River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-04-01
, LATER NEWS.

IAt Ch NEWS.
c. Z. Crosby, of New York. repre-
sentative of the Chicago Record. is re-
ported killed while watching a battle
in Cuba.
The president the Goth nominated
Charlamange Tower, of Pennsylvania,
to be minister to Austria, aud Henry
Clay Evans, of Tennessee, to be COM
missioner OF pensions.
At least two links in the chain Of
Mississippi levees have snapped. At
Wayside, a few miles south of Green
ville., Miss, about midnioht of the goth,
a serious break occurred, inundating
many of the finest farms in the south.
Large forest trees went down before
this light torrent. No lives were lost.
Anticipating this calamity the people
had sought safety.
The United Press association, hav-
ing its principal Office at New York
City, filed an assignment the Goth.
Six children of John McGrath were
drowned while attempting to ford
creek near Seneca, Kas. The wagon
was overturned and all the occupants
swept away.
l. was learned the Goth that General
Luis Rivera, the successor of Antonio
Maceo in the insurgent ranks of Cuba.
had been killed during a recent en-
gagement, after being thrice wounded.
The gunDoat Helena made her trial
over the course or Long Island sound,
and succeeded in making 1873 knots
per hour over the entire course.
A strike of the steam steamfitters in
New York. in which between $4,000
and 60, 900 men may be involved, was
declared the 29th when over LOO
steamfitters refused to go to work in
their shops. The strike is the result of
a practical lockout on the part of the
bosses.
A long official dispatch from The
British admiral in Cretan waters to the
governm mt the goth concludes with
say ing: Colonel Vassos (the commander
of lle Greek army of occupation in
Crete) has practically declared war
against the powers.
The Olympic club of London has Of
fered a purse of SIS, 900 for tight be-
tween Charles Mitchell and Bob Fitz-
simmons.
ItAElN lAlt DONiA -dnOLiitI u NdooC w
Cured in the Mississippi levee above
Greenville. This, with the crevssse
below Greenville, will deluge the en-
tire great Mississippi delta.
The president the 3Oth nominated
Frank Palmer, of Illinois, to be gov
eminent printer. Mr.. Palmer was pub
lie printer under the Harrison admins
tration and made such good record
that he was Endorsed for the position
not only by his state delegation, but
by many senators and other public men.
The evening of the Both terrific tor
nado, followed by hail and food. swept
through the town of Chandler, Okla,
compile ely devastating the place.
Only two houses were left standing.
Within a few hours 81 dead bodies were
taken from the ruins. In addition to
those dead, dying and injured, it is be-
lieved that there are a score or more
dead buried beneath the wrecked build
inss. Several of the wrecked build
ings took fire and the debris burned
fiercely. Many of the injured were
burned to eath while pinned fast I'M
der the debris.
Elk United States Senator Cameron.
of Lacrosse, Wis, died at Milwaukee,
Wis, the 3Oth, aged Il years.
The gold reserve Il the L. ). trels-
ury the 3Oth was S15l, si1,53
The United States cruiser Yantic ran
aground the SOth at Port Nueva. Pal
mira The Yantic is an old fashioned
wooden warship.
The explosion of an unusually heavy
blast in the water tunnel at Chicago
the SOth, killed Owen O'Mally and Peter
Gallagher. Several others were in
jured.
William Dawson, Jr., cashier of the
recently insolvent Bank of Minnesota
at St Paul, has been indicted by the
Ramsey county grand jury on the
barge of fling false reports with the
oank examiner. The falsity in reports
is said to have consisted in the absence
of any reference to loans to Dawson's
father.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. consdl-general at
Havana. has been notified by cable
that his services will not be needed
after April Is The notice from the
state department comes nominally in
the form of leave of absence begin
ing at that date, but il is understood
both by him and the department that
his successor will be on the ground at
that time. Gen. Lee expects to come
back TO this country at once.