Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-01-29

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their plans anticipated at one OF the
large Broadway hotels in New York
when the Hotel Knickerbocker man,
agement discharged every one OF the
$50 walters in its employ.
Nellie Hills. aged twenty.threa
charged with strangling Jesse McCune
was convicted by jury in Evansville,
Ind, Of murder in the first decree and
given life term In the penitentiary.
The evidence showed that she tool
the lives Of two sixteen-year-old girls
within the space of one week to cover
up her white slave operations.
The arrest Of Richard Frederick
and Irving Sevel. the latter a news.
boy IN Wall street, New York, by post
on1ce inspectors disclosed vast thefts
OF postage stamps in New York and
other cities. which are believed to
nave amounted to at least $4,000. 900.
Both were held under heavy bail.
we have just passed through 90
days Of the tightest money we have
mad since 1907 and IL anything had
blown up. If If anything had happened
to brighten the people we would have
mad another panic" declared David R.
Forgan, president of the National City
bank of Chicago, at a dinner of the
New York Credit Mems association.
No matter what might have been
the motives behind the United States
Steel corporation when it absorbed
the Tennessee Coal & Iron company
nVe years ago. Theodore Roosevelt. as
president, would have sanctioned the
deal, as he was dealing with a panic.
ne SO testified at a resumption in
New York Of the hearing in the gov
ernment's suit to dissolve the So
called steel trust.
The court of appeals at Albany has
dealt severe blow to the so-called
loan shark" business. It held illegal
the practice of exacting additional
sums from borrowers under the guise
OF payments for expenses incurred in
drawing up papers and examining
titles to property.
Fire which DESTROYED a large part
OF the business section of Larned.
Kan, caused a loss Of $4,000. Seven
buildings in the main street were de-
stroyed.
An agreement by which the wages
OF 1000 employees in the shops OF the
Wabash railroad are increased six to
ten per cent was reached at q con-
ference held between E. E. Needham,
superintendent of locomotives and
cars of the Walsh, and other officials
OF the road and committee represent
Ing the shopmen at Springfield, Ill.
Within seven hours after he had
shot and killed Chief of Police Charles
Dickey at Gulfport, Miss, Percy New
kirk, a negro, who had been trapped
by the officer in the act OF robbing a
store, was indicted, tried on a charge
OF murder, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged in one month.
William Coogan. iaborer, fell down
an elevator shaft from the twenty
ninth floor Of the Union Central build.
ing at Cincinnati, and died nine hours
later.
Col. Schuyler, Crosby, veteran Of
the Civil war and former governor of
Montana and a noted Indian fighter,
narrowly escaped death In New York,
when he was attacked by 8. Iwamoga,
his Japanese valet, whose mind Is said
to be affected.
Detective Peter Hart of Chicago
was shot through the heart and killed
by man identified as Robert
cTeddy") Webb, when he was seek
Ing to arrest as an automobile bandit.
The shooting occurred in fiat where
the detective had gone to obtain in
formation about the bandit.
Personal
Mrs. Jennie Wilson Woodbridge, a