River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-26
LATER NEWS.

Major General II. w. Lawton, U.s. ",
has been made brigadier in the regu-
lar army, vice Burke, retired.
The English gained another victory
at Glencoe. The Boer artillery began
the fight, but the guns were wretched-
ly served and did little execution. The
British guns replied and quickly ST.
fenced the batteries. Then the Brit
ish forces made another charge, and,
as in the two other battles that have
been fought, the Beers broke and fled.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Northwestern passenger train near
Watertown, S. d., by placing obstruc-
tions on the track. A boy named Nc
Dowell saved the train.
Rupert Hoffman, aged 20, was found
dead in a shed at Pleasant Run, O.
He had been dead several days, there
being two large gashes in his throat.
lie was by common report, miser,
and it is thought he was murdered for
his money, but it is-possible he may
have suicided
The British brig Westaway, Captain
Young, which sailed from Barbados
Sept. % for Rum Cay and New York,
stranded Oct. at Watings island, one
of the Bahamas and became a total
loss,
The fight within the United States
Brewery Workmans' association, which
resulted in the boycott in 1894 of the
Pitsburg brewery workers, has been
settled.
Anti-Semitic riots broke out at
Halleschau, Moravia, Jewish houses
were stoned, stores were pillaged,
house was burned and the gendarmes
charged the rioters, killed three per-
sons and injured several others. The
military finally restored order.
A zinc trust has been formed at Kan
sas City, Mo-, to control the output of
the zinc mines. The capital is S10,
900, 600.
Miss Esther L. Burns, of Denver,
Colo, became maniac on the day of
her wedding.
A strike is imminent at the rolling
mills owned by the Republic Iron and
Steel Co. at Springfield, Ill, involving
| 500 men, who demand wages increased.
Walter L. Farnsworth, commission
merchant of Chicago, was arrested on
the charge of bigamy. He admitted
that he was a man of many aliases and
had married over forty different
women.
The steamer Vincenzo Florio landed
S92 Italians in New Orleans.
The steamship New York, sailing for
Europe, took out 213, 900 ounces of sill
yer.
The National Boot and Shoe trust
was completed at Boston by the adop-
tion of a constitution.
The passenger elevator in the War
rem Springer building, in Chicago, fell
from the sixth floor, killing John Him
kus, errand boy, and injuring three
Others
Information received by the trans
portation department of the quarter
master generals office indicate that
the shipment of troops to Manila has
been delayed recently by the bad
weather prevailing on the Pacific
coast. There are about fourteen regi-
ments yet to start for Manila and the
department feels satisfied that they
can be all gotten there by Christmas.
kilograms from Brussels announce
that in the Transvaal legation circle
it is stated that France and Russia will
not permit the annexation of the
Transvaal and Orange Free State to
England.
Capt. Sigsbee is to be relieved of the
command of the Texas about Dec. 1,
and assigned to duty in the navy de-
partment as chief of the bureau of
naval intelligence, relieving Command
4 er Richard c. Glover.
! Russia has agreed to arbitrate with
/ the United States the claim arising
/ from the seizure of sealers in the Ber-
| ing sea. which have been pending for
4 about eight years. A protocol between
/ the two governments has been drawn
/ up and the final formalitles are ex-
/ pected to be concluded next month,
and the arbitration viii probably take
/ the form of the Venezuelan court.
| Herman Hundhauser, of Herman,
/ Mo-. was sentenced to 20 years in the
/ penitentiary for completely in the
/ murder of w. f. Koeller.
/ NJ Jules Cambon, French ambassa-
1 dor to the United States, will not go
/ to Vienna to represent France, as re-
/ ported, but will remain at Washington.