Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12

In report to the car on the fight
ing of September 1923, Gen. Stoessel
says 10000 Japanese were lost. and
the only success gained by Nogi was
the destruction of the redoubts guard
ing the waterworks.
Bound from the Black sea for Ant
werp, the government steamer Kel
mentink foundered recently % miles
northwest of Ushant. Seventeen men,
bers of the crew were drowned.
At New London Frank B. Brandegee
was renominated for congress by the
Third Connecticut district republican
convention.
Owing to the hard times and depres-
sion in the cotton industry between
10000 and $4,000 people in the poor
er parts of Manchester, England, are
practically on the verge of starvation.
The steamer Boscowiz, during fog,
struck reef on Harble Down island,
in the Pacific ocean. Four passengers,
children, were drowned. The crew and
1876 passengers we're saved.
1t is reported by the captain Of a
steamer which arrived at Kingstown, St.
Vincent, that when his vessel passed the
island of Martinique on September 80,
Mont Pelee was in full eruption, emitting
stupendous black clouds and balls of
fire.
Count Okuma, a Japanese leader pre-
pares his nation for long and costly
war. He estimates the cost to Japan
at 81 900, 100000 and to Russia of 81, 0O0,-
100000
The Russian and Japanese armies in
Manchuria are now engaged in tactical
duel, each striving to secure vantage
positions before offering battle. The
Russians are trying to draw the Japan
csc on and the latter to encompass a
wide flanking movement
LATER NEWS
General kuropaskin is said to be
very i'll.
At New York an automobile dashed
over bank, throwing nine people in
front Of train. Three persons were
killed and the balance badly injured.
Six hundred students at the Univer-
sity at Madison, Wis, were ducked in
the lake at the annual cane rush.
The savings bank at Traynor, Iowa,
was held up by lone robber, who Sc
cured So, 500.
The Tracy hotel at South St. Joseph,
Mo-, burned, four persons losing their
lives.
A sudden thrush of water in mine
at Gerlebock, Germany, kills eighteen
miners.
The battleship Nebraska is launched
at Seattle, Wash.
Soldiers throughout China are being
equipped with modern guns.
An Esquimo baby is born on the St.
Louis Fair grounds.
Reports received from Yellowstone
National Park tell of the horrible
death of two employees of one of the
hotel by grizzly bears.
An official bulletin, prepared by the
interstate commerce commission, shows
that during the last year 1854 people
were killed in railroad accidents and
IS, PAT injured in the United States.
Two persons escaped from the jail
at Whitehall, Wis.
New Ulm, Mimi, celebrates her if
tieth birthday
A Texas steer escaped in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and went on wild rampage.
A woman standing on the street cor
ners was cnught by the animal and
tossed through shop window.
The Japanese capture British ship
loaded with cattle and -four, headed
for Port Arthur.
VIM. L. Douglas, the shoe man, is
nominated for governor by the demo-
Gratis of Massachusetts,
Carrie Nation was fined $3.50 and
given six months in Jail for smashing
liquor shops in Wichita, Kas.
Report made before mission board of
the Episcopal church shows shortage
in funds owing to failure of certain
dioceses to contribute assessed
amounts.
Russian treasury official says govern
ment has adequate means for covering
all war expenses and that rumors Of
financial embarrassment are unfoun-
ded.