Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


the Calumet river at South Chicago, Ill
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Persistent reports say that the Jap
anese made land attack on Port Ar.
thur and that in doing so they los
Is, 900 men killed or wounded. The
Russian loss is placed at 5000 men.
There is rumor that the Vladivos
tok squadron has captured three
cruisers bought by Japan from Chilli
1t is said that the japanese camp:
are infected with cholera and there i!
an average of 100 deaths daily.
A band of So Filipino men, women ant
children, the families of employees o.
the United States military government
at Malabang, Mindanao, were surprised
while asleep by a gang of Moros from
the Rio Grande valley and slaughtered
It is expected that desperate assault
on Port Arthur by a great japanese
force will be the next move in the war
Kuroki is believed to be waiting for th'
fall of the fortress.
A mysterious explosion on the Rus
sial battleship Orel at Cr0nstadt killed
ten men.
Continual skirmishing is reported be-
tween the Russian cavalry and the Jap
anese. Cossacks are pressing the Jap
anese in the hills and byroads, gener
ally driving them back.
The defeat of Russians in battle nea>
Newchwang, in which so guns wer'
abandoned, is reported from Shanghai
Alexieff is said to have urged Kuropat
kin to retreat to Harbin.
LATER NEWS
The fruit growers of the Santa Clara
valley, California, suffered an almost
incalculahie loss from high winds.
Five persons were seriously injured,
and scores were bruised in the col
lapse of circus tent at Fort Plain, N. Y.
Ten men were suffocated by gas
mel near Williamstown, Pa. Fifty
others were brought out unconscious,
but will recover
The defeat of the Japanese at Kin
Chou by Gen. Fock is confirmed. The
Russians lured the enemy into defile
commanded by two guns, which deci-
mated them. The Russians lost one
captain and 14O men, The Japanese
losses are reported to have been much
heavier.
A passenger train on the Union Pa
cific was derailed aud wrecked near
Hallville, Wyo. None of the passen-
gers were seriously injured.
Annit Piatt and Sadie Hardie, aged
II and IL years, were drowned at Ham
mondsville, O.
Five $1,000 treasury notes have been
found in an old, moth-eaten coat pur-
chased by Elmer Eckerson of Bogota,
n. D., at an auction sale of unclaimed
baggage in railway station.
Pope Plus says the papal nuncio will
not be recalled from Paris, no matter
what action the French government
may take. He will remain in the
French capital until expelled. The
vatican expects a Catholic reaction in
France that will bring about the over
throw of NJ. Combes, the premier.
Charles Penio, the Oldest chief of the
Uklah tribe, is dead and the Indians
are celebrating a death feast.
Passenger train No. on the Viclxs-
burg, Shreveport & Pacific was wreck
ed between Haughton and Sibley, La.
Two postal clerks and negro brake
were killed and a number of persons
were hurt.
The Vatican organ prints official
statement giving papal side of rupture
with France.
General Federation of Woman's club
seems to favor holding the next bien-
NAL meeting in St. Paul.
Fire that destroys business district
and many residences at Yazoo City,
Miss, may cost two lives and entail
loss of 100000
Twenty persons were injured, some
seriously, in wreck on the Cleveland
& Pittsburg road near East Liverpool,
Ohio.
Frank Williams was prostrated by
UNC ACoC III OA1CdRO Luc ~OGu.
Charles Matthews, living near Ames,
Ia, was killed by lightning
Iowa democrats have split and will
hold two conventions
A. 4. Howard died from the effects
of blow received from John Daniels
in street fight at Aitkin, MINI.
A masked man entered the Placer
County bank at Auburn, CAL fired one
shot at the cashier, grabbed all the
gold in sight and escaped.
Prof. Petite, senior professor of min
ing engineering at the University of
Michinan, dropped dead
Robert II. Patton was nominated for
governor by the prohihitionists of Illi-
nois.
Michael Gokey was drowned at Jim
Falls, Wis, while shooting the rapids
on log.
The British pavilion at the worlds
fair was formally opened with a re-
ception.
A dispatch from Toxic says the Ja-
panese have stormed and captured the
town of Kin-Chau, about thirty-two
miles north of Port Arthur.
Fourteen persons were killed, three
fatally injured and five hurt by an ex-
plosion of boilers which totally detroy-
ed the towboat Fred Wilson, in the
Ohio river, off of Louisville, KY.
A jostling crowd 5000 persons most
ly of them women, greets and cheers
Miss Alice Roosevelt at St. Louis.
Brooklyn handicap is won by the
Picket, winner of the American Derby.
by nose from Irish Lad, heavily