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Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
FIVE NEGROES KILLED.
Bloody Riot Between White and
ColOred Miners Mt Carter.
Vile. Ill.

Carterville, ILL.,, Sept. 1s.-Carteryille
was the scene of bloody riot about
noon Sunday, in which four negroes
were instantly killed and one wounded
unto death, while two others received
slight wounds. The trouble has been
lowering ever since the militia was re-
called by Gov. Tanner last Monday.
The white miners of this place have re-
fused to allow the negro miners to come
into town, always meeting them and
ordering them back.
Sunday, however, 13 negroes, all
armed, marched into town, going to the
Illinois Central depot, where they ex-
changed few words with the white
miners there, when the negroes pulled
their pistols and opened fire on the
whites, who at once returned the fire,
when a running fight was kept up. The
negroes scattered, but were closely fol-
lowed by the whites, running up the
main street, while the remainder
took down the railroad track. Here
the execution was done, all who went
through, town escaping.
After the fight was over four dead
bodies were picked up and another NOR
tally wounded. They were taken to the
city hall, where the wounded man was
attended to and an inquest held over the
dead ones. Cummins, the wounded
man, died soon after, making total of
five killed.
St. Louis, Sept. 19.-A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Marion, ILL.,, saws
that Lieut.. Louden, with a detail of
soldiers, arrived here at noon Monday,
in charge of 18 union miners whom he
captured after midnight on the public
highway north of Carterville. They
were all armed with guns and we'll sup
piled with ammunition. When cap
tured they were in wagons and said
they were returning from Carterville
to their homes at Herrin, new mining
town ten miles northwest from here.
They are charged with having been
| part of the armed mob which had
| gathered around Brushs mine Sunday
| night before the troops arrived.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Is a FREE MAN AGAIN.
Capt. Dreyfus Is Pardoned ana Lse"
Rennes at Once-Declnres ne ="
Vindicate His Honor.

Paris, Sept. 21.-The council OF nn1n-
listers decided Tuesday to pardon Drey-
fus. At three o'clock Wednesday morn
ing he left the prison at Rennes III
which he had been confined since MS
return from DEVILS island ana pro-
ceeded to Vern, where he took tram
bound for Nantes. His departure was
completely unnoticed.
The Aurore publishes the following
declaration from former Capt. Dreyfus:
''The government Of the republic mas
given me my liberty But liberty Is nothing
to me without honor. From to-day snai
continue to seek reparation for the 1rlent-
full judicial error of which remain the VIC
tim I wish France to know by denn1tNe
judgment that I am innocent. MY neart
will only be al rest when there remains not
single Frenchman who imputes to me the
abominab.e crime perpetrated by another.
ALFRED DREYFUS.'
The Journal Officiel publishes the de-
cree granting pardon to Dreyfus. In
a report preceding the decree Marquis
de Gallifet, minister of war, points out
that Dreyfus has already undergone
five years deportation, but that, as the
law does not assimilate his deporta-
ton with seven years. solitary contine-
ment, the prisoner would have to un-
dergo ten years detention. The minis
ter also calls attention to the fact that
the health of the prisoner is seriously
compromised and that he would not be
able without great danger to undergo
prolonged detention. The report of the
war minister concludes thus:
''The government will not have met the
| wishes of the country, which desires pacif1-
cation, If it does not hasten to efface all
traces Of the painful conflict. 1t belongs to
you, M. lie Presidente, by an act of lofty
humanity, to give the first pledge of the
| work of appeasement which opinion de-
mands and the good Of the republic COM
mands."
There is much remark here on the
strange coincidence of the death of M.
Scheurer-Kestner, the first champion of
Dreyfus and to whom Dreyfus will vir-
tually owe his freedom, on the very day
the cabinet decided to pardon the pris-
oner. NJ. Scheurer-Kestner's death was
sudden. He had been i'll during the
past few days, but it was not thought
| that his illness would prove fatal.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

The richest gold mines in the world
are involved in the trouble between
England and Dom Paul. In 1896 the
dividends of the mines aggregated ST.
100000; in 1897 they had climbed up to
$13,500,oo0, and last year they went to
$24,45o,oo0. Considering the fact that
most of the stock in these great mining
companies is held by Englishmen, Eng
land may hesitate some time before at
tacking the Beers. And then, too, there
is the great Kimberley diamond mine,
which the Beers threaten to blow out
of existence with dynamite in case Eng
land fires shot.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
LATER NEWS.

Fred j. FiiDert, cashier of the Eank OF
Palatine at Palatine, ILL.,, was mortally
wounded with hammer by Walter
Lawton, who was shot fatally by an ac-
dental discharge of his own pistol.
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was released
from the military prison at Rennes and
at once left for Nantes.
Joseph Deemer Taylor died at his
home in Cambridge, o., aged SO years.
He served in the Forty-eighth, Fiftieth,
Fifty-drst and Fifty-second congresses.
Four persons were killed and four
others injured in a collision between
trains Is miles southeast of Kansas
City, Mo.
The Ridgway Pa.) tannery, belong
ing to the Elk Tanning company, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being 100000.
The 113 Indiana monuments and
markers and the Wilder brigade monu'
meEt at Chickamauga park, near Chat
tanooga, Tenn, were dedicated in the
presence of 10000 people. Gov. Mount,
of Indiana, made the address.
Hundreds of people were killed by an
earthquake in the valley of Member, in
Asia Minor.
During the month of August the re-
ceipts of internal revenue amounted to
$24,240,9SO, an increase as compared
with August last year of $1,949,4s2.
The antitrust conference began in
St. Louis with Gov. Sayers, of Texas; in
the chair.
Secretary Root has received informa-
tion which gives assurance that enough
ships can be secured to land all the
troops in Manila by Christmas.
Over 500 miles of coast line of Alaska
felt an earthquake shock that disloged
mountains and left great fssures in the
ground.
The handsome $s0,000 stone editice OF
the First Congregational church in Bur.
lington, Ia, was gutted by fire.
Miss Jane Yatman, of New York, rode
700 miles on bicycle in 81 hours, break
ing all records of women for distance
on the road.
Fire partially destroyed St. Vincent's
hospital at Norfolk, Va, valued at
$250,000, and one woman was burned to
death.
The Davidson Investment company
of Wichita, Kan, has failed, owing $116,-
900.
President Kruger is reported to have
cabled long message to Queen Vic.
toria, begging her intervention to pre-.
vent bloodshed. 1t is also said that Boe1
officers are urging the government to
begin hostilities before the British re-
endorsements arrive.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Not one drop of Intoxicating liquor
is allowed to be sold at any of the mill.
tary camps of Canada.
The American Jewish year book, Just
issued, estimates the Jewish populat ton
OF the United States at 1,043,SOO.
A Toledo co., wheel manufactory is
filing an order for five bicycles for the
children of the king of Siam.
Senator Hansbrough, of North Da.
kota, was galley-boy in the composing
room of the San Francisco Chronicle in
1870.
The copper mines of Groslitz, in Bo.
hemia, which have not been worked
since the seventeenth century, are tc
be reopened.
The city council of Oakland, Cal., at
a special meeting, accepted the offer
of Andrew Carnegie to give $4,000 fo1
a public library building.
At 76 years of age Judge Jackson, OF
the United States district court fo1
West Virginia, is still active on the
bench. He was appointed by Lincoln.
"A new law has gone into operation in
New York which will make it practical
ly impossible for any qualified citizen
to escape jury duty except for urgent
reason.
According to the books of the New
York police department the receipts Of
the burglars and highwaymen of that
city for the past 18 months have been
u little rising of $3,500,OOO.
The Berlin authorities have strictlv
forbidden collections among school
children for missionary and other
purposes on the ground that they prove
burden to parents and create i'll feel
ing among pupils.
The University of California will erect
monument on the college campus to
the collegians who died atthe front in
the late war after having abandoned
their studies there to enlist as volun-
teers.
Devona Burklin is the new queen of the
gypsies. She was crowned at Lancaster.
Pa. The queen was born in Egypt and
her father, who is 80 years of age, boasts
that none of their family for seven gen
erations has ever slept in a house.
l. The remains of Mr.. and Mrs. Georpe
Dent, grandparents of Mrs. Ulysses 8
Grant, which were taken from the old
Cumberland (Md.) burying ground,
were buried in Rosehill cemetery by
direction of Gov. Lowndes. Mr.. Dent
was surveyor and laid out. the city Of
Cumberland. He died in 1906. z.z5 d
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
To Discuss Municipal Problems.

Syracuse, N. Y, Sept. 20.-The third
annual convention of the League of
American Municipalities opened here
Tuesday with 400 delegates in attend
ance. Mayor Mcclure, of Syracuse,
made the address of welcome in place of
Gov. Roosevelt, who could not come.
Former Mayor Samuel L. Black, of Co.
lurnbus, O., president of the league, re-
sponded, and then gave his annual ad-
dress. In the afternoon Mayor Jones,
of Toledo, O., spoke on 1.-THE New Pa
triotism: a Golden-Rule Government" !"
Secretary Gilkison announced that 10
mayors have registered, and III cities
have representation at the convention.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
THE EAST.

In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 18th were: Brooklyn, 701;
Philadelphia, .634; Boston, .612; Bal
timore, .5s3; ST. Louis, $50; Cincinnati,
.553; Chicago, .551; Pittsburgh, ATT;
Louisville, .4G2; New York, Ala; Wash
ington, .375; Clevland, .130.
At Brockton, Mass, the worlds FIVE
mile unpaced amateur bicycle record
was broken by James F. Ingraham, his
time being 1906.
On the Lackawanna road a newspaper
train ran from New York to Buffalo,
40 miles, in seven hours and % min
utes, breaking all records.
Fire wiped out two and half blocks
of summer hotels, bathing and dane
ing pavilions and seaside theaters at
Hollands station, Rockaway Beach, N.
Y.
Flames destroyed the plant of the
American Fisheries company at Prom
ised Land, L. l.. the loss being $500,000.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 18th was: Wheat,
39,2ss,O0O bushels; corn, 8, 1O7, 900 BUSH
els; oats. 6,52s,0OO bushels; rye, 627,-
900 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
Almost the entire business portion
of the village of Farnham, N. y, was
destroyed by fire.
The governor of New York issued a
proclamation setting apart Friday and
Saturday, September 20 and 30, as holi
days in honor of the return of Admiral
George Dewey to the United States.
In Hartford, Conn.,, r. +. McClannan-
in, aged G5, well-known actor, fell
dead at the supper table of a hotel.
The transport Buford reached New
York from Cienfuegos and Havana with
o05 soldiers.
The doors of the First national bank of
Penn Yam, N. Y, were closed, with liza
bilities of $SO,0OO.
The Princeton university at Prince
ton, N. j., entered upon it's one hundred
and fifty-third year.
In the Adirondack forests in New
York fires were doing immense damage.
Fire destroyed Theodore B. Basselin's
large sawmill at Castorland, N. Y, and
ten acres of lumber, causing loss of
$25O,0OO.
Edward Tuck, of New York, has given
to the endowment fund of Dartmouth
college in Hanover, N. H., $3O0,000.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

+ The: American real estate boomer has
already. struck the Philippines. A Ma
Mia paper announces that Americans
plan che building of a great city on the
northern coast of Luzon and connecting
it with, Manila and the whole interior OF
the island OF Luzon by big railroad
system. The locating Of a big city at the
northern end Of Luzon would save $50
miles sailing for steamers plying be-
tween the Philippines and the United
States, and the boomers are going to
show the Filipinos how to build 4 great
city in 9 few days. Americans make
their mark where'er they 60. 4. /.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

The color line was drawn in an un-
usual way when young woman who
was drowning in the surf at Atlantic
City, N. j.. refused the assistance of a
negro swimmer who reached her first.
and, though most exhausted. waited
for a white man who was short dis
tance behind him. Even at the point of
death that young woman probably had
a thought of "how she would look'
brought to land with her arms about a
black mans neck, and preferred to take
further risks in order to secure differ
ent rescuer. 1t twas the ruling feminine
passion, not race prejudice.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

American astronomers are at the
front again with the discovery that the
polar STAR is triple system. Most of
the important celestial finds of the last
&c years are due to the scientists of this
COuntrV.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
DrOuUht Broken.

Cleveland, O., Sept. 19.-The pro-
longed drought, which has continued
practically since the 4th of August,
was broken Monday. It has been rain
ing for many hours, and bids fair to
continue. The conditions in the coun-
try were very bad. Pastures were
parched, streams and wells nearly dry,
and late crops seriously affected.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
A Bold Robbery.

Joliet, III, Sept. lS.-A gang of
thieves terrorized the inhabitants of
Frankfort, IA miles east of here, Satur-
day morning at six o'clock, and robbed
the Exchange bank of $500 in cur
rency. There were five robbers in the
gang. Town Marshal Knipple was at
tackled and captured by the robbers.
and after being gagged was thrown into
ditch. The members of the family liv-
ing over the bank were subdued at the
point OF revolvers, the safe door was
blown open and it's contents riAed.
The men then escaped on handcar.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

II Detroit Fred B., Harvey, CORE
spondence clerk of the Preston nation
al bank, is said to have confessed to
embezzling $1,000.
Judson Herrendeen was fatally shot
by his wife in Port Huron, Mich, who
tic trouble was the cause
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Odd FeIlOyys Parade.

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 21.-For more
than an hour Wednesday afternoon
4,5OO odd fellows and their sisters of the
Rebekah order were passing in review
before Grand Sire Pinkerton, Deputy
Grand Sire Cable and Maj. Gen. J. P.
Ellacott, chief of the grand sire's staff.
It was the finest and largest procession
seen in Detroit since the great G. A. r.
parade in 1890. Fully score of bands
furnished the music.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Costs Money to Marry.

Ardmore, I. r., Sept. 20.-The Chicka-
saw legislature, in session at Tisho-
mingo, passed the bill raising the fee for
marriage licenses from $50 to $1,000.
The measure is aimed at white men
who marry into the tribe to profit by
the annuities and lease money drawn
by female Chickasaws. It has been de-
cided that to be legally entitled to these
moneys white men must have married
in accordance with the laws of the
Chickasaws.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

An authority states that there are 97o
savings banks in the United States, hav-
ing depositors to the number of $780,
600 and total deposits amounting to
zoos, 100000. Great Britain's savings
banks have on deposit $7s0,000,000,
Frances $652 100000, Russia's $196,O00,-
900, Italy's $s9,000,0oO. Thus it is seen
that the savings banks of the United
States exceed the combined deposits of
Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy
by $366,0OO,OO0.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
A Conrress1nan Dead.

Reading, Pa, Sept. 1s.-Congressman
Daniel Ermentrout, of the Ninth Penn
sylvania district, died Sunday, aged 62
years. On Thursday last while at din
ner piece of meat lodged in his throat,
and physician had to be called to save
him from strangulation. Paralysis of
the parts affected followed, but his
death was unexpected.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

Dog-in-the-Pot, a Dannock Indian,
proposed to the maiden of his choice,
was rejected and at once committed
suicide. The Indians act was, of
course. wholly barbarous and improper.
Had he been one of a large class of
young white men he would have killed
the girl before shooting himself, and
thus fallen in line with a prevailing
fashion instead of putting himself on
record as a crude and untutored abo-
rigine.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

The recent hurricane which played
such havoc with life and property in the
West Indies in general, and in Porto
Rico in particular, is not the first terri
BILE hurricane that has devastated that
island, and a glance at the history of
the island shows that it has been ia
vorite resort for such storms during the
past four centuries
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Will Continue the Strike,

Cleveland, O., Sept. 1s.-At q meeting
of the striking street railroad men Sun
day night it was decided by a unani-
nous vote to continue the strike. Four
hundred strikers were present, and
speeches were made in which victory
was predicted. The question was de-
cided by a rising vote, every man pres
ent standing up. "...,
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings Of a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

The command of the South Atlantic
station has been given to Admiral
Schley.
The president has been presented
with gavel made from timbers of the
Spanish fort at Guantanamo bay, Cuba.
China has lodged with the state de-
partment an emphatic protest against
the military order of Gen. Otis exclud-
ing Chinese from the Philippines.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

William Nissan Vanderbilt, who has
now become the head of the Vanderbilt
family, will be 50 years old in Decem-
ber. He is essentially a man of the
world; has owned a racing stable, de-
Tended the Americas cup, driven a
coach -and-four and cruised in almost
every sea in his own steam yacht. The
estimate of his present fortune varies
from $15,OOO.O 900 to 500, ,OOO. .OOO
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Monteio Placed on Trial.

Madrid, Sept. 20. - The trial of 40
miral Montejo, formerly chief in COM
man of Spain's naval forces in the
Philippines, who surrendered to Ad-
miral Dewey after the destruction Of
the Spanish fleet, in the battle of Cavite,
began here Tuesday. The prosecution
demanded sentence of Imprisonment
for life with dismissal from the service.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Protest from China,

Washington, Sept. 19.-The imperial
Chinese government, through it's minis
ter here, Mr.. WI Ting-Fang, has lodged
with the state department an emphatic
protest against the military order of
Gen. Otis excluding Chinese from the
Philippines. 1t is learned that the pro-
test insists that Gen. Otis action is
contrary to international law, in viola
ton of existing treaties and in complete
disregard of the friendly relations
which have been so long maintained
between the two countries.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

Michael Draper, who has just re-
turned from Europe to his home in
Perth Amboy, N. j., brought with him
an Irish hat bought in Ireland for pres
entation to an Irishman who is his
friend and neighbor. After the pres
entation the recipient turned down the
sweatband and found that the hat had
been manufactured in Newark, n. j.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

An idea of the size of the new steamer
Oceanic, which has just made her first
trip across the Atlantic, may be gained
from the fact that she is as long as three
city blocks, or half as long as the Brook
lyn bridge between the towers. Her
builders do not consider her curiosity,
but solid business investment.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Typhoon Kills 5000 Persons.

Victoria, B. c., Sept. 2O.-According to
news received by the steamer Empress
of India, the Japanese coast has again
been visited by disaster. A typhoon
swept the coast with awful violence
during the closing days of August and
the beginning of September, causing a
loss of over 5000 lives. The destruction
to houses and property could not be es-
timated when the Empress left on Sep
tember 8. AS far as could be learned
over 10000 structures were overthrown.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
In the Southern PhiliDDineS.

Manila, Sept. 21.-Cable reports from
Iloilo concerning the results of Gen.
Bates second trip among the southern
islands indicate that only about 400
rebels at Zamboanga refuse to recog-
nize American authority. Pending the
outcome on the island of Luzon the
city of Zamboanga is practically desert
ed. The rebels are in camp, four miles
in the country. The Moros and Filipin-
os are unfriendly, and disturbances be-
tween them are liable to occur. Jolo is
quiet, and the natives continue friendly.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

According to the annual pension re-
port of Commissioner Evans there is but
one veteran of the war of 1912 still car
ried on the rolls, and as he is 80 years of
age it can only be question of a few
years before this last name is erased.
OF the Mexican war veterans 9,2O4 re-
main to draw pensions, but their num-
ber is rapidly becoming fewer, and in
ten years will be reduced to a mere
handful.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

Even Germany is buying American To-
comotives. The Saxon State railway
has ordered 20 from an American firm
liver them many months before the best
German firm could turn them out. The
American manufacturer not only turns
out the best work, but he takes less
time 10 turn it out.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

One of the eastern trade journals is
authority for the statement that horses
which are not of just the color required
to make fine matched teams are now
"chemically blonded" to the desired
tint in a very few minutes. This seems
to be an age when the most clever de-
ceiver is the most successful man, no
matter whether it is horse trade, poll
tics or three-ring circus.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Many Drowned,

ST. Johns, N. F., Sept. 19.-Reports re-
ceived add 16 lives to the death roll re-
sulting from Thursdays hurricane.
The schooner Angler went down in Pla-
centia bay with five men; the schooner
Lily May was driven ashore on Mis-
taken point, with a loss of seven men,
and the schooner Daisy lost one man
overheard and subsequently had boat
capsized, drowning three. -.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Victory tor, Olco Makers.

I Lansing, Mich. Sept. 20. The su-
preme court practically nullified the
Michigan anti-oleomargarine law Tues
day night in an opinion which holds
unconstitutional that portion which
makes it a criminal ofense to color any
butter substitute SO as to resemble gem
uine butter. @ .3f s55 n s
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
Croker Faction Defeated.

New York, Sept. 2o.-Democratic pri-
maries were held in the various assem-
bly, districts in this city Tuesday. In
the Ninth assembly district John G.
Sheehan defeated the Croker faction
by some 300 votes. {:.s23 .s2S3 !: " = b.. y,
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
AlEer Withdrawn

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 19.-Gen. R. A.
Alger Monday gave out letter written
by himself in New York, September 8,
in which he announces his withdrawal
from the candidacy for United States
senator. a.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27

Speaking of old people, Charles S.
Taylor, of White River Junction, VT,
aged o3, drove his horse, Factory Boy,
at the Newport fair races a few days
ago and won three straight heats.
Though now in the last decade OF his
century Mr.. Taylor is still an enthusi
astic horseman, and says that it is his
ambition to live to drive in horse race
on his one hundredth birthday.
Willmar tribune., 1899-09-27
To Leave by November

New York, Sept. 19.-A special to
the Herald from Washington says: Ar
rangements have been made by the war
department. for the departure for
Manila by November / of all the troops
INTENDED for Gen. Otis. This means
that Secretary Roots statement that
every mothers son of the reinforce
ments will eat his Christmas dinner in
Manila" will prove correct