Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-30
LATER NEWS.

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The Dewey reception committee Of
New York is making an effort to have
the Dewey celebration Sept. 20 and 80
instead of Sept. 80 and Oct. 2, as now
arranged. Admiral Dewey has been
wired of the change, and will be ex-
pected to hurry his trip.
The village of Echijo, Japan, was
wiped out by fire. Four hundred
houses were destroyed and 100 Japan
csc killed.
Mayor Aiken, Captain j. Wartman
and others of Evansville, Ind, have
invited the governors and other prom
inent men of the northern states to
meet President Mckinley at the ma
tional union of the Blue and the Gray,
Oct. 10 to 10.
granted the courtesy of having an en-
sign of the Greek navy assigned for
duty on the North Atlantic squadron,
and Ensign Constantin Deligeorges
has been selected for this service.
The United States transport Sher-
man, with the California volunteers on
board, arrived at San Francisco the
2Sd.
Nearly 10000 acres of oil leases in
Chester and Jackson counties, Indiana,
have been transferred by Sam w. TAFT
to the Standard Oil company.
The navy department has been noti-
fed that the battleship Alabama is so
far along that her builders trial will
be made on Aug. %, when she will
leave Cramps ship yard for trip down
the capes and back.
A big fight is promised between the
''Big Five" as the beef trust is called,
and the Standard Oil company. Louis
Wagner, president of the Retail Butch
ers' Association of New York city, says
the report is true that John D. Rookie
Teller will back the retail butchers in
their plans for organization against
the trust, and that the retailers can
have $40, 000, 900 capital with which to
make their fight.
Daniel J. Campau, Michigan member
of the democratic national committee,
denies that there is any truth in the
reported move on foot to have the
next national convention held three or
four months earlier than usual.
- The United States transport McClel-
Ian sailed from Brooklyn for San Juan,
Porto Rico, and Santiago, Cuba, carry
ing LOCO tons of clothing, provisions,
medicines and building material for
the destitute in Porto Rico.
The war department will increase
the number of men in the light bat
teries and decrease the number in the
heavy batteries.
The republicans of Pennsylvania NOM
mated j. Hay Brown for Judge of the
supreme court, and James Barnett for
state treasurer.
Julius Alexander, colored, was pri-
vately hanged at Charlotte, N. c., for
assaulting a white woman. He con-
fessed his crime.
A dynamite bomb was thrown into
the residence of the archbishop at Gal
lipoli, Italy, seriously damaging the
walls of the building.
An entire passenger train fell into
the river at Santiago, Chile, and many
lives were lost. !
The democrats of Mississippi nomi-
mated A. Il. Longino for governor.
The sultan of Morocco has notified
the. powers that he is DESTROYING the
native boats on the Riff coast and is
establishing gunboat service in order
to protect foreign shipping from piracy.
Admiral Dewey cables that he will
be at New York Sept. %. This will
enable the reception committee to hold
the naval parade on Friday and the
land parade on Saturday. u -
Consul Edward Bedloe of Pennsyl-
vapia, who has been stationed at Can.
ton, China, during the administration
OF: President Mckinley, has been sus
pended by the state department. and
granted permission to retire to the
United States. :. .z $, N. =
Henry Marion, SO. years old, was
killed recently near his home, sever
miles from Ponca, Neb., by i blow Of
tForris Casey's fist. The killing wa.
the result of an old feud. ..53s .7* Fl Fl
"A boiler explosion at the stone QUAR-
~ Of Yoder & Sons Decatur, Ind, re
RULED in the death Of Alfred Minger
Daniel Yoder was fatally injured ane
eight other employees were slightl,
hurt. 3= 1. S:s
It is estimated that during the recen
hurricane along the Atlantic coast 10
lives were lost. . St==