River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-11
LATER NEWS.

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Iowa convened the Sth. A. Il. Cum
minis withdrew from the senatorial
race, leaving the field clear for Sena-
tor Gear.
The executive committee of the in
ternational peace society has sent a
telegram to President Mckinley, ask
ing him to intervene with a view to
ending the war in South Africa.
William Smith, 80 years old, a city
prisoner on the chain gang at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, committed suicide in a
sensational manne by throwing him
self under a rapidly moving street car.
The body was horribly mangled.
Several additional cases of the bu-
bonie plague have developed at Homo
lulu.
w. S. Warren was elected president
of the Chicago board of trade. This
means that a bitter war on bucket
shops will soon be waged.
Mrs. Alma Ladue, a prominent wo-
man of Chicago, while on her way to
visit friends, was attacked and robbed
by a negro in New Orleans, who took
from her belt a satchel and pocket
book containing a negotiable certiti-
cate for S., 600 and a return ticket for
Chicago.
Senator Pettigrew offered a resolu-
ton in congress authorizing the United
States government to offer mediation
between Great Britain and South
Africa. He announced that it was his
purpose to make a speech on the sub
ject.
The president has created a military
department consisting of the territory
of Alaska, and assigned Colonel Geo.
NJ. Randall, Eighth U. S. infantry, to
command. Col. Randall is on duty
with his regiment in Cuba.
Strikers made another attack on the
men employed at an intercepting sew
er in Chicago. and in the general fight
that took place one of the strikers,
Roger O'Brien was fatally shot.
Max Krebs, a young German, recent
arrested at Washington, D.. c., has con-
fessed to being Jack the Slasher,'
who cut a number of women's dresses.
He has also confessed to having COM
mitted similar acts in Philadelphia and
and New York. He claims his conduct
was caused by nervous trouble.
John D. Rockefeller has presented
500, 900 to Columbia university in New
York, for the endowment of a chair of
PHYSIOLOGY.
The handsome dwelling of Joseph
Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York
World, was destroyed by fire. One SER
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$500, 900.
The U. S. senate passed the Nelson
resolution calling on the secretary of
the interior for information relating
to dead and down" timber, i~nvesti-
eating orders and correspondence re-
lating to the same and the future pol
icy of the department.
The silver ~loving-cup made from the
melted dimes contributed by over TO-
600 American citizens, the majority of
whom were children, was presented to
Admiral Dewey the 9th.
Terrence McGovern secured the
featherweight championship of the
world by whipping George Dixon. be-
fore the Athletic club of New York.
The fight lasted eight rounds and
Dixon gave up to saw a Knockout.
Louise Masset, a French governess,
convicted of killing an illegitimate 3
year-old child, was hanged at New
gate, London.
The barns of the South Chicago rail
way, at Hammond, Ind, were burned.
Thirty-two ears were destroyed. The
loss, fully covered by insurance, is
placed at $50, 900.
The iron steamer P~hoebus, from
Genoa, with a cargo of sulphur. was
damaged by fire at her dock at Phila-
delphia.
The Springfield, Mo. division of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, which
had been solicited by the national
president to contribute to the fund for
the relief of the Beers, decided by
almost unanimous vote not to comply
with the request.
r. d. Roland r. Stephenson and
DIR. Otto Austin were killed in a fight
that occurred in the court room at
Oak Ridge, Miss.
DIR. G. w. Appleby, of Bristol, 10.
in a fit of insanity killed the 10
month-old child of Henry YEARLY,
while making an examination of it.