River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-10-18
LATER NEWS


port. Officials of the bank said that
the gold was secured in South Africa
and represented the first output of the
mines of that country since the break
ing out of the Boer war.
Port Limon, the principal port of
Costa Rica, was destroyed by fire, caus-
| ing loss of So, 600, 600.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
is reported quite i'll.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain) ar
| rived in New York on the steamer
Minnehaha, after an absence of sew
eral years in Europe.
A passenger train on the Baltimore
& Ohio road was held up near Mari
eta, o., and robbed.
The prospect of civil war in southern
China is now added to the complica-
tions with which the powers have to
deal in the far east. The gravity of
| the situation in the vicinity of Canton,
where Sun Vat Sen, leader of the re-
bellion against the present Manchu
dynasty, is gathering large army,
is recognized by all officials close to
the foreign office.
A dispatch from Lorenzo Marques,
says that the American bark Fred z.
Litchfield went ashore there from her
moorings during a gale, and was
searched for gold, in consequence of a
Kruger's gold to the amount of Gl, $780,
| 0O0
A shot fired at a stuffed bird which
the hunters supposed to be alive, in
stantly killed Arthur w. Green. The
bird was on a woman's hat which
Green was wearing while out with his
sweetheart, Miss Katie Mockridge, for
a day in the foothills near Golden
Gate, Colo.
Mrs. Daniel Manning, while leaving
her hotel in Paris, lost diamond sun
burst valued at $4,000.
Lord Roberts has ordered the return
of refugees of the Transvaal colony
be postponed.
Burton Bros store and the Peoples
theater in Sullivan, Ind, burned, caus-
ing loss of 500, 900
Fifty-one American soldiers belong
ing to the goth infantry, including
Capt. Devereaux Shields, who were re-
Gently captured by Filipinos on the
island of Martinique, were rescued
by the force sent out for that purpose.
E. S. Carl, cashier of the Citizens
National bank of Davenport, Iowa,
fell dead from apoplexy while attend
ing his duties.
Chang Yen Huan, once minister to
the United States, has been beheaded
by the empress dowager of China. He
was liberal minded man and had
great influence over the emperor.
An explosion of rubber cement in
the basement of MITCHELL Sons shoe
factory at Detroit, Mich. destroyed
the building and caused the death of
two persons and injured eight others,
four of them girls.
| The Norwegian steamer Callanda, a
new steamer of 8, 500 tons, was making
her third voyage from Port Arthur
with general cargo for japanese ports,
and when off lowassia she was run
down by the steamer lie Maru. Thirty
three persons were lost.
A freight train was wrecked at
Lawndale, ILL.,. killing Charles Keys
worth Engineer Eaton and Henry
Stremmle
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
announced YER betrothal 20 Duke
Henry of Neutrality-suspicious..
Fire in the sawmill district of Osh-
kosh, Wis, destroyed $500. 600 worth
of property, mostly lumber stock.
A storm at Newark n. j., blew down
the walls of new building. killing
three workmen and fatally injuring
| two more.
A large native Shanghai bank has
been broken open and destroyed by a
band of emissaries of the southern
rebels.
The United States consul general at
Tangler demands indemnity of S., 900
from the Moorish government for the
murder OF Marcus Zani an American
protege. at Fee last July.
Near Vryheld Boer commando was
taken in ambuscade by Bethune's
mounted infantry. the Beers losing
60 killed, IS wounded and 65 taken
prisoners.
The facade of the Czech high school
at Prossnitz. Moravia, toppled into the
street, killing seven persons and IN
juring ten.