River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-12
LATER NEWS

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VIM. Neville, populist congressman
from the Sixth Nebraska district, was
unanimously renominated by the
! fusion convention.
The strike of dock laborers and car
men at Rotterdam has assumed most
serious aspect. The strikers fred on
the soldiers, wounGing 10 of them.
and warships are protecting the water
| front.
| A delegation of full-blooded Indians
were received by President Mckinley
at Canton, o.
The inventory of the personal estate
of the late Vice President Hobart was
| filed at Paterson, n. J. 1t appraises
the late vice presidents wealth at 81
! CPS, AL.
Rev. Coutlee, a Roman Catholic priest,
was married to Miss Perrier, school
teacher from Ontario. The ceremony
occurred in the Baptist church at
Worcester, Mass.
The whole Fink family at Little
Rock, Ark, eight in all, were killed
from eating poisonous toadstools sup
| posed to be mushrooms.
j. +. Negreen, an 1S-year-old stamp
dealer in Omaha, Neb., was arrested
for having used cancelled stamps for
mailing letters.
| Peter Nissen, Chicago, or Mr. Bow
ser, as he styles himself, went through
the whirlpool rapids of the Niagara
river in the presence of about 10000
people, in his craft, the Fool-killer.
He was badly scared, but came through
safely.
With the foreigners in Picking prob
ably safe amid civil war, with Prince
Ching on their side. with the powers
united and their forces constantly in
creasing the outlook in China is now
rather more hopeful than has been for
a month past. 1t appears from the
cautious statement given out by Tao
| Tai Shanghai, that the reason the
heavy guns bearing on the legations
| at Peking were not used is that Prince
Ching. who is served by 10000 troops,
seized all the artillery ammunition.
Minister WI at Washington has
cabled to Sheng, the director of the
imperial posts at Shanghai, and to the
and to the vIceroy at Marking re-
quest that they take steps to have it
made known in Pelzing and vicinity
that heavy rewards will be paid by the
American people for the salvation of
the people in the legations.
The strike on the Montana Central
railroad has been declared off.
The planters in Hawaiie will dis
| pense with Japanese laborers if they
can induce enough negroes in the south
to take their places.
Julius Andrae e Son, Milwaukee,
makers of electrical supplies and BIZ
cycles, have assigned.
The tenth congress of the American
Whist league opened at Niagara Falls
| the 10th.
The democratic presidential cam
paign opened at Lincoln, Neb., with
| two ratification meetings
A reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Germany has been
effected.
The British casualties in South
Africa have been nearly so, 900 officers
and men.
According to the New York World,
a plot to assassinate the president has
been frustrated. 1t was concocted by
group of Spanish and Cuban con-
spirators with headquarters in New
York.
Alfred Trexler, aged 20 years. a re-
tired millionaire lumber dealer, was
struck by freight train at Reading,
| Pa, and instantly killed.
The British defeated the Beers at
Bethlehem, capturing the town with
small loss.
George A. Morse, an aged and help
less patient IN the Agnews insane asy-
lum San Jose, Col, was slowley boiled
to death in a bath in the mems ward.
The patient left the room for a towel
and forgot his patient.
Unless there is a decided change for
the better in the Chinese situation. it
is announced that the president viii
probably abandon his purpose of
spending the months of his vacation
at Canton and return to Washington
Immediately after he has received the
notification committee.