River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-05-11
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SEvENTY-EIGHr new labor organiza-
tions were formed in New York state
in 1898
THE Federal steel Co. is to build two
modern blast furnaces at South Chi
cago III.
THE Roane Iron Co., Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, is to build new blast furnace
at Rock wood, Tenn.
THE immigration laws of the United
States have been extended to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
LoNDoN's record of deaths by violence
was 3.514 last year. being ia above the
average of the preceding 10 years.
WORK began the other day on the
foundation for the new buildings for
the naval academy, Annapolis, Md.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered Sir John
Lubboclt's 100 best books. They were
sent by special messenger TO Osborne.
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION bottles of cham
payne are drunk annually in the world.
a Rheims dealer keeps 9,0000 900 in re-
serve.
LIVE lizard was found comfortably
settled in a cash register which had
been shipped from the United States to
London.
FRAU EMBDEN HEfNE, sister of the
poet, was some time ago offered $4,000
for one of her brothers unpublished
manuscripts.
MARY DICKENs granddaughter of
the great novelist. will shortly pro-
duce new book, which will deal with
theatrical life.
CT 9TH is now being made successfully
from wood, and is said to be as flexible,
soft, durable and susceptible to dyes
as other fabrics.
| HAVANA municipal taxes are to here
after be collected in American currency
or its legal equivalent in Spanish or
foreign gold coin.
| A SYNDICATE, headed by Warner
/ Miller has obtained an option at ST.
600, 900 on the famous Candelarra mine
at San Dimas Mex.
THE fierce crusade against tobacco
| cigarettes in London has developed the
tea cigarette, which is particularly pat
ronized by woman.
! A FIRM of glass dealers at Cincinnati
brought suit under the antitrust law
/ against the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
/ for $50, 000 damages.
1 NINE tons of pennies are taken from
the London slot machines each week,
\ the firm which runs the ''mutoscope"
averaging So, 500 alone.
! PABITo, believed to be the last Yaqui
| Indian in California, is dead. He was
los years of age, according to the rec
ord kept in pioneer days.
| Cor. FUSION, who recently distin-
guished himself with the 18th Kansas,
is one of the lightest men in the army.
He weighs but 9s pounds.
| OLIVER p HUBBARD, of New York,
who has celebrated ais Goth birthday,
\ graduated at Yale IN 1898, and is the
sole survivor of his class.
| SENATOR BUTLER, of North Carolina,
\ IS to enter the law school of the North
Carolina university. He was graduted
/ from the university in 1884.
/ RR ADM JOHN c. WATSON has made
formal application for command of
the Asiatic squadron in case Adm.
Dewey decides to return home
/ RELA KrTrR1DeE, of Belfast, Me-,
holds the worlds record for fine writ
/ ing, having succeeded in placing $4,000
words on an ordinary postal card.
/ THE United States Worsted Co, with
/ a capital of $40, 600 600. has incorporate
ed at Trenton, N. j. VIII seek to COM
bine all the New England interests.
THE heart of vegetarian beats, on
ar average, So to the minute; that of
4 the meat eater ~. This represents a
difference of 20. 600 beats in "a hours.
\ u. S. GRANT JR., of California, re-
sembles, his famous father not only in
/ face and figure, but in voice and ia
/ thousand little mannerisms and traits
I RIO DE JANEIRo is next to Buenos
Ayres, the largest city Of South Amer
1 lea. 1t has 700, 900 inhabitants, and
/ Buenos Ayres claims about 100, 600
/ more.
1 SENATOR HANNA is said to employ
/ five stenographers merely to answer
I the letters Of persons who think they
ought to have an Office and that he
ought TO get it for them.
LORD SALISBURY once handled a pick
and shovel During the great Aus
tralian gold craze he set out as gold
hunter, and the hoveI in whicl he
4 lived as a rough, red-shirted miner is
4 still standing.
I THERE are three states in which the
colored population is in excess Of the
white Louisiana, white, 55s 1885, color
ed. 500, 1872; Mississippi. white, 54s, s51,
colored. IA, 749, South Carolina, white,
4e2. COS colored, $50 al.
/ CUMBERLAND furnace, of the Buffalo
4 Iron Co. at Cumberland Furnace p. O.,
I Tenn, which has been ont of blast
4 since 1898. is expected to be blown in
/ about June 1. The weekly capacity Of
/ the furnace will be about rs tons Of
charcoal pig iron.
/ Al Brkin, near Ferry bridge. Eng,
the other day plow came into contact
with a stone coffin covered with
stone lid and containing human bones.
4 The coffin is seven feet SIX inches long,
I three feet wide. and the sides four
+ inches to FIVE inches thick. 1t weighs
nearly two tons.
Mn BoRKEDAr, of Norway. an
Inounees that the sun is burning out
i more rapidly than IS usually believed
and that unless something interferes
our grandchildren viii see its extinc-
ton. Mr.. Mohn, also Of Norway, has
checked Mr.. BorkedaFs ealcu lations
and finds them correct
A bad player and bad piano make bad
combination-Atc Globe.
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