Willmar tribune., 1900-05-23


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The wife of Samuel. .Moser, aged 80,
and her thrcc little sons were found
dead, with their throats cut, at the
farm residence three miles north of
fremont, Ill. Mr.. Moser is suspected of
the crime. -:5.- - ~.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
At the Paris exposition the Ameri-
can pavilion was turned over to the au-
thorities and formally opened to the
public. ...
Lord Roberts occupied Kroonstad
without opposition, the Free Staters
removing their capital to Lindley, Is
miles east. The British expect no seri-
Gus resistance south of the Vaal river
The training ship Buffalo, Command
er Charles T.. Hutchins, has arrived at
the Azores.
Germans are reported to have seized
5000 square miles of Congo Free State
territory.
Dispatches received in London say
that Butler was moving along the left
flank of the Boer position in Natal to
compel evacuation of Biggarsberg po-
sitions. Resumption of Roberts ad-
vance was expected in a day or two.
Off the island of Oese', in the Baltic,
the Norwegian bark Johannes was
wrecked and II of her crew were
drowned.
Under Gen. Butler the British occu-
pied Dundee. Almost every house in
the, town was looted by the Beers. The
war office issued an abstract of British
casualties since the beginning Of the
war. This shows total of 20C35. ex-
elusive of the sick in the field and the
invalids. who number s.9O1.
On the lake at Ronciglione. italy. a
boat capsized, and 30 persons were
drowned.
LATER NEWS.
At the instance of Rear Admiral
Remey, in command of the naval forces
on the Asiatic station, the navy depart
ment has reconsidered it's decision to
recall to the United States the gun
boats Concord and Bennington.
More ''boxer" outrages are reported
sixty miles north of Tien Tsin, China,
where a number of native Christians
have been massacred.
The Hotel Helene, in Chicago, was
DESTROYED by fire, causing the death of
Charlottee Peterson, d dining room
girl, and Lena Peterson, a domestic.
Fifteen others were seriously injured.
The building was three stories, con-
tanning 100 rooms, all of them occu-
pied.
BY offering liberal supplies of can
dies, ice cream and cake, a strike was
averted among the female employees of
a big cigar factory in New York.
The plant of the Canada Cycle and
Motor company at St. Catherine, Ont,
was burned, causing {; loss of $1,000
Secretary Hay has been advised by
the French government that It cannot
permit organized militia to visit the
Paris exposition.
A new tobacco trust is to be organ
lied in New York with capital of
s25, 600, 900.
James J. Corbett, the pugilist, is
congress on the dem ocratic ticket in
the Twelfth district of New York city.
Warrants were issued the 10th for
the arrest of T.. P. Thompson, the Ha-
vana postmaster; w. II. Reeves, deputy
auditor of the island, and Edward
Moya and Joerge Mascara, Cuban
clerks in the stamp department., and
by 7 o'clock all were lodged in the
Vivac, the tombs of Havana. This
was done under the advice of the pos
tai inspectors, who arrived during the
day.
Fire destroyed the Grand Army Home
for Soldiers Widows at Hawkins Sta
tion, on the Pennsylvania railroad,
near Pittsburg, Pa. The 40 inmates,
ranging in age from so to 95 years, es-
capped without injury. One old lady,
Mrs. Tence aged o5 years, may die from
shock.
Sixty men employed in the pearl
button factory at Gutenberg, Clayton
Iowa, struck because of re-
duction in wages which they refused
to accept.
The U. S. senate passed bill allow
ing pension of 500 per month to the
widow of Gen. Lawton.
The total customs receipts in the
island of Porto Rico for the three
months ended March 81, 1900, were
$197, SS2. The total customs receipts
in the island for the same three months
0f 1890 was S35A 800
The president has signed the free
homes bill.
The federals have abandoned the
Biggarsberg, and it is believed they
also abandoned Newcastle, though
their mounted men are still on the
other side of the border, keeping the
British at bay.
A court of inquiry has been appoint
ed to investigate the killing of an un-
armed Filipino by Capt. McGovern
when he was commanding officer of
the Monadnock.
In an attempt to storm Mafeking
the Beers fell. into. trap and were
allowed by Baden-Powell'' to capture
one fort, whereupon they were subse-
quently surrounded and Sarel Eloff
and seventy-fve burgliers were taken
prisoners. Forty were killed.
All railroads have agreed to rate
of one fare for the round trip for the
republican convention at Philadelphia.
Reports from southern Texas show
another rise in the Brazos and Colora-
do rivers. People on farms and plan
tations near Navasota have moved to
the highlands. Southern Pacific rail-
road operations are crippled.
Mrs. Florence Frost, chambermaid
in a Chicano hotel has fallar l,a;r 70