Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-02-17

H. w. Whipple, of Chicago, has been
| elected president Of the American AL
tomobile association.
At Superior, Wis, two children. aged
three and five years, of John E. Butler,
| were cremated in his home.
For hazing another student three stu
dents were expelled from McAllister uni
versity at st. Paul.
The legislature of South Carolina has
established a state department of COM
lmerce and immigration to secure desir-
able settlers.
A passenger train at Pennock, Mimi,
collided with freight train and four per-
sons were killed.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
While trying to land cargo in port at
San Domingo the steamer New York
was fired on and United States warships
were on the way to punish the republic.
The Japanese troops occupied Seoul,
the capital of Corea, and seized Masam-
pho. An important bridge on the Man.
churian railroad was blown up, cut
ting off Russian communication with
steamers, carrying 1000 Russian SOL
diers, were captured. The car issued
a declaration of war.
Secretary Taft says that slavery has
been abolished in the Philippines by
legislative action taken there.
Destruction of four Russian battle
ships and three cruisers and disabling
thur was reported at Toxic The bonn
bardment of Port Arthur was still going
on.
The government of Venezuela has
recognized the republic OF Panama.
Japan's emperor in a formal declara-
ton declared war against Russia and
charged the Russians with insincerity
and trickery during the negotiations.
LATER NEWS.
Frank Jones, said to be a notorious
outlaw, was killed by sheriff's posse
m northwestern Montana.
At Des Moines, Ia, Dick Palmer was
sentenced to ten years in prison for
stealing ham. It is his sixth SEN
,ence
Germany is said to have notified
Russia that Baltic feet cannot use the
kiel canal.
Baltimore will not ask for outside
aid, but may float municipal loan.
At Gowrie. a., Mrs Gustave Nelson,
wealthy widow, killed her 26-year-
old daughter and committed suicide.
She was insane.
Near Grinuell, Ia, T.. E. Buck lost
81 head of cattle, horses and % sheep
by fire.
King Oscar is considering the mo-
bilization of the Swedish army, antici-
pating complications likely to arise
from the Japan Russian war. The
king, it is said, has decided to post
pone his trip to Albania.
Several hundred tons of beef on the
American steamer Korea, owned by
James j. Hill, which sailed from Homo
lulu Feb for the Russian port Of
Vladivostok, will probably be seized
by the japanese on arrival at Nagasaki
as contraband of war.
In the third Japanese attack on Port
Arthur four Russian cruisers were
sunk. This is regarded as the practi-
cal annililation of the Russian fleet in
the Yellow sea. When the final on
slaught was made by the Japanese,
three of their torpedo boats were, &C.
cording to the latest reports, sunk and
their crews drowned.
An avalanche Of ice and snow fell
from an adjoing hill into the roof Of
the Viroqua wis insane asylum, with
the result that the roof was crushed
like an egg shell.
A Russian torpedo transport acct
IDENTIFY strikes mine at Port Arthur
and is blown up. Four officers ard
about hundred men were killed.
Dynamite and more than 5000 de-
tonators are found concealed in trunk
of Austrian arriving at Liverpool from
Pittsburg:
Albion Beck, a banker at Warsaw,
Ind, shot himself in the head after
swallowing carbolic acid, death result
ing within few minutes Continued
sickness is the cause assigned for the
cause.
The japanese think Chirs will aban-
don her position of neutrality.