River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-05-20
LATER NEWS

Inc president the lIth sent a special
message to congress, stating that a
large number of American citizens were
in Cuba in a state of restitution, and
asked that an appropriation of $50, 600
be made available at once for their re-
lief. A resolution was Immediately
passed by the senate without division.
The Turks have again been victori-
GUS, having defeated the Greeks at
Domokos, the 18th. The most intense
excitement prevailed at Athens. The
Greeks fought well, but were greatly
outnumbered.
The availab BILE cash in the L. S. treas
ury the 18th was 1929. lis, O22, with a
gold reserve of s145, 4O9, COL.
The large three-story warehouse of
Warren Bros, at Nashville, Tenn, was
destroyed by fire. causing a loss Of
s45, 600.
Adolph l.. Leutgert, a we'll known
sausage manufacturer of Chicago, was
arrested upon the charge of having
murdered his wife.
III. Ii. Chamberlain. of Denver. Colo,
was killed while bicycling near Staines,
England.
As a result of representations by
Minneapolis and St. Paul iobbers and
importers. Secretary Gage has decided
to designate tea inspectors at Puget
Sound.
The legislature of Florida passed res
olutiOns calling for the impeachment
of Clarence Il. Collins, state treasurer,
for embezzlement.
A dispatch from Moscow, Russia,
says the police have made 60 arrests,
most of the suspects being men with
university education. although work.
ing as mill hands, on the charge of
planning a big mill strike. They will
be sent to Siberia without trial.
A plot has been discovered to muir
der King George of Greece, and many
arrests have been made.
Hon. Thomas L. BayaId, former am
bassador to England has arrived at his
home in Delaware.
The ministers at Constantinople the
18th received official advices from Sofa
announcing that orders had been issued
for the partial mobilization of the Bull
garian army, possibly at the instiga-
tiOn of Russia. There was hurried con-
sultation of the ministers. The war
party was for further defiance, but in
ne end pacific counsels seemed to have
prevailed, for orders were telegraphed
to Edhem Pasha, the Turkish com
mander-in-chief in Thessaly, to cease
hostilities. Orders were issued to ar
range for armistice.
A railway collision near Vega Alta,
Cuba. resulted in the death of an en-
gineer, a gend arme and five passen-
gers. and % passengers were injured.
The steamship Paris. the 18th, tool,
ont $50, 900 ounces of silver.
The postal congress, in session at
Washington, has barred its doors to all
newspaper representatives..
The children's coat and jacket maxi
ers of Philadelphia, 70 tle numb Der of
375, have struck for an increase of 25
per cent in wages.
Twelve firemen were frightfully
burned by the explosion of a tank
containing so gallons of gasoline in a
grocery store in Chicago. John Cham
payne will probably die.
The sultan has ordered two hospi-
tails of 600 and 100 beds respectively to
be built in order to enable him to visit
the Turkish soldiers who have been
wounded in the campaign against the
Greeks
The monthly statement of the col
lections of internal revenue shows
that the total receipts for he month
of April were s1I. 3s4, $50. a decrease of
$40, 7O5 as compared with April, 1896
For the last ten months the receipts
aggregated sl22, $50, 4O4. and increase
as compared with the same period of
last year of 5000. Os3.
The president has nominated Dis
trict Judge Williams w. Morrow of
California judge of the ninth circuit to
succeed Attorney General McKeuna,
and George NJ. Thomas of Kentucky
solicitor of internal revenue.
The first woman to be graduated by
the faculty of the Union Theological
seminary of New York is Emily Grace
Briggs, daughter of Prof. c. A. Briggs.
Ex-senator Dubois, Senators Cannon
and Pettigrew. will sail July ? for
China and Japan TO study the financial
question from the oriental standpoint.
A blind man attempted TO muir der
Senator Mcpherson. of New
Jersey in his Office in a New York