Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-17

Flames destroyed the block contain
ing the Russell house and the Russell
theater at Ottawa. Ont.
In the Filipino rebellion against the
United States the natives have lost
more than $4,000 men. I'd
C.M. Agnew arrived in England from
America with the stolen portrait of the
duchess of Devonshire. .s....-
The mines of the Spanish-Americnn
Iron company at Daqnire, Cuba, have
been bought by the Pennsylvania Steel
company.
New civil government in the Philip
pines will be ablished abou: July 1.
A plot to assassinate President LOU
bet during his visit to Toulon was dis
covered. + :, e.. ~ .- s.
English people, burdened by heavy
taxes, are growing extremely tired of
the Boer war and may demand that it
be speedily Abandoned
Everywhere in Denmark the eighty
third birthday of King Christian was
celebrated.
A dispatch from Manila says that
Aguinaldo has signed the peace man.
ifesto.
Cuba's constitutional convention
will send committee to Washington
to confer with the president.
Gold bars worth $50, 900 were stolen
from the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse during the voyage from
New York to Cherbourg.
The Beers north of Aberdeen cap
tured 100 British. Gen. Plumer &C.
cupied Petersburg.
1t is said that China is trying to
get better terms from Russia before
signing the Manchurian agreement.
The emperor has decrecd that the
English language shall take the
place of French in the high schools
of the German empire.
LATER NEWS.
a board of special commissioners
has begun the work in Washington of
examining Spanish war claims aggre-
eating over $30,000,000.
The government April wheat report
indicated crop of 444,312,176 bushels,
III, 100000 in excess of last year.
Mrs. p. d. Armour and j. Ogden Ar
mour have given $1,OO0,000 to Armour
institute in Chicago, ena bling it to
extend it's work.
An indianapolis suicide left a note
to Carrie Nation saying it was due
to rum and cigarettes.
The transport Rawlins, about to
sail from New York for Cuba with
army supplies, was sunk by water
pumped into her to quench fire.
Insurgent officers and $4,000 of the
Filipino war fund were captured by
American troops.
The Japanese foreign office is salts
fled with the czar's pledges concern
ing Manchuria and the recent alarm
is ended.
Gov. Bliss has designated Friday,
April rs, as Arbor day in Michigan.
Henry Devore, aged %, killed his
19-year-old wife in Louisville, KY, and
then killed himself. jealousy was the
cause.
The Egbert has sailed from Taku
for San Francisco with the remains
of soldiers who died in China.
President Mckinley has donated
$4,000 towards a fund of $4,000 nee
essary to secure the erection of a
new and modern hotel in Canton, o.
A large amount of mail was de-
stroyed in the wreck of Southern
Pacific train near Wells, New.
The Morgan-Hill syndicate closed a
deal in New York for the Burlingto on
system, which was needed to COM
plete their transcontinental line.
Mrs. Mary Austin died at her home
near Port Huron, Mich, aged 101
years.
DR.. William Jay ! oumans, aged 63
years, for many years editor of the
Popular Science Monthly, died at his
home in Mount Vernon, n. J.
Will Black and Henry Wilson, ne
groes, were hanged at Magnolia, Ark,
for the murder of Ivy Young.
A London dispatch says that Gen.
Botha has renewed peace negotia-
tions with Lord Kitchener.
E. B. Whitcomb, for 20 years editor
of the Mail and Times, died in Des
Moines, Ia, aged Sc years.
Gen. William Booth, of the Saliva
tion Army, celebrated in London his
seventy-second birthday.