River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-29
LATER MEMS.

tremendous hail storm struck Me-
Pherson county, South Dakota, doing
great damage. There is total loss in
strip four miles wide and ten miles
long. about 2s, 600 acres in all.
The market price OF bar silver
reached low water mark the Goth. Gov
eminent assay bars were quoted at 50
cents. which made the silver in a stand
ard silver dollar worth 45.63.
Over 1000 garment makers in New
York and Brooklyn have struck. One
hundred and twenty-five shops are af-
fected.
The house of Henry Wetzel, treas
urer of the town of Luddington, Wis,
was entered by burglars, who secured
500 in gold and a watch.
The boiler of threshing outfit at
Argyle. Texas, exploded, killing the
engineer and injuring nine others, two
of whom will die.
The president and Secretary Alger
have decided to detail an army officer
and a company of soldiers from the
regular army for service in Alaska.
A boy shooting a. birds in the woods
near Madrid, Spain, came near hitting
the queen regent and King Alfonso,
weo were walking in the vicinity.
The secretary of the treasury holds
that the new tariff act was IN effect at
the beginning of the day on which il re-
ceived the approval of the president
and therefore became operative after
midnight of Friday, July %.
The British government has again
declined to interfere in the execution
of the sentence of Mrs. Florence May
brick. on the ground that there is no
reason for a change of judgement in
the matter.
Half million of gold was drawn
from the treasury for shipment the
Goth
Hail storms swept portions of Ne
braska, doeing considerable damage to
crops and buildings.
Crownover and Birch, two horse
thieves, were killed by a mob near the
Scott and Yell county line in Arkansas.
Otto Munchnuyer, U. S consul at
San : lvador, committed suicide be-
cause another man had been appointed
to his place.
GNdbNo EthdNOA iOOAASlANs
of Wisconsin. died in Providence. r. l.,
the 27th, aged So years.
Edward Eggleston, the author, was
thrown from his horse at Yonkers, n.
Y, and suffered a compound fracture
of the skull.
Poof. Charles II. Marcy, the must
clan and composer, died in Brooklyn,
y. r., of heart failure.
The W. A. Reed & Co., hat manufac-
turers; Pass Bros, silk manufacturers,
aud the Yonkers Silk Company, at
Yonkers, n. Y, were burned out, caus-
ing loss of $500, 900.
C. F. Manahan, of Ackley, Iowa,
lowered the state bicycle record for so
miles by II minutes. He made the run
from Ackley 10 Marshalltown in three
hours. three minutes, ten seconds.
Tramps entered Prosser's meat mar
ket at Chinook. Mont. took Ed Morris,
an attendant. and bound him to a
stake. They then robbed the market
clean of meat.
The United States treasury the 27th
had an available cash balance of $685.
975. 253; gold reserve, s143. 96s, go.
he president tue @aAn EtuOIulndleu
T. V. Powderly as commissioner gem
eral of immigration. and Robert j.
Tracewell. comptroller of the treasury.
The president has appointed Major
Moses p. Handy. of Illinois, special
commissioner to the Paris Information
al Exposition of 1900.
Peop'e returning from the Yukon
deny the story of 1000 graves at Forty
Mile Post. Alaska.
Cloyd Margell was arrested at Den
yer, Colo. charged with committing
murder in Iowa.
At the close If the meeting of the
COMEDIAN Cabinet the eth, the decision
was announced to impose a royalty
on all placer diggings on the YUKON in
addition to SIS registration fee and
500 annual assessment. The royalty
will be 10 per cent each on claims
with an output of $500 or less. monthly,
and 20 per cent on every claim yield
ing above that amount yearly.
A dispatch from Constantinople saws
that as the resultof the initiative of
Germany. backed by Austria and Italy,
a clause has been drafted for embodi-
mont in the peace treaty whereby
European financial control will be es-
"a olished at Athens.