River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-18
LATER NEWS.

FlNeu at llOI springs Ark, tue 10Th.
Thomas Is. Reed was elected speaker
of the house of representatives and all
the officers of the 5ith congress re-
elected. The new tariff bill prepared
by the ways and means committee was
presented by Chairman Dingley.
Bids for revenue cutters Nos. and 5
for service on the great lakes were
opened at the treasury department the
18th. The single bid received was from
the Globe iron works of Cleveland at
sl9s, 600 each. They will probably get
the contract.
Fire the 18th DESTROYED the store and
stock of the Ely Walker dry goods
company at St. Louis, causing a loss of
over 81, 900, 600. George Gatewold, a
fireman, was caught by falling walls
and killed.
The levee on the Mississippi river,
near Nodena, Ark, broke the 18th, and
in a short time a large portion of the
country was oyerhowed. Steamers
were sent out at once and many Aood
victims rescued.
A horrible accident happened to sew
| eral unknown men a few miles below
Vaneeburg, KY, the 18th. They were
on a family boat and were run down
by tow boat, and all were drowned.
| There is no means of Identification.
When the doors of the customs house
| in New York closed the 18th, there had
been collected exactly 1867, 979. 81 in
import duties.
A gun on the Russian ironclad Cessoi
Veliki, at Crete, exploded the 18th,
| killing Il men and an officer.
The attention of the United States
supreme court was given largely the
18th to the power of states to tax the
franches of corporations, such as ex-
press, telegraph and railroad compan-
| les. Two Kentucky cases, involving
the constitutionality of the state law
of 1892, one affecting the Henderson
| bridge and the other the Adams Ex-
press company, were both decided IA
vorably to the state.
The president the 10th sent the fol-
| lowing nominations to the senate: To
be ambassador extraordinary and min
| lister plenipotentiary to Great Britain,
John Hay, sof the District of Columbi
| Horace Porter, of New York, to be
| ambassador TO France; Henry White,
/ of Rhode Island, to be secretary of the
embassy of the United States to Great
Britain.
1t is the general belief at Athens,
| Greece, that nothing can prevent war,
and the government has its plan of
campaign fully prepared. The cabinet
had a long session the 10th, as to the
attitude to be taken in face of the CO
ercive program of Europe, and it is re-
/ ported that a decision was reached to
take active measures, as being the
only solution possible for Greece.
Nearly 1000 homeless and half
starved persons, rescued from the
overlooked districts of eastern Arkan-
sas, were cared for in Memphis, Tenn.
the 10th. The refugees are mostly ne
groes and of the lower classes, who
show scant appreciation of the charity
extended.
Ia the U. :. Senate the 10th ass bills
and eight joint resolutions introduced.
They embrace nearly every phase of
public business. Mr.. Aliens batch of
business numbered about IS. They
include bills directing the foreclosure
ot the government lien on the Union
Pacific railroad; to prevent profession
al lobbying defining the powers of the
judiciary; for service pensions, etc.
Fire destroyed the residence of VIM.
Spier. at Chicago. the 10th. Mr.. Spier,
who is an invalid, was rescued by the
.ighbors, and his wife and three chill
dren barely had time TO escape from
the building before the roof fell. Bar
bara Newman. niece of Mrs. Spier,
imprisoned on the top floor, was burned
to a crisp.
Charles Mitchell, the English pugi-
list. deposited 50, 500 in a London bank
TO bind match with John L. Sullivan.
The First National bank. of Sioux
Citv, To-, which suspended last Novem-
jcr, has been permitted to resume.
Five men were injured two OF them
fatally, in a railroad accident az La
Grange, Ind, the 10th. A meat train
bound for Hammond, Ind, jumped the
tracks on the Belt Line of the Chicago.
Hammond and Western railway. The
engine was ditched, two of the cars
were teleseoped aud the remainder of
the traia thrown from the track. The
fatally injred are; George Maxwell,
fireman, inhaled steam and severely
scalded Charles Merryweather. brake
man, leg broken and internally injured.