River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-04-27
LATER NEWS.

Inc jury III CIlS ING quest OI but w lHu-
hotel fire, at New York, brought in a
verdict of accident. The police still
have $40, 900 worth of unclaimed jewel
ry and other valuables recovered from
the fire ruins.
The Welland canal was opened for
traffic the oath.
Lige Strickland, negro minister,
the killing of Alfred Crawford, was
taken by a mob and lynched at Palmet-
to, Ga.
Ex-Gov. Richard j. oglesby died at
his home at Elkhart, ILL.,, the 24th, at
the age of rs years.
The snow blockade which has pre-
vented trains from entering Brecken-
ridge, Colo, for 76 days, was broken
the Gath.
Kid Lavelle, the colored pugilist who
was knocked out by John Cavanaugh
in boxing match, died at Pittsburg,
Pa.
One hundred and twenty sailors from
the United States cruiser Raleigh, clad
in their naval uniforms, were given
banquet in the Astor gallery of the
Walderf-Astoria hotel, New York.
Signor Marconi, the electrician, has
successfully telegraphed without wires
from the South Foreland, England to
the French dispatch boat Ibis, while
sailing in the English channel.
There was big storm in Kusaie,
South Sea Islands, on Jan. Is, which
tore off about % miles of the coral reef
L, 30, -, In h. 70.
rose eight feet, destroyed cocoanut and
bread fruit trees, and swamped the
| missionary dwellings.
Bud Cook a negro, was stripped to
the waist by a crowd at Rico, Ga, and
one hundred lashes were administered.
His offense was a remark that the ne
groes should pay no attention to no.
tees to leave the country.
Gen. MacArthur's division left Malo-
los the cath, apparently intending to
besiege Calumpit. Gen. Hale at 4
o'clock in the afternoon had crossed
the Bag Bag and had reached a posi-
ton quarter of a mile from Calumpit,
thus commanding the ford. The
prisoners captured by Gen. Hale's
troops say that Aguinaldo, Gen. Luna
and the Filipino staff are at Calumpit
with a great force of Filipino troops.
Major Francis S. Dodge, of the pay
department, recently relieved from
duty at Denver. has been selected for
the payment of the troops of the Cuban
army as a condition of its disband-
ment.
The situation in the coal mining
/ %. l. I, g ALL
is becoming serious. At some places
small riots have already occurred.
The commissary department of the
army has been authorized to issue to
such soldiers as desire it an equal val
ne in fish in lieu of the beef ratione
now issued.
| During the afternoon of the 25th
| the Americans discovered several hun
| dred of the enemy entrenched near
| Pulilon, north of Quingano. Our troops
1 attacked the rebels, losing six men
/ killed and eleven wounded. General
| Hale's troops claim that nearly 200
1 dead natives were counted along the
country traversed. Among the dead
was a Spanish captain. The South Da-
/ lxota regiment bore the brunt of the
/ anu ndAl HNG men hl1icu dbO
4 nine wounded.
Navigation practically opened be-
tween Chicago and Buffalo the 25th.
The gold reserve in the United States
treasury the 25th was S242, sig, 264.
BY an explosion of rs gallons of ben
zoe in the factory of +. IL. Fleer, in
| Philadelphia, Walter Manwaring and
/ Charles Mckinley were killed and
three others seriously wounded.
President Mckinley has committed
the death sentence of Rafael Ortiz of
Caguas. Porto Rico, who murdered
Private Ksrge of the Forty-seventh
New York infantry to life imprison-
ment.
The national museum will start two
expeditions on the first of May for an
chronological exploration of Mexico.
They are in charge of DIR. j. n. Rose
and DIR. Walter Hough.
Ninety engineers will be sent to the
Philippines.
The One Hundred and Sixtieth Indi-
ana regiment has been mustered out
4 at Savannah, Ga.
Rather than stand trial on the charge
! of incendiarism, Ruben Frantz. a
/ young farmer of Bellefont. Pa. shot
himself just before opening of court.