River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-15

trict of Virginia was decided against
Young by a vote of 1879 to 1913.
The bubonic plague has appeared at
Buenos Ayers.
Fifteen persons, a majority of them
children, were burned to death in a
tenement house in Newark, N. j.. The
building was occupied entirely by
Italians.
Final ratifcations of the Chilean
claims treaty were exchanged at the
state department by Secretary Hay for
the United States and Minister Morla
Vicune for Chile.
A cablegram from London states:
According to good authority Presi-
dent Kruger and President Steyn have
not made a formal proposition of peace
but nave asked the British govern
ment, through the United States. the
conditions it would accept for the
opening of negotiations of peace"
Gen. Butler has again turned the
Boer position, and with his entire force
of 10000 men is marching on Bloem-
fontein. The Beers were said to have
II, 900 men, with eighteen guns.
Liz Suuh dnuIdCIuIGI nave lhCOI-
porated as a trust.
Germany has declined to interfere in
the TransYaal question.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, brother of
Henry Ward Beecher, was stricken
with paralysis at Albany, n. Y.
The steamer Counte collided with
another steamer off Sable Island, Ms,
1 nd ~, anDto,, ,-I Ervaotr-+b-oa !,
were drowned.
AT Tecumseh, Ok, Roger Bruno, ar
rested for horse stealing, was killed
while attempting to escape from the
sheriff.
Frank Ward was instantly killed
and several others seriously injured at
Hazelton, Pa, by an explosion of
dynamite. The men were engaged in
thawing some OF the explosive at the
time.
Jack Edwards, of Covington, KY,
served a term of so day in the work
house for beating his wife. When he
returned home he began to abuse his
wife, who called in several of the
women neighbors, and together they
peat Edwards almost into insensi-
bility.
About 1900 cigar makers of which
number nearly 500 girl employees of
Kirbs, Wertherin & Shiffer have struck
for an increase of wages and better
stock.
The president has granted a pardon
in full to Captain McCalla, of the navy,
now serving in the Philippines. In
1890 Captain McCalla was courtmar-
tailed for striking another person in
the navy.
General French, after considerable
opposition, occupied two hills close to
the railway, which command Bloem-
~fontein. Gen. Roberts, with another
brigade of cavalry, hurried forward.
Sixty or seventy British were killed
and S21 wounded.
The republican state convention of
Rhode Island nominated VIM. Gregory
for governor.
AT Saginaw, Mich, Alma Sickerman.
aged 4 years, was burned to death, her
brother and sister seriously burned in
a fire that destroyed the family resi-
dence.
The republicans of the Eighth Indi-
ana district nominated Geo. w. Cramer
for congress.
The Paris exposition will be opened
April Is, as advertised,
The Knox Iron company of Knox
vile, Tenn, has advanced the wages
of all employees 10 per cent.
The authorities Of Kalamazoo, Mich,
prevented the production of ''Sapho."
The United Slater d'affaires at Lon
don, Henry White, saw Lord Salisbury
at the foreign Office and received a
formal reply from the British govern
ment declining the good Offices of the
United States in regard to peace.
News of the wreck of the Norwegian
steamship Frames is brought by the
steamship Admiral Schley from Port
Antonio. Jamaica. The Frames
struck Hog Sly Reef. Bahama islands,
on March 2, and because a total loss.
The crew escaped in a small boat and
where picked.
The cruiser Detroit will look after
Americans interest on the Isthmas.
Retail hardware dealers from 10
states met at Chicago and formed an
organization to be known as the Inter
State Hardware Association.