River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-09
LATER NEWS.

In the fight at Manila the Filipinos
were utterly routed with fearful
slaughter. From the best information
obtainable their losses are estimated
at 10000. The number of American
/ troops engaged was $4,000, while the
/ Filipinos' force numbered 10000.
4 Negotiations are in progress in Chi
/ cago for the formation of candy trust
\ composed of about 40 of the leading
manufacturers of the United States.
The census bill prepared by the house
committee of congress went through
by vote of LAT to AZ. The bill differs
in several essential features from the
senate bill, particularly in that it
makes the census bureau entirely indie
pendent of any existing department.
Chairman Hopkins stated on the floor
the expectation was that the senate
would accept the house bill.
James n. Holmes, a prospector, was
frozen to death on Pixies Peak.
Maj. Heistand, of the adiutant gem
erals department, has been detailed
as military attache of the United States
commissioners to the Paris exposition.
Six Sicilians were arraigned before
United States Commissioner Shields at
New York, charged with uttering, sell
! ing and having in their possession
counterfeit So and S. treasury notes.
All were locked up to await an exami-
nation.
The westbound fast mail on the Chi
/ cago e. Grand Trunk road plunged full
/ speed into the eastbound train while
/ the latter was standing at station.
/ Three trainmen were killed.
/ The Spanish-American treaty was
ratified BY the U. S. senate the 9th by
| a vote of 81 TO 81 An amendment to
to make the Philippine article of the
treaty like the one adopted re-
lating to Cuba was defeated. When
/ Senators McLaurin and McEnery
came over for the treaty, it was seen
/ that the necessary two-thirds was Sc
/ cured. There was an agreement to
vote for the McEnery resolution after
| the vote on the treaty.
/ Representative Stallings of Alabama
/ has introduced in the house a bill to
authorize the president to appoint
General Wheeler major general in
/ the regular army.
Walter Fl. Wilbur was arrested at
/ New York on the charge of forgery
/ alleged to have been committed on
banks in Clinton, Iowa. South Bend,
! Ind. and Atlanta, GA.
j. Robertson and son Albert Rob-
ertson, sub-contractors on the mail
route from Reno to Arapahoe, o. T..
arrested for robbing the mails.
! The president the 18th caused to be
! promulgated the sentence in the case
| of Gen. Charles Z. Eagan. The court
martial sentence was dismissal from
the army. The president has commut-
ed this to six years suspension from
/ duty, which covers the remainder of
the time prior to Gen. Eagan's retire
ment in 1905.
! American troops were attacked while
accommodating outside of Manila the
/ 18th. The insurgents were at once put
to flight
The divorced wife of Thomas Dowl-
/ ing, a well-known citizen of Eau
/ Claire, Wis, was frozen to death while
/ intoxicated.
Charles Craft was frozen to death
while riding a bicycle from Madrid to
/ Slater, Iowa, distance of Is miles.
! The campaign against the PHILIPPINE
/ islands insurgents is to be prosecuted
with vigor. The question was fully
! discussed at cabinet meeting and the
/ conclusion was reached that before
permanent peace or security to life
and property could be secured. Aguin-
aldo's forces must be made to lay down
/ their arms.
Admiral Dewey seized another
I schooner loaded with another ammu-
milton intended for Aguinaldo.
The president has nominated Thorn
as J. J. See of Missouri to be a profess
sor of mathematics in the navy.
Near Middlesboro, Ky, Mrs. Mary
Williams, her son Harvey and two
I small children were drowned while
4 fording Clinch river.
/ Two men were killed and twenty
seven badly injured in collision near
4 Pollock, Ark.
All trains were blocked on the Wyo-
ming division of the Union Pacific rail-
road the 9TH on account of the cold and
/ snow.
The battleship Iowa arrived at San
/ Francisco the eth from New York,
from which port she sailed Oct. 2.