River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-01-19
LATER NEWS.


The Alliance transport liner, Mar
quette, which left London for New
York on Dec. ., last, has not yet been
reported. anxiety is felt for her
safety.
The Aston battery at San Francisco
will proceed at once 70 Fort Schuyler,
y. l. for muster out.
The London Times announces that
/ Germany IS in the market for the pur-
chase Of the Caroline islands
The sultan of Turkey has issued an
/ order directing the purchase of 1862
krupp field guns and So 900 shrapnel
shells
The farm house of Fayette Meacham
near Pittsville, Wis. was blown to
atoms by dynamite killing Mcacham
and fatally injuring his wife and four
children. Mr. Meacham had stored p
pounds of dynamite in the house with
out knowledge of his family How the
explosion occurred is a mystery.
The funeral of the late Representa-
tive Dinglcy was held the 10Th in the
capitol at Washington. The president
cabinet and distinguished members of
/ the diplomatic corps were in attend
ance.
Three men who are implicated in the
Great Northern train robbery at Fer
gus Falls Mimi, are under arrest at
St. Joseph, Mo. They were recog
nized as James Gilmore, John Allen
and Harry Harvard.
1 The colossal task of putting into
proper sanitary condition every dwell
ing in Havana has begun. Surgeon
Major Davis hired 100 physicians 10
make house to house inspection to
compel obedience to the new rules.
/ a shock of earthquake at Santander,
/ Spain, broke a number of windows
/ and threw the il habitants of the city
into panic.
The coal operators and miners meet
/ at Pittsburg, Pa, to revise the inter
/ state agreement.
King William opened the Prussian
+ diet the 10th
! Gov. Mcmillan was inaugurated at
| Nashville Tenn, the 10th.
/ The geological gardens at Cincinnati
! O.. were offered for sale by order of
/ the court, the lowest price being fixed
at $50 o0O Not a bid was received.
General Otis was heard from again
/ the 10th from Manila, and the contents
/ of his cablcgram were so reassuring as
I as TO the situation there and at Iloilo
! that the officials here have come to ac-
1 cept without question the correctness
/ of his statament that the critical stage
4 is past, and that he has control of the
/ situation.
/ Many Paris newspapers are trying
! to revive sentiment against the United
/ States by giving prominence to anti
/ annexation speeches and reports of
meeting among American troops at
Manila. One paper declares the
Americans are besieged at MANILA"
Chauncey NJ. Depew was elected U.
4 5. senator from New York.
j. NJ Cockrill was elected T. s. SEN
ator from Missouri for the fifth time.
The president announced that he
I had decided to order court martial to
4 try Commissary General Eagan for
abusive and violent language respect
I ing gen. Miles.
The transport Grant, with Gen. Law
4 ton and 800 troops on board, sailed
! from New York for Manila.
The attorney general of Kansas de-
/ cides that the special session of the
/ legislature of that state, called by Gov.
Leedy, was illegal, and that all laws
passed are void
/ The casket containing the supposed
remains of Christopher Columbus ar
rived at Cadiz, Spain. on the Spanish
/ cruiser Condo de Nenadito.
Eugene Hale was reelected U. 5.
/ senator by the legislature of Maine.
4 The house of the Minnesota legisla-
/ ture went through the formal and per-
/ functory task the nth of electing
! Cushman X. Davis to the United States
1 senate for third term. The spectacle
presented in the house and senate was
with a unanimity of opinion that has
never been manifest in state legisla-
I tive BODY. The lawmakers one after
another declared themselves in favor
/ of the return of Mr.. Davis. The vote
stood Davis 1856; Towne 40.
Three highwaymen held up a Chicago
policeman while patrolling his beat.
1 They robbed him of his weapon. and
4 after vain search for money, ordered
/ him to hurry and notify the police