River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-03-04
LATER NEWS.

Int OdDdhtoC hdo VIC
cided to adopt the gold standard at
ratio of 33lS to /. The smallest gold
piece will be of the value of yen.
The silver yen will gradually be with
drawn. The new project comes into
operation in October.
Gen. Julio Sangully arrived at Tam
pa, Fla, the LIST.
A riot occurred the LIST at knoxville,
Tenn, when the street railway COM
pany began to tear up the railway
tracks. The policemen arrested the
workmen and officers. and the sheriff
arrested the policemen. Several shots
were fred aud then the fire companies
were called out and dispersed the
] crowds by throwing water on them.
The sheriff the LIST was appointed re-
ceiver of the ST. Stanislaus Polish Cath
olicl cathedral at Bay City. Mich. The
sheriff has orders to arrest all persons
who come on the premises. A rebel
F, lioI n the church was the cause of the
order.
An extensive cavern occurred at
Wyoming, Pa, the 1st. The area sf-
fected is 200 yards long by $50 yards
wide. The postoffice and other build
ings are complete wrecks. The Schooley
mine is directly under the town.
What appears to be a genuine vol
cano has burst forth in the Great Salt
Lake, Utah. The water in the imme-
diate vicinity boils and seethes and the
spray is thrown into the air for hun
dreds of feet.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt issued the 1st shows that the
debt on Feb. 2s less cash in the treas
ury. was S1.O12, 600, asa. an increase for
the month of 81, l52, 327. This increase
is accounted for by an increase in the
national bank redemption account and
decrease of So, SIS, los in the cash on
hand.
About 200 helpers at the Globe ship
yard, Cleveland. o., struck the 1st be-
cause the company refused to employ
only union men. The tanners strike
at Chicago ended the 1st.
The president the I'd vetoed the inn
migration bill.
President-elect Mckinley arrived at
Washington the Cd.
The Musselman gendarmes at Canea.
Crete, in demanding their arrears of
pay the Cd, revolted, fred shots and
Threatened a massacre. The foreign
marines were summoned and procured
lpeace. The colonel of the gendarmes
was fatally wounded.
The city council of Chicago. the %,
passed an ordinance by unanimous vote
requiring every dealer of cigarettes in
lChicago to pay an annual license OF
ISl0O. The law also says that cigarettes
lcannot be sold within 200 feet of a
school house.
AT Eau Claire, Wis, the I'd, Hans
lChristianson. a laborer. while suspend
ed in : 90-foot well, 40 feet from the
surface. mendiug the curbing. was pre-
lcipitated to the bottom by the break
ing of the pulley. He dropped so feet
Into water over his head. The broken
pulley struck him and broke two ribs.
He was finally rescued.
U. S. Minister Bayard was rendered
a farewell banquet the I'd by the Lord
Mayor of London.
G. 5. Everingham was expelled from
1.-THE Chicago board of trade the I'd for
making false reports of purchases and
Isales
| A number of prominent citizens have
lpetitioned the president to veto the
sundry appropriation bill.
President Cleveland the I'd was con-
fined to his bed with an attack of the
lgout
1t was telegraphed from Boston, the
I'D that Ex-Governor John ID. Long of
Massachusetts had announced that he
had accepted the naval portfolio in
President McKinley's cabinet
The town of Candano. Crete, has fall
len ! to the hands of the insurgents.
The Greeks first took the fortress
lof Vavaros. which dominates the town,
where there were 1000 Mussulmans.
The president the I'd sent to the SEN
ate a report made by Secretary Olney
on the resolution requesting the cor
lrespondence in the case of DIR. Ricardo
Ruiz. The report suggests the mad
Instability of supplying the correspon-
ldence at this time, which suggestion
the president approves, saying it would
be incompatible with the public in
lterest to do so, the exhaustive investi-
lgation about to be instituted"
Geo. II. Earl has been elected treas
urer of the Northern Pacific.
The legislature of Missouri the cd
passed bill to make railroad fares in
that state cents per mile.