Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-31
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


On August 30 Germany will send addi-
tional troops to South Africa.
The fall of Port Arthur. Is expected
within few days, says Toxic dis
patch, as Japanese are gathering for
| final assault on Russian fortresses;
losses expected to be enormous. .
At Shanghai the two Russian ships
have been disarmed by order of the
car and flags hauled down.
OF Labrador the schooner Selma was
lost. -Four of the crew went down with
the vessel: 1t is feared that there have
been other disasters in those waters as a.
heavy gale has been sweeping the
| coast.
All but three of Port Arthur's forts
have been captured by Japanese and
Russians are making a last stand on
Golden hill and White Marble and Lao
mountains. Mine sinks one Russian de-
stroyer and damages another at Port
Arthur
American and British cruisers were
sent in search of Russian cruisers off
Cape Good Hope; England to deliver
the czar's order recalling Black sea
steamers; Balfour declared there will be
no more seizures.
Ireland's leader, John Redmond. de-
clared the defeat of the English govern
ment would bring home rule to Ireland.
The largest turbine vessel yet built,
the Victorian, was launched at Belfast.
Ireland.
Terrific storms, accompanied by snow.
swept over Italian peninsula
LATER NEWS,
A dispatch from Rome says Cardinal
|Satoli brought 100000 in Peters
Ipence from the Unite States.
Judge Julian Bennett died suddenly
lat Watertown, S. D., of heart failure,
He weighed 40 pounds and was
known as the largest Judge in Ameri-
lea.
Yung Hing, a Chicago Chiniaman,
secured a marriage license to wed Bes-
sic Bailey, colored. Clerk Salmonson
declared that the marriage was the
first of its kind in his experience in
the marriage license Office.
The oil tanks at Hoboken, Belgium,
containing about $4,000, 900 gallons of
Petroleum, are burned, together with
all the sheds, wagons and parapher.
MALTA. e.
7 In the prize fight at San Francisco
between Jeffries and Munroe, the lat
ter was knocked out IN the second
round.
Two Italians who informed the Le-
high Valley railroad detectives of the
identity of several members of the
Malta, were seriously stabbed at
|Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The Avenue hotel at Elmira, N. Y,
was demolished by dynamite. in an
attempt to kill the proprietor, but who
escaped injury.
A small fire caused a panic in the
Golden Eagle hotel, Chicago.
It is now confirmed that the Para
|guayan revolutionists have seized
train containg stores and which had
number of government officials on
board. ' az. r -~''S
Max Mailer held up his fathers
funeral for several hours in New York
by insisting that he be paid certain
amount of the dead mans money be-
fore the burial took place.
After being mourned as dead for %
years, Sylvester Short, of Ansonia,
Conn.,, was discovered to be alive by a
pension commissioner, who was look
ing up his record prior to granting a
pension which Short had applied for.
Miss Cora Bechwith, the champion
woman swimmer of the world, de-
clared that she will try the rapids at
Niagara on Sunday, September rs.
The Tien-tsin correspondent of the
London Standard says that placards
have have been discovered at Tsinan-
fu lin the province of Shantung) ur-
ging the massacre of ''foreign devils
after the seventh moon, and that the
native Christians are fleeing.