River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-30
LATER NEWS


the bubonic plague is raging terribly,
the mortality reaching 40 to go daily.
A pigeon message from Ladysmith,
undated, reports all well.
1t is rumored that Dom Paul Kruger
is suffering with Bright's disease and
that his condition is giving rise to
anxiety.
A. j. Vandyke, Great Northern
passenger brakeman, was shot and
killed on the train at Larimore, n. d..
Three men in the smoking car were
making disturbance, when Vandyke
interfered to preserve order and met
his death. The assailants were ar
rested.
Charles Coghlin, the distinguished
actor and author, died suddenly at
Galveston, Tex.
In the race to Manila from New
York between the cruisers Newark
and Brooklyn the Newark won.
An immense iron plant, to cost over
S1,O00,000, will be erected near Nc
Keesport, Pa.
A counterfeiting outfit was captured
in the penitentiary at Wetumpka, Ala.
An explosion of natural gas in the
Pennsylvania Glass Works at Ander-
son, Ind, wrecked the building and
severely burned a number of work
men.
Hattie Miller, of New York, satu-
rated her clothes with kerosene, set
fire to them and was burned to death.
The q. S. treasury the 2Sth had a
| gold reserve of S241, GIG, 345.
The insurgents have evacuated Man
galaren, province of Pangasinan, leav-
! ing seven American and ninety-four
| Spanish prisoners who escaped in the
| confusion on the Filipino retreat.
4 The Americans are z. j. Green and
! George Powers of the battleship Ore
gon; Thomas Edwards and Charles Bird
| of the Sixteenth infantry; Henry W..
James of the Twelfth infantry; John
Desmond of the signal corps and +. IL.
Huber of loves scouts.
VIM. j. Bryan has decided to spend
the winter in Texas and California,
seeking rest. He has rented his Lin
coin home, and will be absent at least
six months.
The United States has declined to ac-
cept the agreement as to disposition of
! the Samoan islands reached by Great
Britain and Germany.
Out of ninety-nine fraud orders is
sued the past year, only nine were for
lotteries or gift enterprises showing
how completely the lottery business of
all kinds has been broken up.
Admiral Dewey again announces that
he will not be a candidate for the
presidency, and endorses Mr.. McKin-
ley.
Great Britain will send additional
warships to Gibralter.
Col. Bell has defeated the brigades
of Gen. Alejandrino and Gen. San Mi
guel. The engagement took place on
the summit of mountain, the insur-
| gents being so confident of the impreg-
inability of their position that they had
their families with them. The Ameri-
cans captured all the enemy's muni-
tions and artillery.
Joseph Gibbs of Willowdale, Pa,
died of hydrophobia, after suffering
terrible agony for two days.
A work train on the Great Falls &
Canada railroad was blown from the
track near Great Falls. Mont, and
partially burned. One man was burned
to death.
Samuel Coad, a wealthy resident of
Murphysboro, Ill, shot and killed his
wife and then himself.
The transport Monauenz with three
companies of troops, arrived at Ma
Mia in sinking condition. For the
last ten days of the trip the ship was
kept afioat by bailing out with buck
cts, the pumps being disabled
/ With cargo of dying horses and
mules and ffty-fve empty stalls the
United States transport Victoria re-
turned TO Seattle, having been forced
by an unprecedent stress of weather
off Cape Flattery, to turn back from
her voyage to the Philippines.
David Badeau. who has conducted a
stamp store in New York for sixteen
months, was arrested by federal Off
GERS charged with buying and selling
washed internal revenue stamps. He
was held in $4,000.
The government of New Zealand
proposes its stock its lands with Amer
lean quail, grouse and prairie chickens.