Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-09
Consul Ravndal Says Beirut Officials
Are Seeking Assailant of
Hagelssen.
UAY Be AMONG PERSONS ALREADY
ARRESTED FOR the OUTRAGE
Turkish Omcial Reports Indicate
Complete Success Of Military Oper-
ations Against Insurgents in Kills. :
sura Distrlct-Rebel Leader Crosses
Bulgarian Frontier Unopposed.

Constantinople, Sept. 5. - Consul
Ravndal telegraphs from Beirut to Min
isheter Leishman that the authorities
there have been actively seeking the
assailant of Vice Consul Magelssen, but
the consul is not able to state if he is
among the persons already arrested.
The United States cruisers Brooklyn
and San Francisco were expected to
reach Beirut Friday.
The report circulated by a news
agency September in the United States
that balloon bomb had been found
near the palace is utterly without foun-
dalton.
Turkish Troops Successful.
Turkish official reports indicate the
complete success of the military oper-
ations against the insurgents in the
Klissura district. Over 400 insurgents
are said to have been killed. The agent
here of the Hungarian Levant steam
ship line has gone to Burgas to investi-
gate the three explosions which &C.
CURED Wednesday on the Austrian
steamer Vaskapu soon after that ves-
sci had left the port of Burgas on her
way to Constantinople, resulting in the
death of 29 persons. The cause of the
explosions is still in doubt.
1t is now said that the assistant con-
ductor of the sleeping car was the au-
thor Of the bomb outrage August q
when the east bound daily express from
Buda-Pesth to Constantinople was
nd
persons were killed and Is others were
injured. He left the train at Philip
popolis and has been arrested there.
The sultan announces the gift of So.
600 wooden coats to the troops concen-
trated in Roumelia and in an official
note issued by the prefecture of this
city the population is invited to con.
tribute flannel vests, boots, socks, etc..
which are required by the soldiers in the
field.
Insurgents Cross Border.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 5.-Col. Jankoff
the insurgent leader, with three lieuten.
ants of the Servian army, at the head of q
band of 400 insurgents, with a flag fly.
ing, crossed the frontier on Monday
evening and passed through the Turkish
posts unopposed.
Gen. Zontcheff, president of the Mace.
DOMAIN committee, in the disguise of q
sheep dealer, also crossed the frontier
Capt. Stoyanoff's band captured so Turk.
ish soldiers at Rakovitza (about Is miles
southeast of Sofa) August 81, took their
arms and ammunition, and proceeded ia
Melnishko.
A dispatch from Rila (40 miles from
Soia), says the date of the general in.
surrection has been postponed.
According to reliable information
from Constantinople, Turkey will short.
ly have 900 soldiers in Macedonia
The prospect of the appearance of such
an immense army causes the most in
tense anxiety here.
1t is regarded as certain to arouse
the apprehensions of the powers.
The porte had great difficulty in in.
ducing the Asiatic troops to proceed ia
European Turkey. The change of cli-
mate has already caused many deaths,
Railroad Guarded by Troops.
St. Petersburg, Sept 5.-The Vos.
tototchny Vestnik, of Vladivostock, says
every passenger train on the Manchu.
rian railroad is now accompanied by a
detachment of soldiery, and that the
whole line is guarded by sentries.