Willmar tribune., 1900-03-21


mines and other disasters when Brit
ish troops carry the war into the
| Transvaal.
LATER NEWS.
Lord Roberts occupied Bloemfontein
the 18th and placed the British flag
over the capital. Col. Plummer was
within 40 miles of Mafeking.
The president has signed the fnan-
cial bill, thus making it a law of the
land.
While wild with rage, Olaf Polleson,
painter in New York, stabbed and
killed his wife, murdered little Julia
Hengesbach and murderously assaulted
Mrs. Hengesbach. When arrested he
| narrowly escaped being lynched by q
mob.
The Illinois Manufacturers associa-
ton has decided to start an agitation
looking to the repeal of the war rev.
enue act.
Judge Taft, president of the new
Philippine commission, has notified
his fellow commissioners that the COM
missioners that the commission will
convene in Washington March ~.
The state department has been ad-
vised formally of the willingness of
the French government to extend the
ratification of the pending French re-
ciprocity treaty.
The New South Wales government
has proclaimed St. Patrick's Day pub
lie holiday as tribute to the bravery of
the Irish soldiers in South Africa.
Fire at Miamisburg, Ohio, destroyed
the big Rothschild tobacco warehouse
and damaged other adjacent buildings
buildings. A Chicago firm owned the
ware. Loss estimated at $150,00o
A boy was born to Mrs. Patrick Law
cry of Bridgeport, Conn.,, which at
birth weighed 2419 pounds.
Organizing of the threshing manu-.
facturers into trust, with a capital
of $75, 600, 600, has been abandoned.
Two firemen were caught under a
falling wall at a fire at Indianapolis,
and one of them, Frank Mankin, was
badly crushed and burned.
Emperor William of Germany has
presented Commander j. NJ. Miller, of
the U. S. navy, a gold watch and chain
for services rendered during the Sa-
moan trouble.
Advices from Samoa, dated Feb. IA.
report that the German flag was hoist
ed at Apia, on the conclusion of the
treaty. DR.. Solf is governor. Herr
Knipping, formerly vice consul at Sgd
ney, will act as chief judge and vice
governor.
Fire destroyed the scythe manufac-
turing department of the American AK
Trust Co.,, near Baliston, Spa, Sara
toga, N. Y. Loss $4,000.
The Standard Oil company the 18th
distributed $40, ,000,0 in dividends.
The stock of the company the same day
was quoted at 53S bid.
John A. Janinsky walked off the
cars at Lacrosse, Wis.,, and was ground
to pieces under the wheels.
The Chicago and Denver flyer on the
Burlington road was wrecked near
Ottumwa, 10. No one injured.
Representative Ray of New York in
troduced in congress an amendment to
the constitution providing that con-
gress shall have power to regulate and
repress monopolies and combinations;
to create and dissolve corporations and
dispose OF their property; to make all
laws necessary and proper for the exc
cution of the foregoing powers. Such
powers may be exercised by the sew.
eral states in any manner not in con-
flict with the laws of the United
States. The object of which is to reg
ulate trusts.
There was masss meeting of Boer
sympathizers at Cooper Union, New
York. Montagu White, the Boer rep
resentative; John E. Mulhulland and
P. Louter Vessels, representative of
the Orange Free State, made speeches.
Flores, Aguinaldo'sse secretary of war,
has surrendered to General Macarthur.
Aguinaldo's infant son, who was
captured in November and who has
been suffering from smallpox, is dead.
A private cablegram from an unim-
peachable source in Paris says that
the minister for the colonies sent cip-
her cables to the governor of every
French colony asking how many sol
diers were available for immediate
service.
A dispatch from Pretoria says:
lord Salisbury's reply has caused
much disappointment here. The re-
|publics have resolved to fight to the
bitter end rather then relinquisll tn cir
independence. The Free State records
have been removed J, to Kroonstad,
whittier, the capital has been trans
forro1