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

| Southern Nebraska had "a severe biz
card the Goth.
The Third United States left Fort
tanning control of fourteen additional
| paper mills, mostly in New York and
the New England states.
/ With the mercury lowering around
| the zero mark, a blizzard swept the
northern half of Ohio the 30th. delay
ing all passenger trains and impeding
business
The French minister of war has au-
thorized a republican guard to chal-
lenge and fight duel with an editor
of Paris. who wrote articles disparag-
ing to the military.
With the thermometer 10 below zero
and the fire plugs frozen, fourteen
families were rendered homeless by a
fire that destroyed threc-story tenc-
ment house in Chicago.
In collision on the Chicago Il Great
Western railroad near Dodge Center,
Mimi, Alex Stewart. engineer of the
passenger train was killed.
The 12-year-old son of John Goddard
was accidentally shot dead by his
brother aged Is, while they were at
tempting to perform trick with
shotgun at Sacramento, Cal.
A house joint resolution authorizing
the secretary of war to admit TO the
West Point military academy as a stu
dent, Andre Poute Rucgo, of Venezue-
la, was adopted in the senate.
The United States ship Bear has ar
rived at san Francisco four days from
Seattle, returning from the Arctic
where, She was sent to relieve the
icC-hound whalers.
Simon Pokagon. the last chief of the
Potawattomie Indians. who died at
Benton harbor. Mich. was buried at
Rush Lake Roman Catholic cemetary
at Hartford Mich Nearly the whole
/ Pokagon band. 800 strong attended the
funeral.
Hereafter every steam laundry in
| Chicago will be operated by one con-
Germ. The contracts involve eighty
/ laundry companies.
The president sent to the senate cor
rcspondencc on file in the state depart
ment bearing upon the peace treaty.
The deadlock in the Wisconsin legis-
1 lature over the election of United
| States senator was broken by the nom
ination OF J. Y. Quarles in the repub-
| lican caucus.
/ Charles Blanchard, under arrest at
4 clean, n. y has confessed that he is a
member of gang of counterfeiters
who have been operating III New York
state for several years
Walter 5. Mitchell, a wealthy cattle
man of Clay county, Texas was frozen
to deathin blizzard.
snow slide mile long, near Coke
vile, Wyo buried several men and
ten teams. All the men were taken
out alive except Burt Handy, who was
/ dead when found.
The army bin passed the house by
| 1G6 to 1876
The county Jail at Baraboo, Wis,
was destroyed by fire. One prisoner
was rescued with difficulty.
The Philadelphia sailed from San
! Francisco the 3lst for Samoa.
Princess Ferdinand of Bulgaria died
the 31st of pneumonia.
/ Corbett and Sharl5ey have been
] fudtCneu TOT a contest III 1HltdSO Int
night of March 6.
! The government report for the month
of January shows the receipts to have
! been about Sal, 775, 900 and the eNpend-
1 itures about S5l, 207, 900, leaving de-
4 felt for the month of about 50, 100000.
/ The Chicago & Alien railroad has
/ been sold to a syndicate for the bene-
/ Fl of the Union Pacific, Illinois Cen
| trail Missouri Pacific, and the Mis-
/ souri, Kansas x Texas railroads.
1 Maxine Gomez. the Cuban command
4 ing general, has demanded nearly
/ 500. 600. 600 from the United States, and
/ refuses to disband his ''arlny" until the
money is paid
/ Five persons were froze to death the
/ Sist in St Louis, and East St. Louis.
A snow slide occurred near Glacier,
/ a station on the Canadian Pacific, near
/ Vancouver, Il. c. in which seven per-
sons were killed and a number of
/ others buried.
/ Arthur w Brady, western represen-
/ tative of P.erpont Morgan and Brown,
/ of New York has secured options on all
| the W ndow glass factories in the gas
/ belt.
/ The god reserve in the [. S. treas
ury the S1st was S22S. 749 075.