The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-08-16

One Of the Lorillards has been sued
a Seattle man who drove cattle to
Dawson, sold them at $1.15 per pound,
dressed.
Probate Judge David Allen was
killed in runaway at Newark.
According to the new city directory,
Winona's population is $4,000.
This years wheat crop will be the
largest ever grown, according to ex-
perts.
The United States Spirits association
has been permanently organized at
Cincinnati
The British tank steamer, Lucilene,
has been purchased by the government
for a water boat.
An assay of ore from the Avelina
mine, Alamo district, Lower Califor-
MIA. gives returns at the rate of Sligo
per ton.
A cargo of whisky billed for Alaska
was seized recently on the docks at
Seattle in accordance with a recent
executive order of the president.
The food resources of the Isle OF
Pines are not sufficient for its own
people, let alone the CubanS. Yellow
fever and smallpox are raging there.
The Mexican Ore company at Her
mosillo has received from Pilares, IN
the Montezuma district, shipment OF
ore which ran 5000 ounces of silver to
the ton.
A monument to the author of the
Ia1 On nn1s'i TN1san SaOff
Key, was recently unveiled at Freder-
lex, Md. Henry Watterson of Ken
lucky made the address.
If the resolution adopted at the re-
cent general convention of the United
Mine Workers is obeyed all diggers in
the Pittsburg district not receiving the
district price will quit work.
The corner stone Of Pennsylvania's
new capitol was laid at Harrisburg re-
Gently. The grand lodge of Masons
had charge of the ceremony. Col. A.
X. Mcclure was the orator.
A rich strike of galena running 221
ounces Of silver, $3.50 gold and 65 ner
cent lead has been discovered a few
miles east of Ogden, Utah. The claim
is named the Admiral Dewey.
The case of Alta Humphrey, Chi
cago widow, against Cyril e. Brown,
came up before Judge Ross in the
United States circuit court at San
Francisco. Brown is sued for $780,
900 for breach of promise in connec-
ton with an advertisement the plain
tiff put in a matrimonial paper which
was answered by Brown.
The military camp at Montauk Point
will be designated Camp Wikoff, in
honor of Col. Charles A. Wikoff, Of
the Twenty second United States in
fantry, who was killed at the head Of
his brigade at Santiago.
The national convention of the
American Protestant association fin
ished it's business at Scranton, Pa,
Pittsburg was chosen for the next
meeting, when the semi-centennial of
the order will be celebrate.
Lieut. Carranza, who, with Senior du
Bose. was kicked out of Canada re-
Gently by order of the home govern
ment, and who was supposed to have
sailed for England, has turned up
again in Montreal. He refuses to say
where he has been.
Judge Advocate Dudley, of the Unit
ed States army, has arrived in camp at
! Thoroughfare Gap, Va, to try Assist
ant Surgeon and Capt. Duncan, of the
| Twenty-second Kansas regiment, who
is charged with desecrating the grave
Of a Confederate officer at Bull Run.
| Robert Davis, non-union molder
employed at the Gould Coupler works
at Depew, was set upon by three men
and. beaten so badly that his recovery
is believed impossible. Three arrests
| have been made.