Willmar tribune., 1900-06-13
LATER NEWS


lature.
Arthur Noyes,. of Minneapolis, was
appointed federal Judge in Alaska.
The democrats of Indiana nominated
John w. Kern for governor.
Fire swept away forty buildings at
Cal. The town had no ia
cilities for fighting fire.
Heavy storms throughout France
have caused serious damage to crops.
The reserved seats at Davis menag-
erie at Chicago collapsed, causing a
panic. Many persons were injured:
Two more deaths from the bubonic
plague occurred at Port Said.
Brig. Gen. E. S. Otis. has been made
major general.
In consequence of the representa-
tions of Japan. the landing of a large
Russian force at Taku is alleged to
have been stopped. It is believed
that should Russia persist in sending
"a prepondering military force to the
front, a collision with Japan will ine-
vitably result. J..
A petition was very largely circulat-
ed on the Milwaukee board of trade
and signed by members asking for
Minneapolis grain quotations for the
purpose of enabling Milwaukee mem
bers to trade upon their quotations.
A deadlock has been reached in the
strike situation at St. Louis.
The socialist labor party nominated
Joseph F. Maloney, of Massachusetts,,
for president. ...- l.. -
Steps were taken at Philadelphia
looking toward the formation of ma
tional negro party in the United States.
Emperor Williams forest near Berlin
was damaged by fire.
Admiral Remy, at Manila, has been
directed to send the gunboat Helena,
or some other light draft boat, to Chi
nese waters.
At Summit, Ga, twelve persons
were poisoned at the home of George
McCarr by eating ice cream. Mr.. Nc
Carr is dead and it is feared others
will die.
The order of Capt. Pitcher, police
magistrate at Havana that men SEN
fenced to the rock pile shall be treated
alike, each being compelled to work,
has provoked quite storm of hostile
comment in the local papers.
The town of Faulkner, Kas., was al
most demolished by wind storm.
Congress adjourned the 7th after the
house had agreed to the senate amend
ments to the naval appropriation bill.
Three policemen were shot and
wounded in St. Louis as the result of
riots.
Severe shocks of earthquake were
felt at Anoheim and Santa Ana, Cal.
A break 200 feet wide occurred in
the levee of the Mississippi river at
Amesvi1le, La.
The robber who held up the Coates
House in Kansas City, securing s., 900,
has been arrested.
The west-bound st. Louis s. San
Francisco passenger train, from St.
Louis, was wrecked two miles west of
Oswego, Kan, by a wind storm. The
|entire train was twisted loose from the
|engine and lifted from the track. Two
|express cars full of fruit were thrown
about 20 feet and dropped on one side.
Thomas Kern. aged IS years, an en-
|ploye of the smelling works at Argen-
time, Kas., fell into a large pot OF
molten metal and died few hours af.
terward in horrible agony. -.
Near stoclxbridge, Wis, on the In
dian reservation a number of children
were playing chicken" and one OF
them was beheaded like fowl. A
number. of men were engaged on a
derrick in the yard raising heavy tim.
bers in the erection of barn. As soon
as the men above noticed the child
being beheaded they became panic
stricken, and in the confusion the
heavy timber being raised fell with an
awful crash, killing eight men. =. "a 4
Four colored men, employees Of the
Merrill-Stevens Engineering company
at Jacksonville, Fla, was killed .by
| lightning. Fourteen others were in.
jured by the bolt, but. none seriously.
The executive committee Of the gold
standard democrats will meet in New
York July rs. i, .}..5. .>. ,c:..s>. ..