River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-23

| y dispatch received in Madrid from
| the Spanish consul at Manila SAYS that
Aguinaldo has liberated 500 Spanish
| prisoners.
| LATER NEWS.
| A big scandal is imminent over the
quality and quantity of meat furnished
the British troops in South Africa.
The national democratic committee
met at Chicago the goth in secret ses-
sion. Nearly every member was pres
ent.
/ The German emperor arrived at
| Portsmouth, England, the Goth.
/ There has been revival of insur-
gent activity south of Manila, particu-
larly in Cavite province. At linus the
! Filipinos fired smooth-bore cannon,
| but this was soon silenced by the
American artillery.
! The German reichstag refused to
| pass an anti-strike bill.
| Lady Salisbury, wife of the English
/ premier, died IN London the goth.
| A formal deed of conveyance was
placed on file, transferring from Ad-
mlral George Dewey to Mrs Mildred
Dewey, his wife, the property, in the
city of Washington which was present.
ed to the admiral by popular subcrip-
| ton. A nominal consideration is
named in the instrument.
The United States gunboat Helena
arrived at Cayite with the crew of the
/ United States cruiser Charleston,
which was wrecked early in the month
on a reef off the northwest coast of
Luzon. All the men are well.
! A middle-aged, well dressed man de-
4 liberately threw himself into the Nj
agara river and passed over the falls.
/ There is no clue to the identity of the
1 suicide.
/ Gen. Wheeler has decided not to re-
/ from the Philippines to attend con-
/ gress.
/ The story sent out from Toronto that
/ the Buffalo syndicate's proposition for
erecting elevators at Montreal would
| be accepted by the government, is pro-
nounced incorrect. Mr.. Tarte, the
minister of public works, says the gov
ernment has not acted on the propo-
sition.
| The democratic state committee of
| Kentucky admits that Taylor (rep.)
has plurality on the face of the re.
turns, but bases the hope of the cleo
! tion of the democratic ticket on throw
! ing out the vote of Louisville.
Miss Nora johnson, i6 years old,
daughter of farmer living near Bra
mer, Mo, apparently died several days
ago All arrangements had been made
| for her funeral, and relatives and
friends had gathered at the house to
! take last look at the dead. To the
establishment of all present the girl
came to life and sat up in her coffin.
When the French liner Bretagne ar
rived at New York, r. !. Book was
arrested for smuggling. Pearls val
ued at about $50, 600 were seized in his
luggage.
Vice President Hobart died at his
residence in Paterson, N. j., the Dist.
He had been failing since the day pre-
vious, and early in the day of his death
he had an attack of angina pectoris,
from which he never rallied.
A tidal wave swept away the wharf
at Bear Harbor, CAL, and drowned
Charles Ward and Christopher Jones,
two laborers.
President Kruger refuses to allow
United States Consul Macrum, at Pre-
toria, to act for Great Britain during
the Transvaal war.
At Holland, Mich, Alexander Craw-
ford shot and killed his wife and then
sent bullet into his own head.
The steamer Manchester Enterprise
foundered at sea. The crew was saved
by the Lakonia.
Jeffries and Corbett agreed to meet
in a 25-round fight on or about Sept.
10, 1900.
Papers were the 21st drawn up by
Mrs. Mildred Dewey, wife of Admiral
Dewey, transferring all right and title
in the Depew home to the admiraPa
son George Goodwin Dewey.
William Ball was arrested by federal
officers at St Louis on charge of
smuggling Photographic lenses into
the United States.
All communications with the British
forces at Estcourt have been cut off.
While the ear was at Potsdam re-
Gently the general lines of a prospect
i've commercial treaty between Ger
many and Russia were reached.
General Brooke has named Senior
Zenetti as the representative Of Cuba
at the Paris exposition in 1892 lie
left Havana for New York. expecting
to sail for Europe by the French
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