River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-02-04
LATER NEWS.

- 6h NEWS
Ex Congressman James W.-son, of
Iowa, telegraphed the Iowa delegation
at Washington the 1st that he had
been rendered and had accepted the
agricultural department portfolio. This
is the first authoritative announcement
that Wilson is to go into McKinley's
cabinet.
An attempt was made the lst to blow
up the bank building of Gardner, Nor
row IL CO., at Hollidaysburg, Pa, with
dynamite. The front of the building
was wrecked. but the vault and books
were uninjured. The motive for the
crime is ascribed to the resentm Mt and
hatred of some depositors. The bank
failed last September. An assignee
was appointed and it was found that
the assets were insufficient to pay 20
per cent of the indie btedness.
The president the 1st reappointed
Martin A. Knapp, of New York, as in
terstate commerce commissioner.
Attorney General Harmon has given
instructions to the United States attor-
ney at Jacksonville, Fla. to at once
proceed against the alleged tilibusterer
Three Friends, under section 4,297, of
the revised statutes, for engaging in
an act of piracy.
The overland train on the Great
Northern road was wrecked near We
natchee, Ore. Seven cars containing
20 passengers were ditched and the
engine partially thrown from the
track None of the passengers were
killed and bat few hurt.
The boys dormatory of the Wesleyan
seminary at Lima, O., was burned the
lst. There were about 100 boys in the
building, but no lives were lost.
The statement of the public debt
published the LIST, shows the debt, less
cash in the treasury, January 81, TO
have been Sl.OO7. OOs. 3l7, an increase
for the month of SI4, 0TS, 735.
/ The U. s supreme court the lst up
held the Ohio law deciding that express
companies must pay taxes in that state.
| NJ. Martini, inventor of the Martini
rifle, Is dead
Fire broke out in the Tamarack cop
per mine at Hamilton, Mich, the I'd.
Four miners were cut off below.
The postoffice at Fort Custer, Mont,
on the Crow Agency, was robbed the
night of the 1st, the thieves securing
about $1,000 in money. The building
was entered through a window and the
money taken from the safe by some
one who knew the com bination. There
is no clue.
There were serious bread riots at
Madrid. Spain, the I'd. There have
been manifestations before the town
hall, windows have been broken and
many arrests have been made. The
municipal authorities have resigned,
owing to their inability TO suppress the
disturbances, and martial law has
been proclaimed.
III. L. Loucks, one of the prominent
candidates for L. :. senator from
South Dakota. formally withdrew from
the race the I'd.
The Pennsylvania state capitol at
Harrisburg was destroyed by fire the
I'd. The flames in the short space OF
an hour ate up Sl,500.00 worth of
property. The fire o. iginated in the
rooms of the lieutenant governor and
was caused by the crossing of electric
wires.
The Philadelphia Lead company of
Pittsburg, Pa, went into the hands of
a receiver the I'd. Liabilities, 81, AGO.
loco.
The National Horse Breeders asso-
citation began its annual session at
Louisville Ky, the I'd, with good at
tendance.
The treaty between Great Britain
and Venezuela for the settlement of
the Venezuela boundary question was
signed at Washington the I'd by Sir
Julian Pauncefotc. the British ambas-
sador and Senior And e, the Venezue-
Ian minister.
Consul Walter Il. Baker, stationed at
Lagua lie Grand, Cuba. has complained
to the state department that the Span
ish authorities have detained, opened
and copied certain dispatches addressed
TO him from Washington.
The correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press VINO is inqniring into the
famine ravages in the largest district
iof the Central Indian province. having
a population of 800, O00 finds the situ-
alton very grave. This is the center
of the rice growing industry. which is
THE only crop grown. and, as it failed,
there is total lack of food stuff in
this locality and a real famine exists
About 1900 villages are affected. The
relief works have given subsistence to
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