River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-04-20
LATER NEWS,


an opinion was handed down by JUS
tice Peckham pronouncing invalid
portion of the state law of Michigan
regulating the sale of 1,000mile rail
road tickets. The part of the law af-
fected is that providing that these
tickets shall be good for two years, and
shall be sold at reduced rate.
Harrison Fletcher's saw mill at OF
tumwa, To-, was blown to pieces by
boiler explosion. The proprietors son
was killed and several employees hurt.
A severe blizzard ragged throughout
the Black Hills in South Dakota the
nth Snow fell but the weather was
not cold.
The Filipino government is reported
to have removed to Tarland, AZ miles
north of San Fernandino.
General Lawton's expedition has re-
turned to Manila. All the territory
he captured will be evacuated and all
the launches seized will be restored to
their original owners-that is to say,
they win be given back to the persons
from whom Aguinaldo's soldiers took
them.
During election riots at Bilboa,
Spain, twenty-six persons were wound
ed. At Portos, province of Tarragona,
the municipal officials fired guns at
the crowd, injuring a number.
Announcements is made by all sugar
refners that they have withdrawn the
guarantees of thirty to sixty days of
the market prices on date of arrival of
sugar at the point where the buyer
did business.
While the fire department of Denver
was working to extinguish a fire in the
Pintsch gas works, an explosion oc-
Cured inside the building, injuring
nine firemen.
Prairie fires in Custer county, Neb.,
destroyed a great amount of property.
Tom Morrisy, of Eureka Valley, and
John Koch were burned to death.
Thomas Hemple, farmer, killed his
wife near Hudson, Mich, and then
committed suicide.
The Texas, Newark and Marblehead
have sailed from Barbados for Santa
Lucia.
AS result of street fight at Clarks-
vile, Tenn, with pistols, Bud Higgins
and Gus Moody were mortally wounded.
At Easton, Pa, Judge Schuyler sem
fenced Liewellyn Stout, the murder of
Harvey Wurster, the Philadelphia &
Reading telegraph operator, to be
hanged.
A dispatch from Manila says: TWEEN
ty prominent Filipiuos of this city have
iii a
ference between the Americans and
the insurgents for the purpose of eff
fecting peace.
The Yorktown visited Baler, Luzon,
east coast of Luzon, p. l., April IL, for
the purpose of rescuing and bringing
away the Spanish forces consisting of
so soldiers, three officers and two
priests. which were surrounded by 400
insurgents. Fifteen are missing.
The United States gunboat Nash
Vile. which fired the first shot in the
recent war, has been ordered to pro-
coed up the Mississippi river to st.
Louis.
Bob Bank, colored, was hanged at
Mayfeld, KY, for criminally assault
ing Tennie Bailey, aged II years.
The war department authorities have
decided to make a material reduction
in the military strength in Porto Rico.
The torpedo boat Somers is on board
| the Atlantic transport steamer Man
haitian, which left London for New
York on April Is.
w. w. Roclkhill, now minister to
Greece, has resigned that post.
I Arthur Sherburn Hardy of New
Hampshire, now minister to Persia,
has been promoted to succeed Mr..
Rockhill.
William p. Lord. ex-governor Of Ore
/ gon, has been appointed minister to
! Persia.
| John N Irwin of Iowa. formerly
governor of Idaho, has been appointed
minister to Portugal to succeed Law
renee Townsend. transferred to Bel
| gium. in place of Bellamy Storer, who
| goes to Madrid.
Gen. Henry commanding department
| of Porto Rico has asked to be released
/ on account of i'll health.
/ At Henderson, Tenn. a mob of
masked men took A. NJ. Larue. from
/ the sheriff and shot him. Larue had
murdered John Young a neighbar in
March last