River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-17
LATER NEWS.


tralian pugilist, is dying at the Dun
ming Ill.l insane asylum.
Fire at Ames, To-, destroyed Michaels
Brothers barn, together with thirteen
horses.
In East Middlebury, Conn.,, man
named Eastwood went to the home of
his mother-in-law and shot his wife
and her mother, killing both. He then
drove to Middlebury, went to the resi-
dence of Frank Fem, shot him through
the heart. killing him instantly, then
shot at Fenn's wife and just missed
her. Eastwood then went to the resi-
dence of his wife's brother, E. ID.
Brown, evidently intending to kill
him, but could not find him.
w. Ii. Close, of Duluth, Mimi, was
found dead in bed at the Colonial hotel
Mt Mt. Clemmens, Mich.
The transport Mcpherson, with a
cargo of supplies, left Brooklyn for
Porto Rico.
The business men of Cleveland, o.,
have raised a large fund and will make
a vigorous campaign against the boy
colt
President Diaz, of Mexico, will visit
Chicago during the laying of the cor
nerstone of the federal building.
Fire caused by gasoline explosion
at Cass Lake, Mimi, destroyed fifteen
buildings in the business portion of
the village.
Natural gas in great quantities was
struck on the farm of Robert Lee, near
Muscatine, 10.
President Kruger, according to dis
patch from johannesburg, has sent a
reply accepting the proposal of the sec
rotary of state for the colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain to submit the franchise
controversy to a joint commission of
inquiry, on condition that the indepcn-
dence of the Transvaal shall not be inn
pugned.
1t was announced from Washington,
ID. c. the 14th that there have been en-
listed for the ten regiments for the
PHILIPPINE islands 1900 men, leaving
but so more to make the regiments
complete. 1t has been determined to
send 400 recruits of those raised to the
PHILIPPINES for the Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh regiments.
The woodwork factory of Davis,
Sorenson & Co., La Crosse, Wis, was
destroyed by fire.
George Henson, who was witness
in an assault case at Chinook, Mont,
was taken from his home by whitecaps
and dragged through the river until
he promised not to appear and testify
in the case.
General Walker, who replaces GEN
cral Butler as commander-in-chief of
the British troops in South Africa, is
regarded as one of the ablest generals
in the army. His appointment, there
fore, taken to indicate that the situ-
alton is more grave.
United States Senator Hayward was
stricken with apopleXy while deliver
ing an address at Brownville, Neb.
Lieutenant Schaum, collector of Gus
toms at Baracoa, in the province of
Santiago de Cuba, has seized 143 car
that were evidently intended for San
to Domingo.
The mail steamer Labrador, from
| Labrador, which arrived at st. Johns,
| n. b., reports that the entire coast is
| blockaded with ice foes from the
northern extremity south to the Straits
| of Belle Isle.
The war department has arranged
to send two more ship loads of sup
plies to Porto Rico.
The street car strikers in Cleveland,
O., stoned a Big Consolidated car. The
conductor fred several shots, but no
one was hurt.
| For over week a gang of so-called
white caps have been whipping ne
groes around Greenwood, 5. c.
The Seneca Point hotel on Canadian
| qua lake, New York, was burned.
Eight hundred cloalzmabers en-
ployed in fifteen shops in New York
have joined the army of strikers.
The bubonic plague has appeared at
Aporto, Portugal, and Spanish ports
have declared a quarantine against
vessels from all Portuguese ports.
The Milwaukee railroad bridge at
Iron Mountain, Mich, was wrecked by
| dynamite being used to recover two
drowned persons
The New York board of aldermen
appropriated Sl5o.0O9 for the Dewey
| celebration.