River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-06-28
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
Officers and clerks of the American
Steel Hoop Company, to the number
of sixty moved the office of the COM
pany from Pittsburg to New York in a
special train.
The collection of wild animals and
oriental attractions now to be seen on
the Midway, st. Paul, supplied by the
New England Carnival and Promoting
company, is one of the finest ever car
ried through the country. The carni-
val closes June so, and is attracting
large and well satisfied crowds
While in the midst of prayer at the
camp meeting at WATERFOWL, Wis,
Frank kaasten dropped dead.
A fire occurred in the powder works
of Latin e Rand at Pleasant Prairie,
come by the fumes of charcoal but
were finally resuscitatcd.
The 22d international convention of
the Knights of st. John began at Phil
adelphia the 25th.
The secretary of the navy has au-
thorized the following names for the
new battleships and cruisers. Battle
ships-Virginia and Rhode Island. Ar
ored cruisers Maryland, Colorado and
South Dakota. Protected cruisers-St
Louis, Milwaukee and Charleston.
Judge Elmer p. Adams of the United
States district court granted tempo
rary injunction in the case of w. ID.
Mahon and all the members of division
No. 131, of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street Railway Employees of
America, restraining them from inter-
fering with the running of mail cars
over the lines of the ST. Louis Transit
company.
Anti-imperialists to the number of
35, and coming from the principal
cities of the country, met at the Plaza
hotel New York. The meeting was
for the purpose of determining what
action followers of this line of policy
will take in the coming presidential
campaign.
cyclone passed over Eutlaw, Ala,
and did great deal of damage. The
Methodist church and female seminary
were badly wrecked.
Eight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welsh
fusiliers have affected a junction with
the American, German and Russian
forces which had been cut off by the
Chinese about nine miles from Tien
Tsin.
Lord Roberts six columns are con-
verging apparently SO as to close in
upon the Free Staters, although de-
cisive results cannot be expected for
several days. A number of Beers who
were supposed to be within the wide
flung net have broken or stolen through
Gen. Rundle's Ficksburg-Senekal's
lines.
Flax in Chicago the 18th, advanced
from 81, 40 to S1,5O.
Large quantities of gold, received
by merchants in the western part of
the Transvaal, from President Kruger
oStensibly in payment of requisitioned
goods have been seized by the British
If the genuineness of the accounts can
be proved the gold will probably be
repaid.
A clondburst submerged the streets
of Mobile, Ala.
The Chicago bricklayers' strike is an
end.
At Coney Island. n. Y. Gus Ruhlen
the Akron giant knocked out Thomas
Sharlley in the 18th round. The re-
suit was surprise to all the sporting
men.
There were two deaths and four
prostrations by the heat in Pittsburg,
Pa.
u. X Duffield, board of trade broI-
err was robbed of SO. 600 worth of bonds
and deeds while .on Chicago street
car.
| The officers of the British frst-class
Icruiser Terrible assert that discord ex-
lists between the Russians and Anglo
Americans. and they believe the Rus
slams are planning to break the cor
cert and take possession of Picking in
dependently.
The president has assigned General
Adna Il. Chaffee to the command of the
military forces in China.
The democrats of ILLINOIS nominated
Samuel Alsehuler, of Aurora, for gov
ernor
The prohibitionists of Illinois nom
mated Judge V. V. Barnes for govern
or
The u 5 cruiser Brookiy. with 500
marines sailed from Manila for China
coast