The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-11-22
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The National Live Stock association
convenes at Denver Jan. "a.
Senator Stewart of Nevada tele-
graphs that he will have a two-thirds
majority in the legislature.
The defeat of Senator Turpie of
Indiana is a decisive victory for the
Nicaraguan canal people.
The naval architects and marine
engineers are holding their sixth gen
eral meeting at New York.
1t is understood that negotiations to
revive the steel rail pool are under
way at Pittsburg.
Zinc is $50 per ton and $40 is an
ticipated this week. The highest
price ever reached before was $34.
In Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
movement was inaugurated to pro-
vide employment for Cubans.
Independent strawboard plants will
consolidate against the American
Strawboard company.
William Bryan, plumber, New York,
has filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of $13S,00O and
no assets.
Through the efforts Of Gen. Joseph
Wheeler over 100 colleges will grant
free tuition to two or more young
Cubans.
An order has been issued in the
United States court at Chicago for the
sale of the Metropolitan Elevated rail
road at an upset price of $6,000,000.
The directors of the Revere National
bank of Boston have voted to place
dot
10.
The orden publi:o force, cavalry and
infantry regiments, have been dis
banded at Havana after a part pay
ment of arrears had been made.
A dispatch has been received an
nouncing that the hospital ship Scan
dia has sailed from Manila for San
Francisco with about seventy sick sol
diers.
All the potent interests i'll the tin
plate industry are now getting to-
gether in the formation of the COM
bination which is to be capitalized at
$EO,000,000.
1t is rumored that Senator Mcmillan
of Michigan will succeed Secretary
Hay as ambassador to Great Britain.
him in the senate.
Receiver Oscar G. Murray, of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, denies that
there was a disagreement with James
J. Hill over the successor to w. NJ
Green as general manager.
Window glass factories, with a ca.
pacity of about LOO pots, started
work at Pittsburg and nearly 10000
men and boys are earning their first
money for over six months.
There is much comment over the
conduct of President Orr, of the New
York chamber of commerce, at the
banquet Tuesday night in toasting the
queen before the president.
All white officers of the Sixth Vir-
ginia have resigned except Lieut. COL
Croxton and Lieutenants Heath and
Richardson. The lieutenants are on
special duty and not in command of
! negro soldiers.
The transport Ohio left Honolulu
for Manila on the 7th, the Indiana on
the Sth and the Zealandia on the 18th.
| Typhoid fever broke out on the Ari-
IONA just as she was to sail for Ma
Mia.
The engagement is announced at
Fort Worth, Tex, of Miss Fannie Hal
bert Mills, daughter of United States
Senator Roger Q. Mills, to First Lieut..
George Richards, United States Marine
corps.
The torpedo boat Davis, which sus-
tained an accident on her trial trip by
which seven men were killed, will be
! given another trial at Portland, Or.
| The Farragut, in her trial at San Fran
cisco, fell below speed
The Buckeye Tobacco works, former
ly Chase, sherwood 81 Co., of Toledo,
Ohio, the Oldest tobacco firm in Ohio,
has closed permanently and retired
from business. The proprietorS have
been unable to meet the competition OF
the trust and preferred to close solvent.
The supreme court has affirmed the
Judgment of the supreme court OF
Washington, enjoining the city OF
Walla Walla from building water
works, on the ground that this violated
a stipulation by which the water fran
chise was given to a private company.
The miners employed in the vicinity
of Silverton, B. c., have rounded up
all the Chinese laborers in the various
camps and shipped them out OF the
district. The Mongolians are expect
ed to return to China by the next
steamer