River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-22
LATER NEWS.

An United States mail car was broken
into at Willmar, Mimi, during the tenn
porary absence of the mail clerk about
/ a. IN. and the mail was partially
looted. The thieves evidently worked
IN the dark, for they did not discover
the registered mail.
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, has ap-
pointed Hon. Thomas B. Turley as
United States senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Senator
Isham q. Harris.
The conference report on the tariff
bill was adopted shortly after midnight
the Goth, by a vote of 1s9 to III, and at
noon the report went to the senate
for action there. This eclipses all pre-
vious records. The result was accom-
plished after 12 hours of continuous de-
bate. But two speeches were made by
the republicans, one by Mr.. Dingley in
opening the debate and one by Mr..
Payne. of New York, in closing it.
Judge Fisk. at Grand Forks, n. d.,
decided that August Normaud, already
under conviction for the murder of
Andrew Hillestad, could not be tried
-ain, and he will be taken at once TO
tie penitentiary to serve a life sem
tence.
The amount of treasure brought
down from the Clondyke by the sseam-
snip Portland is now placed at 81, $780,
900. Each passenger is required to
place his gold in the ships safe, but
the miners secreted their dust in blan-
kets and luggage, which were taken
either to their stateroom or thrown
carelessly about the ship.
The jury in the case against George
Defender. for the murder of the Spicer
family at Winona, n. ID. case came
into court after having been out 90
hours, and reported that they were un-
able to come to an agreement and
were discharged.
c. II. Mcintosh, governor of the
Northwest Territory, in which is inclu-
ded the far-famed Clondyke strict, is
in Seattle. i he governor freely sub
scribed to the t-uthfulness of the
stories sent out as to the richness of
the new diggings. He estimated that
Clondyke and its tributaries yielded
over IS, 600, 900 in gold last winter. of
this amount he says So, 600, 600 and up
ward came via the steamships Port
land and Excelsior. More than a mill
ion dollars in dust, he says. is now
stored away in the cabins of miners
along the creelt being developed.
The steamer Baltimore City of the
Furness line. from Montreal to Man
chester, is reported lost in the Straits
Of Belle Isle.
1t is stated that Emperor Nicholas
has telegraphed the sult,n that if the
/ Turks do not evlcuate hessaly, Rus
sian troops will enter Turkey.
by the explosion of lamp the farm
house of E. Cruel, near Appleton, Wis,
was burned to the ground. Mr.. Cruel,
who was 90 years old and bad been
bed-ridden for several years, was
burned to death. His wife was fatally
burned in trying to save him.
1t is reported that Rev. DIR. Talmage
/ has been forced to sever his connec-
tions with the First Presbyterian
church of Washington. u. c., owing to
Idissension among its members.
The cotton mills at Salem. Mass.
have closed on account of bad business
and 1000 operatives will be thrown
out of work
Commissioner Herman, of the gener-
al land Office, has recommended that
| two land Offices be established in West
ern Alaska.
A white man. DR.. w L. Ryder, who
murdered Miss Sallie E. Owen year
ago, was lyuched by mob at Talbot
ton, Ga.
| The United Stat 5 senate has passed
the joint resolution empowering the
president to take steps for the release
IOf Ona Milton and other Competitor
prisoners held by Spain.
Twenty-Five seamen of the lost Brit
ish ship Kinkora, who spent nearly
two months on the barren island OF
lCiipperton, in the South sea, have been
landed at San Francisco.
A race war Is on at River ton. Ala.
A negro was lynched for attempting a
criminal assault on Mrs. ). l.. Vaughn,
a white woman. After the lynching
the whites became incensed and threat
ened to extermiuate the negroes
/ John A. Creighton was held up at
gate Of his home in Omahn. Neb., and
robbed Of a valuable diamond and con-
siderable money. His brother-in-law.
who answered his cries for help, was
also robbed.
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