Willmar tribune., 1898-09-07
MINOR llLI NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending Sept. L.
! Famine in Russia is rapidly on the
increase.
Malietoa Lacupepa, king of Samoa,
died of typhoid fever. L.
The seasons gold output in the Yu.
kon district of Alaska is estimated at
$11,0o0,Ooo.
New Hampshire democrats nomi-
mated Charles +. Stone, of Concord,
for governor.
Robbers secured $4,000 in cash from
wagon of the Pacific Express COM
pany in Omaha.
Eddie McDuffie went ten miles on a
bicycle in Boston in 20:46 As, breaking
the worlds record.
A dispatch from Paris says that the
French budget estimates show deficit
of 120,000,000 francs.
The czar of Russia wants an inter-
national conference held to secure uni
versal good feeling.
Judge Valiant, of the St. Louis cir
cult court, rendered a decision de-
claring boycotts legal.
Fire and water ruined 5000, 900 worth
of flour in the New York Central
freighthouse at Buffalo, N. Y.
Albert Dukat, a Bohemian recluse
more than 100 years old, ended his life
in Chicago by hanging himself.
At the annual reunion in Milwaukee
of the famous Iron brigade Gen. E. S.
Bragg was. reelected president.
The Chinese emperor has issued an
edict warning officials that there must
be no more anti-missionary riots.
The South Dakota law taxing trav-
cling statesmen Las been declared in
valid by the state supreme court.
Eighteen or 20 persons were injured
in a collision between a work train
and a passenger train near Alva, O. T.
Judge Levin Johnson, of the Jackson
county (Ky.) court, murdered his wife
and then committed suicide in Ann
Vile.
The confederation of the states of
Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua is
to be called the United States of Cen
tral America.
Savannah, Ga, and the territory
within radius of so miles of the CITY
was swept by cyclone that did i'm
mense damage.
The steamer Hope arrived at St.
Johns, N. F.. from her trip to Green
land, withcr she carried the Peary ex-
p!oring expedition.
The French lark Pierre Corneilla,
which left San Francisco February %
for Table bay, is reported lost with
her crew of 25 men.
Harry s. Stevens, well-known
broker in Cleveland, O., committed sui
eide by shooting himself. Business
troubles were the cause.
Fire at Nashville, Tenn, DESTROYED
the hardware establishment of the
Phillips-Buthoff Co., and other prop
erty, the loss being $5O0,O0O.
A monument erected to the memory
of the Americans who were killed in
the battle of Miranda in 1906 was un-
veiled at Maricaibo, Venezuela
The report of Chief Wilkie, of the
secret service, shows that in the past
fiscal year 705 arrests were made and
the value of counterfeit notes recov-
cred was $117,243.
Charles Scott, president of the de-
funct bank of Rosedale, Miss, and C.
E. Wright, editor of the Vicksburg
Dispatch, fought a duel, the latter be-
ing slightly wounded.
Congressional nominations: Illi-
nois, Eleventh district, Walter Reeves
Qep.) renominated; Fourteenth, J.V.
Graft (rep.) renominated. Ohio, Sixth
district, L. H. Whitman (dem.); Eighth,
w. II. DAILY (dem:); Eleventh, C. E. Peo-
pies (dem.); Sixteenth, f. D. Moore
(dem:). Michigan, Sixth district, S. w.
Smith (rep.) renominated. Pennsyl-
vania, Sixth district, T. S. Butler
(rep.); Eleventh, William Connell
(rep.) renominated; Twelfth, S. W.
Davenport (dem.).