Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-12-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
BY the wreck of the steamship St.
Olef at the mouth of Seven Islands bay
on the coast of Labrador, 26 lives were
lost.
A fortress of the insurgent chief
Geronimo at Pinauran, which the Fill
pinos boosted was impregnable, was
taken and destroyed by American
troops. Three Americans were slain
in battle in the island of Panay. Their
comrades killed 103 insurgents.
Paul Kruger and his cabinet drew
up the draft of a preliminary PROPOSE
ton, which was not enthusiastically re-
ceived by the French government.
In Jubaland, East Africa, the Somalis
revolted and killed English Commits
sioner Jenner.
The government of Belgium has for
hidden President Kruger's train max
ing any long stops in that country.
Minister Conger has been instruct
ed to confer with his colleagues for
the purpose of agreeing upon a mod
ifcation of the demands made upon
China by the ENJOYS, especially those
relating to punishment and indem-
nifty.
The transport Sherman arrived in
Manila with troops.
China was forced by French gun
boat to pay indemnity for missions
destroyed at Swallow.
From Pretoria Lord Roberts reports
the Illustration of a plot to kill him
by means of an explosion.
In Luzon the Third infantry was
ambushed by Filipinos and two pri-
Yates were killed and three wounded.
LATER NEWS.
Burglars blew open the posto6ice
safe at Girard, La, and took several
hundred dollars and large number
of stamps. The sheriff, with blood
hounds, is in pursuit of the robbers.
A safe was also blown open at Colin
ston.
Robert Winstel, assistant bookkeep-
err of the wrecked German National
bank, of Newport, KY, was arrested
an accomplice of Frank Brown, who
was short $4,000 in his account.
Winstel was taken to Newport and
locked up, bail being refused. Brown
has not yet been apprchcnded.
F. E. Wesse was arrested at Mound
City, Kan, by detective of c. NJ. &
st. P. road on a charge of stealing
three carloads Of wheat from the yards
of the company in Des Moines, la.
Two men were killed and four seri-
ously injured at Grannis, Polk county,
Arkansas, by the explosion of boiler
in Ellis Shorts planning mill.
w. II. Inter and wife of Cedar Rap
ids, To-, were shot by robber, Mr.. Lin
ter dy ing instantly. They were on their
way to the depot to leave for home
after spending Thanksgiving with rel
atives, when the robber attacked
them.
The cotton manufacturers at Puebla,
Mexico, are proposing to raise a Loan
of $685. 900 gold in the United States
to buy raw cotton.
Lord Roberts cables from Johannes
burg that De Wetsdorp has been re-
captured by the Beers. The Dewets-
dorp garrison, of two guns of the 6Sth
field battery, with detachmcnts of the
Worcestershire regiment, the High.
land light infantry and Irish rifles,
400 in all, surrendered on Nov. 23 The
British losses were Is men killed and
40 wounded, including Maj. Hansen
and Capt. Digby. The enemy is said
to be 2, 500 strong.
BY collapse of the roof of the San
Francisco and Pacific glass works at
San Francisco, CAL, about so people
were more or less injured, some of
them fatally. The number of dead is
reported at nine. The victims were
watching the football game between
the Stanford and University of Cali
fornia teams, when the roof beneath
them gave way, precipitating them to
the floor of the factory. Some of them
fell upon the furnaces, and one man
of unknown identity was burned al
most to a crisp.
Forty-fve more bodies, victims of
the Galveston storm, have been found