River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-03

BY a vote of 90 to 30, the United
States senate refused to consider Pet
tigrew's resolution of sympathy for the
Beers.
The latest news received from the
Orange Free State indicates that
though the Beers have evacuated Tha-
banchu they have only done so in or
der to occupy stronger positions. On
Sunday, April 90. General DeWet made
an effort to turn French's eastern flank,
which was only foiled by the cavalry
after vigorous maneuvering.
The constitutional committee of the
riksdag has reported in favor of the
impeachment of the ministry for vio-
lation of the constitution of Sweden
in appointing a Norwegian, Often, to
the highest departmental post in the
foreign office.
The battleship Indiana has gone to
League Island, where she will be laid
up in ordinary.
A tornado and hail storm visited Orr
Vile, Ala. literally denuding several
farms of vegetation. Several COWS and
hogs were found dead after the storm
had passed.
At Muscatine, To-. so cutters of the
New York pearl button factory struck
against a reduction of wages.
1t is stated that the White-H Howard
feud of Clay county, KY, has termi-
mated by agreement. Many men have
been killed in this feud.
On election day at Boise, Idaho, Mrs.
Mortenson and Miss Harris were ar
rested for fighting at the polls.
Bob Fltzsimmons knocked out Ed
Dunkhurst in two rounds at the Her
cules Athletic club in New York.
A large cat was killed at jamestown.
N. Y, after biting several persons.
The animal is supposed to have been
mad.
George Gordon, a negro, was hanged
at Albin, Miss, by a mob. Gordon
became involved in a difficulty with
Manager Skinner of the Robinson
plantation and the latter was badly
beaten.
A dispatch to the Star and Herald of
Panama from Bogota that
the Panama Canal company's conces-
sion has been extended for six years,
commencing in April, 1904,
VIM. McDanial, a motorman on the
St. Louis street railway died from the
effects of a blow on the head received
when strikers stoned his car.
Five men were killed and three in
explosion in the sawmill of Bray & Co.,
at Triton, Ga.
Munkacsy, the celebrated Hungarian
painter, is dead.
The Methodist general conference be-
gan in Chicago the LIST with a large at
tendance.
Admiral Dewey has decided not to
accept the invitation extended him by
"a delegation of representative Cana
dians to visit Canada in July.
More than 500 union woodworkers
quit work in Minneapolis the LIST. Ten
sash and door mills. one showcase shop
and n bar fixture factory are in
volved. The strike is by far the most
momentous one that has taken place
in many years in Minneapolis, and un-
less a settlement is made in the near
future ii will to a great degree affect
the building trades.
The town of Arnold, Mich, was
wiped out by forest fires.
On account of heavy payments on
new bonds, the public debt increased
s12, 500. 900 during the month of April.
Ar engine and seven ears were
thrown from the new Santa Fe wharf
at San Francisco by the breaking of
an apron. No lives were lost.
More than 200 were killed and more
than a score of others will be crippled
for life as the result of an explosion in
the Pleasant Valley coal mines at
;chofield, Utah. The explosion is be-
|lieved to have been caused by gas and
dust.
The Inauguration of Charles Herbert
Allen, formerly assistant secretary of
the United States navy, as first Ameri-
can civil governor of the island of
Porto Rico, took place the ist. The
ceremony was most impressive.
The democratic state convention of
Michigan instructed its delegates for
Bryan and Endorsed Chas. A. Towne of
Minnesota for vice-president
The Standard Oil Company notified
its employees at Parkersberg, w. Va,
hereafter they would be allowed 10
ten hours pay for nine hours work.