Willmar tribune., 1900-09-19
LATER NEWS.

from Peklng to Ilentsin.
LATER NEWS.
West-bound passenger train, on the
Burlington railroad, which was held
up five miles of Heighler, Neb., by a
lone masked robber, who secured
about 81, 600, two diamond rings, one
| diamond stud, three gold watches and
other articles of minor value, all the
property of passengers. No women
were molested.
President Mitchell and Secretary
Wilson, of the United Mine Workers
| of America, have affixed their sigma
lures to the document which will call
142, 900 miners of the Pennsylvania
| anthracite region from their work,
and precipitate one of the most gigan-
tic strikes in the history of the labor
world.
Twenty-Five negroes were shot by
order of court-martial at Galveston,
Texas Their pockets were found to
be full of human fingers and jewelry
of which the dead were stripped.
Fire at Narragansett Pier, R. l., de-
stroyed the Rockingham hotel, valued
at $1O0, 600.
The democrats of New York nomi-
mated John P. Stanchfeld for governor
and William Mackey for lieutenant
governor.
The special car of the Duncan Clarke
female minstrel troupe was wrecked
at Mounds, ILL.,, and of the occupants
nine were killed and six seriously
wounded.
During a severe storm which swept
over Lake Erie, the steamer John B.
Lyon foundered off Conneaut. O., and
all but two of her crew of sixteen were
lost. The schooner Dundee sank, and
the cook, a woman, was drowned.
The state department. has received
from Senor Aspiroz, Mexican ambas-
sador, communication conveying the
invitation of Mexico to the United
States to participate in the interna-
tional American congress to be held in
the City of Mexico beginning Oct. %,
1901.
John Storholt, Norwegian of %,
who: has been herding. sheep: ON range
80 miles east of Lewiston, Fergus coun-
ty, Montana was found dead in his
cabin with rifle hole through his
head.
w.. c. johnson of Carey, O., was
murdered by burglars for refusing to
give up the money received for a car
OF celery. After killing johnson, his
wife and children were tortured until
the money was secured.
Mayor Jones of Galveston, in the
light of the latest discoveries and re-
ports, still considers 5000 as a conser-
vative estimate of lives lost. The dead
disposed, Of by the various methods are
about $1,000
Minister Conger considers the situa-
tion deplorable and unpromising. He
has advised all the Americans who
ON leave Peking to do so as soon as
possible.
Eight hundred butchers employed
in the packing houses of the Jacob
Dold Packing company, and Klincks
& Danahy packing houses, Buffalo,
are on strike. owing to the refusal of
the Dolds to discharge two men who
refused to pay their dues to their
union.
The little town of Seabrooke, Texas,
was completely swept away by the re-
cent storm. Thirty-three out of the
thirty-four houses were carried awav
and twenty-one people were drowned.
The democrats. silver republicans
and populists of Colorado have invent
ed in the selection of state ticket.
The American Antitrust league
with headquarters at Chicago has in
dorscd Bryan and Stevenson. ..+
Complete returns from Maine gives
the republicans plurality of ss.245.
Tod Sloan,, the American jockey,
was suspended Temporarily. from, the
Lancaster track in England.
The strike Of the anthracite coal
miners is now on, in the Lackawana
district in Pennsylvania. On the 18th
all the. mines were running short
handed. The mine operators declare
they will stand firm. ~. ~ t,sy, .,.-.....,
BY an explosion of one of the boilers
Of the excursion steamer Jacob Rich.
man at Omaha, four persons were
badly scalded. n :'a}tts. ~ a@3 ;.
The steamer City Of Seattle arrived
ct Seattle from Skagvay with $3.50, 900
in gold. t.:s zz.s 81 Sg5 81. E&,.$t
The Portuguese government has be-
gun sending troops to Lourenzo Mar