River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-09-15
LATER NEWS.

A dispatch from Gambia, Island OF
Crete, says: About 600 men, women
and children were either burned or
massacred last week. The Turkish
are now patroling and blocking mp the
streets. The Mussulmans are ransack-
ing the ruins of the burned quarters
of the town, where the devastation is
complete. Blood is visible every where.
Such bodies of the slain as were not
burned were removed in parts and
buried outside the town limits"
A train on the Texas & Pacific was
wrecked by running into a washout
near Texarkana, Tex, and several
lives were lost.
The state election in Maine resulted
in the success of the full republican
ticket by a majority of over 20, 900.
Aside from the loss of her colonies
and ships destroyed in battle, the war
has cost Spain about 1914, 500, 900.
Private f. A. Callaghan was shot
and killed by policeman at Calves
ton, Tex, While resisting arrest
Three hundred men are to be enlist
ed at the San Francisco naval recruit
ing station to supply vacancies in
De~ey's fleet.
News from St Michael, Alaska,
brings confirmation of the loss of the
steamer Jessie, with IS lives, at the
mouth of the Kuslxowlll river, in July.
The passengers of the Jessie were
known as the Columbia Exploration
company.
Admiral Dewey reports the situa-
tiOn at Manila as critical. 1t is I'M
derstood he has asked for an additional
cruiser and a battleship. The whole
island of Luzon is in the hands of the
insurgents, except at Manila and
Cavite.
The Citizens Union of New York
city has Endorsed the independen state
ticket headed by Theodore Roosevelt
for governor.
Rear Admiral General Noel, COM
mander of the British naval forces in
Cretan waters, issued an ultimatum to
to Edhem Pasha, the Turkish military
governor of Crete, demanding that
within As hours he should deliver up
the ring-leaders of the recent outbreak
and massacre, surrender the fort and
ramparts defending the town, and dis
arm the Mussulman troops.
Senior Arellano, the PHILIPPINE law
yer, declined Aguinaldo's offer of the
presidency of the PHILIPPINE govern
ment on the ground that the later him
self, as the military leader, was quail
fed for the post On being asked to
reconsider his decision, Senator Arel-
lano suggested the advisability of
awaiting the result Of the Paris con-
ference, declaring that if independence
were granted his services would be at
the disposal of the nation.
The following was received at the
war department the 18th: The num-
Der of sick among the troops in Porto
Rico, l,Ss6-about Is per cent-177
typhoid, Ar malaria, 1859 other dis
eases. investigation of two deaths at
Ponce have been removed to camps.
Gen. Henry has taken precution to
prevent disease spre aiding.
The assassin of Empress Elizabeth
will be tried next month.
Nat Goodwin, the actor, while ont
riding in the country near Woolrich,
England, was thrown from his horse
and badly injured.
The Third Nebraska regiment, Col.
VIM. j. Bryan, will be ordered to Cuba
for garrison duty.
Fourteen postal clerks have left New
York to fill positions in the service in
Porto Rico
1t has been semi-otiicially announced
that the reports of the attempted as
sassination of Queen Wilhelmina and
the shooting of Countess Limburg
Stirum are entirely without founda-
ton.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral badly injured at Wichita, Kan,
by passenger train striking carry
all containing 10 persons on their way
to a show.