River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-06-08
LATER NEWS.

wife formerly Miss Anna Gould of
New York; participated in the riotous
proceedings in Paris.
John Shehosh, an Indian, shot and
mortally wounded Hans Peterson at
West Superior, Wis.
Three engines and seven freight ears
were demolished on the Northwestern
road at Ames. Iowa.
A tornado destroyed considerable
property at Otsega, Wis. The path of
the storm was narrow.
Frank p. MELONS feed store in Phil
adelphia was destroyed by fire. Six
firemen were injured.
Advices from Samoa state that both
the native factions, the Matietoans
and the Mataafans, are disarming.
Mataafa has surrendered 1,S00 arms.
The thermometer the 5th registered
90 degrees in the shade at Chicago and
96 at st. Louis.
Gen. Otis advises the war department
that the Oregon regiment will be the
first of the volunteers to leave Manila
for the United States.
Brig. Gen. Charles King, who has
just arrived at San Francisco from
service in the Philippines, has been
honorably discharged from the volun-
teer army, to take effect Aug. 2.
Col. Whalley's battalions, under
cover of the tin clad" gunboats, were
landed near Morong. The American
artillery opened fire on the insurgents
and drove them from their positions,
killing nine of them and wounding
five. The Washington troops then
took the town, the rebels fleeing to
the hills.
There were violent scenes in the
French chamber of deputies the 5th
owing to royalists Accommodations of
President Loubet. A soldier on duty
had to expel the chief anti-Loubet
speaker, NJ. Rious de Largentaye.
According to dispatch from Man
dial, the most southern town of Nor
way two boys, on May IA last, found
on the north coast of Iceland small
cork case. containing a slip of paper,
July II, 1897. signed ''Andree, Strind-
berg and Fraenekel," and bearing the
words "All well. Thrown out about
longitude 81, latitude unknown.
The attempt to organize the leading
street car works of the country into a
trust has failed.
Admiral Dewey returned to the flag
ship Olympia and expected to sail from
Hong Kong the 9Th.
The Grand Trunk railway track men
again on a strike.
The Mexican government has award
ed to VIM. K. Smoot, of Washington,
d. c., contract for harbor work at
Manazanillo, amounting to Sc, 900, 900
Mexican money.
Gen. Gomez issues a farewell mani
festo advising the army to lay down
their arms and work for peace and
order.
The New York congressman held a
conference and decided to support d..
b. Henderson for speaker.
The 9th inst was the hottest June
day in New York since the establish
ment of the weather bureau. From
early morning the thermometer stood
around as, until late in the afternoon,
the mercury went steadily up. At 8
| o'clock it reached the limit, 9S. There
were numerous prostrations and seven
| deaths.
| Dreyfus has received official Motif
cation of the revision of his case.
BY use of the telephone the German
| Insurance Bank of Louisville, KY, was
swindled out of So, 600 in currency.
A gust of wind at Rockford, H., blew
a baby carriage with two infants of
Mrs. Detliff in front of fast freight
train. killing both of the babies.
The American forces have occupied
the peninsula and General Halls col
umn is encamped at Morong. Major
Truman. marching across the Binan-
conan. found it impracticable to form
a Gordon, and the insurgents, with
the exception of hundred or two, es-
capped through the mountains after
General Pho del Pillar, dragging their
battery by buffalos, at night. A few,
however, may be trapped.
Admiral Dewey will accompany
President Mckinley to Chicago when
the chief executive comes to lay the
corners stone of the new federal build
ing Oct 9. A private dispatch from
Washington says that Mr.. Mckinley
made the announcements to Senator
Henry c. Payne, of Wisconsin.