Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-16
LATER NEWS.

| Inc canadian Atlantic express bound
from Montreal to Ottawa jumped the
track at st. Polyear, Canada, and seven
passengers were killed and ten injured.
Four firemen lost their lives in a
blaze in small building at Omaha.
The fire itself was insignificant the
fatalities resulting from contact with
live wire.
| According to Hongkong advices an
agreement has been reached between
Great Britain and the Chinese govern
ment that the United States shall have
an executive settlement at Hankow.
The number of enlistments on the
9th inst. for the Philippine regiments
was $50, making total of 1897. The
regiments who have their full quota
have begun the ''weeding out" process.
| The reports so far received from sub
treasury cities indicate that the call
for gold certificates in exchange for
gold coin will be considerably less
than the treasury officials expected.
| A tidal wave burst into the bay at
Valparaiso, Chilli, tearing down the
embankment and sweeping off num-
Der of cars, locomotives, and tons of
merchandise. The loss is estimated
at 81, 0O0,O
Several boys living near Cincinnati,
Iowa, got into fight. One named
Under was cut across the face with a
butcher knife, losing an eye. Linder's
father attempted to stop the row and
was tabled with a pitchfork.
Five hundred business men of Cleve-
land. O., held an anti-boycott meeting
in the chamber of commerce rooms; a
fund of $4,000 was started to ferret
| out the criminals who are dynamiting
cars and creating discord in the city.
The residence of Joseph Sylvester of
Fairhaven, Mimi, was entered by
burglars, one of whom fatally shot
Mrs. Sylvester. The robbers were
pursued by the hired man and, turn
| ing, shot him in the leg.
| Charles II. Bond, 10 year, old was
placed under arrest at Cleveland, O.,
upon the charge of placing explosives
on the tracks of the Big Consolidated
tracks during the strike on the road in
June last.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden has decided upon plan for
the registration of valuable mail mat
ters by letter carriers at the very door
| of persons in the residential sections
of large cities having the free delivery
system.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
| Manila the 18th, with the Thirteenth
| Minnesota and the South Dakota regi-
ments on board.
A hurricane swept over the southern
coast of Porto Rico, doing great dam
age. At San Juan four lives were lost.
| Admiral Dewey advises the London
Daily Mail that it will be impossible
for him to visit England.
| The steamer Morgan city sailed from
San Francisco with 675 recruits for the
army in the Philippines.
Gen. Otis captured letters from high
insurgent authority, exhorting inhab-
itants to hold out little longer; that
European recognition will be granted
by Aug. 81, and that the present United
States administration will be over
thrown.
| Manley Weaver. a 14-year-old boy,
tagged an excursion train near Dead
wood, S. D., and saved it from running
into some distractions on bridge and
being wrecked.
Kid Mccoy had two fights in one
evening at Davenport, To-, winning
both.
Reuben. the 10-year-old son of w.
Follett. postmaster at Dewar, TO-, was
smothered to death in a bin of shelled
| wheat
Southern Trail and northern Cass
counties North Dakota were visited
with an awful hail storm, causing
great obstruction to growing crops, es
pecially wheat. The storm formed in
eastern Eddy and Griggs counties and
passed eastward, crossing Cass, Trail
and northern Barnes counties, and
passing through into Clay county
Minnesota, wiping out the crops in the
vicinity of Hendrum, Hawley and
Perley. Loss estimated. at 125, O0(
acres.
Minister Buck has reported to the
state department that the japanese
government has concluded arrange
ments for the purchase of tobacco
through agents and will obtain sup
plies generally from the United States
MARKETS.