River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-08-16
LATER NEWS.


Little Hazel Peterson was stolen
from her mothers arms in Kenosha,
Wis Her abductors made their escape
by means of carriage held in readi-
ness close at hand. 1t was the result
of family row for possession of the
child.
Jack Belts, a negro, was iynched at
Corinth, Miss, for assaulting a 10-year-
old white girl.
General Chaffee announces his ar
rival at Has-Pi-Wu, which is half way
to Picking.
The Dacotah elevator at Buffalo was
burned, causing loss of $500, 900.
The forest fires in northern Michi-
gan have been quenched by rains.
An attempt was made to kill the
Chinese minister at Paris by sending
him a package of poisoned flowers.
The flowers did not reach the min
lister.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, which
sailed from New York Aug. for Bre-
men, has made the record passage of
any steamer. Her average speed was
%. 70 knots per hour.
Lorenz Schweitz, of Breslau, has
been appointed to the post of public
executioner for Prussia. He is re-
tired business man and we'll to do.
Twelve persons were killed and forty
| wounded in the railroad accident
twelve miles from Rome Italy.
A terrible mistake occurred at the
taking of Yangtsun. Russian artillery
opened fire on the American troops.
Before the mistake was discovered,
many American soldiers had been
killed or wounded by the Russian
shells.
The steamer City of Grand Rapids,
inbound, crashed into the schooner
City of Grand Rapids as the sailing
vessel was aground in Kenosha, Wis,
harbor, and smashed big hole in the
side of the lesser craft. Occupants of
both boats were shaken up, and one
sailor was thrown into the water, but
was rescued.
Thirteen people were badly hurt in
railway wreck at Tennville, Ga.
The lock-step has been abolished at
the Sing Sing prison.
John G. Wooley candidate for presi-
dent on the prohibition ticket, is suf
fering from a painful injury to one of
his shoulders the result of falling
down stairs at his home in Chicago.
In a pitched battle near Grlham,
N. NJ. between sheriff's posse and
two bandits one of them was killed.
The other was wounded but escaped.
Coils z. Huntington, president of
the Southern Pacific railroad, died at
Pine Ridge lodge, his camp in the Blue
Mountains, New York state. 1t is sup
posed death was caused by heart
trouble. Mr.. Huntington was farm
er's son, born in Harrington, Conn.,, in
1921.
Information from British sources
says the allied troops were within 2S
kilometers of Picking, but the date of
this news was not stated.
In a head-end collision on the Rio
Grande railroad at Monument, Colo,
X. f. Weber and II. L. Gilbert were
killed. A number were injured.
The thermometer at st. Joseph, Mo-.
the 14th registered 101 in the shade,
and there were twelve prostrations
from the heat.
The L. 5. consuls in the interior of
China have been ordered to withdraw.
They will probably assemble at Shang-
hal.
plot to assassinate the king of
Roumania was revealed and frustrated.
The United Council of Building
Trades of New York voted to abolish |
the board of walking delegates.
President Zelaya has issued decree
formally proclaiming the intention of
the Nicaraguan government to partici-
pate officially in the Pan American ex-
position at Buffalo.
Four employees of the steamer Hill
City, en- route from New Orleans to
Memphis, lost their lives by falling |
overheard. The dead: William Brown.
Il. Fresheen, John Darge and fire.
man, name unknown.
The department of agriculture is Sc
curing good stock of the best varieties
of European and African macaroni
wheats and Hungarian bread wheats,
which il expects will furnish the basis
for great extension of the macaroni
manufacturing industry in the United
States