Willmar tribune., 1900-03-07

In wreck on the Missouri Pacific
road near independence, Mo-, two
women were killed and other persons
Injured. u 'eS.5@5 5@ =--
Many college presidents and profes
sors met in Chicago to form an organi
zation to make uniform higher degree.
and shut out cheap diplomas. ~:
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Advices received in London say that
British forces under Gatacre near Mol
teno were routed with heavy loss, Capt
Montmorency being among the killed
Buller has advanced slightly nearer
Ladysmith, fighting his way. Beers
have strong position at Globler's
kloof. Lord Roberts reports continued
fighting with Cronje's army.
In fire in factory at Komejimura
Japan, 81 girls lost their lives.
| Near Potam Mexican troops and
Yaqui Indians fought and the loss on
the Mexican side was 300 killed and
wounded.
The war office in London reports
that Gen. Cronje has surrendered to
| the superior force of British troops
The Beers were assembling large
army near Bloemfontein to dispute
| the invasion of Gen. Roberts, and Gen
Butler finds his way stubbornly con.
tested and was no nearer to Lady.
| smith.
Gen. Cronje's capture with 4,C00 men
has cost the British some 1,20C men in
killed and wounded. The surrender, il
is announced. does not mean crushing
blow to the Beers. The campaign has
in reality only commenced. Latest ad.
vices from Gen. Butler show his adj
vance is stubbornly contested by the
Beers.
In gales five Aberdeen (Scotland)
fishing boats were lost and 70 persons
were drowned.
LATER NEWS.
The house committee of Congress or
public lands reported favorably on th>:
bill giving to soldiers or sailors wh.'
served in the Spanish or Philippine
war an allowance of their time of SER
vice on any homestead entry they may
have made.
During the carnival procession at
Caracas Venezuelan fred two shots
at President Cipriano Castro without
effect. The president was afterwards
acclaimed by the populace. The city
is quiet.
Gen. Butler telepraphed March /.
that Gen. Macdonald with Natal Car
boneers and composite regiment en-
tered Ladysmith the night before.
A highwayman in Chicago held a re-
volver within foot of H. R. Moore's
heart and discharged it, yet Moore was
unharmed. The bullet tore it's way in
a diagonal course through an account
book in his breast pocket, and it's force
being spent it dropped into the pocket.
During the wedding ceremony of j.
S. Blair and Miss Mamie Somerset,
at Perry, Ok, the bride fell dead.
The house passed the Puerto Rico
tariff bill imposing tariff of Is per
cent OF the present rate, by vote of
172 to 161.
In Pittsburg, Pa, the 1st, four sui
cides and one murder were reported.
At fire in a tenement house in New
York, three children of Frederick
Friedman were suffocated. Friedman's
wife is also missing
The German battleshig Sachseon is
reported to have stranded near Kiel
lighthouse on the German coast during
fog. In an attempt to tighten the
vessel by removing some of her guns,
one of them was lost.
A bookseller in Philadelphia was sem
fenced to one years Imprisonment for
selling Daudet's novel ''Sapho."
The American ship st. John, from
New York to Yokohama, is reported
lost by fire. All hands were saved
The bubonic plague is reported off
the coast of Yucatan.
Joseph Clean. a farmer living six
miles north of Bluefeld, w. Va, killed
his daughter and her lover and then
cut his own throat.
Lon Curry, one of the train robbers
who engaged in the Wilcox, Wyo.,
hold-up on the Union Pacific last June,
when something like $4,000 was se-
cured, was shot and killed by officer
Dodson, near Kansas City, while resist
ing arrest.
It is reported the Western Union
will fight the Bell Telephone.
The relief of Ladysmith is complete.
Butler reports: Except small guard
north of Surprise Hill the whole of the
enemy lately besieging the town have
retired in hot haste, and to the south
of the town the country is quite clear
of them. The garrison were on half a
pound of meal a man per day and sup
plementing the meat ration by horses
and mules. The men will want a lit
tie nursing before being fit for the
field"
Emperor William of German ', EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria and
King Humbert of Italy have tele-
graphed congratulations to Queen Vic
toria on the victories achieved by the
British.
The New York chamber of COM
merce passed resolutions against a
tariff for Puerto Rico.
The public debt during the month
of February was decreased s., s92, ,79S.
During the month of February $15,-
600, 900 were coined at the United
States mints.
After protracted assault the Beers
were repulsed at Mafeking.
The steamer Aourangi, from Sydney,
brings an account of the most disas-