River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-09-13
LATER NEWS.

The southwest Louisiana rice crop
suffered considerable loss from the
recent storm. Rice men estimate the
damage at 10 to Is per cent of the crop
as a whole.
A special dispatch from Berlin says
Great Britain and Germany have
agreed not to evacuate Picking until
full satisfaction for the recent out
RACES has been obtained.
The Citizens, bank at Evanston, ILL.,,
was robbed of SIS, 900 by ruse. The
cashier was called into the street by a
man driving a phaeton. When he re-
turned to his desk desk he discovered
that second person, previously con-
cealed in the basement had stolen into
the vault and secured the money. No
trace of the robbers has so far been
discovered.
Woodpeckers are destroying the
Missouri Pacific railroad station at
Lydon, Kan. In two weeks they have
perforated the east end. The boys of
the town drive them away with stones
and clubs, but they always return and
renew their works of obstruction.
John Gooduow, the United States
consul general at Shanghai, after in
quiries in every possible source, learns
that the number of British and Ameri-
can missionaries probably murdered
during the uprising in China has been
IS.
Gen. Butler captured the Boer posi-
ton at Spitzkop. The Beers lost
heavily.
In fit of jealous rage, Frank For
est, living near Livingston, Mont,
shot and killed Willis Howard and ia
tally wounded Lenora Lynn. Both
men were in love with the lady.
An official bulletin issued at Glas-
gov, Scotland, shows an additional
case of the bubonic plague has been
reported. The total is sixteen cases
and 112 persons under observation.
The little town of Hermonsville,
Mich, was almost totally destroyed by
fire.
The Choate-Hollister furniture fac
tory at Janesville, Wis, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, SIS, 600.
In quarrel over their children at
Dubuque, Iowa, John Arthofer killed
his neighbor, Antoine Laibi.
The monthly report of the depart
ment of agriculture states that the
average condition of corn Sept. / was
500. There was decline during
August amounting to 60 points, and
the condition on the first of the pres
ent month was 4.6 points lower than
Sept. /, 1899.
The American Baptist mission near
Huchow, in the province of Checklang,
and only ninety miles southwest of
Shanghai, has been looted and de-
stroyed
Gov. Sayers has placed Galveston
city and island under martial law. Adj
jutant General Scurry is ordered to
have state troops take charge at once.
A brick wall. SIS feet long and FIVE
stones high, being built as part of a
packing plant at st. Joseph, Mo, was
blown down in a wind storm, killing
a Mr.. Smith, laborer.
While a section gang was engaged in
clearing freight wreck on the Cleve-
land & Pittsburg railroad near East
Liverpool, O., a car of gasoline ex-
ploded, injuring fifteen persons. James
Colone and Thomas Cochrane were so
badly burned that they will probably
die.
Russian troops are pouring into Pc
king daily. The Russians and Japan
csc will soon outnumber the allied
forces
Experiments have been conducted at
Honolulu, with the extract of the
Venezuelan shrub tua tua, which is
said TO be cure for leprosy. The ex-
perts export partially favorable re-
suits.
The business portion of Paris, Ont.
was wiped out by fire.
Ora G. Scott, of Fort Scott. Kas.,
killed his grandmother by burying a
Ratchet times into her brain.
A severe storm swept over Chicago,
with the wind at velocity of rs miles
an hour. Two persons lost their lives.
General Baden Powell has been APP
pointed as chief of the Transvaal po-
lice.
Faance is ready to withdraw her
troops from Peking.
Two persons were killed and num-
Der injured in a fire that destroyed a
tenement home in Chicapo