River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-09-14
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LATER NEWS.

The transport Senator arrived at
Manila the 18th with 10 officers and
600 men.
The Boyden bottling works at Mason
City, To-, was destroyed by fire.
The courtmartial that convicted
Dreyfus signed formal recommended
ton for mercy. Its object is to elimi-
nate the degradation feature of the
punishment.
Twelve members of the mob who
whipped Postmaster Cram, at Peck,
Fla, have been held to the federal
court for trial by the United States
commissioners.
coal train on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western dashed into the rear
end of freight train just as it had
pulled out of switch at Nayaug, Pa,
wrecl1ing the caboose of the freight
and killing Joseph Parry and Patrick
Mullen, brakemen.
Mrs. Paul Gilmore, wife of the well
known actor, died suddenly at Du-
buque, Iowa.
The season of the Western Baseball
League closed the 18th, indianapolis
winning the pennant, with Minneapo-
lis second and Detroit third.
Senior Luis f. Corea was presented to
the president as the newly accredited
minister of Nicaragua.
The navy department has decided to
assign Rear Admiral Norman Ii. Far
quar- to command the North Atlantic
squadron, to succeed Admiral Samp-
son, and to place the latter in com
mand of the Boston navy yard.
A Hamilton, (O.) manufacturing firm
recently, shipped to Yokohama for
the japanese government equipment
for one of the finest paper mills in the
world Japan has decided to make
her own paper.
Cramps ship building yards at Phila-
delphia resumed operations after hav-
ing been closed from Sept. l. When
work was stopped at the plant. Charles
S. Cramp announced that the action
was taken in order to give the veter-
ans attending the Grand Army en-
campment an opportunity of inspect
ing the yard.
Fishermen returning from the La
brador coast reports great scarcity
of Goldfish.
Gen. Otis reports the Filipinos de-
feated in several minor engagements.
Rev. o. H. Sproul fell dead in the
pulpit while delivering a sermon at
Orthville, S. ID.
In prize fight at Denver between
Kid Parker and Frank BARLEY, the
latter had his jaw broken.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad
magnate, died at his home in New
York the morning of the 18th, of par
alysis. He was born Nov. 81, 1s43.
An insane merchant of Berlin named
Herman Bordasch has been arrested at
Leipsig for threatening to kill the king
of Saxony.
Devil Anse" Hatfield has been ar
rested at Warnliffe, KY, by sheriff's
posse. For Is years he has carried a
rifle by day and slept with one in his
hand at night, defying the authorities
to arrest him. During all of this time
he has been the most terrible figure of
the long and bloody feud between the
Hatfield and Mccoy factions of the
mountains of the West Virginia and
Kentucky border.
Snow fell at Marquette, Mich, the
first of the season.
The discomfort over the new taxes
continues at Barcelona. Carlist plots
have been discovered in the neighbor-
ing villages and the surrounding
heights have been invested by the
civil guards.
Indignation over the outcome of the
Dreyfus trial has caused party over
200 Chicagoans who We're going to the
fair in body to abandon their trip.
Gen. Otis has cabled the war depart
ment for 5000, 600 rounds of ammuni-
ton for the army rifles. This CON
signment will be sent from San Fran
cisco.
Terry MeGovern, of Brooklyn, de-
feated Pedlar Palmer, of London, in
one round at New York, winning the
bantam championship of the world.
The union fathers of Chicago were
locked out by the bosses, causing a
suspension of work on many buildings
The next annual convention of the
Hoo Hoos will be held at Dallas, Tex,
Oct 9, 1900.
Four new cases of yellow fever were
announced the 18th at New Orleans