River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-10-11
LATER NEWS.


Four thousand pilgrims assembled
for religious festival at the st. Nj
kander monastery in Russia. During
the night the upper floor collapsed,
crushing to death four men and thirty
six women.
The explosion of a calcium light in
the Star theater, Milwaukee, caused
a panic, in which a number of people
were injured.
President Mitchell has issued call
for convention of the mine workers
of the anthracite districts of Pennsyl-
vania to consider the offer of the oper-
ators of an advance of wages.
Two masked men walked into a
gambling house in Sioux City, Iowa,
and after locking the manager and
three inmates in separate room, took
every dollar they could find and es-
capped.
Four persons were killed in a politi-
cal riot in Guayamo, Porto Rico.
The postoffice department decides
that if a woman employed in post
office gets married she must resign her
position and leave the government
employ.
A highly dramatic incident occurred
in the municipal court room at Ben
nington, VT, when Dennis NJ. Black
mer, who was being arraigned on the
charge of felonious assault on To-
year-old girl, rose in his seat and shot
himself in the forehead, intlicting a
fatal wound.
John D. Borton, who, under several
aliases, including that of Harry Odell,
who had swindled banks and business
men in many cities of the country by
forged checks, committed suicide by
poisoning in the Suffolk county Jail at
Riverhead, L. |.
Gen. Macarthur has notified the war
department that Paul Jenkins, Co. A,
33rd volunteer infantry, was killed
near San Quintin, Luzon, Oct. 4, and
Robert D. Harrison, Co. i. of the same
regiment, was wounded and captured
at the same place and the same day.
At Pittsburg, Pa. seventeen pick
nickers returning home in a wagon
were all more or less injured in a col
lision with an electric street car. A
small child named John Smith was
| internally injured and will die.
Orders have been ca oled by Secretary
Long for the trial by court martial at
Lisbon, Portugal of Lieutenant Patrick
w. Hourigan. who is serving as navi-
gator of the Lancaster.
The census department announces
that the population of Delaware is
| 1874, 7S5, an increase of AS, 326 since 1899.
A plot to destroy the missions in Fat
Shan, China, is discovered.
There is every prospect that the labor
war in Chicago will soon be ended.
The government levee at Portage,
Wis, gave way, flooding all the low
lying portion of the city.
A pipe once used by Dom Paul Kru-
ger sold for es los in London.
Mrs. Theodore Stewart, of haywood,
H., was fatally burned, and half a
dozen firemen were hurt as result OF
gasoline explosion.
The president and family have ar
| rived at Washington for the winter.
The board of ordnance and fortihca-
ton has recommended to the secretary
of war that no more disappearing gun
carriages be made.
David Dare, who wrecked the bank
at San Diego. CAL, and disappeared,
has been located in Egypt, where he is
president of railroad.
Samuel j. Richie, who has been on
trial at Ottumwa, Iowa, charged with
completely in the Eldora bank robbery,
was acquitted.
Interviews with prominent opera
tors at Scranton, Pa, elected uni
form declaration that no further con-
eessions of notifications of the present
offer will be made. and that the
miners must take it or leave it just as
/ it stands.
Prince Ching has received an edict
from the emperor dated Oct. in reply
to note sent at the request of the
legations saying he will return to PelS-
| ing as soon as the negotiations take a
favorable turn.
A report from Piraeus says the
| Egyptian mail steamer Charkieh has
gone down. due to the explosion of its
boilers. Two hundred passengers
| persisted.
| Ava, a small town on the Mobile
/ and Ohio railroad, near Carbonate,
| Ill, was the scene of a terrible TRACE
/ dy. Samuel Sorrell, a young man
barely past his majority, shot and
mortally wounded his wife and then
killed himself.