Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. -
The Boer leader, Gen. Viljoen, has
been captured by the British near Ly-
denburg. o
Money for the ransom of Miss Stone
is believed to have been paid.
The emperor's family and German
officials are profuse in their welcome
to the prince of Wales, but the Ber-
lin public is chilly in it's attitude to-
ward the British representative.
The Havana postal account shortage
of Nicely is declared to be $25O,691.
The German emperor may not send
a present to President Roosevelt for
fear of offending him. The gift will
not be offered if there is any chance of
it's being declined.
The kaiser celebrated his birthday
by giving names to a number of his reg
iments and holding a public levee at
the palace.
More than 200 English soldiers were
frozen to death in northern Japan.
In the Philippines ten missing ma
rines of a party exploring Samar were
found in starving condition and de-
lirious. and several of them were like
~ to die.
The government of Holland has
made friendly offer to Great Britain
to act as diplomatic agent for the
Beers in negotiating peace terms and
England is disposed to consider the
tender.
At Monte Carlo Santos-Dumont ma de
two successful excursions over the
Mediterranean sea with his airship.
LATER NEWS,
Discussion of Philippine affairs and
that portion of the Dingley act which
authorized the negotiations of reci-
procity treaties occupied the time in
the United States senate on the goth.
In the house bills were reported for
a permanent census bureau, to pre-
vent the false branding or marketing
of food and dairy products by provid-.
ing heavy penalties, to punish an
archy, and granting a pension of $25
per month to the last surviving SOL
der of the war of 1912, Hiram Crok,
of Oneida county, n. Y, aged 1O2
years. The republican members of
the ways and means committee voted
unanimously for the repeal of all the
war taxes.
It is reported that Miss Stone and
Nine. Tsilka have been set free on
Turkish soil.
Hollands move to end the Boer war
is said to have been made on her own
responsibility and in the name of hui
manity.
Gold mines on the Indian river near
Dawson are said to be as rich as the
Rand.
Weston KEEPER and Henry Rowe
were hanged at Harrisburg, Pa, for
killing Cashier Charles w. Ryan in an
attempt to rob the Halifax national
bank.
The Peoples church at St. Paul was
burned, the loss being $1o5,ooo insur-
ance. $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie made formal trans
fer of 100000 to the trustees of the
Carnegie Institution, and DR.. Daniel c..
Gilman, has been elected president of
the institution.
According to Vienna paper one of
the objects of Prince Henry's visit to
America is to buy the Philippines.
The late President McKinley's BIRTH
day was generally observed through
out the country.
Admiral Schley's appeal to the presi-
dent from the decision of the court
OF inquiry has been made public by
the navy department..
Miss Alice Roosevelt will attend King
Edwards coronation as the guest of
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Edward Kent. of Colorado. has been
appointed chief justice of Arizona.
Fire wiped out nearly the entire
business section of Wolcott, Ind.
A sleet storm swept the south from
the Ohio river to the northern part of
the gulf states and from Texas as
far east as Chattanooga and Atlanta,
doing damage estimated at thousands