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Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
BOER RETREAT CONTINUES.


London, May s.-The Beers are
everywhere retiring before the Brit
ish, except on the Natal frontier and
at Mafeking, to the inner circle of
their defenses. They appear deter
mined not to fight until the Kroon-
stad hills are reached. Lord Roberts
is expected to do another 40 or so
miles and then wait for a time in or
der to bring up supplies and to re-
pair the railway.
London, May s.-Lord Roberts re-
ports to the war office, in a dispatch
dated smaldeel, May 6, afternoon, as
follows:
I'VE crossed the Vet river this morning,
and are now encamped at Smaldeel juno
ton. The enemy is in full retreat toward
Zand river and sKroonstad. The turning
movement was made by the mounted in
fantry just before dark yesterday. 1t
was very dashing affair. The Canadians,
Queensland mounted infantry We'd with
each other in the determination to close
with the enemy Capt. Anley, of the Essex
regiment, commanding the Third infantry
battalion, behaved in very gallant manner.
'"The naval guns and the artillery made
excellent practice, particularly two five
inch guns used for the first time with this
force.
We captured Maxim and 25 prisoners.
Our casualties are very few-only is wound
ed. one killed and three missing
Warrenton, May 7.-Saturday q Gen.
Barton drove from 1900 to 5000 Beers
from hilly positions at Rooidan, where
they awaited them. They retreated
after stiff fighting, leaving a number
of dead on the field. The British cas-
ualties were slight. Gen. Barton is
still pursuing. Windsorton and Kip
dam have been evacuated. Gen
Paget's brigade is attacking the Boe1
position at ,Warrenton. The engage
ment Saturday was severe and lasted
from nine in the morning until four
in the afternoon. More than once the
British infantry were obliged to en-
gage the Beers at close quarters, and
the Beers only retired when their re.
treat was nearly cut off.
The, British losses were five killed
and 25 wounded-mostly Welsh fusi-
leers. The British took a batch OF
prisoners, including the Swedish am
bulance, which they allowed to re-
turn. The Beers, in their hurried re-
treat, left 1s dead.
London, May 9.-Four thousand Brit
ish cavalry watered their horses at
Zand river Monday, 25 miles beyond
Smaldeel, where Lord Roberts contin-
ues to date his dispatches. The scouts
who have been searching the country
for miles along the stream have found
no Beers south Of the river. The en-
emy are laagered in unknown force
on. the north bank. Thus the British
advance guard is within 45 miles of
Kroonstad.
The Transvaal volksraad met Tues
day and President Kruger declared
that the Beers have ample funds and
will never submit. He claims the
sympathy of the whole world.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
THE EAST,

The death of William C. Endicott
secretary of war under President
Cleveland's first administration, oc-
Cured in Boston, aged 73 years.
In the Nationalleague the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week end
ed on the 9Th were: Philadelphia, ia;
Cincinnati, CAB; Brooklyn, .571; Chica-
go. .467; St. Louis, ACT; Pittsburgh.
.429; New York, 1855: Boston, 3OS.
In New York C. F. Neeley was ar
rested on the charge Of having en-
bezzled $4,000 as treasurer of the
post Office in Cuba.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in an
address to the New York striking
cigar makers, urged the men to pay
no heed to an injunction issued by
Judge Freedman.
Flames on one of the piers of the
National Storage company, branch
of the Standard Oil company in Bay
onne, N. j.. caused loss of $5O0,O00.
Poverty led to the suicide together
of Martin Arnold and his wife, an aged
Brooklyn On. W couple.
The American hotel was destroyed
by an incendiary fire at Geneseo; n. Y,
and Lafayette Carney and Sherman
Deboray perished in the flames.
In Jersey City, N. j., Edward Clifford
was hanged for the murder of w. G.
Watson.
Fire wiped out the village of Corbett,
Pa,
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
4 VEIIk'S HISTORY
The Important Happ enings Of q
Week Briefly Told. =
IN ALL>PARTs OF THE UNION
All the Latest News Of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

The United States senate was not in
session on the 5th. In the house the
senate amendments to the army appro-
priation bill were disagreed to and the
bill was sent to conference. The sun
dry civil appropriation bill was passed.
The general deficiency and military
academy appropriation bills are now
the only general supply bills unacted
upon by the house.
Senator Teller delivered a speech in
the United States senate on the 7th in
which he strongly urged the senate to
extend its sympathy to the Beers in
their contest with Great Britain. A
bill was passed to provide for survey
of the Illinois river. In the house bills
were passed to grant pensions to wild
ows with incomes of less than $3.50 Il
year; increasing the appropriation
for the national guard from $500. 900 to
$1'ooo,o00; to change the name of the
steamship Paris of the American line
to Philadelphia, and to construct a
dam across the St. Joseph river in
Michigan.
Consideration of the naval appropri-
alton bill, with the exception of that
section relating to armor and arma-
ment, was concluded in the United
States senate on the Sth. In the
house most of the time was devoted
to the consideration of private bills
and ten bills were passed. A resolu-
tion was adopted calling upon the Sec
retary of the treasury for information
as to the material used in the manu-
facture of oleomargarine. A bill was
reported requiring a clause in all gov
der the contract shall not exceed
eight hours daily.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Pier Burns.

New York, May "A fire that start
ed at the river end of the Mallory line
steamship p pier. at the foot of Maiden
Lane and the East river, early Sunday
morning, completely destroyed the
pier and valuable contents. The po-
lice place the loss at $1,ooo,ooo. Sew
eral barges which were moored near
the pier were also destroyed, and
many rescues of their captains and
OF the members of the families on
board were made. O1ly one life was
lost. The nine-months'- daughter
of Capt. Charles Lochs. of the barge
Sherwood. was drowned.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

Boston has long been known as the
most advanced municipality in the
country in undertaking things else
where left to private initiative. One
of Boston's efforts at this time of year
is the free distribution of trees. To
be sure, the care and planting of trees
in city is not new, and many cities
do it altogether. Boston each spring
distributes among its citizens thou
sands of trees free, the only regula-
ton being that the number each per-
son may have is limited by the ex-
tent of the street frontage of his
property. .s.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Salisbury Creates a Sensation.

London, May 10.-Lord Salisbury de-
livered sensational speech before the
Primrose league, urging all English
men to form rife clubs and be prepared
for any emergency. He declared that
the cause of home rule is hopeless and
that the Irish would not be allowed to
accumulate munitions of war for use
against England, but that every Eng
lishman should learn to shoot to re-
sist foreign invasion. He said foreign
menace is growing.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
AN OPEN SWITCH.
1T Is Responsible for the Wreckfng
of q Train, with n Loss of
Four Lives.

Cheyenne, Wyo., May 9.-One of the
worst wrecks which has occurred in
Wyoming in recent years took place ON
O'Neill Sidetrack, 16 miles west of Raw
Inns, on the Union Pacific, Tuesday,
when an east-bound fast fruit train
drawn by two locomotives dashed
through an open switch and down a
high embankment. The dead are:
Louis Banta, fireman, Rawlins; James
johnson, fireman, Rawlins; two boys,
aged about 20 years, who were stealing
a ride, names unknown. Engineers
Rehmeyer and Sheeler jumped from
their engines before the end of the sid
ing was reached and escaped with a
few injuries.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

Less than two years ago Grant
Gillette was perhaps the leading cat
tie dealer and speculator in Kansas.
He was worth millions and bade fair
to practically own all the herds in
that state. Just before Thanksgiv-
ing, 1898, he collapsed through over
speculation. Cattlemen and banks
are now fighting over the remains of
his once vast estate, and Gillette is
now peddling shirt waists to the
senoritas of Chihuahua, Mexico.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
WEST AND SOUTH.

In St. Louis 5000 union employees
of the Transit company, controlling
all but one street car line in the CITY.
went on strike.
In San Antonio, Tex, tornado
caused a loss aggregating over $780,
900.
At Juneau, Alaska, Martin Sivertt
was hanged for the murder of man
named Christianson.
In St. Louis James Nettles (col-
ored) was hanged for the murder of
Samuel W. Wann, on July 4, 1898.
In Union township. Ind, Joseph
Corrington, aged s4, and Miss Bertha
Boland, aged 64, were married.
Neither was ever married and they
have been lovers for 40 years.
At his home in Heyworth, ILL.,, Fran
els Anthony celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday.
Mrs. Eliza Flowerday and Mrs. NJ. 4.
Tutt were drowned at Jacksonville,
Fla, by the capsizing ofa boat.
A great street car strike is now on
in St. Louis. Every line in the city is
tied up and mobs rule the town.
In Chicago Tom Sharkey knocked
out Joe Choynski in the SECOND round
in fight.
The supreme court of Missouri SEN
.tenced six murderers to be hanged on
June IS next at Jefferson City.
Alabama republicans nominated a
state ticket headed by Charles P. Lane,
editor of the Huntsville Tribune, for
governor.
In the general conference in Chica-
go resolution prohibiting Methodists
from joining clubs where liquor is sold
was introduced. ..-.... 80 ...
Damage to standing and cut timber
in the upper peninsula in Michigan
through forest fires is placed at nearly
$1,000. 900. j.
The Illinois republicans met in
Springfield, elected Charles G. Dawes
temporary chairman, and adjourned
for the day. :ss,., zs5. {. .5s-. +. L.
In Wyoming Union Pacific train
<leaped into creek and four men were
killed and two injured.
The republicans made the following
congressio nominations: Iowa,
Tenth district, J. P. Dolliver (renom-
inated); Ohio, Third district, Robert
N. Nevin; Maryland, Third district, 4.
G. Wachter; Fifth, s. E. Mudd, Sixth,
q. q. Pearre (all lrenominat tions). s5s
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
A Chicago paper tells of two. boys

A Chicago paper tells of two boys
about II years of age who, starting
last summer without a cent of out
side aid, worked their way to Balti-
more, then on a cattle ship to London,
and finally to Paris, where, through
the assistance of Consul General
Gowdy, they obtained remunerative
employment, learned the city and the
language, and are now advertising to
act as guides for American visitors to
the Paris exposition. Those boys will
be heard from later.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Terrible as are the statistics of coal

Terrible as are the statistics of coal
mine fatalities, there are few worse
accidents on record than that few
days ago in the mine near Scofeld,
Utah. The deaths appear to be more
than 200, and the work of recovering
the bodies presents all the heart
breaking scenes Of such disasters. A
battle in, which 200 men are killed is
more spectacular affair and creates
more comment and commotion than
the death Of the same number Of men
at their work in q mine, but the
sorrow and suffering in the latter case
are Just as great, if not greater.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Famous Chief BaptizeI.

Sioux Falls, S. d., May 1o.-Bishop
Thomas O'Gorman, just returned from
the Rosebud Indian agency, brings the
news that he baptized into the Catholic
faith the fierce old Sioux chief, Two
Strikes: He is 81 years old, and in his
day scalped many white man. Bent
with age, with watery eyes and wrin-
kled face, he knelt at the chancel rail
and received the sacrament. He was
one of class of $50.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
An Awful Crime.

Chicago, May 10.-Miss Anna Gra-
bent ended the lives of her two STEP
children and seriously injured herself
Wednesday afternoon by setting fire
to her"dwelling at No. 1906 Homan ave-
nue., Lawndale. She saturated her
clothing and the bed on which the
children were sleeping with kerosene
before setting the fire. The children
were so severely burned that they
died at St. Anthony's hospital "a few
hours afterward.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
WHOLE TOWN WIPED OUT.
COrbett, Pa. Destroyed and 500 Per.
sons HOmelexS-Aged Couple
Burned to Death.

Galeton, Pa, May 9.-The lumber
town of Corbett, five miles west of
Galeton, on the Buffalo & Susquehanna
railroad, was destroyed by forest fire
Tuesday. The town had 500 popula-
tion. Only five buildings are left
standing. A relief train took away one
load of people and started to return
after the rest. A mile out of Corbett
the fires compelled the train to turn
back. George Luke and wife, an aged
couple, were surrounded by the fire
and burned to death. Many of the
women and children who escaped were
seriously burned.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

A. E. Stillwell, organizer of the Orient
Short Line railway from Kansas. City
to Port Stillwell on the Pacific coast,
states that the road will be 1900 miles
long; will cost $36, ,o0o,oo0; and trains
will be. running over the road in Is
months. Kansas City is anticipating
great benefits from this new road, be-
cause it will be $50 miles the shortest
route from that place to the Pacific
coast, and it will shorten the water
route to South American ports 1900
miles; that is, Port Stillwell is 1000
miles nearer the South American ports
than San Francisco. - !
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Gustavus Bates returned to Roches-

Gustavus Bates returned to Roches-
ter, N. Y, to plead guilty to an indict-
ment for forgery which was returned
against him rs years ago. He ran away
from the indictment and has kept out
of its way ever since, but the strain
was too much for him and his con-
science finally forced him to give him
self up. This man has lived as fugi-
tive from justice for 25 years and the
forgery netted him mean little 5000.
The straight and narrow path is the
hest
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Heavy Losses In Mich htcan.

Houghton, Mich, May 9.-The dam
age to standing and cut timber in the
upper peninsula Of Michigan, through
the fires of the past three weeks, will
probably exceed $5o0,OO0 and may pos
sibly reach $1,ooo,ooo. Heavy damage
has also been done in Canada on the
north shore of Lake Superior. Further
heavy rains are required to put the
district out of danger.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

A New Orleans man recently an
nounced that he had scheme for build
ing an electric gun that would throw
shell 20 miles. One of the scientific
papers investigated the matter, and it
nowreports that his scheme is all right,
but that to accomplish the results pre-
dicted the gun would have to be 1900
feet long, and it would have to be op-
Grated by plant that would cost $21,-
Onn nOn
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
The Mine Disaster.

Salt Lake City, May s.-IN. G. Sharp.
superintendent of the Pleasant Valley
Coal company, has made report to
the treasurer of the company in re-
gard to the mine disaster at Scofeld,
in which he says: ''Total killed, 1879;
bodies recovered to date, 1875; injured,
Z. Of those in the mine, 103 escaped
alive and uninjured. There are los
widows and 27O orphans"
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Minnesota Crop Bulletin.
Brief Notes,

P. o. Blagsvelt and six children, of
Preston, were poisoned by eating a
sour cream salad stewed in tin pail
Mrs. VIM. Robinson committed sui
eide at Mankato by taking carbolic
acid.
Moorhead has an epidemic of vicious
dogs, not mad dogs, but disagreeable
dogs that bite.
Miss Kate Flannery, of Waverly, was
injured in a runaway and died soon
after.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state by the Nan
tucket Land company of Duluth.
A new 40-press linseed oil mill will
be in operation in Minneapolis in time
for the next crop.
Charles Wheeler, who broke Jail at
Winona, was rearrestd at Owatonna.
Walter, the 1O-year-old son of j. A.
Wyand, of Crookston, was thrown from
road cart, caught his leg in the wheel
and had both bones broken below the
knee.
A Clay county farmer wants dam
ages for broken leg which he claims
was caused by the uneven grade of the
Moorhead streets.
The 12-year-old son of C. Reed, while
working for a farmer near Argyle, got
his foot under the plow and it was so
severely cut that amputation NAV be
necessary.
Harry Davis, Great Northern brake
man, was thrown from the top of a
box car at st. Cloud and severely in
jured.
Two young men were captured for
working the short change game on a
clerk in a meat market at Mankato.
Both are now in the county Jail. The
first one captured gives the name of
Willet, residence Milwaukee.
While the older members of the
family were at church the 5-months-
old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Baril, of
Red Lake Falls, was choked to death
by gum drop, which one of the other
children gave it.
The state capitol commission open-
ed bids for the new issue of $250OOO
certificates of indebtedness. The en-
tire issue was awarded to Pepper &
Stern. St: Paul, at the following pre-
miums: One hundred thousand dol
lars, maturing in 1906, $685.. 100000
maturing in 1905, SAG; $4,000 due in
1907, $31.5O. -
The city council of Winona has, by
formal resolution, changed the labor
ing day for street laborers from eight
to ten hours. The aldermen hold that
the experiment of an eight hour day
fer street laborers, tried the past year,
is inpracticable at the present time.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Gen. Bailey Dead.

Uniontown, Pa, May 7.-Gen. Silas
NJ. Bailey, one of the 306 of the ia
nous ''old guard" which stood by
Gen. Grant in the convention of 1880,
died at his home here Saturday, aged
e. years, of brain trouble, which re-
suited from a. bullet wound RECEIVED
during the war. After the war Pres
ident Johnson brevetted him major
general of volunteers for gallant serv-
ice. He was elected state treasurer
by the republicans of Pennsylvania
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

It appears from a letter of an army
paymaster that the soldiers in Panay
and Negros islands have deposited
$500, 900 of their pay as savings during
the past six months. He says hundreds
of the men intend to remain in the
Philippines when their terms of enlist
ment expire and engage in business,
and are boarding their pay as capital.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
, 1899 the national

During 1899 the national govern
ment redeemed 1920 pieces of the
old fractional currency, including
specimens of every denomination that
has been issued, the aggregate value
of which was $3,344.4S More than
$35O,000,000 of the fractional paper
currency has been issued at various
times, but about SIP 100000 is still un-
redeemed, one-half of which it is es-
timated has been destroyed.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Will Visit Detroit.

Detroit, Mich, May 9.-Mayor May
bury has received letter from Adj
miral Dewey announcing that he and
Mrs. Dewey will arrive in Detroit on
June s and stay until June II. The let
ter was in response to one from the
mayor renewing the city's invitation
extended last fall to Admiral and Mrs.
Dewey to visit Detroit as the guests of
4he cifv
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
MARKETS.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mil

Minneapolis, Minn.,. May 10.
Wheat--No. northern, 65@66c;
No. northern, 64@e5c; July 65Ac. 81. 3.
Oats No. 8, white, Sic. g..@
Corn-No. 5, sec. z,...... Vii e.s.es5>
ttle-steers, IS. 15@4.25; cows s3.s5
@3.75. & 81 : =,t.. -==,, q
Sheep -Muttons, $3.50; lambs, s4.75.
Hogs$5.00@5.2O.
Butter-C Creamery, extras, 18@19c;
creamery, firsts, 17@1Sc; dairy, fancy,
16@17c. .ss 5 .s:=s
Poultry Turkeys, s@1oc; spring
chickens, 12c.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Gen. Bragg Injured.

Fond du Lac, Wis.,, May 10.-Gen. Ed
ward S. Bragg, commander of the ia
nous Iron brigade, was thrown from
his horse and seriously injured, his
right leg being broken in two places.
AS Gen. Bragg is "a years old and in
spite of his vigorous constitution, his
advanced age renders the injuries very
serious. @ N =. S.%
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
C0O,O00.

An Iowa young man not long ago
proposed marriage to a young woman
and was accepted. But hearing that
her hair was false he declined to fulfill
his engagement. She brought suit
against him for breach of promise. and,
being put on the stand, admitted that
she wore a wig, whereupon she was
nonsuited on the ground that she had
won the young mans affections under
false pretenses
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Tragedy in Wisconsin.

Shell Lake, Wis.,, May 10.-Rudolph
and Adolph Bartosk, brothers, living in
Orange, quarreled Tuesday night while
intoxicated. Rudolph shot his brother
below the heart, and then, seeing what
he had done, turned the weapon on
himself and almost blew the top of his
head off. Adolph is dying.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

Freda Poignee, an 11-year-old Illinois
school girl, died as the result of a rope
jumping contest. She jumped the rope
$50 times in order to acquire the title of
1.-The champion rope jumper" of the
school, but a short time later she be-
came very dizzy, and soon after reach
ing home died. All of which is some
thing for parents to remember.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

President Mckinley has appointed
Sanford B. Dole, of Hawaii, to be gov
ernor of Hawaii, and Henry E. Cooper,
of Hawaii, to be secretary.
The chairman of the house commit
tee on banking and currency reports
a net saving of $6,664,454 by the new
currency law.
An officer in the United States navy
has invented a shell that no armor
plate at present manufactured can re-
sist.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Ex-Secretary Endfcott Dead.

Boston, May 7.-William Crownin-
shield Endicott, secretary of war under
President Cleveland's first administra-
tion, died at his residence in this city
Sunday afternoon of pneumonia, aged
70 years. The funeral will be private
and burial will be in Salem. Mr.. Endi-
colts, daughter, the wife of Joseph
Chamberlain, the English secretary of
state for the colonies, was notified by
cable
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

The .swindler who secured depositors
on promise to pay interest at the rate
of $50 per cent. year, and failed to re-
turn the principal, has been sentenced
to ten years in New York peniten-
tiary, the limit of the law. At this
rate the get-rich-quick fraternity will
exercise more caution.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

The news that the society of Box.
ers in China numbers 100000 men
in its membership seems to indicate
that the task of wedding them out
is not going to be an easy one. 1t
is one of: the largest societies of mur-
derers the world has ever known.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
serious.
Fatal Gales.

Berlin, May 10. Damaging gales are
reported from the coasts. Near Leba
four vessels. have been lost, and all on
board drowned. From Bremen, Kiel
and Flensburg come reports Of the loss
Of fishing smacks with q number Of
lives. ='s.s .sz s.5s
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16

Il Webster count a., forest
fires, dextroyed over J i 600 900 % feet OF
fine timber.
The West Virginia republicans elect
ed Mckinley delegates to the national
convention. ~
In Ohio West Brookfield and Navarro
were swept by fire. -.,s 4.
Willmar tribune., 1900-05-16
Cash, hut No Will.

They did not find the will, but they
found $1,000 in cash.
When Jesse H. Southwick died in
Minneapolis April "a, his relatives at
Pierce county, Wis, thought that
there was will which should have
been easily found.
10 settle the matter they went to
the Ramsey county probate court and
secured the appointment of special
administrator to open a safe deposit
box in the Germania Bank, St. Paul.
When the box was opened the will
was not there, but the $1,000 was,
and that made the search profitable.
Minnesota Crop Bulletin.
There was practically no rain north
of the Minnesota river during the
week, and in southern courties there
were only light and much scattered
showers. The cool weather has been
favorable to the root growth and stool
ing of the early sown small grains.
Potato planting is pretty well ad-
vanced. Flax has been sown during
the week and in a few places it is all
in the ground. Some corn has been
planted, and great deal of corn
ground is ready for the seed. Garden
ing is very well advanced, and the
market gardeners have made the first
deliveries of out-of-door grown stuff.