River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-11-03
LATER NEWS.

! after chase across two continents,
Lambert Wilt, chief comptroller of the
Bungulau Savings bank, at Burgbun-
zlau, Bohemia, with his wife and her
aunt, were arrested at the Hotel Mo
seier, St Louis, Mo, on the charge of
/ having absconded with 100, 900 guldens,
| equivalent to S41,420.
/ The worst accident on the Canadian
/ Pacific road in recent years occurred to
/ the special military train chartered by
/ the British government to rush rein
1 forcementS across the continent for
/ the Pacific coast men-of-war. The
/ train was derailed near Rat Portage by
a broken rail. Frank Flecllney and
4 William Miller, two boys from the
training ship Agincourt, Chatham,
/ England. were killed.
After four days public discussion
the Nicaraguan congress has unani
mously approved of the agreement
/ Professionally made between President
| Ielaya and the American contractors
and engineers, +. +. Cragin and Ed
ward Eyre, authorizing the construc
/ ton of an interoceanic canal, and en-
4 towering the conccsSionaires to nego-
tiate with the Maritime Canal Co.
The powder house of the New York
& New England Titantic Smokeless
/ Powder company was demolished by
an explosion at South Acton, Mass.
/ There were 30 men employed in the
/ building, all of whom escaped with
the exception Of two, who were slight
/ ly injured in the rush to get out
/ An explosion of natural gas fatally
/ injured six workmen in the Bellaire,
/ (O.) steel works.
A party of boys at Toledo, o., play
1 ing Halloween pranks frightened Mrs.
William Sager so badly that she died
before help could get to her.
The peace commissioners at Paris
have formally notified the Spanish
government that the United States
would hold the entire Philippine arch
/ ipelago as a right of conquest. A show
of resistance may be made by Sagasta.
/ The Ninth regiment, New York vol
unteers, has been mustered out of the
/ United States service.
/ 1t is a significant fact that the Eng
4 lish papers are pledged to silence by
/ the war office and win publish nothing
regarding England's war preparations.
/ The great exposition at Omaha closed
at midnight of the 31st. 1t was a fnan
1 cial success something over 500, 600
/ remaining to be divided among stock
/ holders. The receipts were little
/ less than 100000 and expenses ST.
/ 500. 600,
J 10. ~, ii 1,n IL
! bition plebescite in Canada shows a
majority for prohibition of 10000.
Commander Snow, who is to relieve
/ Admiral Schley.in command of the San
Juan naval station. sailed from New
York on the Solace.
Adam Hammer, of Beaver Dam. Wis,
suddenly became violently insane, and
securing gun wounded nine men, and
was shot and then arrested to prevent
him doing further damage.
The schooner General Gley arrived
at Seattle from Alaska with 40 miners.
They confirm the wreck of the sloop
Johnson and the drowning of nine
men.
A dispatch from the Visayas group
of the Philippine islands says that sew
eral companies of native troops there
have rebelled. They were pursued and
several of them killed. The governor
of the Nisayas group expressed the
hope that the rebellion would not
/ spread.
The Empress Dowager Of China has
forbidden the publication of news
papers and severely punished the
editors
Four soldiers of the Nineteenth L. S.
infantry were badly burned at Fort
Wayne, Mich, by the explosion of a
quantity of powder.
Nicaragua the LIST ceased to exist as
republic and any further action re-
speeding foreign concession in connec-
ton with the canal will have to be
taken by the United States of Central
America comprising what viii here
after be known as the state of Hon
duras. Salvador and Nicaragua.
The Hist has arrived from League
island for Boston. The Topeka has
sailed from Philadelphia for Havana.
The Nashville has sailed from Port
Royal for Norfolk The Montgomery
and the Princeton have sailed from
Charleston for Norfolk. The Cincin-
ra+i baS oriva1 NJ Caiuauera