Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-07-08
NEWS NARRA TIVE.
(From The Publicly

Announcement was made on June
~ of gift from John d. Rockefeller
to the Rockefeller Institute of Medi-
cal Research of 1850, 900, making the
total contributed by him to that In
stitution $12,550,000. Il ..::z
Senator A.. J. sGronna Of North Da:
kota and Governor Hanna were re.
on the Republican ticket
at the Statewide primary on June "a.
w. E. Purcell received the Demo-
cratic nomination for Senator and r.
0. Hellstrom was named for Cover
nor. ,. sos - -
An economic Study Club has been
organized in San Antonio, Texas. Mr..
E. G. LeStourgeon is President and
G. E.. Meliff, Secretary. The object
of the organization is ''the study and
discussion of economic, social and
political questions of local, State and
national Importance"
The proposal of two-cent postage
between France and the United States
is receiving the attention of the
French Parliament. This rate now
prevails between America and Eng
land, and America and Germany, and
the five-cent rate to France is consid-
cred handicap to French trade.
Conservative Republicans of Wis
consin held State convention on
June % at Madison and nominated a
State ticket headed by Levi H. Ban
croft for Senator and Emanuel l..
Philip for Governor. Petitions will
be circulated to put this ticket on the
primary ballot in opposition to Sen
atOr La FOllette's following.
A press dispatch from Athens on
June II states that United States Min
lister to Greece, George Fred Will
Jams, has sent his resignation to the
State Department at Washington. The
reason assigned that Mr.. Williams
took this course to relieve the De-
partment of any embarrassment that
might result from failure to approve
views he has publicly expressed con-
corning the Albanian situation.
The old wholesale dry goods con.
Germ, the H. B. Claf1in Company of
New York, failed on June rs. Assets
are reported to be $34,000,000; liza
bilities, $44,OOO,O0O. The creditors are
mainly banks. The concern has fin.
anced many dry goods establishments
and department stores thruout the
country. From 5000 to 5000 banks
in all parts of the United States are
said to be holders of its paper.
The Associated Advertising Clubs
of the World, in session at Toronto
Ontario, June 22-25,, took a pronounc.
ed stand for higher ethics in adver.
Using. BY unanimous vote the con.
ference adopted set of resolutions
declaring it the duty of newspapers
to protect the reader and the honest
advertiser as far as possible from de-
ceptive advertisement, and to accept
no advertising that is antagonistic to
the public welfare.
President Wilson on June "a com
muted to expire at once the sentences
of four of the structural iron workers
convicted in Judge Anderson's court
at indianapolis in December, 1912, OF
conspiracy to dynamite: Those are
Michael J. Harmon. of Scranton
Frank H. Painter of Omaha, Fred J.
Mooney of Duluth and William Shupe
of Chicago. Pardon was refused to
the other twenty, and these must
| serve their sentences.
The signing of the protocol brings
the peace issue squarely before the
warning factions. The mediators con-
slider their original task as finished,
but they and the American delegates
to the conference will exercise their
good Offices in enabling the Huerta
and the Carranza delegates to come
| to an agreement. The new confer.
ence is expected to take place at Nj.
agara Falls as soon as General Car.
rama signifies his readiness.
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King Peter I of Servia is announced
as having abdicated the throne on the
Oath in favor of his second son, Prince
Alexander. The king, who is 70 years
old and in poor health, is taking the
baths at Vranya in southern Servia
He assembled the throne on June Is,
1908, after the murder of King Alex.
ander and Queen Draga by forty Ser.
Wan army officers. The new king was
born December 1888, and is said to
be very popular. His elder brother
George, was compelled to surrender
his right to the succession on account
Of wild escapades.
John Wanamaker testified that he
favored labor organizations and criti-
cized John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for
placing the national government in a
position where it had to send troops
into Colorado. He advocated public
ownership of railroads, telegraphs
and other public utilities and criti-
cized the demand for increase of
freight rates., He gave a qualified
endorsement of minimum wage law,
saying it should be tried, but should
be graduated law. The minimum
wage for salesgirls in his store is So
a week and for scrubwomen 81 a
week. 49,. -
The National Chamber of Commerce
on June % denounced the proposed
exemption in the Clayton bill of lab
or and farm organizations from anti
trust prosecution. It declares that if
such exemptions are to be made they
should include "any organizations, or
ders or associations instituted for the
purpose Of mutual help and not mere
ly fraternal, labor, consumers, agri-
cultural and horticultural associa-
tions." It points out that there are
associations for mutual help of bank
ers, lawyers, manufacturers and 9TH
ers, which: are, unjustly omitted from
the exceptions. ,:&F,.