Willmar tribune., 1900-08-08

were alive and we'll on July 21, but
to hold out much longer. A dispatch
from Peking states that war was de-
clared by the Chinese government
June 20, and also says that the minis
ters are held by the Chinese as hos
tages. A London dispatch says the ad-
vance on Peking by the allies has be-
gun. The Chinese government will
not allow cipher dispatches hereafter.
LATER NEWS.
Nearly 1900 Beers, with rifles, $50
ponies and an Armstrong gun, surren-
dered to General Hunter.
Charles II. Hoyt, the playwright,
was released from the insane retreat
on condition that a guardian be ap-
pointed.
Former Governor Roger Wolcott of
Massachusetts has accepted the posi-
tion of United States ambassador to
Italy and his commission has been is
sued. He succeeds Ambassador Draper,
resigned.
George F. Warner, the witness in the
Powers trial at Frankfort, KY, who
testified that he saw a gun sticking
out the window of the secretary of
states Office, was arrested for perjury.
A telegram from Shanghai states
that the advance of the allies began
the 1st. 1t is assumed that the Amer
leans, British and Japanese are taking
part in this movement, whether other
nationalities are or not.
The government of Nicaragua has
taken possession of the property of the
Maratime Canal company and removed
the company's cars, rails and property
to the interior from Greytown. under
article 81 of the concession.
The schooner J. s. Richards was
sunk in the river at Detroit, Mich,
in collision with the steamer John w.
Moore, and two sailors on the schooner
were drowned.
There will be race across the ocean
between the North German Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
and the Hamburg-American new liner
Deutschland, in an endeavor to get the
American mails to Europe first.
An attempt was made to assassinate
King Alexander at Belgrade. He was
shot at but not injured.
A statement from the executive office
at Austin, Tex, shows that within the
past year charters have been issued for
13 cotton mills in Texas with an ag-
gregate capital of 81, AS,
A premature explosion of blast at
at Ducktown, Tenn, killed Will Paris
and James Harkniss, blowing them a
distance of 80 feet and tearing them
into unrecognizable masses of flesh.
Wilkens Vest suffered a crushed skull
and may die, while c. j. Mckinley
received painful flesh wounds.
The Middle-of-the-road populists of
Kentucky nominated O. II. Cardin for
governor also presidential elect.
The whole of the Tintic mining dis
trict in Utah was shaken by earth.
quake. Some of the mining shafts
were ruined.
The election in North Carolina was
democratic victory by at least 80, 900
majority. The constitutional amend
ment disfranchising the bulk of the
negro vote was carried.
An attempt was made upon the life
of the shah Of Persia in Paris, but it
resulted in no harm to his majesty. A
man with a revolver tried to mount
the royal carnage, but was disarmed.
The secretary of the navy issued to
shipbuilders a circular calling for bids
for the construction of six armored
cruisers, three authorized by the act
of March 3, 1889, and three by the act
of June Z, 1900. ........ ...
The population of Louisville, KY, is
204, 731, a gain of 43,6O2 since 1890. a.. y.
T he United States consul at Barron
quilla, Columbia, died of cholera. -
The governor of Alabama having re-
ceived authentic information of the
existence of yellow fever in Tampa,
Fla, has issued quarantine procla-
nation against that place. :: ~s~,....s,
Because one of their number was
discharged the driver boys at No. z
shaft of the Susquehanna Coal com.
pany at Nanticoke, Pa, went on strike.
The mine is idle and 400 men are out
of work. -. .,.@, .3z,. ~. -. r
Three persons died in the home OF
H. A Norris. neer Harvey. III. and fonr
others seriously affected the result o1
eating toadstools which they mistook
for mushrooms. q. g
| Captain Banendahe, of the German
navy, will start for the north pole in q