River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-02-15
LATER NEWS.

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tobacco growers society adopted res
sion of tobacco from Puerto Rico, as
recommended by the ways and means
committee of congress.
Everything indicates that the Ma
tional Democratic convention will be
held at Milwaukee.
The bank of Henry ID. Bowman, at
Las Cruces, N. NJ, was robbed by two
men who held up the employees at the
muzzles of revolvers. The amount
taken is said to have been large.
In both houses of the Kentucky leg
islature was introduced a bill offering
a reward of 500, 900 for the detection
of Goebel's murder.
The report that DIR. w. j. Leyd's, the
Transvaal's minister at Brussels, had
for his object in coming to Berlin the
raising of a Dan to carry on the war
has received confirmation in a respon-
sible quarter. The loan desired was a
big one, and. although DIR. Leyds held
a long conference with the directors
of two of the leading banks of Berlin,
he was unsuccessful.
President Mckinley nominated Mrs.
Potter Palmer of Chicago as a COM
missioner to the Paris exposition.
The conference of the antitrust
league began in Chicago the 18th with
a large attendance.
1t is reported hat the United States
gunboat Princeton visited the Tatanes
and Calagan islands, which were omit
ted from the Paris treaty of peace,
being north of 20 degrees of latitude,
raised American flags and appointed
native governors.
Eli Leabolt, aged 81 years, was in
stantly killed and Abraham Vehle SER
iously injured in a slate quarry at
Slatington, Pa. Heavy stone was be-
ing hoisted when the chain broke.
The falling stone hurled Leabolt from
the ledge of the quarry into a pit go
feet below and crushed his chest.
Vehle was hurt by flying missiles.
The p~ostoffiee department has been
informed hat the assistant postmaster
at Reidsville, n. c., is thought to be
suffering from smallpox. Orders have
been issuad to have the mail at that
place fumigased if necessary.
The revolution. under the leader
ship of General Hernandez, in Vene-
zuela, is gaining rapidly. The revolu-
~tionists under General Medina attacked
and defeated the government troops
under General Cotina nea Cora, capi-
tai of the state of Falcon, the capital
being held by the revolutionists.
Congressman Charles A. Chickering,
of Copenhagen, N. Y, was found dead
outside the Grand Union Hotel, New
York city. He had either fallen or
window of the hotel.
The bodies of Martin Loefler, aged Q,
and Charles Byrnes were found in a
closet in an unoccupied building in
New York. They had been missing
since Aug. 3 last. The door had a
spring lock and no knob on the inside.
Nine prisoners escaped from the Jail
at Coffeyville, Kan. They crawled
through a hole in the wall, from which
they had pried a stone, turned out the
lights in the yard, and scaled the
stockade.
1t is announced hat the king of Por-
tugal has signed q protocol of a secret
offensive and defensive alliance with
England.
The Brazilian government has pro
tested against the raid made by the
British forces in the Amazonas terri
tory.
John Montgomery, probably the old
est man in Iowa, was killed by the
cars at Council Bluffs. He was los
years of age.
The Beers are actively pressing
around Rensburg. The British force
under Lieutenant Colonel Page, con-
sisting of a section of artillery and $50
horse, which reached Slingersfontein
Feb. 10, has been compelled to fall
back oil Rensburg, owingto its eastern
flank being threatened.
A jury in the criminal court at Kan
sas City, Mo-, grave Ed Simms, a negro
footpad, a 40-year sentence in the PEN
itentiary for snatching a white wom-
ans pocket book. Two jurors wanted
to give him a life sentence.
The British commissioners, Middle
and Switzerland, who had been en-
gagged in the Burmo-Chinese boundary,
have been murdered in the Monghem
district. Consul Litton was wounded,
but escaped.