River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-14
LATER MEMS

from Washington, placing the Chica-
maugua camping ground under the
| jurisdiction of Gen. j. +. Brooks, of
the department of the lakes.
News has reached Havana of the
massacre of so reconcentrados. Leav-
! ing Santa Clara to return to their de.
wasted homes, they encamped at Els.
cambria and again began the struggle
for existence. To prevent starvation
they killed several head of cattle,
which served as pretext for the mas
sacre.
The Spanish armed cruisers Crlsto-
/ bal Colon and Marie Teresa passed the
Canary islands, going south.
The business and a good deal of the
residence portion of oxford Junction.
To-, was wiped out by fire, entailing a
! loss of nearly 500, 900. The town was
without fire protection.
The U. S. cruiser Baltimore arrived
at Yokohama, Japan, Oh her way to
Hong Kong to join the Chinese squad
/ ron
| In the six-round boxing bout between
Jack Daily and Kid Lavigne at Phila-
de lphia. Daily had the best of it in every
round but the second.
The state department has advices
which show that all but two of the
consular representatives and agents of
/ the United States have left the island
of Cuba.
General Lees trip from Tampa Fla,
to Washington was one continuous
ovation. At every station the country
/ for miles in the interior furnished ar
dent admirers, who came in carts.
wagons and on horseback Ladies
| filled the car with handsome bouquets
accompanied by missives expressive of
their admiration.
Two vessels of the navy have left
/ Beaufort, S. C.,sto join SIMPSONS fleet
rendezvoused in the gulf. They are
the Nezinscot and the Algonquin.
The president has nominated Robert
G. Evans to be United States attorney
for Minnesota and Patrick Bourlze for
the district of North Dakota.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee arrived at Wash
| ington the afternoon of the 18th and
was at once driven to the capitol,
where he met the senate committee on
foreign relations.
Inquiry at the state department dis
| closes the fact that the United States
has no representatives in Cuba upon
whom it can depend for official infor-
nation in regard to the progress of
events on that island aud that it will
be compelled. until other arrange
ments are made, to rely upon the rep
resentatives of the Spanish govern
ment for information in that line.
The tobacco trust has secured con-
troll of tho Drummond Tobacco COM
pany of st. Louis.
The cruisers San Francisco and New
Orleans have sailed from Halifax for
New York,
The extensive plant of the Penn
Plate Glass company at North Irwin,
Pa, was destroyed by fire. The fire
was caused by the blowing out of
gas converter. Loss, $3.50, 600
Twenty tons of naval ammunition
haye arrived at New York from Eng
land
The National Park Bank of New
York has offered to float popular
government loan without commission
VI any hIud.
Thomas A. Edison has a scheme to
provide warships with shells contain
ing acetylene gas. These would light
up the sea and make hostile torpedo
boats easy prey.
English mariners say that when an
American army reaches Cuba the peo-
Pile will flock to its ranks. They are
said to be longing for American inter-
farence.
General Lee. before the committee
on foreign relations, delivered graph
ic story of his career in Havana during
the last few years. He brought out an
important feature, namely, the insta-
bihty of the present Cuban republic.
He did not favor recognizing the indie
pendence of the exciting Cuban govern
ment, but he expressed the belief that
if United States should intervene by
force and drive ont the Spaniards a
satisfactory government could be es-
tablished and maintained.
General Gomez has now $4,000 men
in the vicinity of Havana, and is ready
TO cooperate with any American army
that may endeavor to invade Cuba. A
plan of campaign has been arranged.