River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-23
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Gen. Wheaton attacked and defeated
a force of 1000 Filipinos at Pasig, in.
ficting a heavy loss upon them. The
American loss was slight. The strong
Is fortified village of Caitai, northwest
of Pasig, was also captured by the
The government of Austria has re.
solved upon the expulsion of a large
number of foreign Protestant clergy.
At a banquet in London in honor of
Am ba ssador Choate by the chamber of
commerce Mr., Choate in his speech en-
couraged friendship between Great
Britain and the United States
To the eastward of Manila Gen.
Wheaton is still actively engaged in
clearing the insurgents from the
country. The villages of Cainti and
Taytay have been captured by troops
belonging to his provisional brigade.
With the usual ceremonies the Cana
dian parliament was opened at Ottawa.
The treaty of peace between Spain
and the United States has been signed
by the queen regent.
At the age of "a years Princess Kaiu-
lani died in Honolulu.
At Port Arthur, Ont, Oliver Provost
was hanged for the murder of two
swine herders. named, Carrie and Del
win, on February 10 1897.
Advices say that the queen regent of
Spain has decided TO renounce the au-
thority She exercises in behalf of her
son, the minor King Alfonso, and the
feeling prevails in Madrid that the days
of the Bourbon dynasty are numbered
and a republic may be the outcome.
The duke of ARGOS, the former Span
ish minister to Mexico, will be appoint
ed minister of Spain at Washington.
The battleship Oregon arrived at
Manila with her condition unimpaired
by her long sea voyage.
On the Pasig river line near Manila
Gen. Wheaton's forces drove the enemy
northeast into the province of Morong
and burned ten villages. The insur-
gents left 200 dead and the American
loss was two killed and 30 wounded.
LATER NEWS.
The United States supply ship Re-
lief arrived at Port Said on her way to
The state bank of Calf, Iowa, was
robbed of 81, 900 in currency and 500
in stamps. The robbers escaped on a
handcar.
Mrs. Martha Place was electrocuted
at Sing Sing, n. Y, the Goth, for the
murder of her step-daughter, Miss Ida
Place, Feb. :, 1898.
The transport Cleveland sailed for
Manila from San Francisco with 800
tons of army supplies. The City of
Pueblo will leave in a few days and
will be followed at short intervals by
the transports Charleston and Zealan-
dia.
The New York courts decide that di-
vorces granted in Minnesota are not
legal in New York.
Boston telegraphs story that the
long-talked-of combination of copper
worlds output of the metal has been
arranged, and that the prospectus
would be issued soon of the American
Copper company, with capital of ST.,
600. 900, 600, which would acquire seven
prominent copper companies, two of
them foreign companies.
The revolution in Bolivia is gaining
ground and President Alonzo dare not
stir In the department of Ororo ne
gotiations for peace have been sus-
pended.
The Second Illinois volunteer in
fantry and the One Hundred and Sixty
first Indiana volunteers have been or
dered from Havana to be mustered out.
General Lagarda visited Malolos for
the purpose of advising Aguinaldo to
quit. lie argued with the insurgent
leader and attempted to convince him
of the fully of his persistence in the
face of overwhelming odds. Aguinal-
do was furious at the advice and
ordered General Lagrada to be execut-
ed Immediately. The unfortunate
general was promptly decapitated,
The mountain banditti of Panay
island recently threatened serious
attack upon Iloilo, but they were re-
pulsed with loss of 200 men by Gen.
Miller.
So pronounced has become the short
age of steel bars that a temporary but
costly suspension of every tin plate
mill in the United States is threatened.
The Star plant of Pittsburg closed four
mills.
Winfield 5. Schley, successfully
passed the physical examination for
promotion to the rank of rear admiral
of the navy
Inc gold reserve in the u. ). treas
ury the 22d was S241, 224,6 92.
During the absence of John Dian and
wife of Greenfell, Manitoba, from their
farm, their residence caught fire and
their five children were burned to
death.
The thermometer recently showed 20
degrees of freezing in England caus-
ing great loss among live stock. Lon
don the 21st had the heaviest snow fall
of the season.
John 7. Shayne, the millionaire fur
rier of Chicago, was shot three times
by II. H. Hammond while the two
were dining together in the Auditori-
UNI hotel. Shayne will recover.
Frank NJ. Dorsey was sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary for
wrecking the First National Bank of
Ponca, Neb.
Five persons were injured, two prob
ably fatally, in a runaway during a
funeral at Evansville. Ind.
The Patterson block in Omaha, Neb.,
was partially destroyed by fire. Mrs.
Thomas Taylor and Mrs. Anna Scha-
mel were killed and over score in
jured. A large number of ladies were
attending committee meeting of the
Maccabees when the fire broke out,
cutting off escape.
Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo.
and the members of the former staff of
the Fillipinos at Washington, have
gone to Paris in order to confer with
the Filipino junta there. Neither body
has received news from the Philippine
islands during the past eight days.
They say they fear the Americans
have discovered and stopped their
means of sending news.
Antonio Luna, commanding general
of the Filipinos base been deposed by
Aguinaldo.
BY the falling of the frame work of
the docks at Ashtabula O., six work