River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-04-15
LATER NEWS

| ne keu river at Grand FORKS the
18th, was 10 inches below high water
mark and stationary.
Judge Quinn, at Fairmont, Mimi,
the eth, sentenced Kellihan, convicted
of murder at the Sherburne bank rob-
berry, to he hanged in four months.
| His attorney made a long plea for
mercy, but it had no effect.
The funeral of Hon. d. w. Voorhees,
was held at Washington, ID. c., the
18th. The y. S senate attended in a
body.
A premature blast in the Holy Ter
ror mine at Keystone, 5. d., the 18th,
seriously injured four men, two Of
whom will each lose a leg.
Two men entered the Yonkers (N. ~
bank about noon the l2th, held up
lyman Cobb. the aged cashier, stole
81, 600 and escaped. The cashier was
alone in the bank at the time.
The national board of arbitration of
professional base ball players has de-
cided that Hutchinson, the Minneap-
oils pitcher, must play at ST. Louis the
coming season.
/ A dispatch from Trickhala says that
the Turkish garrison of Baltino. num-
/ bering about 500 men, which has be-
sieged by the Greek insurgents, had
cut its way through the Greeks with
a loss of thirty men killed. 1t is added
that the fighting was stubborn.
The president the 18th announced
the appointment of Senator Edward
/ o. Wolcott. of Colorado; Hon. Charles
/ j. Paine. of Boston, and eX-Nice-Pr
dent Adlai Stevenson, as commissioner
/ to an international monetary confer
ence. These appointments are under
/ the act approved March last. for the
promotion of an international agree
ment for bimetallism." and by its
provisions do not require contirma-
1 tion by the senate.
/ Another break in the leyee in War
rem county. Miss, occurred the 12th.
Overlooking Davis Island.
! Paul GEM was hanged az Jersey City,
+ y. j., the 18th, for the murder of Clara
Adlim on Aug. %, 1924.
Fire destroyed 10 buildings at Toma-
hawk Lake, Wis, the 18th. Loss,
SIS, 600.
Bob Fitzsimmons announced the 18th
that he had not retired from the ring
/ but would meet all newcomers, if a
good purse was hung up.
/ Two fast freight trains on the South.
ern Pacific road collided near Langtry.
! Tex, the 18th. Fireman A. =. Welch
was killed. and George FAIR. engineer,
badly bruised. Several others were
slightly hurt.
Several persons were injured during
fire which broke out in the picture
frame works of II. Zeunert. Chicago,
the lS'h. An explosion of chemicals
knocked down five firemen and burned
! them about the hands and body.
Andrea de Gloria, Italian vice con-
sui at st Paul. Mimi, died in the hos
pital the 18th from the effects of dose
of sulphuIic acid taken early in the
day with suicidal intent.
The Missouri river at Omaha. Neb..
! threatens to return to its old channel
of 20 years ago. Should the river cut
through. it would leave North and East
Omaha on the east side of the river, in
Iowa
The Red river at Grand Forks, n D.,
continues steadily to fall, and all dan
I ger is considered over.
Joseph Adams. who was sentenced to
three years IN Sing Sing u. W prison
I for forgery, has confessed 10 having
swindled the Columb ia bank, New
/ York. ont OF $3.50. This is the crime
/ for which Alonzo J. Whiteman was
/ tried and acquitted last week.
The Greeks have not receded 4 step
/ in their aggressive operation on the
/ frontier. They are still blockading
| Baltino and some of the insurgents
have taken up very strong positions
near the mountains. The Turkish
posts at Phoenika and Perrilangia
were dvnamited and troops were kept
standing under arms fearing that the
/ dynamite raid would hasten hostilitles.
A youth by the name of Harrison was
killed in a glove contest with boy
named Tobin, at Hampton. Ark. Har-
rison's neck was broken by blow
from Tobin in the first round and
death was instantaneous.
Mr. Henry White the American
charged affairs. at London has deliv-
cred TO Sir Thomas Sanderson, per-
manent secretary of the foreign Office,
n dispatch from the American secre-
ta-y of state. couched in decided terms,
urging that the indiscriminate butch
cry of seals in Alaskan waters should
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