Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-07-03
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ~
The president has appointed Gen
Chaffee military governor of the
Philippines.
In Cuba the republican and national
parties have signified their approval
of the Platt amendment.
In London 5000 dozen bottles OF
wine from the royal cellars were sold
at auction. , -
Gov. Gen. Wood is afflicted with the
grippe at Havana.
The Leipziger bank at Leipzig, Ger.
many, suspended payment, with liza.
bilities of $1S,O00,0OO and assets OF
half that amount.
| British have arranged with the Chi.
nese for JOINT administration of r.
king duties until evacuation,
Beers were making rapid advances
in Cape Colony.
In session in London the interna-
tional congress of vegetarians urged
a vegetable diet as positive cure for
drunkenness.
In London Speaker Henderson OF
the house of representatives was en-.
tertained by distinguished men and
received by the king:
Some of the Philippine commission
made a tour of Batangas province
and were everywhere welcomed with
cordially by the natives.
A grand jury in London indicted
Earl Russell for bigamy, and he will
be tried by the house of lords for
marrying Mrs. Somerville in America.
LATER NEWS.
Fourteen persons were killed in q
Wabash railway wreck at Cass Sta
ton, Ind, and 80 were injured, some
of whom may die.
Fire at Maytield, KY, destroyed
33 residences and two tobacco ware.
houses, the loss being 100000.
Four Dowie elders who attempted
to hold meeting in Evanston, ILL.,,
were driven out of town by enraged
residents.
Two men were killed and five badly
injured by the explosion of cupola
full of molten iron in Chicago.
Additional details of the West Vir-
ginia flood indicate the death list will
exceed 100. Another cloudburst did
great damage to property.
An oil tank at Decatur. Ind. was
struck by lightning and $4,000 barrels
of petroleum destroyed.
Mrs. William Conley and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. William Hobbs, were drowned
near Mercer, Wis.,, by the upsetting of
a boat.
The transports Thomas and Buford,
with nearly 1900 soldiers from Ma
Mia, reached San Francisco.
Mrs. Mckinley had her first car
rage ride since she was Frustrated
by illness during the recent journey
through the west.
Fire in coal mine near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, caused the death of four men.
The steamship Lusitania, bearing
500 passengers, was wrecked on reef
off Cape Ballard, Newfoundland. The
passengers and crew were saved.
While working in field in Lincoln
county, N. c., William Huss and his two
sons were killed by lightning.
DuA1AS d SUI Ill NulSL Odluo
age near Pittsburgh. Pa, three per-
sons were killed by lightning.
In a fight between striking street
laborers and police at Rochester, n.
Y, II patrolmen and 20 worlxmen were
injured.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna gave $4,000 to
Kenyon college at Mount Vernon, O..
Louise Strothoff. aged 10, and Frank
c. Forrest, 21 years old, earned out a
premeditated plan to die together near
Quincy, ILL.,, because of parental objec-
ton to their marriage.
Ten thousand acres of grain were
destroyed by fire near Los Banos,
Cal.
The government receipts will exceed
expenditures by $77,O00.000 for the
fiscal year ending June 80. The balance
of foreign trade in favor OF. the United
States amounts to $675, 5000, 900, an in
crease of $145, 100000.