River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-10
LATER NEWS.

James Nettles, colored, VINO a
twice been respited. was hanged in
in the Jail at the -Four Courts, St. Louis.
Gen. Young reports that A%guinaldo
has joined Gen. Tino in the north of
Luzon, and has r~eassembled a consid-
cradle force in the mountains. Gen.
Young has asked for reinforcements
and desires to strike them before the
rainy season sets in.
The United States revenue cutter
Bear sailed for Alaska to prevent the
British steamer Alpha landing freight
or passengers at Cape Nome.
Three of the four mills of the Ameri-
car Steel and Wire company at Joliet,
ILL.,, have started up with nearly a full
force, 1000 men going to work.
A washed-out trestle near St. Charles.
Mo-, wrecked the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas flyer, killing Fireman John
Boyle and severely scalding Engineer
Palmer.
The strike of the Montana Central
freight conductors and brakemen,
which has beer on for sometime, end
ed after a conference at Great Falls
between superintendent +. f. Ward
of the Great Northern and committees
of citizens and strikers. According to
the agreement the men returned to
work on the new schedule.
The capture of Winburg by the
British is confirmed, and the main adj
vance to Pretoria continues with the
machine-like precision and rapidity
which has characterized all Lord
Roberts foreward movements. BY the
occupation of Winburg. General Ian
Hamilton puts himself nearly parallel
with Lord Roberts and only twenty
nine miles eastward.
Locusts are doing much damage in
southwestern Michigan.
Senior Albert, editor of the Don
Claridades, was shot and killed by an
unknown assassin at the theater in
Havana.
Laurentide's pulp and paper mill at
Grand Mere, Canada, was destroyed by
fire.
Heavy rains in northern Michigan
have greatly lessened the danger of
forest fires.
The u. S. senate confirmed the nomi-
nation of Smith Mcpherson of Iowa to
be the district judge for the southern
district of Iowa.
BY the collapse of a house at 1880
North Eight street, st. Louis. Ora
Everson and Milvina Nelson, colored,
were killed and several others injured.
BY a vote of 80 to 1856 congress re-
fused to table Tawney's resolution call
ing for information regarding the IN
gradients used in the manufacture Of
oleomargarine.
All of the street railway lines in st.
Louis are tied up by a strike of en-
ployes.
Lafayette Carney and Sherman De-
borav lost their lives in a fire which
DESTROYED the American hotel at GEN
essee. n. Y.
Roberts mounted force reached We'll
gelegen station, Is miles north of
Smaldeel. where the left wing halted
while the engineers were preparing
the railway. A reconnaissance was
extended TO the Zand river, where the
enemy was found in force.
A force of rebels, May :, attacked
twenty men of Company of the Forty
fourth regiment, stationed at Barotac,
Iloilo province, on the island of Panay.
Three of the Americans were killed
and seven wounded.
General Pantaleon Garcia. a prom
inent insurgent officer of the northern
province, was captured. with some
valuable documents, by Funston's
troop.
The bubonic plague has appeared at
Alexandria, Egypt.
An American officer has produced a
she'll that will pierce any armor yet
made including the celebrated krupp
armor of Germany.
Congressman Dolliver was lnant-
mously renominatcd by the republic
cans of the Tenth congressional dis
trict of Iowa.
At Chicago Tom Sharkey knocked
out Joe Choynski in two rounds.
Admiral Schley. with his flagship
Chicago and gunboats Montgomery
and Wilmington, sailed from Bahia for
Rio. where they viii dock for repairs.
A bill giving the widow of the late
Major General Henry W. Lawton a
pension was favorably reported to the
U. 5, senate.