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

New York, was arrested in Boston.
where he was stopping under the name
of Smith.
The president has issued proclama-
ton designating Thursday, Nov. 30, as
Thanksgiving day.
An eastbound Northern Pacific pas
senger train was wrecked at Dehart
station, eight miles east of Living ston,
Mont, by broken rail.
AS result of a small fire, several
successive explosions of chemicals in a
drug store at Warren and Greenwich
streets, New York, blew down
dozen buildings and badly damaged
a score of others. There are 35 per-
sons reported missing, and 100 men,
women and children are on the list Of
the injured.
The city of Caracas, Venezuela, was
badly shaken by an earthquake. Sew
eral churches were almost wrecked
and the American and British lega-
| tons suffered severely.
j. NJ. Schriver, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore &c Ohio rail-
road, died at Baltimore, Md.
The jury IN the murder case of Henry
Crawford, for killing Wesley j. Con-
slant in Chicago last May, returned
verdict of acquittal.
Two colored prisoners, in an attempt
to escape from the prison attached to
the seventh district court in New York,
| killed Hugh McGoverD, 81 years DID,
and probably fatally injured George
| II - hO
had evidently tried to aid McGovern.
Secretary Wilson probably will ask
congress for authority to build cable
from the mainland to Tatoosh island,
at the entrance of the Puget Sound,
Washington, and then establish per-
manent weather bureau and ship re-
porting station there.
Yunsi, governor of the province of
Shangsi committed suicide. He organ
lied movement in Shantung and per-
sonally led in the slaughter of mission
aries in Shansi. He, with Hsutung
and Kanyi, make three notorioaa
! leaders now removed by death.
The truant officer has picked up SO
many of the boys of the district mes
senger companies at Tacoma, WASH,
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of girls from Is to II years of age for
the delivery of kilograms in the busi-
ness sections.
| Norman Brockaw, one of the most
prominent paper makers in the coun-
| try, died at Kaukauna, Wis.
| The total population of the United
States, as announced by Director Mer-
Ram, is rs, 295, 220, as against so, 069, 75e
| in 1890, gain of Is, 225, 464, or nearly
81 per cent. The population of Mime
sofa is l,751, 395, as against 1,3Ol, 500 in
| 1890, "a gain of 449, 500, or 34.5 per cent
! Four Hungarians held up the pay
wagon of the Connellsville Coke COM
! pany, near Mount Pleasant. Pa. The
| Hungarians were in ambush and
| opened fire, killing the paymaster.
| The colored driver returned the fire,
killing one of the foreigners and
woundlng another. The three rob
bers fed without securing the money.
From a trustworthy source it is
learned there is a strong possibility
that the powers will not accept the
Chinese peace commissioners who have
been or are supposed to have been APP
pointed.
Thomas Denning, an old-time miner,
| carried four sticks of giant powder,
fuse, caps and lighted candle in one
hand in a tunnel at the Lucky Joe
mine at Helena, Mont. There was an
explosion and Denning was blown to
| bits Ben Blake, another miner. who
stood only IL feet away had his clothes
blown off, but escaped serious injury.
The government has invited the pre-
miers of Canada, Cape Colony and
| Natal, together with other representa-
tives, to attend the Inauguration of
the commonwealth of Australia.
! Robbers raided the town of Round
! head, Ohio dynamited several safes.
| securing small sums. Citizens aroused
| by the explosions were shot at by the
| robbers, who finally rode away
| towords Lima, shooting as they went.
The steamer Ohio arrived at Seattle
| from Nome with $50 passengers and
/ 81, 600, 600 in gold dust.
| The Russian government, for the
| second time in two months. has inn
posed special tax for the benefit of
the Red Cross society.