River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-03-09
LATER NEWS.

III the ndfbor anu the guns OF the IortS'
LATER NEWS.
The tilipinos attempted to capture
the watcrworl1s six miles from Manila,
but were driven back with great loss.
Josephine Kipling, the G-year-old
daughter of Rudyard Kipling, and the
eldest of his three children, died in
New York of pneumonia. The facts
were kept from Mr.. Kipling.
The Spanish cortes was dissolved the
9Th in the midst of great uproar,
The boiler in Baxley's mill, in the
suburbs of greensboro, KY, exploded,
instantly killing Oliver Perry and ia
tally injuring Thomas Wisdom and
Wilson Bailey.
A passenger train on the Lake Shore
railroad collided with a switch engine
Mt Dunllirk, \. V, killing Engineer
Thompson and Fireman Kirkland.
Martha May McFillen. of Sandusky,
Ohio, found guilty of the murder of
her lover, George Koehle, was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
burg has advanced the wages of all
employees from to 10 per cent. The
increase affects 500 men.
Prairie fires have done great damage
in Nueras, Starr and Duval counties,
Texas. 1t has not rained in that sec
tion for over six months.
The United States gunboats Annapo-
lis and Nicksburg have sailed from
Venezuela for Jamaica
acquisitions for 1000, 900 rations for
various provinces in Cuba have been
made for the month of March
President Alfaro of Ecuador has is
sued proclamation granting amnesty
to rebels who shall lay down their
arms in thirty days.
The United States marines who have
been under orders to guard the L. s.,
legation at Picking are under orders to
leave. The Russian and French en-
bassies have also notified the govern
ment of their intention of soon with
drawing their guards from their re
spective legations.
The proposed contitutional conven-
ton for Alabama is being vigorously
opposed by the republicans of the
state.
The Sugar Trust announces an
agreement to guarantee sales of refined
sugar for from thirty to sixty days.
The London court of appeal has up
held the decision of the lower court,
ordering the Peter Schoenhofen brew
cry to pay income tax on the entire
profit of the business in Chicago and
not merely on the portion RENTED to
England.
The republicans of Chicago have
nominated Zina K. Carter for mayor.
Advices from Manila say that the in
surgent forces at San Juan del Monte,
which numbered several thousand,
were driven from their position with
great loss. Only one American was
wounded.
-Four inches of snow fell in Washing
ton the 18th, and the entire eastern
coast was swept by Billiards.
Fire in one tenement house in New
York drove 80 families into the street.
Earthquake shocks at Yokohoma,
Japan, damaged considerable prop
erty.
Advices from Tien-Tsin, China, re-
port that 200 persons fell through the
ice where three rivers meet outside the
western gate of the native city. One
hundred and six were drowned.
Austin Bidwell, one of the men who
became famous through the Bank OF
England forgeries died at Butte, Mont.
He was in English prisons for twenty
years.
Plans for the formation of a soap
trust are under consideration at Chi
cago.
A monster mass meeting of German
Americans to protest against an ALI
ance of the United States with Eng
land or any other power will be held
in the near future in Chicago.
Fire at Denver, Colo, destroyed the
Hungarian elevators and nearly 500, 600
bushels Of wheat.
/ The most stubborn senatorial con-
test in the history of Nebraska ended
abruptly the 18th when Judge Monroe
L. Hayward of Nebraska City was
nominated in the republican caucus as
the successor of VIM. V. Allen, popu-
list.
John Kennedy. Bill" Ryan and
Dutch sheppard. were indicated by
the Wright county grand jury at Hart
Vile. Mo, on the charge of robbing
the Memphis express train at Macomb,
( III. last January