River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-07
LATER MEMS.

ne HOtel Lafayette, inc most Ia
nous hotel at Lake Minnetonka, was
completely destroyed by fire the 4th.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, SIS, 900.
There were Il new cases of yellow
fever in New Orleans the 4th; no deaths.
The president has appointed VIM. r.
! Finch. of Wisconsin, envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States To Paraguay and
/ Uruguay.
The little town of Austin, Pa, was
| completely destroyed by fire. A wagon
loaded with straw struck against a gas
Jet in a livery stable and in an instant
the whole building was ablaze. high
wind carried the flames to the rest of
the town. Loss, S225, 200.
Sixty villages near lung Chlu, China,
/ containing over $1,000 inhabitants,
have been destroyed by floods and the
people drowned or forced to flee.
The anti-gambling amendments 70
the constitution of New Jersey, were
adopted by a majority of lO2.
A boiler explosion wrecked a grist
mill near Muscatine, To-, and killed
w. K. Spears and George Maralf.
The entire board OF commissioners
/ of Cook county. Ill, was arrested for
| issuing a liquor license H. a district
claimed by the rohibitionists.
A passenger train on the Kansas
| City, Fort Scott Il Memphis rail way
! ran into a wagon at Willow Springs,
Mo, containing Philip Wooten and
| family. Six were killed instantly and
| one fatally injured. The crossing is
/ known as Dead Mans Cut"
The Arcadian copper mine at Hough-
| ton, Mich, which has been idle for a
dozen years, is to be reopened at once.
Indiana has declared a quarantine
| against the southern cities.
Edward Langtry, former husband Of
the actress Lily Langtry, las become
| insane.
The new Spanish ministry has been
completed and took formal poss ,ssion
| of office the 5th.
! The Alaskan Transportation and
| Trading company is buying burros in
Texas and will send 10000 to Alaska.
The thermometer registered Sc de-
/ grees in Chicago the 9Th, the highest
| point that has been known in the
month Vi October for % years.
! The funeral services of the late Neal
\ Dow were held at Portland, Me, the
/ jth. The attendance was very large.
Ernest Saxon and Robert Hackett
were arrested at Milwaukee for coun-
terfeiting. Spurious coins and molds
were found in their apartments.
The big summer hotel in course of
erection at CharlevoiX Mich, fell with
a crash and is a total wreck. Two
workmen, Pearce Kendall and Guy
Hamilton, were killed. a score or
more were badly injured.
At monster meeting in Cooper
Union. New York City, Henry George
accepted the nomination for mayor of
Greater New York. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing the Chicago plat
form.
Judge Munger. of the L. s court.
granted a temporary injunction to
prevent the enforcement of the law to
regulate stocF yards, passed by the
last legislature of Nebraska.
The friends of General Weyler in Ha-
vana have petitioned the Spanish gov
eminent to have him retained.
Edward Bedloe has been appointed
consul at Canton, China.
The president appointed Professor
Swenson, of Albert Lea, Mimi, Minis
ter TO Denmarck. Professor Swenson
is well known among the educators of
the country. lie comes of Norwegian
stock but was born in Minnesota.
After graduating at the Albert Lea
college, he took 4 postgraduate course
at the John Hopkins university in
Baltimore, dcvoting himself specially
to languages, history and political
science.
Fifteen New cases of yellow fever
were reported in New Orleans the 5th.
Daniel :. Lamont was elected presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific Express
company. which IS an adjunct of the
Northern Pacific railroad, of which he
he Is a director and vice-president
4 Louisville & Nashville tram was
wrecked at Riverside Park. Ala. kill
ing Gust Boyle, colored fireman and
linjuring Engineer Brown.
A gas explosion at Plymouth. Pa.
killed three miners.