. Colo. The mine IL. is miles
north of Trinidad and belongs to the
Victor-American Fuel company.
The Fourth Of July. SO far as Great
or New York is concerned, Il to bs
transformed from q day Of noise to !
day OF music. According to the plans
announced by the safe and sane
Fourth committee there is to be sing
ing In every quarter Of the city. morn
ns, afternoon and evening.
The interstate commerce. commits.
ZION ordered upon its own Initiative
IN investigation Of the rates, practices
md regulations which apply to rail-
DAD transportation Of hard coal. All
ne anthracite roads embraced IL the
o-called hard coal trust viii 30 70
pondents in the proceeding.
Twenty are known to be dead IN
lates and Johnson counties, southeast
rn Missouri. where a tornado moved
lown giant trees and destroyed III
homes in ito path Of death. sixty miles
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