Willmar tribune., 1899-09-20
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
A cyclone swept over the Bermuda
islands, blowing down some houses
and unroofing others. No lives were
lost.
The transport Tartar is detained at
Hong Kong upon the charge of over
crowding. Gen. Funston and the goth
Kansas are on board. y
The British Society for the Advance
ment of Science, in session at Dover,
England, successfully exchanged cour-
tesies with the French society at Bou-
logne-Sur-Mer, France, using wireless
telegraphy for the purpose.
Swedish Lutherans of five states
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and
Minncsota-held their annual reunion
at Wahoo, Neb., with an attendance of
nearly 1000.
It is asserted in Afrikander circles
that the Transvaal government will
accept the British note, leaving the
question of suzerainity on the base of
the convention of 1884.
The proposition of Joseph H. Wood
bury, chief of the Chippewa Indians,
and Col. James Fl. Tillman, of South
Carolina, made to President Mckinley
and the war department to organize
a company of Indians for service as
scouts in the Philippines, meets with
general approval at the war depart
ment.
The great conference on the uses
and abuses of trusts and combinations
began at Chicago the 18th, with less
than half the delegates appointed by
the various states in attendance. New
York, headed by Bourke Cochran, and
Wisconsin were most numerously rep
resented.
Luther Day, son of former Secretary
of State Day, while hunting near Can
ton, O., stepped upon a marshy piece
of ground and was drawn into quag-
mire. He sank up to his shoulders
and was only rescued after three hours
work by his brother and a farmer.
The war department has been in
formed by Gen. Brooke that the work
of paying off the Cuban soldiers has
been completed. Altogether So, GOO, 600
has been spent, and the remaining
$4O0, 600 of the appropriation made by
congress will be returned to the
national treasury. Nearly $4,000 Gu
bans received the bounty and surren-
dered their arms.
Mrs. Jane Borher, and her sons, Will
ey and Levi were murdered by un-
known robbers iq a cross roads store
in 1tastoke County, Texas.
The transport. Tartar, detained at
,, Hong Kong upon the charge of over
loading, has been released.
The president is receiving petitions
asking him to request the French gov
ernment to pardon Dreyfus. No such
action will be taken, the administra-
tion helding that to do so would un-
dOubtedly be offensive to France,
which would say that this government
had no right to interfere in matter
which relates to internal administra.
tion, and which she alone must decide.
Admiral Watson cables the depart.
ment that the ''tin-clad" Paraqua had
q sharp engagement with the insur-
gents at Balermo. A Filipino schooner
was captured and destroyed. No casu-
alties. ,E: ~@@5l*s' -; p
Advices received at st. Kits from
the Island of Auguilla, one of the
British West India islands, Leeward
Group. say that hurricane during
the night of September 8, destroyed
200 houses and rendered 800 people
homeless. There was considerable
loss of property and small damage at
St. Martin. '@..z~7.: :. =. @> 49, -
For several days past large prairie
fires have been raging on the plains
and in the Pan Handle section OF
Texas. Reports from there are to the
effect that the Fort Worth & Denver
railway lost 46 freight cars that were
caught on sidings.
President Mckinley at the White
House pressed the telegraphic key
that started the machinery at the
Philadelphia National Export Exposi.
tion. There were no Incidental cere.
monies. ..s =: 81 5..z
The Manila papers assert that Corp
Damhoffer and Private Conine, Of Co
j B, 18th infantry, have been sentenced
TO death by courtmartial and that Pri
vate McBennett has been condemned
TO 0.years' imprisonment for having
crlminally assaulted native women IL
Manila 9 month ago. The crimes, II j.
said, greatly aroused the4natives.
MARKETS. s.
0 Minneapolis, Mimi. Sept. ID
Wheat q. northern, 500 roc
No. 2 northern, 81 CSC; Dee. 87alc
OatsNo 8. 8. white 21c.
Corn q. s. s, so.