Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-29

employees are missing. The property
loss is 100000. IT,
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. \
!, In Havana Consul General Bragg ex-
posed fraudulent land scheme in Cuba
whereby an American company seeks
to sell swamps for farm lands.
A dispatch says that the British AZ
rican expedition against the Mad Null
lab was surprised and two British Of
fcers and so native soldiers were killed.
lii the British house of commons
Irish nationalist and government rep
resentatives engaged ina stormy de-
bate.
It is said that the Mad Mullah's at
tack on British troops in East Africa
is aided by Karl Unger, a white man
and former Austrian army officer. The
Mullah's troops number 10000.
A dispatch TO the war department an
nounces the arrival in Manila of tho
transport Crook.
The Cecilia, French fishing vessel,
was lost on the Grand Banks and her
entire crew of IS persisted.
The controversy between the United
States, Great Britain and Germany
over Samoa has been decided in Ger
many's favor by King Oscar of Sweden,
who acted as arbitrator.
/ In Paris an anarchist who tried to
climb a wall of the Eysee palace with
the evident intention to assassina te
President Loubet was arrested.
The British government will send a
large force of Indian troops to Somali-
land to fight against the Mad Mullah.
LATER NEWS.
The homes of Mrs. Harry Schroding
and Charles Schiery, at Port Carbon,
Pa, were badly damaged by dynamite.
The house of Peter Weaver escaped q
similar fate because the fuse of the ex-
plosive did not burn it's full length.
The DANISH landsthing rejected the
second reading of the bill providing
for the ratification of the treaty be-
tween Denmark and the United States
in regard to the cession of the Danish
West Indies to the latter country. The
vote stood 80 to 80, a tie.
Two men were killed, one was IA
tally injured and two others seriously
hurt in the bridge construction depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Steel works
at Steelton, Pa.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Moss City, Mich, causing loss of
$4,000.
Hectoria Holmes, who is said to have
taken out the first patent on the max
ing of Irvine binders, died in Chicago,
at the age of 70.
One woman IS dead, two men fatally
injured and another woman was Sc
verely burned in fire that destroyed
the hotel at Fairview, b. C.
The cruiser Montgomery has been
ordered to Hayti. +
Forty-seven pupils in a Des Moines,
Ia, school struck because their favor
tie teacher was removed to another
precinct.
j. B. Billiard, a wealthy miller at
Topeka, Kan, has brought suit against
the board of education to compel the
removal of bible reading from the pub
lie schools.
Nearly all the survivors of Guam
trell's guerillas attended the funeral
OF James Younger at Lees Summit, Mo.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of
President Roosevelt, will marry John
Greenway, of Hot Springs, Ark. Mr..
Greenway was lieutenant in the rough
riders during the Spanish war.
Simon Raphael died IN New York at
the age of LOG years.
Josephena Olson, eighteen years old,
who was about to be married was
murdered bylO. G. Olson, at Clear Lake,
who stabbed her in the breast with q
butcher knife.
Twenty million days have been lost
in strikes in the United States the
present year.
Roy Hastings, of Waukon, To-, built
fire under balky horse to start him.
The horse was killed and Hastings was
placed in Jail for cruelty to animals.
Charles A. Russell, member of con-
gress from the Third district of Con-
necticut since 1886, is dead.
There is a new phase of the coal
strike. The stationery engineers all
over the country may be called upon to
strike if the men in the coal regions
are not reinstated. Miners are being
reinstated, but the engineers are not.
Two children of John Eichmann,
near Independence Ia, were burned
to death. They were cooking potatoes
outdoors and their hair caught fire.
They were and 9 years old.
The supreme court of the state of
Washington has decided that Japan
csc cannot become a citizen of the
United States.
Because her husband threw a bucket
of water on, her while she was asleep
at her home at Jerome, Ia., Mrs.. John
Kreebs blew his stomach off with a
shotgun, killing him.
At the annual meeting of the Wa
bash held in New York, President
Ramsay and other officers of the COM
pany were reelected.
The Kentucky Confederate Veterans
home was dedicated at Pewee Valley.
KY.
The Commercial hotel at Cincinnati.
Ia, was burned while crowded with
guests. All escaped by jumping, ex-
cept the landlord, who was severely
burned
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