Willmar tribune., 1900-03-14
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
A flying column of British troops
from Zululand has entered the Trans
vaal and has been daily skirmishing
with small parties of Beers. The force
consists of mounted infantry, Natal
scouts and artillery, all commanded
by major Prendergast. The column
first crossed the border on Feb. %. 1t
now occupies an entrenched position
on Catasa hill, nine miles within the
Transvaal.
John Clemons, a flagman at Indian
apolis, Ind, was killed in the act OF
saving a blind man from being run
over by the cars.
A new labor organization, known as
the Excavators' union, regularly in
corporated, with $4,000 members, is
about to enter into a combat to con-
troll the menial work connected with
the building Of the underground tun-
mel in New York.
A locomotive on the Ft. Wayne road
went through bridge at Allegheny,
Pa, killing Fireman A. X. Miller and
Brakeman George Devoid.
An anti-war meeting at Edinburgh,
Scotland, was broken up by students.
No arrests were made.
The city clerk of Canton, O., has dis
covered that President Mckinley has
violated city ordinance by remodel
ing his residence without taking out a
building permit.
George w. Drake, the famous noun
tain detective, was shot and killed at
Torrent, KY, by VIM. st. John.
The bubonic plague is increasing in
Calcutta.
The senate committee on appropria-
tion authorized a favorable report on
the house bill providing that the rev.
enues collected from Puerto Rico be
expended in that island.
A bomb was thrown through win
dow OF the Paris residence of Alfred
Picard, commissioner general of the
Paris exposition. It did not explode.
woman who saw two men light the
fuse and who gave the alarm was at
tackled and severely handled by them.
The Norwegian steamer Franklin,
which left Mobile, Ala, Feb %, and
due at Belize, British Honduras, Feb.
81, has mot been heard from, and fears
for her safety are expressed.
It was learned recently that Anna
Guither, had been buried alive at In
dianapolis, Ind.
A bundle of iron pipe fell from the
window of a store in New York killing
two men who were unloading a truck
on the curbstone below.
Secretary Root arrived at Havana
on the transport Sedgwick.
The British consulate at Bordeaux,
France was attacked by students, who
battered down the doors and smashed
the windows.
Flying Fox, the winner of the Eng
lish Derby, was sold for $196, ,0o0
Fire destroyed property at Lead, S.
d., valued at $500,0 The wind blew
terrible gale and the water was low.
The celebrated Theatre Francais in
Paris was destroyed by fire. Mile.
Henrait, an actress, perished in the
flames.
Lord Roberts captured Krupp gun,
a number of tents and wagons. Gen.
Clements has occupied Norvalspont and
Gen. Gatacre captured Burgersdorp.
Eight students of Lawrence Univer.
sity, Appleton, Wis, were suspended
for non-attendance at church.
John Whitlaw, a we'll known mer
chant of Akron, Ohio, aged 60, was
fined $40 for kissing Nora Strong.
The National Baseball league for the
season of 1900 will have an eight-clut
league.
Esther Jameson was arrested at Gin.
cinnati, O., for persistently plying he,
s-year-old boy with whisky.
One man was killed and six wound
ed in labor riot in Chicago.
Three sons of Jacob Ziegler, farm.
er living near Champlain, ILL.,, fell
through the ice and were drowned,
Nine Stellor, was arrested in New
York upon the charge of witchcraft
and violating law passed in 17O9
j. j. Hill announces that he expects
to establish a shipyard of his own a,
New London, Conn.,, and proposes tc
build four big cargo steamers designed
forhim in England.
A dispatch from Ladysmith says the
Roers are entrenching at Biggensberg
The Dutch farmers of Natal have fed
Three men were killed at the Tory
mines, Clinton, Ind. by an explosion