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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
VICTORY DEARLY BOUGHT,
British Loss at Battle of Graa Pan
Nearly 2OO-The Beers
Retreat

London, Nov. ga dispatch has
been received here from Gen. Butler
giving list of the casualties among the
troops engaged in what was hitherto
known here as the battle of Gras Pan,
but which is now officially designated
the battle of Enslin. 1t proves, as an
ticipated, that the British success was
heavily bought. The losses announced
Tuesday, added to the naval brigade
casualties previously notified, make
grand total of 1913 as the cost of Gen.
Methuen's. second battle. The York
shires. apparently, bore with the naval
brigade the brunt Of the fighting, as
there were, in addition to three of the
officers, 4S of the rank and file killed,
wounded and missing. The fact that
the list contains the casualties of the
Ninth lancers seems to dispose of the
fears that the cavalry was surrounded
and captured especially as none of
the Lancers are reported missing.
London, Nov. pa dispatch from
Orange river, dated Monday, Novem.
Der ~, and describing the battle Of
Enslin, says: The Beers successfully
retreated. The Lancers attempted to
intercept and reach. them,s but
a severe fire, opened from a hoppe
chilly forced the lancers to retreat.
Gen. Cronje was with the Beers. ...
Native reports. to Kekewich state
thatthe enemy's camps to the south of
Kimberley have been vacated, and
that Cronje, with, 5000 Beers, is march
ing to the south. The Beers are dis
appearing from the vicinity of Kim
berley. The enemy seems restless.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
BODY PLACED IN A TOMB.
Impressive Funeral Rites Over the
Remains of Vice President
Carrot A. Hobart.

Paterson, N. j., Nov. 27.-Because Of
the funeral of Carrot A. Hobart, vice
president of the United States, Satur-
day, business houses, with few excep-
tions, were closed and many private
residences had flags at half-mast be-
sides other mourning emblems.l
There were 80 pallbearers, eight rep
resenting the United States senate;
eight representing the house of REP
resentatives; eight personal pallbear-
ers, selected by Hobart two months be-
fore his death, and eight senate police
who carried the casket.
The service at the house was brief
and simple. 1t was held in the IL
brary, which was banked with flow
ers sent by friends of the late vice
president. Mrs. Hobart, with her son,
Garrett A. Hobart, Jr., sat- near the
head of the casket, while near her
were grouped the president and his
cabinet, judges of the supreme court,
the honorary pallbearers and the i'm
mediate friends of the family and the
family servants. Rev. DR.. Magic Of
fered the prayer, and read passage
of Scripture. The president, cabinet
and supreme court judges and those
present took last look at the face
of the dead, the casket was closed, and
all that was mortal Of Vice President
Hobart was carried out to the hearse
by members of the senate police.
The remains were consigned to a
temporary resting place in the receiy-
ing vault at Cedar Lawn cemetery,
near this city. : !. 2 :
Washington, Nov. 2s-Out of re-
spect to the memory Of the late Vice
President Hobart the president has
cancelled all his social engagements
for the present. The members of the
cabinet have done likewise and the
administration will observe a period
of mourning.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
THE EAST.

The funeral services over the remains
of the late Vice President Garret A.
Hobart were held in Paterson, N. j.,
President Mckinley and his cabinet
and many others prominent in official
and civil life being among the mourn
ers.
In the United States the: visible sup
ply of grain on the 9th was: Wheat,
55,936,000 bushels; corn, II ,572, 900 bush
els; oats, $4,000 bushels; rye, 1905
900 bushels; barley, 3,556,00 bushels.
An attempt to form a company to
control all of the independent tele-
phone companies of the United States
has failed.
The battleship Kentucky on the run
from Boston to Hampton Roads broke
all records for ships of her class, the
average speed being Is knots an hour.
The great publishing house of Har-
per & Bros, in New York, after an I'M
interrupted career Of 80 years, has
passed into the hands of the State
Trust company with liabilities of over
$5,000,000. 49," = ~.v.s -. ":
The Pennsylvania Railway company
has acquired control Of the Baltimore
& Ohio and the New York Central COM
pany will operate the Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Chicago & ST.. Louis and the
Chesapeake & Ohio roads.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Extracts from the Report of Com
missioner Wilson - Estimated
Revenues for Next Year.

! Washington, Nov. 20. Commissioner
George w. Wilson, Of the internal revenue
bureau, in his report to the secretary Of
the treasury of the operations of his Of
flee for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1899,
| shows that the receipts from all sources
| aggregated $273 ,4S4 $50, an increase over the
| preceding year of 1911, 900 and an in
crease of s3,4s4,573 over the estimate of the
| commissioner made one year ago. The re-
| ceipts from the several sources Of revenue
during the last fiscal year, and the in
| crease or decrease in each as compared
with the year 1898. are given as follows:
Spirits, s99,2S3,534; increase, $3.50, 534. To-
bacco, S52.4C32O7; increase. $16,2626S5. Fer
mented liquors. S6S644.55S: Increase, $780,
129,137. Oieomargarine, ST. 5e,61S; increase.
s1,579 Mixed -four, $3.50 claw not in force
| last Year,. Special taxes not elsewhere
enumerated $4,921,593 Qaw in force only
small part of last year,. Legacies and dis
| tributive shares of, personal property,
81 ,2295, 1875; stamp taxes under schedule A
! dicinal proprietary articles and prepara-
lions required to be stamped under sched-
| ule Of the act, $5,219,737.
The collections by districts during the
| year where the amount collected is over
ss,0Oo0O0 are given as follows: Illinois, s47,
| 1923: New York. $4S.634,9S0: Pennsyl-
vania, $685. 1858; Kentucky, $22,215;2s4;
| Ohio. $21,9l ,G65; Indiana, 81, 19070; Mis-
souri,, 1e,9e9,O75: Wisconsin. 50, 4e7, Oe5: Mas
| sachusetts, sS,153,620; Maryland, Delaware,
| District of Columbia and two counties in
| Virginia, $3.50, 400; New Jersey, ss,074,261.
The>total amount expended in the col
| lection Of revenues during the last fiscal
| year was 1851 ,754, or 1.6S per cent of the
| collections. tbs percentage Of cost is the
| smallest that has ever been reached in
| the history Of the bureau. For the fiscal
year 1898 the cost was 2.29 per cent. Of the
collections. The estimated expenses for
the next fiscal year are s4.S77,34 slight
| increase over the last year.
In addition to the statement Of the re-
| ceipts for the last fiscal year figures are
presented showing that the receipts for
the first four months of the current year
amounted to. sos, 1e3,4S5, an increase over
the receipts for the corresponding period
| last year of So, s7S, 1907. While it may be pos
| sible, the commissioner says, that this
large ratio of increase will be maintained
| during the current year, he is of opinion
that it will not be wise to anticipate such
| result. All things considered, the COM
! missioner estimates that the receipts from
| all sources for the present year will ap-
| proximate $2s5, 100000, which is about SILL
$1,000 in excess Of the receipts for the year
closed June 30. 1899.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
HARPERS IN TROUBLE.
Great Publishing House Passes Be-
yond Their Control-LIabili-
ties of $5,5OO,OOO.

New York, Nov. 29.-After an unin-
terrupted career Of 80 years the great
publishing house of Harper & Brothers
is compelled to acknowledge that it is
unable to meet its maturing obliga-
tions. Bravely, and with spirit which
will meet with approval in business
circles>the world over, 1.-The members of
the corporation, seeing the stress in
which the Franklin Square house is
placed. decline the proffer of further
loans from the banking house of J.
Pierpont Morgan & Co. Upon the sug-
gestion Of Harper & Brothers, and with
the consent of it's principal creditor, J..
Pierpont Morgan & Co., the control of
the business of the corporation is now
vested in. the State Trust company, as
trustee, under mortg ge for s., 500, 900,
held by3J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., since
November 16, 1896. .exxrr
In addition to the mortgage for 49,
100000 which is in default, the house
of Harper & Bros. has outstanding I'M
secured liabilitiessof s., 100000. .. =
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
A CLOSE CALL.
Narrow Escape from Founder ring of
Transport Manauense-Victor
for Col. Bell.

Manila, Nov. 29.-The transport Man.
auense, with Lieut.. Col. Webb Hayes
and three companies of the Thirty-frst
infantry on board, has arrived here.
She narrowly escaped disaster. The Of
ficers and sailors were for 10 days bail
ing with buckets. The steamer was
unseaworthy, undermined and short
of provisions.
Her engines broke down and she
rolled three days in a typhoon. T. :
The Manauense sailed from San
Francisco October &c for Manila.
Manila, Nov. 20. Col. Bell has de-
feated and scattered the brigades Of
Gen. .Alejandrino and Gen. San Miguel.
The engagement took place on. the
summit of a mountain, the insurgents
being SO. confident of the impregna-
bility of their position that they had
their families with them. The Amer
leans captured all the enemy's NUM-
tions and artillery. =,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
KHAL1.F A SLAIN.
sFaIls1in u TIOtBattle with X itche,,cr's
sssssS Alen-Culminntion Of a
- Long War. r. - es4- =,

Cairo, Nov. 27.-Lord Cromer, the
British minister here, has received the
following dispatch from Gen. Hitch
aener: 49, &s&
"Wingate's force caught up with khalifa's
attacked it. After sharp fight he took his
position. The khalifa. who was surround
ed by bodyguard Of emirs, was killed,
and all the principal emirs were killed or
captured, except Osman Digna. who es-
capped" f 80 H. So .
The dervishes were utterly defeated,
their whole camp was taken and thou
sands surrerd ered. = A large number
of women, children and cattle also fell
into the hands of the Anglo Egyptian
force. = - n = . Il 14% 4 L
THE story Of the war i'm the Soudan is
that of long and bloody strife Of civilisa-
ton against cruel, barbarous and re-
ligiously fanatical black race. In the early
70's the atrocities of the Turkish traders
In the Soudan compelled Egypt, then de-
pendent upon Turkey to call upon England
for help. Chinese" Gordon was sent as
governor general Of the soudanr in 1874.
The Turks were driven from the scene
Taxation was satisfactorily arranged. but
the Soudanese mind was impregnated with
desire for revenge for the wrongs suffered
in slavery! 7Mohammeds #Achmet, calling
himself Gel Matdi,'' took advantage Of
the discomfort, preached deliverance, and
assembled hordes of frenzied dervishes de-
termined to withstand the British. Cor
don resigned in 1877. In 1883 10000 mixed
Egyptian and English troops under Hicks
Pasha were annihlated on an expedition
into the desert from Khartoum Other
expeditions met q similar fate. England
was, dumfounded.A Gen. Gordon prevailed
upon to try again. returned to Khartoum,
only to meet tragic death. Sir Francis
Grenfell acted as commanding general
from 1887 to 1S92-years which saw the
siege of Suakim by the Soudanese, and
the engagements of Gamaizah and Toski,
in the latter Of which Grenfell broke the
advance Of the dervishes toward Egypt
In these engagements was a young officer
Of engineers, who in 1882 was given the
command as sirdar It was Kitchener
Here he began that slow, sure, resistless
march along the Nile which resulted in
the terrible overthrow of the black hosts
at Omdurman and the avenging Of Gordon,
September 4, 1898. The dervish forces were
cut to pieces, but the crafty khalifa, with
many Of his emirs and several thousand
followers, escaped. Since that time an
Anglo Egyptian army has kept up a re-
lentless pursuit, the climax Of which has
just been reached. Whether Osman Digna
on whose shoulders will naturally fall the
khalifa' S mantle, will again attempt to rally
the followers of the black flag remains to
be seen.]
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
WEST AND SOUTH.

The death of George W. Cooper, of
| Columbus, Ind, 4s years old, who rep
resented the Fifth Indiana district in
congress from 1883 to 1894, occurred at
a hospital in Chicago.
At the age of &c years Samuel II. e.
bert, governor of Colorado in 1873, died
at Galveston, Tex.
In Kansas City, Mo-, Bert Repine, of
Nashville, Tenn, won the 4S-hour BIZ
cycle race, covering distance of 961 1-3
miles, which'is a new record. -.
The eminent actor and author,
Charles Coghlan, died in Galveston,
Tex, aged Sc years.
By the accidental discharge of his
gun in Grand Rapids, Mich, Gen. Israel
c. Smith, aged 60 years, civil war vet
eran, was instantly killed.
The state superintendent has decid-
ed that the Bible may be read in the
public schools in Nebraska.
Near Chicago Junction, O., Ezra
Moore shot and killed Constable Will
liam Smith and fatally wounded Depu-
ty Sheriff j. T. Conklin, who tried to
levy on an execution.
81. H. Howell, a noted Welsh minister
and editor of the Friend, the official or
gan of the Welsh church, died in Co.
lumbus, O., aged SO years. 49,
A bill for the Acknowledgement of
negroes was defeated in the Georgia
legislature.
Nonunion negro laborers had a run
ming fight with white strikers in Chi
cago and nine persons were injured.
The executive committee of the silver
republicans at a meeting in Chicago
decided to hold a presidential nom
mating convention in 1900. ss.,,..s 4.
E. G.. Stephenson, attorney, for Gov.
Pingree and friends, has filed libel suits
against the Detroit Free Press. with
damages aggregating $525,o0o 4
The burial of Maj. Guy Howard, who
was killed in&the Philippines last Octo-
Der, took place in Omaha with military
honors. ,s<2s ~ %,Ss,..s (. ..s. w.
At Murphysboro, Ill, Samuel Coad,
aged 62, a wealthy man, killed his wife,
aged 30, and himself. No cause Is
known for the deed. 4g3i ssss ..yfss=ssst ssssl
In St. Louis Mrs. Joseph Kessler,
aged 10, was married to Oscar r. Far
rar. She had been married and d.
vorced four times il Ave years.
Margaret Quinn, Of Chillicothe, o.,
who married Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., OF
Bal timore, Md, was uncertain whether
ut was her husband or twin brother who
had courted her. ~ 3 q RI !: - II
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
MAKES HIS REPORT.
Comptro1ler Dawes Tells of Banks,
banking Laws aud De.
i pOsits. =gzsss

Washington, RI Nov, q. - Comptroller
Dawes annual report for the year ended
October 81, 1889, has been prepared. for
transmission to- congress. With respect to
the condition OF national banks during
the year, as shown by the five reports re-
Quired from the banks, the comptroller
says:
1.-THE number of banks in operation on
September z, 1899, was 1886, with paid-in
capital Of $500, 772,9 $40. The individual de-
posits on that date amounted to $780,.
725.595:3 81, and the aggregate resources to
A.650, 1855, 1894. A" comparison Of the Sep
tembers7 returns with those made on Sep
TENDER %, 1893, indicates an increase dur
Ing the year in Individual deposits Of $419,-
21l,O55.O2; in loans and discounts Of $780,
20; in amounts due from other banks
and bankers, $1eO, 39l, s96.6s; in specie, $A,-
6y7,225.44. and in aggregate resources, $685.
A4O88.57. On September Z the net deposits
liabilities Of the national banks Of the
country aggregated 5000, 463, 0166S, on
cent, was held. The composition Of this
reserve was as follows: Specie, $685., ST.
SSSS3; legal tenders and United States GER
tihcates of deposit for legal tenders, $751;
754'6o1; due from reserve agents, $414126,-
66o.44 redemption fund with the treasurer
OF the United States, SO, ZIG, 1867
In recommending to congress improve
ton 1888 of the revised statutes, the comp
troller before making his chief and new
recommendation for bond-secured elias
tic circulation, repeats his recommended
ton OF one year ago for law providing for
an unsecured emergency circulation to
lessen the destructive power of financial
pan1cs. and taxed so heavily that under
normal conditions it must be retired and
can neither provide profits for the banks
nor serve as a basis for the expansion Of
commercial credits.
The comptroller believes that, in accord
ance with the presidents recommendation,
national banks should be allowed to issue
circulation to the par of the United States
bonds deposited by them for circulation
ana that, In connection with the law au-
tnorizlng this, provision can be made for
secured emergency circulation.
Among other recommends tions, the
comptroller strongly urges laws authoriz-
Ing the Incorporation of banks for the pur-
pose Of carrying on international and inter-
colonial banking as distinguished from do
nestle banking. He also recommends laws
authorizing the establishment in small
communities of national banks with cap
1tal of s25,O00. He repeats his recommends
ton of one year ago relative to a modifica-
ton of the law restricting loans to any one
individual to ten per cent. of the capital
of national bank and advises the at
taching of penalty for making excessive
loans after the present section is modified.
The comptroller also gives in detail the
results of an extended investigation into
the development Of all the different bank
ing systems of the United States during
the last ten years.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Great Britain's insane have in.
creased 1000 annually for the last ten
years.
Belle Fleming, aged II, of Guthrie, O.
T., has been admitted to the bar of the
United States court.
This years famine in India covers
100000 square miles and renders mis-.
cradle 100000 people.
The longest continuous run of a rail-
way train in Europe is that from Paris
to Constantinople, 1921 miles. in 64A
hours.
One of the petitions against the seat.
ing in congress of Roberts comes frcm
Japan and is signed by 1875 American
missionaries.
The total number of women over Is
years old employed in the factories and
workshops of the British islands is
about 100000.
John j. Smallwood, president of the
Industrial and Collegiate institute at
Claremont, Va, was born q slave and
largely educated himself.
The Illinois Central railroad has prac-
tically secured control of the Mime
apolis & ST. Louis line, giving it an
independent line to St. Paul. .-.s
Patrick Furey, who died in Philadel.
phia at the age of 1906, had as his am.
bition the desire to live in three cen.
turtles and nearly accomplished it. 49,.
The queen>of Portugal, who is said
to have taken up medicine as fad, be.
came soiinterested in it that she com
pleted the course and took the degree
of NJ. D. ..5ss. -sst, *c@tt.rfs- .4~>.s -,
Judge Wylie. for years one of the
most prominent figures on the district
bench, is still living in Washington,
and, though over 80 years old, is in Wig
orous health. KS Z. 5.S III sts's Z,
The Daughters Of the Confederacy
are raising money in aid Of Mrs. "Stone.
wall Jackson, who is very poor, in I'LL
health and almost blind at her home
in Charlotte. r.. G. .;ss .s s s.ss.
Gen. Maxine Gomez has collected q
very large quantity Of manuscript
treating Of the warfare in Cuba from
1868 to the present time, which he re.
CARDS as bis greatest treasure. .s55S3
|S8 Grand Sire Alfred s. Pinkerton
claimed ut the banquet Of the Veteran
Odd Fellows associa in Boston that
there are Loco, 600 odd elbows on this
co tinent and that go per cent Of the
army in the Phil pines are members 81
that order.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
For the fortieth time in their histor

For the fortieth time in their history
the cable reports that the Christian in
habitants Of Armenia have risen in re-
volt against their Turkish oppressors.
Probably mo territory in the world of
similar size has been the scene of so
many and such long-continued wars.
Thirty-nine times the Armenians by
force of arms have won the independ-
ence Of their country, only to lose it
again. Since the Turks have been in
control of the country the sultan has
done everything possible to- destroy the
military spirit Of the people and has sig
nallY failed. = - rs .1.. .1,.----.--l.- - :.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

There are two gold fields in Alaska,
not in British territory, Cape Nome and
Cape York, that promise some sensa-
tions in the matter of dust next year.
While Cape York is probably the most
forsaken hole on the footstool, the pans
are nuggety and yellow, and that set
ties it's status as a winter and summer
nncan& u ! .L..l.-L
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
[fOupu us hangers SO Wen.
Additional details of Marco

experiments on the American liner St.
Paul, while bound for Southampton,
have been published by the London pa
pers. Marconi not only received all of
the latest war news by wireless teleg-
raphy 65 miles before the St,,Paul was
in sight of land, but he published it all
in a newspaper called "The Trans
Atlantic Times copies of which sold
for one dollar each. One passenger,
when the st. Paul was still 40 miles
from shore, arranged for supper party
in London. These are, indeed, days of
wonderful progress. -,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Seek Heavy Damages

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 29.-Announce-
ment is made that libel suits amount
ing TO $45o,00o are about to be begun
against the Detroit Free Press by Gov.
Pingree and several others. Gov. Pin
gree claims ,$25oooo, Assistant Cor
poration Counsel c.: d. Joslyn, 100000,
and Assistant Counsel Eli R. Sutton,
100000. Speaking editorially, the Free
Press says that until the compliments
have recited their grievances in court,
which they have not done as yet, de-
tailed reply is impossible, but that in all
matters in which they have opposed
these individuals, the opposition has
been for what the Free Press considered
the public veal. Personalities were
employed no farther than was thought
necessary to attain righteous end. a
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

The wreck of the cruiser Charleston
is most unfortunate But it, is rather
remarkable that we have escaped with
SO few disasters. The navy has gone
through war in which our ships have
knocked about hostile and dangerous
coasts for months at a time, thousands
of men have been transported to Cuba
and the Philippines, and yet the
Charleston is the only vessel of the navy
that has been lost. So, while we all re-
greet the loss of the cruiser, we may
we'll be thankful that the navy has come
through its dangers so well.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
John Fl. Page, Jr., who was recently

. John Fl. Page, Jr., who was recently
commissioned as second lieutenant
in the Third Infantry, is the third of
the name to serve in the army Of the
United States, His father, John d.
Page, is colonel Of the Third infantry
and served in Cuba during the war,
taking part in the fighting about San
tiago. He was the last of the regu-
lar colonies to leave Cuba. His grand
father, John H. Page, was killed at the
battle of Palo Alto during the Mexican
war. For more than SO years. there
has always been g John H. Page
among the officers Of the army. j, 8
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06
Mrs. John X. Venab1e. AZ Wa

Mrs. John Il. Venable,. Of Waco, Tex,
is said to have the. most remarkable
collection OF flags ever seen. She
says that She Has . penchant foracol-
Letting flags, just as some people have
for collecting postage stamps, and
that notWith standing the flag fad costs
more, for feach specimen collected, the
geography Of the world can be covered
better with the worlds flags Than il
any other way She has "a specimen
fiag OF nearly every nation of the
syorld Her greatest novel Is thesH
brew flag, first raised by Joshua when
israel was expanding it's territory I