River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-12-02
LATER NEWS.

Mo, for whole day the delegates to
the convention of the Bellevillc dis
trict miners voted to inform the arbi-
tration committee of the ST. Louis
manufa cturers' association that they
nothing TO arbitrate and the strike
would still continue. President John
Green expressed himself in favor of
arbitration but the delegates voted
against il.
The German government only wants
monetary reparation from Hayti for
the recent arrest and imprisonment of
of Herr Lueder by the Haytian tribu-
mails, but that il will not brook any
interf renee in the matter on the part
of the United States.
AS a result of the confession made by
Oliver Provost, alias Gauthler. now
confined in Jail at Pembroke, Ont.
Mrs. Gauthler was arrested charged
with hay ing poisoned and then cremat-
ed Rene Debin and Fred Carriere, at
Port Arthur. Ont, in February last.
The steamer Dauntless successfully
landed large expedition in Cuba.
A Union Pacific mail train ran from
Cheyenne, Wyo., to Council Bluffs, To-,
a distance of $40 miles, in $50 minutes,
including stops. Engines were changed
twice.
Thieves entered the home of Mrs
Eppenstein, in Chicago, and after
beating her with revolyers, made away
with all her diamonds valued at 81, 900.
The state nOcmal hool at River
Falls, Wis, was compile tely destroyed
by FIRE, causing loss of SIS, 900.
The steamer Nahant and part Of the
ore docks at Escanaba, Mich, were
burned Two of the boats crew are
missing.
Assistant Postmaster J. I. Braveboy
was shot and killed within few rods
of the postofIice at Lake City, S. C.
Martin Thorn, on trial at New York,
was found guilty of the murder of VIM.
/ Guildensuppe, at WoodsIde, L. !.
I Seven men are dead and IL more
were badly poisoned at Mapleton, Ala,
! from drinking a mixture of wood al
/ cohol and whisky.
China has practically agreed T. cede
/ to England a strip of territory near
/ Hong Kong and all the surrounding
I islands in order to enable England TO
/ fortifv them securely and to increase
/ thu garrison. 1t is expected that a
/ convention covering the agreement
will soon be signed.
! Eugene Moore, ex-state auditor for
/ Nebraska, convicted of embezzling
7 Sl2. 900 state funds, was sentenced to
4 prison for eight years.
Frank A. Keith and Maggie Godfrey
committed suicide at Lowell, Mass, by
inhaling gas.
An engine on the Atlantic e Dam
Station, Va, and rolled down am en-
bankment, killing Engineer James
Lutes and Fireman Frank b. Smith.
While a committee from the legisla-
ture of Georgia were on their way TO
inspect convict camp they were held
up by two men and compelled to give
up what money they had about their
/ persons.
The state department has been mott
/ fed that the Peruvian authorities are
threatening the interests of Victor Nc
/ Cord, the American engineer, who was
1 a rrested and confined in that country
I dur ing a revolution, and in whose be-
I half our government has preferred a
1 claim for indemnity.
In a railway collision at Warsaw,
Russia, II persons were killed out
right and 90 injured.
The German government has abau-
doned its intention of sending a war
/ ship TO Port au Prince. Hayti, to en-
I force the demands for the payment of
/ indemnity. The Cotton, instead, will
/ be sent TO reinforce the German feet
/ in Chinese waters Baron Won Bulow.
/ the German minister for foreign af-
/ fairs, gave the United States ambassa-
/ dor, a. ID. White, a wholly satisfactory
1 explanation of Germany's int ntion
/ toward Hayti
Secretary Gage said that in the an
/ nual estimates he would send to con-
gress, he would name about SOC, 600,
/ 600 and not above SIS, Ooo 900 as the
amount of the treasury deficit for the
/ fiscal year ending June so. 1895. The
secretary said that he expected the re-
ceipts from customs to increase steadily
and that in the spring lonths he an
ticipated quite large importations