Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-06-27

I5s45 ~ sAAlA 5 III luC $WdIsulpSlU VI luSZ1OT
eign nations China opened war, on thu
world. The Taku forts were taken by
the powers in seven hours lombard
ment. The nations are rushing troop.
and warships to the scene of the con
fict. ..G ~ .1*.- . IF s,>et F. Y s
It is said that Theodore Tilton ma
return from Paris and go on lecture
tour of the United States. -. y
The arrival of Gen. Baden,Powell a,
Pretoria is the only fresh news from
South Africa, where throughout the
whole threaten of operations the situa'
ton is characterized by complete mac.
tivity on the part of both the British
and the Beers.
China's minister to Paris has been
notified that he would be held as surety
for the safety of French consu,s cap
tured by Chinese mobs.
In the Philippines severe typhoon
was raging, making telegraph wires
useless and stopping all travel.
In Berlin the five hundredth ami.
versary of the birth of John Gutenberg,
the inventor of movable type, was cele.
brated.
No new developments mark the
progress of the British in the Trans
vaal. British troops under Gen. Run.
del in the southern part of the Free
State were attacked by Beers.
In London Mrs. Gladstone, widow OF
the great English statesman, was bur.
led by the side of her husband in
Westminster abbey.
Dispatches say that the car OF
Russia has ordered the suppression OF
the Boxers at any cost; that the al.
lied powers of Europe, the United
States and Japan will soon have
$4,000 men marching into Picking, and
that the United States gunboats
Princeton and Marietta have been or.
dered from the Philippines to Taku.
LATER NEWS.
Ira Hustled, Is years old, was arrest
ed at Cedar Rapids, TO-, for counter
feiting.
The collection of wild animals and
oriental attractions now to be seen on
the Midway, st. Paul, supplied by the
New England Carniva! and Promoting
company, is one of the finest ever car
ried through the country. The carni-
val closes June 80, and is attracting
large and we'll satisfied crowds.
City Marshal Milford Parker, of Ga
lena, Kan, was instantly killed by
picking up live telephone wire that
had fallen across the street.
The entire business portion of Mid
dleton, Wis, was wiped out by fire.
Loss. $150,0O0.
The reports of Admiral Seymour's
arrival at Peking and of the safety of
the foreign legations, originating from
Chinese sources and cabled to London
from Shanghai, are still unverifed.
However, the Italian consul at Shang-
hal has wired to the Italian foreign
minister that the legations are safe.
A deal was contaminated at Mar
shalltown, TO-, whereby the Iowa Cen
trail railroad passes into the hands of
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway
company.
The plant of the National Steel CON-
pany at Columbus, O., employing 500
men, closed down upon orders from
the head of the trust.
Edgar o. Weeks was nominated for
congress by the republicans of the
Eighth district of Michigan.
The prohibitionists of Kansas nomi-
mated Frank Holsinger for governor.
The Morrison hotel at South Bend,
Ind, was destroyed by fire. L. C.
Smith, was burned to death and six
persons injured.
A trolly car running at high rate
of speed struck farmers wagon
carrying IA persons at Chicago. Seven
of the occupants of the wagon were
injured. Two of them probably will
die.
Troops and L, Sixth cavalry, three
officers, 1876. enlisted men and 1874
horses, left Fort Sill, Neb., en- route
for the Pacific coast and the Philip
pines. Troop C, Eight cavalry, one
officer, 100 enlisted men and fifteen
horses, arrived at Fort Sill on the 18th
inst, to replace these troops.
Gen. Macarthur formally announced
President McKinley's order of amnesty
Buencamino Palermo and other promi-
pent Filipino leaders are greatly
pleased, as they believe it will brin g
about the surrender of Aguinaldo.
Mark Hanna was elected chairman
of the national republican committee.
The supreme court of Illinois has de.
cided that puts and calls in grain are
illegal.
VIM. Mckinley, of Ohio, was nomi-
mated for the presidency and Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, for vice pres
ident by the republicans at Philadel.
phia.
Joel Hunt, his wife, and VIM. Barnes,
negro farm tenants near Corsicana,
Texas, were killed in quarrel over a
division of the crops.
Perry Wagner, a convict in the
state penltentiary, was hung at Rusk,
Texas, for the murder of fellow con.
Wet last October.
Two hundred Filipinos met in Ma.
Mia to determine honorable and decor
'ous methods of securing peace. The
results were submitted to Gen. Mac.
Arthur, who accepted them. The lead.
ers of the meeting will use their influ.
ence to induce Aguinaldo to accept the
arrangements.
Valuable gold diggings were discov.
cred at Norton Sound, fifty miles east
of the Nome district.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hac.
kett received a cable message from
Admiral Kempff, dated Che Foo, June
21, saying that Tien Tsin is being
bombarded, and that the American