Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-10-29

500 miles Of railroad In Cuba have
been signed BY English bankers. The
road will extend from S. Caibarien to /
Neuvitas, Santa Cruz, In northern
Cuba and viii cost $26, 000. 900.
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The result Of q referendum vote
among subsidiary organizations OF
the Chamber Of Commerce of the I'm
tied States on the Glass.Owen bill
was announced on October a. d It
favored the measure by 1913 to II.
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The right of Illinois public school
boards to legislate against school fra
ternities and to expel pupils who re-
fuse to obey such rules, was upheld
by the Appellate Court of Cook Coun-
ty in decision handed down October
IA.
The Chicago Board of Education at
it's meeting of October Is abolished
it's Committee on Commercial Educa-
ton which had been in existence
since June and had been objected to
by Mrs. Young on the ground that it
interfered with the Superintendent
authority. = z...
All Of the great Eastern railroads,
including the Pennsylvania, New
York Central, Erie, Baltimore and
Ohio, Reading, Lackawanna and the
Lehigh Valley, filed applications on
October Is with the Interstate Com
merce Commission for permission to
increase freight rates five per cent.
Chairman Clayton of the House Ju-
dietary Committee appointed on Oc-
tober 16 a subcommittee to investi-
gate charge of official misconduct
against federal District Judge Emory
Speer of Georgia. The sub-commit-
tee consists of Representatives Webb
of North Carolina, Floyd of Arkan-
sas and Volstead of Minnesota.
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| Sir Henry Wood, director and con-
ductor of the Queens Hall orchestra
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four women violinists and two women
viola players for the forthcoming sea-
son. The director says the average
cultured woman violinist is superior
to the average man. The women will
be paid the same amount as the men.
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Sir Rufus Isaacs, Attorney General
in the Liberal cabinet, was appointed
Lord Chief Justice of England on the
10th. There is special point in this
announcement because Mr.. Isaacs
was accused with Lloyd-George fo1
specializing in Marconi shares. His
present elevation to the bench would
indicate that the attempted political
defamation of character has been fu
tile.
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Greater individual freedom, tC
which some have attributed the rapid
spread of divorce in this country
| seems to be having an opposite effect
in Japan. The recent census report
of Toxic shows a decrease of 25 pei
cent in the number of divorces from
1904 to 1911. Changes in family re
lations, and particularly the greater
freedom of the wife, are. given al
causes. ..'..-
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Walter Burley Griffin, the Chicago
architect whose plan for the project
ed capital city of the Australian Com
monwealth took first prize in "a worlt
competition last year, has now beer
appointed director general in charg,
of the erection of buildings at the new
capital. Mr.. Griffin went to Australi;
last summer at the request of tn,
Commonwealth government to pres
ent erection plans and will begin hi
new work at once.
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: Charles G.. Craig, Democrat, wa
elected justice of the Illinois Su
preme Court at the special election
on October 20 in the Fifth Judicia
district containing the city of Peoria
; The vote was as follows: Charles
Craig, Democrat, 1886; Leslie D
Puterbaugh, Republican, 14,056; Ar
thur H. Shay, Progressive, 9,15S. TIL,
same district voted last fall as fol
lows for president: Taft, 16,S49; Viii
son, 29,17S; Roosevelt, 36,2O6.
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~ At Fairmount, Maryland, ninety oy
stermen and thirty-eight women, re
Gently deprived of their means O
livelihood by the leasing to privat,
individuals Of the hitherto free oy
ster bottoms off shore, destroyed OF
the 14th all oyster. planting devices
and all marks of private ownership
of the shadows. The women KEEP
armed guard while the men did tn,
work, and afterward the town of Fair
mount celebrated the occasion.
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Matthew M. Medley, Democrat, wa
elected to Congress by $500 pluralit.
in the special election on October ID
in the first West Virginia district. J
G. Hearne, Republican, was second
: and G.. A. Laughlin, Progressive
third. The Socialist candidate, Walt
er B. Hilton, polled more than 500
L votes, although the total vote cas-
was very light. The vote in the dis
+ trict at the last presidential election
was: Wilson, 23,212; Taft, 12,702
Roosevelt, 1921; Debs, 1851. .*~
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: The one hundredth anniversary 0
the Battle OF Nations" in which tn,