River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-04-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

1HE governor OF the province OF
Belanona, Madagascar, who massacred
27s persons recently, was executed by
order of the government. His cruel
brother was also put to death.
In an explosion in the Florentine
mining pit at Benthen, Prussian Silesia,
thirteen men were killed.
On the Baltic sea scores of shipwreclls
attended by great loss of life have oc-
CURED as the result of rec int heavy
gales and snowstorms.
IL North Lapland diamonds have
been discovered.
GREAT BRITAIN and Spain have &C
:epted the invitation to make a display
at the Worlds Columbian exposition.
AT Rome, Italy, the Bank of Leg
horn suspended, with liabilities amount
ing to SO, O0O 600 francs.
EvALINE NEAL, handsome English
woman, has been arrested in Paris for
marriage frauds She induced forty.
'hree men to marry her by advertising
herself as a wealthy widow.
In case of European war England
has agreed to protect Belgium.
AT Vienna Count Arthur Kesselstadt
and Countess Annie Freis were caught
in storm IN pleasure boat and were
drowned
ITALY will accept the invitation of the
United States to take part in the worlds
fair.
THE firm of John Birrell & Co,
Wholesale dealers in dry goods at Lon
don. Ont. failed for $3.50, 900
II. S. PHILLIPS livery stable at Mon.
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persisted in the flames.
THE foreman of a gang of Italian
railroad laborers in West Virginia WAS
killed by the men for saying the citi-
zens of New Orleans did right to lynch
the Malta.
A sEvEN-DAYs' sleep-fasting contest
began in Detroit on the SOth nit. at l
o'clock p. m. There were six con-
ttestants.
! PoNTooN bridge was swept away
at ~. Charles, Mo, and five men were
drowned. They were John Coleman,
Fritz Weeks, Louis Robinson, james
Spark and John Enoch.
/ WHITE CAPS assaulted man named
Baker at Falkland Ind. and whipped
him numerically.
President HARRISON has appointed
lex-CongresSman Carter, of Montana, to
he land commissioner, vice Lewis A.
Croft, resigned.
STRIKERS attacked Trick coke works
at Norwood Pa. demoiishing several
coke ovens and destroying other prop
erty.
PHILIP SLATTERY. farmer living
near Peoria, Ill, has discovered rich
lead of silver ore.
GEN. CHARLES a. JOHNSON. a retired
army officer. who served in the Mex
lean and civil wars, committed suicide
at New Haven, Conn.
THREE HUNDRED people have been
massacred by natives of the island of
Anjouan, one of the ComarO group.
FOURTEEN persons in an audience at
tending school exhibition in Liberty.
Miss. were wounded by an unknown
assassin firing into the crowd.
A NUMBER of hostile tribes attacked
ia camp of native Indian infantry in
1.-THE province of Assam. killing 40 sol
ldiers and seven British officers
The house of John Ankney near
Sycamore. o.. was blown up by dyna-
Unite and the members of his family
were more or less severely injured.
THE missionary schooner Chapman
Twas lost in the Pacific ocean on the
west coast OF Tahati and her crew of
nineteen were drowned
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the S0th ult was:
Wheat. -, 545, 269 bushels; corn. 2.sSs,-
iO42 bushels; oats. =. SOS. 92l bushels.
Ar Sumpter. =. C.. George Elliott
lhogged his wife, and his mother-in-law
looming on the scene drove the blade of
Ia Ratchet into Elliott's skull
TIE city of Pryzraw. in the govern
ment of Pet-ikan, Germany, has been
lentirely destroyed bv fire and 1900
persons were made homeless and over
100 persisted in the flames The fire
was believed 10 be the work of iReen-
diaries.