River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-03

After concentrating their forces for
two days the Filipinos attacked Ca
LAMBDA. The town on Laguna de Bay
captured by Gen. Hall. The engage
ment lasted an hour and the Filipinos
were driven off, carrying away their
dead and wounded. The American
forces lost two men killed and six
wounded.
A threshing machine engine eXplod-
cd near Big Prairie, Mich. Charles and
Alpha Haight, Charles Crabtree, Geo.
Overly, Cecil Priest and Raymond Howe
We're killed. Oscar Evans and George
Haight were severely injured.
Mrs. Kate Chase Spraguc died the
S1st at Edgewood, her country home,
near Washington, d. C.
Ernest Pakahpuer, graduate from
| the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa, shot
and killed Edith Morrill,, aged II, at
Amherst, Mass.
A fatal. duel took place in Leteher
county, Kentucky. William Small
wood killed his uncle, Clelland Small
wood, and the young man himself was
fatally wounded by his uncle.
Col. Mcfarland will start national
bank at Honolulu. This will be the
first national bank outside of the con-
tinental boundaries of the United
States.
Fire at Tuppers Lake, n. Y, de-
stroyed 1863 buildings and nearly wiped
| out the town. Loss, $50,
The monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenses shows
a deficit for July of about SIS, 51s, 600.
Louis Pullerson and Michael Nc
| Donald were put to death by electricity
at Sing Sing, n. Y.
At the soldiers home at Hampton,
Va, 81 cases and deaths have occurred
from yellow fever.
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson
has filed in the supreme court of the
District of Columbia a suit in his own
| behalf and also in behalf of officers
and enlisted men of the ships of the
North Atlantic station who took part
in the naval engagement off Santiago
and the subsequent capture for prize
money.
| At Boonah, India there have been
| ffty-six deaths from that disease in
ffty-eight hours. At the cannonment,
in the city, thirty-one cases of the
plague and 261 deaths have been re-
ported.
Miss Fannie Goodwin at Fairyiew.
KY, shot and mortally wounded Bryan
Allegro. She charged that he wrote
seurrilous notes and wrote offensive
| phrases in her window with a dia-
/ mond.
The fast mail on the Northwestern
road was derailed near Boone, Iowa,
wrecking the engine and all the cars.
and killing Engineer John Masterson,
| Boone, iowa. Fireman Arthur Schmidt
| of Boone; Postal Clerk Il. q. Stone,
! of Austin, Ill.
| At Cleveland, o., some unknown par
ties pushed an electric freight car onto
the main line of the street railway and
down long, steep hill. Half way
down the incline it collided with an
upbound car. Both cars were wrecked
but no one hurt.
! Elihu Root assumed the duties of the
secretary of war the LIST.
j. n. Mckinley, first cousin of the
| was dlA0SbNh Oh a. pCdGS
warrant at Fitzgerald, Ga. Mckinley
gave bonds to keep the peace.
At Pittsburg, Pa, two carriages
filed with mourners in a funeral cor
tege, was struck by a traction car and
nine persons severely hurt.
Mrs. Mary Stevenson, of Detroit,
Mich, poisoned her two children with
morphine and then took dose her.
self. All are dead.
Solomon Jones, a negro, was hanged
by mob near Forest, Ala, for at
tempting to assault young white
woman.
The operating committee of the
American Smelling and Refining com
pany. at meeting in Denver, decided
not to reopen the smelters in that city
and Pueblo at the scale recommended
by the state board of arbitration.
The number of enlistments the LIST
were $50. making a total of s,2OS for
for the new Philippine regiments.
/ This leaves 4,SS3 yet to raise.
Admiral Dewey left Trieste the 1st
for Naples, Italy.
DIR. A. L. Lee, and Gideon Kratzer of
North Baltimore, O., who left for the
Klondike were drowned at Cooks In
let together with twenty others