River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-25
LATER NEWS.

A boat of the st. NaZaire was picked
up by the steamer Creale, which ar
rived at New York the 22d. Six dead
bodies were in the boat. Not live
person was in it.
The president the ed nominated
Binger Herman, of Oregon to be COM
missioner of the general land office.
A cyclone swept through Georgia
and Florida the 22d, killing score or
moro. At Arlington. Ga, the academy
was wrecked while school was in ses-
sion. Eight of the pupils were killed
and many wounded. The town of
Blakely, Ca, was almost wiped out of
existence.
The supreme court has decided the
case of the United States VS.. the trans
Missouri Freight association against
the railroads. The opinion was rem
dered by Justice Peckham and reverses
the decision of the lower court and
holds the antitrust law of 1890 to be
applicable to railroad transportation
and the traffic agreement of the pool
illegal
The Mississippi penite ntiary board
of control has decided to send all avail
doAC COhNtSlS " piStSSb bhc AtNCcS III
that state.
The first practice game between the
Minneapolis and Chicago base ball
clubs at Hot Springs, Ark, the 22d,
was won by Minneapolis.
For the crime of murder, in the kill
ing of Edward Paul and Jacob Hays, at
Wyoming last July, George Kelly paid
the forfeit of his life at Center City,
Mimi, shortly after midnight of the
22d. The execution was the first which
Sheriff Anderson has been called upon
to officiate at, and it was success,
the mandates of the law being carried
out without hitch. Kelly was a mar
vel of neave and selfposession, and
went to the gallows without a tremor
and with unfaltering step. The body
was inferred in the potter's field of
Chisago county.
Nineteen business houses in Bloom
ington, Wis, were burned the morning
of the %.
The Farmers & Merchants bank, of
Paris. Tex, closed lis doors the 23d. 1t
was one of the oldest financial institu-
tions in the state.
Shortly before the execution at Cen
ter City, MINI, the 23d. George Kelley
confided to his two friends that he was
George +. Clark. of Alton, III He had
stuck to the name of Kelley to protect
his family.
Theodore S. Swayze, of New Jersey,
has been appointed chief clerk of the
treasury department.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at Vandalia, ILL.,, the 23d
At Montreal. Quebec, the evening of
the 23d, an earthquake shock was felt
sufficient to shake windows and crock
cry.
The foreign admirals have issued a
fresh proclamation, announcing that
the insurgents and Greek troops must
not attack the Turkish Notifications
(which they claim are needed to''main-
tain security and guiet'D at Kissamos,
Suda, Malxa, Retimo, Gambia, where
foreign troops have been landed; other
wise the admirals say they will en-
ploy force.
The Chinese government has sent no
tice that it will be represented at the
universal postal congress, to be held
in Washington next May. This will
be the first time China has been rep
resented at such a gathering.
The original log of the May flower,
now in England, will be presented to
the state of Massachusetts,.
The strike on the Erie canal at Pen
dleton, n. V, assumed a serious as
pect the Esd, when the stone masons
were attacked by 60 Italians because
they refused to quit
Chicago's suburbs are having a food
experience. For the second time in
thirty years, the Des PLANES river has
tossed aside the restraints of banks
and of levee, aud the flood has
stretched its rule over all the lowlan6s
along its course. One-third of the resi-
dence part of Riverside is under water,
and since Sunday boats have been the
only means of conveyance possible to
inhabitants of the flooded locality.
James J. Corbett secured his much
wanted interview with Fitzsimmons.
The men met in the lobby of the hotel
at San Francisco and greeted each
other with the utmost cordiality. Cor
bett entrested Fitzsimmons to give
him another chance to retrieve his rep
utation. Fitz reiterated his determine
ton never to fight again, but finally
promised If he ever reentered the ring,
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