River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-09-07
LATER NEWS.

AAIhN MI W.
| The L. S. cruiser Olympia, with Adj
miral Dewey, arrived at Gibraiter on
| the 4th.
1t has been definitely decided to hold
congress of agriculturalists in Chi
cago during the progress of the fall
festival next month. The affair will
be held under the auspices of the farm
ers' institute of Illinois, and farmers
| from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota
and Ohio will be invited to attend.
The National Postoffice Clerks asso-
| citation met in annual convention at
Memphis, Tenn. There were about rs
delegates present.
BY the explosion of a calcium light
tank filled with carbonic acid gas, in
the Chicago Calcium Light company's
machine room, Frank Hopkins was fa-
tally burned and Howard McClenethan
was severely injured. The first floor
of the building was wrecked. Several
persons who were passing were cut by
flying glass.
The foreign office of China has of
fered the Italians mining rights in the
Ning-Hai district, but the grant is en- :
tirely unsatisfactory to Italy and is
likely to cause complications.
All the wall paper manufacturers of
England, with the exception of four,
have agreed to form trust. The cap
ital will aggregate SIS, 600, 600.
President Loubet has issued decree
assembling the Senate of France on
Sept Is as high court. 1t is under
stood that the trials will include
charges both of conspiracy and at
| tempts against the international safe
| ty of the state. The decree names
Procurer General Berard and NM.
Fourier and Herbeaux to represent
| this stage before the high court.
| About 1900 troops are scheduled to
leave San Francisco for Manila be-
tween Sept. II to 10.
| Glenn and Marcus Darnell, the out
laws who killed Marshal A. A. Wilson
and wounded Sheriff O. G.. Kister at
| Sedan, Kan, have been captured. Glen
is in Jail at Winfield and Marcus was
brought to Independence, Kan, by
| VIM. Hull, a county commissioner of
Chautauqua county.
| Prominent tobacco merchants in
| Havana say the enormous decrease of
100000 in the tobacco output of Cuba
| for 1898 was due principally to the
war.
| At Greentown, Ind, James Ball, shot
| his father-in-law Henry Murden, awell
known real estate and insurance man.
He will die. Ball then blew out his
own brains.
The steel steamer Douglas Houghton,
the largest ship on the lakes, was sunk
in the channel of St. Mary's river at
Sailors Encampment, Mich, by col
liding with the vessel Fritz.
Kid Mccoy knocked out Godfrey
Thorne of England in the third round
before the Broadway athletic club of
New York.
1t is announced that Camille Barreie,
be the next French ambassador to the
| United States.
In the annual parade of the Grand
! Army of the Republic at Philadelphia
| fully 3d. 900 men were in line. 1t took
six hours and ten minutes to pass the
reviewing stand.
Mrs. Wright, living at Sandusky,
Wis, was killed by a vicious sheep.
Lieut.. Baston, Fourth cavalry, has
organized band of 100 Macabebe
scouts, who will operate under the di-
rection of Maj Gen. Lawton. All of
them were former Spanish volunteers.
| They will be uniformed and will be
armed with Krag-Jorgenson rifles
While digging well on Lookout
mountain, G. III. Jarnagin and others
discovered gold quartz in large guam
titles. The gold vein was struck
about six miles from Chattanooga, and
| gives evidence of being rich one.
Willard Smith, director of trans
portation and civil engineering to the
\ Paris exposition of 1900, has returned
to Chicago from France. He says the
conditions and disturbances in France
will have no effect on the exposition.
/ The United States cruiser Marble
head arrived at San Francisco and an
chored near the Iowa. The Marble
head stopped at San Diego on her way
| from the Atlantic side.
At Chicago the thermometer the 5th
registered over 100.
Three hundred Carpenters at Omaha
have struck for an increase of wages.