Willmar tribune., 1900-04-25
At Nashville the Tennessee popu-
list convention split and refused to
indorse w. j. Bryan for president.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

crushlng Qefeat upon the Beers a.
Wepener, capturing guns and taking
prisoners. The Beers were destroying
| all mines in the vicinity of Elangslaate
but were unable to get Gen. Butler into
genuine fight.
A dispatch from Manila says the in
surgents are again active about the
Marivales mountains, across the bay
from Manila.
The queen has decided to prolong
her stay in Ireland until the 9th
inst.
Manila advices say that the Amer
leans captured and burned village
in Benguet, killing SO men and cap
turing AZ. The American garrison al
Batoc repulsed an attack of 300 in
surgents, killing 106. Three Amer
lean soldiers were captured by Fill
ipinos on the island of Panay anG
burned at the stake.
The complete defeat of the insurg
ent forces in Colombia is announced.
One of the Filipinos' best fighters
Gen. Montenegro, surrendered to Col
Smith in the mountains near Cana.
ling in the province of Pangasinan.
OFF Crookhaven, Ireland, the French
fishing boat Hoche foundered, "a per:
sons being drowned.
Official news shows that dispatches
declaring the Beers had abandoned the
siege of Wepner were premature
Lord Roberts severely censured Sir
Ro1vorS R,,11or on1 CIV rl,or1oe W7or ~
rem. two of his most important sub.
ordinate commanders, and they will
probably. resign.
LATER NEWS.
Gen. Warren has been ordered ONT
from the Transvaal.
The transport Sumner, conveying 8
large number of officers and recruits
to Manila, arrived at Malta in good
condition.
While playing Wild West at St. Louis,
Isaac Steinard, 16 years old, shot and
instantly killed Arthur Prince, aged
ii years.
King Oscar and the queen of Sweden
and Norway have arrived in London.
All immediate hope of acquiring the
Danish West Indies has been aban-
doned by the adm inistration.
1t is announced in the local press at
Kingston. Jamaica, that in conse-
quence of the failure of the banana
crop in the parish of st. Thomas, wide
spread and acute suffering exists in
that place and number of deaths from
starvation have occurred.
Helen Gould will attend the Dewey
day celebration in Chicago.
The bubonic plague has made its ap-
pearance at several ports on the Red
sea.
The Anti-Imperialistic League tele-
graphed its congratulations to Senator
Hoar upon his recent speech against
the retention of the Philippine islands.
The wire mills in the Pittsburg dis
trict have resumed operations.
Mr.. Pettigrew has introduced a bill
bill in the L. $. senate providing $780,
600 for the Purchase of herd of buf-
falo and for fencing certain portions
of the Black Hills reserve for their
confinement and preservation.
Two Russian admirals and AZ other
Russian naval officers of high rank are
reported to, have been arrested at Se-
bastopol, owing to irregularities in
the construction department and to
the embezzlement of millions. All
the ships in Black sea harbors are
being ordered to Sebastopol for inspec-
ton.
Reports received in Denver from the
grazing regious indicate that heavy
losses of livestock will result from the
prolonged rain and snowstorm. The
losses of sheep in the vicinity of Trini-
dad will aggregate 10000 head.
The passenger list of the European
steamships out of New York show that
in spite of the reports of the scarcity
of accommodations few of them carried
anything like a full quota of passen-
gers.
The deaths from plague throughout
India during the past week slightly
decreased in number, but the aggre-
gate is still upwards of 10000.
The German government, after look
ing into various reichstag propositions
for raising taxes to meet the expenses
of the naval augmentation. bill, now
says that the only taxes available for
this purpose are those on lotteries and
bOurse transactions.
Henry Demas, one of the best known
negro politicians in the south, is dead.
Demas was prominent figure through
out reconstruction times, and was a
member of the Louisiana senate until
eight years ago.
The preliminary step toward the or
ganization of a gigantic farmers trust
to embrace all of the farming commu-
mites of the Mississippi valley, were
taken at Abilene, Kan.
An alleged gambling house was raid
ed in Chicago and number of women
arrested by the police.
The United States. transport Sedg-
wick arrived at New York from Cuba
with $3.50, 600 in French gold.
Spain's minister to the United States,
Duke d'Arcos, is to be invited to at
tend the national encampment of the
G. A. R. to be held in Chicago in Au-
gust.
An unknown woman, but victim
of starvation, was found dead in pew
in st. Stephens church, in New York.
More than nine miles of track has
disappeared beneath the water near
Chotawa, Miss.
Governor General Wood announces
that the Cuban elections will be held
June 16. The census will soon be made
public.
On account of dissensions among its
members, a cabinet has been formed