River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-19
LATER NEWS.

Third cavalry recently surrounded a
village in Benguet province and sur
prised 200 insurgents living in bar
racks, apparently a recruiting center
for the province. The enemy lost So
men killed. Our troops also captured
a. men and burned the village. One
American was wounded.
In a drunken row at Windber, Pa,
four men were killed and two danger
ously wounded.
The president nominated Charles II.
Allen, of Massachusetts,, to be governor
of Porto Rico.
The colt Florizar won the Tennessee
derby at Memphis. The race was
worth 81. 900 to the winner and was
run in . minutes fiat.
A tornado struck Hamburg, Iowa,
completely wrecking Fred Johnson's
brickyard. The residences of Lark
Miller and John Crane were wrecked,
but no one was seriously injured. All
the damage was done within a radius
of one mile.
All the carpenters on Staten Island
have struck for an eight-hour day and
a four-hour day on Saturdays, at 40
cents per hour.
The Beers have raised the siege of
Wepener and have left Rockville. A
majority of them have undoubtedly re-
turned north, with the exception of a
body of about 1000 low reported to be
going to Bethulie.
The historic church of Notre Dame
L. - - A. ,As1-sEa ~ Ib,~sa
was entered by vandals, who, after pill
laying it, set it on fire.
Trains between Colorado Springs
and Denver, Colo, were tied up the
10th by snow drifts 16 feet high.
The Seaside Sporting club of Coney
Island, n. Y, was refused a license to
give sparring exhibitions. This may
prevent the fight between Corbett and
Jeffries.
BY an explosion of molten metal at
the furnace of the Ohio plant of the
National Steel company at Youngs-
town. Ohio, James Johnston, Wallace
Alexander and Prockett Smith were
terribly burned. The first two are
probably fatally injured.
ist DItSiuCIL has SCbb a ulGSSd2t ~
congress, asking that S25, 900 be placed
at the disposition of the secretary of
the treasury for the payment of the
expenses of a conference of the repub-
lies constituting the union of Amcri-
can republics which he recommended
in his last annual message.
The populist state convention at Dcs
Moines, To-, endorsed Wm. j. Bryan
for the presidency.
FIVE people were injured, one fatally,
by a cyclone that passed near Concor-
dia, Mo.
A band of strikers attacked a force
of non-union carpenters in Chicago
and drove them from the building. scri-
ously iniuring n of them.
The New York state republican con.
v%cntion warmly endorsed President
Mckinley and Gov. Roosevelt.
The eleventh annual session of the
Trans Mississippi congress opened the
nth at Houston, Texas.
Matty Mathews wins the wclter.
weight championship of the world by
knocking out Mysterious Billy Smith
in New York.
The grand jury at Frankfort. KY,
returned ten indictments in the case
of tho murder of Gov. Goebcl.
Frank ". Ilackctt. Of Newcastle. n.
H.. was nominated as assistant secre.
tary Of the navy.
The Illinois supreme court holds that
the advertising flag law is unconstitu-
tioual.
General Montenegro, one of the in
surgents' best fighters, has surrendered
TO Colonel Smith in the mountains
near Camaling, in the province of Pan
eastman. where, with General Macubu-
los he has been trying to regorganize
the Filipino army.
Jesus Garcia and another Mexican
of the name of Floras held up a gamb-
ling-house ia johnson, n mining camp
twenty-five miles east Of Benson, Ariz..
and killed Scott Wcatherby, a promin-
ent mining
The Philippine commissioners sailed
from San Francisco on the Hancock.
Diplomatic relations between the
limited States and Turkey are in a
lcritical shape owing to the Sultan's
bad faith regarding payment of indem-
lnity CLANS.