Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-03-29

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upon his new duties in the United
States district court for the northern
district of Illinois.
-. Company L, Fifth infantry, Peoria,
which has been doing military duty in
Pana, ILL.,, for the last three months.
has been recalled by the governor.
Two men were killed and captain of
the state rangers was wounded in a
fight with Mexicans over smallpox at
Laredo, Tex.
The $20,000 900 which the United
States is to pay Spain under the peace
treaty will become available as soon
as the notifications are exchanged be-
tween Secretary Hay and Ambassador
Cambon.
The transport Cleveland sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with 1900
tons of supplies for the American
troops.
Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was the
guest of the Merchants club at ban
quet in Boston.
The Japanese cruiser Chitose, the
first war vessel built in San Francisco
for a foreign power, sailed for the
orient.
Funeral services over the body of Jo-
seph Medill, late editor of the Tribune,
were held at Chicago.
Fire broke up the meeting of the
ladies' board of the Knights of the Mac
cabees in Omaha and in the rush for
safety Mrs. Thomas Taylor and Mrs.
Anna Schamel were killed and Is other
women were injured.
Gov. Stone, of Pennsylvania, has ap-
proved the resolution passed by the leg
islature designating May /, 1899, as
dewey day. and legal holiday.
A boiler explosion in Seattle, WASH,
killed Daniel w. Jacobs, Chicago sales
man, and fatally injured two other men.
An official inquiry shows that the
total force of the Cuban army, includ-
ing commissioned officers, is 1929.
John T. Shayne, a prominent Chicago
business man, was shot perhaps fatally
in restaurant by Harry H. Hammond.
The cause was bad blood between Ham
mond and Shayne over the divorced
wife of Hammond, who was with
Shayne at the time.
For the eight months of the present
fiscal year the total receipts from in
ternal revenue sources were SITS, 1885,
6S4, all increase compared with the
same period in 1898 of $68, 299,05s.
The Port Arthur canal in Texas has
been completed.
Count Marian de Zaremba. a Polish
nobleman, has been sentenced to three
years in prison for grand larceny at
New York.
Secretary Alger has determined to
maintain summer camps for the United
States troops in the southern states.
General Duckett. negro who muir
cred James Stockton, a planter, was
lynehed by mob at Texa rkana. Ark.
A report from Guantanamo that For
mer Secretary John Sherman had died
on the steamship Paris proves to be
untrue. Mr.. Sherman is better.
Gerald Lapiner. the Chicago child
who was stolen from the sidewalk near
his home last Decoration day, has been
found, alive and unharmed, in the hands
Of an insane man and woman in Paines-
Vile. o.
Five persons were injured, two prob
ably fatally, in runaway during fu-
neral in Evansville. Ind.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
John S. Prather. ST.. the oldest citi-
zen of Atlanta Ca. is dead at the age of
102 years.
d. Oliver Marcy, dean of Northwest
ern university at Evanston. ILL.,, and
that institutions patriarch. died at the
age of nearly SO years.
Patrick Walsh died at Augusta, Ca,
aged 50 years. He was former United
States senator from Georgia, mayor of
Augusta and editor Of the Chronicle.
Rev. DR.. Albert S. Gumbart, pastor of
the Dudley Street Baptist church and
one of the most popular and influential
clergymen in Boston, died suddenly,
aged 4G years.
Charity Jane Robinson celebrated
her one hundred and first birthday at
her home in Fond du Lac. Wis.
William j. Bryan celebrated at Knox
vile, Tenn, where he was visiting, the
thirty-eighth anniversary of his birth.
FOREIGN.
A cable dispatch was received at the
war department which indicated that
hostilities may cease very suddenly in
the Philippines and collapse of the
insurrection come at any time.
Madrid advices say that the queen
regent of Spain has decided to renounce
the authority she exercises in behalf
of her son, the minor King Alfonso,
and the feeling prevails that the days
of the Bourbon dynasty are numbered
and republic may be the outcome
Advices say that the duke of ARGOS,
tie former Spanish minister to Mexico,
will be appointed minister of Spain at
Washington.
Princess Kaiulani died in Honolulu
at the age of "a years.
Admiral Dewey reported to the navy
department the arrival of the battle
ship Oregon at Manila, with her con-
dition unimpaired by her long sea voy-
age.
Gen. Wheaton's forces on the Pasig
river line near Manila drove the enemy