Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-11
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


At 1880 p. m. May 81 the Boer war
ended, when the peace treaty was
signed at Pretoria. The announce
ment was cabled to London by Gen,
Kitchener and given to the public.
The news was read at the church
services, and London crowds cele-
brated in the streets.
In the streets of London the public
celebrated peace by torchlight parades
and blowing of trumpets and horns
The peace terms include return OF
prisoners to Africa without punish.
ment, exemption of Beers from wal
tax, and stocking of farms at British
expense.
The Mexican troops under Gen
Torres fought battle with 300 Yaqu
Indians, killing 40.
The resignation of the entire French
cabinet has been rendered to President
Loubet.
In Ponce, Porto Rico, four brigands
were garroted for the murder of a
countryman.
Prof. Hellprin and George Kennar
climbed the edge of Mont Pelee crater
at Martinique and found the interior
a mass of incandescent matter, with
perpendicular walls.
1t is said that the British parliament
will confer a title and grant $4,000
on Lord Kitchener.
Cuba's senate has confirmed Senior
Queseda as minister to the United
States.
LATER NEWS,
\ bill was passed in the United States
senate on the 4th providing that the
postmaster general may extend free
delivery to cities of 5000 inha bitants
or $4,000 gross income, instead of TO-.
600 inha bitants, as at present. Senator
Morgan opened the debate on the 18TH.
milan canal project. In the house the
debate on the anti-anarchy bill con.
tinued all day.
The republicans of South Dakota
have nominated CharlesIN. Herried for
governor.
The strike of the packing houses and
department stores drivers ended in
Chicago by compromise. The night
of peace negotiations was preceded by
a day of wild rioting, over 100 persons
being injured and many arrested
Gen. Kitchener has been made Wis
count and given money award of
$250,O0O for his South African services
The Indiana populists have nomi.
mated state ticket headed by William
Gill, Of Montgomery county, for secre-
tary of state.
Two villages have been destroyed
and Is persons killed by volcano in
the territory of the Chico. Chilli.
Chicago packers have been enjoined
by the New York supreme court from
doing business in that state in viola.
ton of the antitrust law.
The Illinois Car and Equipment
company's plant at Hegewisch has
been burned and 1000 men made idle.
The republicans have nominated
James Fl. Southland for congress in the
Ninth Ohio district and B. F. Russell in
the Sixteenth district of Missouri.
Furniture manufacturers at Grand
Rapids, Mich, decided that they would
not GO into the proposed furniture
combine. It,
Ruddock. the ideal mill city of Lou
isiana and the lifelong dream of Chas.
H. Ruddock, millionaire lumberman,
has been nearly wiped out by fire.
Great Britain announces the selec-
ton of Michael Henry Herbert as Lord
Pauncefote's successor at WASHINGTON,
while Spain will send Senior de Ojeda
to succeed Duke de ARGOS.
Rev. Cornelius O'Rourke. a Catholic
clergyman of Silverton, COL, and John
NcComb, Denver mining man, were
drowned near Durango, Col.
Indiana democrats in convention at
indianapolis nominated a state ticket
headed by Alfred Schoenover, of At
tica, for secretary of state. Resolu-
tions were adopted scoring the. state
and national administrations and de-
nouncing the ship subsidy and Philip
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