River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-06-21
LATER NEWS.

n lyDHOOH ueIdytu tue VI
troops at Manila for China.
Russia has demanded so, 000, 900 taels
indemnity for the damage done to Chi
nese railroads in which Russians are
interested.
The navy depar .ment has been in
formed by Admiral Kempff that the
Taku forts fired on the foreign ships
and after brief engagement surren-
dered. Shanghai is to the front again
with the statement that the Taku forts
have been occupied by the interna-
tional troops According to Chifu
special the seventeen forts opened fire
upon the warships, whereupon the
feet replied in kind and silenced the
Chinese guns, and the international
| forces subsequently landed and seized
the forts.
The national republican congress
sional committee opened its headquar-
tiers n the Auditorium hotel in Chicago.
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the Master Car Builders association
of the United States began at Sara
| toga, n. Y, the 18th.
| The mill of the Commonwealth Min
/ lug pdlly at SoltEs NItIss "oo etC
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $780,,
600.
The dynamite fiend was abroad again
| in St. Louis, and in one night five cars
were more or less injured.
Fire at Bloomington, I'LL, destroyed
over $500, 900 worth of property in the
| business center.
| Herman Hearmeyer, of Cincinnati,
while beating his wife and daughter,
was shot and killed by his ls-year-old
| son.
| Fifteen hundred recruits for the re-
gular army in the Philippines are now
being enlisted and assembled in New
York harbor and Columbus Barracks,
Ohio, to sail on the Transport Buford
and Kilpatric about the first of No
vember next, to take the place of en-
| listed men whose terms of servive will
expire this year.
! The attorney general has assigned
the judges of the district court for the
district of Alaska as follows: Melville
c. Brown, district No. /, to reside at
at Juneau; Arthur II. Noyes, district
No. ., to reside at st. Michaels; James
! w. Wickersham, district No. 8, to re-
side at Eagle City.
The 50Oth anniversary of the birth
of John Gutenberg, the inventor Of
movable type, was celebrated in Ber-
! lin by an immense gathering of print
ers and type founders in the Circus
! Schumann.
Lizzie Matte got up in Cincinnati
street car to make room for passen-
| ger. The car started with a jerk,
throwing her down and fracturing her
skull. She died on the way to the
hospital.
The president appointed Gen. Lloyd
Wheaton, colonel of the Twentieth
regular infantry and brigadier general
of volunteers, major general of vol
unteers.
Three deaths resulted from a tene-
ment house fire in New York City.
The dead are: Mrs. Milanda, her son,
eight years, and daughter three years
| old.
Mrs. Bcveridge, wife of L. S. Sena-
tor Bevcridge, died at Danvillc, n. Y.
of heart failure.
The Russian troops arrived outside
of Peking and Immediately began at
lacking the city, employing numerous
artillery. The force apparently ar
rived in the nick of time, for the Chi
nese assert that the attack upon the
| legations had been successfully re-
newed.
| The elevator in the Hotel Walton,
Philadelphia, fell seven stories and
injured five of the passengers and the
elevator boy. The two most seriously
hurt were J. &. Pringey, a delegate
from Oklahoma, and Brenton 4. Hall,
| delegate from Belding, Mich.
Secretary of State Hay has been no
| tilted by the Russian embassy that
1000 troops have been dispatched from
| Port Arthur to Taku.
| Clarence Mayer, who was recently
extradited from the United States,
charged with forgery, has been con-
victed and sentenced to eight years
imprisonment at Havana.
Admiral Sehley telegraphed from
Montevideo that his squadron has
been released from quarantine at that
point.
There were two shooting ARRAYS at
St. Louis as a result of the strike.
Peter Bonfi was wounded in the foot.