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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
FOREIGN INTEIIIGENcE-

The eighty-first birthday of Queen
Victoria was celebrated throughout
the British empire.
In the Rhenoster river floods
blocked the progress of the British
army; Roberts front is 30 miles in
length; the Beers hide their plans
for the future, but President Kruger
has issued n proclamation saying he
will defend Johannesburg and calling
upon all the Beers to fight TO the bit
ter end
The postal director of the Philip.
pine islands reports that with all ex-
penses paid there will be a profit of
over $4,000 for the IL months from
May !. 1892
The diplomats in China demand
that the government suppress the
boxers" who are gaining strength.
In the Potara river, British Guiana,
a steamer was carried over cataract,
40 lives being lost.
Maj. Peyton c. March, with bat
TALON of the Thirty-third infantry,
believes he is on the track of the par
ty escorting Aguinaldo.
Advices from the seat of war in
South Africa indicate the rapid. I'M
checked advance of the British army,
and growing decentralization of the
Beers.
Nolan. pullman and Walsh were
convicted in Toronto of attempting to
blow up the Welland canal locks and
sentenced TO prison for life
In NORTHERN Luzon, scouting. small
engagements with Filipinos and the
capture of arms and prisoners con-
tinue daily.
The defeat of the Chinese army by
the troops of the Boxer secret So
ciety has jeopardized the lives of all
foreigners in China.
The advance column of Lord Rob-
erts was entirely within Transvaal
territory, less than 40 miles from
Johannesburg. London hears many
rumors of peace negotiations, and the
opinion prevails there that the war
will soon be ended
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
DOINGS OF A WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days in This
and All Foreign Lands.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FIFrY-sIxTH CONGRESS.

The time in the United States SEN
ate on the gath was devoted to de-
bate on the nations duty toward it's
new island possessions, Messrs. Spoon
er, Allen and Bacon leading in the
discussion. In the house the Alaska
civil government bill was further con-
sidered and the conference report on
the Indian appropriation bill was
adopted.
In the United States senate on the
25th the credentials of Martin Magin-
mis- as senator from Montana were
presented and tabled. The Philippine
bill was further discussed and the
sundry civil appropriation bill, which
carries sos, s12, $50, was considered. In
the house the Alaskan civil govern
ment bill was further discussed and
private pension bills were passed
y resolution was agreed to in the
United States senate on the Goth for
an investigation by the committee on
Cuban affairs of the Cuban postal and
other Irregularities. In the house
consideration of the Alaska civil gov
eminent bill was practically com
pleted. A resolution calling upon the
secretary of war to report in detail
the payments made and to whom
from the revenue of Cuba and Porto
Rico was adopted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Minor engagements Are Reported
Charge Against Gen. Funston
Unsustained.

Manila, May Scouting, small en-
gagements and the capture of arms
and prisoners continue daily in north
ern Luzon. Last weeks opera tions by
the Ninth. Twelfth. Thirty-third Thir-
ty-fourth and Thirty-sixth regiments
resulted in the killing of 46 of the enc
my, the taking of $50 prisoners and the
capture of 300 rifles and a quantity of
ammunition.
Peace reigns and no trouble is eX-
pected in Manila, although the city is
crowded with people from the prov
inces who are leaving the unprotected
hamlets in order to avoid the conscrip-
ton which the insurgent leaders are
enforcing as we'll as robbery and out
RACES at the hands of rowing insurgents
and bandits.
The investigation of the charge
against Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston
of having summarily executed two ma
tives in the province of Zambales has
resulted in discontinuance of the pro-
ceedings. 1t developed the fact that
Gen. Funston caught the natives in the
act of numbering bound Maccabebe
scouts, his action, in view of the cir
cumstances, being regarded as justi-
fable.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The bubonic plague has entirely dis
appeared from Honolulu.
Germany has prohibited the importa-
tion of canned and sausage meat.
Kansas has 300 -four mills. with a ca
pacity of 10000 COO barrels year.
Harry Kimball Thaw, of Pittsburgh.
Pa. gave dinner at Paris to rs persons
that cost $1,000.
Ex-senator Quay. of Pennsylvania.
has announced his candidacy for re-
election 20 the senate.
Philadelphia has been selected as
the meeting place Of the Presbyterian
general assembly in 1901.
France consumes 925. O00, GOO gallons
of wine annually, equal to 24.25 gallons
per capita of population.
The proposed ocean cable between
Copenhagen to Iceland will be 404 miles
long and cost about $3.50. oo0.
Threatened French aggression in
Morocco is deeply interesting Great
Britain as we'll as Germany.
Many Americans who went TO Paris
with the expectation of making ex-
penses by working are penniless.
The census office is to handle the sta
tistics of the 75.0o0, 600 people of this
country with intricate electrical ma
chimes.
The shortage in Cuban revenues oc-
casjoned by the defalcations disclosed
will be reimbursed by the general de
ficiency bill
The New York supreme court sus-
tanned an injunction issued to restrain
keeping of hens that annoyed neigh
Dor by eackling.
The efforts made by male students at
Syracuse N. " university to have
women students excluded from oral tor
ical contests have failed.
When Mrs. Sarah Barlow. of New
Brunswick. n. J.. celebrated her one
hundred and fourth birthday 81 of her
descendants were present.
At Damascus the vail of the city is
reported 10 have discovered a library
which escaped annihiIation when Tam.
erIane destroyed the city in i40l.
Gov. Roosevelt advocates municipal
ownership and the application OF pri-
waite methods 10 public business as
means of preventing city fraud
Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch,
Of San Francisco, is making prepare
tions to establish an office in Honolulu,
/ the Hawaiian islands having been
added to the district Of California.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
REPORTERS ADJOURN SENATE.
How Couple OF Breezy Newspaper
Men Ran the Illinois Upper
House.

well, that bumps me-" said the colonel.
as he began tanning himself with Panama
hat, relates the Chicago Inter Ocean. Il
know that the cheek Of these newspaper
reporters is always in full flower INT /
didn't know that they assumed to legislate
for the state.
.'Al know is, asserted the judge. again,
"that two newspaper reporters once adj.
journed session OF the Illinois senate"
How'd they do it. Choke the speaker
with copy paper!
mo; they were very civilized about il.
1t was one day when everybody expected a
dull session, and only two OF us senators
put in an appearance, counting Dave Littler,
who was in the chair.
" | want to get an interview with LITTER
when this things over, said one newspaper
man.
SO do |, said the other. 4 move that
we adjourn, he shouted at Litter.
Il second the motion, said the first re
porter
" 1t is moved and seconded that we now
adjourn, said Littler, solemnly. Those in
favor will signify it in the usual manner.
Aye' shouted both Of the reporters.
Carried said Litter
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
FROM WASHINGTON.

President Mckinley will be renom-
mated at the republican national con-
vention by Senator Foraker.
The census enumerators appointed
in all parts of the United States will
begin their work on June 1.
The president. the members of his
cabinet, Gen. Miles and Gen. Corbin
went to Fredericksburg. Va, to at
tend the reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac.
Our government has warned China
that the boxer" outrages must be
stopped.
Boer ENJOYS left Washington on a
trip to several large cities.
In April the exports of American
manufactures broke all records,
amounting to $4O.OOO,O0O
Billy Forsyth struck Eddy Teabaut
a blow that caused his death in u prize
fight at Bridgeport, Conn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
WEST AND SOUTH.

Robbers entered the Peninsula bank
at Williamsburg. Va, the safe was
blown open and about $4,000 in
money taken.
In St. Louis the Presbyterian gen
eral assembly adopted a memorial to
the president and to congress asking
that polygamy be made a crime.
AT the opening in Chicago of the an
rual convention of the American
Anti-Saloon league 30 states were rep
resented.
The South Dakota republicans
elected Mckinley delegates to the ma
tional convention.
The North Carolina prohibitionists
have nominated Henry Sheets, of Lex
ington. for governor
At McFerrin's sawmill near Coving-
ton, Tenn. a boiler exploded. killing
five men and completely wrecking the
plant
On the Transit company's street
railway lines in ST. Louis rioting was
general. one man. was fatally shot,
and Gov Stephens has threatened to
call out the militia unless the police
suppress disorder.
The South Dakota republicans have
nominated Charles " Herreid for gov
ernor.
In Cleveland, O., Herbert Moves. a
prominent business man, was fatally
shot by two footpads
r. 0. Crump. of West Bay City, was
renominated for congress by the re-
i publicans of the Tenth district of
/ Michigan.
On an electric railway near Akron.
/ o., cars jumped the track and three
men were killed and nine injured.
4 Burglars blew open the vault of the
Bank Of Dover, MINI, and $4,000
was taken.
After adopting resolutions for better
| education of deaf. dumb and blind
children, better laws for protection
of dependent children, and denouuc-
ing the character of much of the adj
vertising matter which appears in
newspapers, the National Mothers
! congress adjourned at Des Moines. Ia.
The democrats nominated n. II.
Smith for congress in the Fourth
Kentucky district. +. c. Reeves in the
First Tennessee district and Clarke
Kitchen in the Second North Carolina
district.
In Detroit the American Baptist
Publication society held its sixty-sev-
enth annual meeting. The annual re-
port said last year was one of the best
in the history of the society.
Peter Wells, a policeman, was shot
while defending street car from at
tack in st louis
The Ohio prohibitionists nominated
state ticket headed by ]. X Mont
/ gomery. of Greene county, for secre-
tary of state.
The state of Virginia voted for re-
vision OF the constitution by which
negroes Will he-disfranchised.
1 Fire destroyed The Flambeau Paper
4 company's mill and warehouse at
Parkc Falls, Wis, entailing a loss of
| S2oo,oo0
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
LATER NEWS.

While the family of VIM. Wise, near
table of the sitting room in the even
ing, unknown men fred repeatedly
shotgun loaded with buckshot
through the window. All the family
except two were shot down, three of
them fatally. The murderers are I'M
known.
Two robber bands in the Philippines
surrendered unconditionally, one at
Cuyapo and one at Tarlac.
A lone robber held up Missouri Pa
cific sleeper near Falls City, Neb.
There were but few passengers and he
got very little.
A large pile of concrete at South
ampton, Eng, collapsed, burying fifty
worl1men, several of whom were killed.
The dam of the Scanlon-Gipson Lum-
Der company was blown out by dyna-
mite, at Bemidji, Mimi.
Henry Bishop was instantly killed
at Cedar Rapids, To-, by falling der
rick boom which struck him on the
head. crushing the skull.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
Clarke Exchange bank at Sturgeon,
Mo-, secured SIS, 600 in currency and es-
capped, leaving no clue.
The United States supreme court adj
journed the Goth and will not sit again
until October.
The grand stand of the Cincinnati
baseball club was destroyed by fire.
Loss, SIS, 900.
The boxers burned the Liulino sta
ton on the Luthan railway, twenty
nine miles from Picking, China. They
also wrecked the track, destroyed a
number of cars and murdered several
Chinese employees.
The headquarters of the Republican
congressional campaign committee,
which heretofore have been maintained
in Washington, will be removed to
Chicago, Chairman Babcoclx expects to
open headquarters in that city about
June 10.
Pressure is being applied to Ger
many to induce her to prevent the en-
forcement of its provisions against
meat contracts now being filled by
by American meat packers.
Genevieve Kane, of Milwaukee, died
from burns while her family while
at church praying for her recovery.
James Smith, the messenger boy who
Is carrying a message of sympathy
from Philadelphia and New York
school boys to President Kruger, has
arrived at Lorenzo Marques, and Pres
ident Kruger has sent his private car
TO convey him to Pretoria.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31

Outlaws killed Sheriff Tyler, of
Grand county, Utah, and Sam Jenkins,
cattle owner.
In the Mojaye desert, California, the
discovery of gold has started rush
in that direction.
In the p days of the street railway
strike in st. Louis five persons have
Deem killed and rs wounded, and the
end seems as far away as ever.
Miss Kate Putnam, IS. and August
Croft, Sc years old. were married at
South Bloomfield. O. They were low
ers in youth and neither had married.
Six blocks of business houses and
many private residences were burned
at Apalachicola, Fla, the loss being
$4,000
The social labor party of Illinois
has nominated l.. Hoffman, of Jack
sonville, for governor
In Chicago the ban on amusements
in the Methodist church was pre-
served by the general conference by a
close vote.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
THE ST. LOUIS STRIKE.
End Of The street Hallway Trouble
Seems as Far Away as Ever
A sunday Riot.

St. Louis, May 2s.-This is the TWEEN
| ty-first day of the street railway strike,
aud the end seems as far away as ever.
both the Transit company and its en-
1 ployes standing firm in their respective
| positions. Not car on the Transit
company's system has been run since
| the strike began without police protec-
tion. In consequence of there not be-
ing enough police TO guard the 500 or
more cars usually a%erated, less than a
quarter of that number has been run
by the company over only part of its
% divisions and lines. Since the Sth
of May. when the strike began. there
have been numerous collisions between
! the police and the strikers and the lat
ter's sympathizers. Hardly day dur
ing that time has passed without some
body being wounded by bullets or in
jured by flying missiles and police
clubs. The list of casualties presents
| four persons shot and killed, % wound
ed by bullets and so or more injured
in other ways. Two of the killed were
innocent bystanders, striking motor
man and an emergency policeman COM
pleting the number. Several of the
wounded are in critical condition and
may die.
1t is estimated by the strikers that
| less than 80 of their 1928
who struck have returned to work.
These, with the street ear men import
ed from other cities, are operating the
Transit company's cars. 1t is asserted
n Mt ..f . In npf nd on
have joined the strikers. All the points
at issue between the company and its
striking employees have been agreed TO
except that of reinstating all the men
who went out in their old positions.
! The company refuses to displace the
men they have hired since the strike
| began, while the strikers decline to
! sign any agreement that does not give
all the old men their places again. Sew
eral attempts have been made to bring
the employers and employees together
| but without success. and thus the mat
| ter stands.
| As the result of an encounter Sunday
night between striking and nonstrik-
ing employees of the Transit system
three men were shot, one being fatally
and the others seriously wounded.
As Philip Sullivan, James Sulli-
van and Patrick O'Connel, strik-
ers, were passing through Lafayette
park they were approached from the
rear and fired upon by three men said
to be in the company's employ. One
of the bullets passed through Philip
Sullivan's right lung, giving him NOR
| tai wound. James Sullivan received a
ball in the left cheek and O'Connell was
shot through the right leg. Accounts
of the affair differ, some bystanders
claiming that it was deliberate at
tempt at assassination on the part of
the company's new employees, while
others aver that it was nothing
more or less than pitched battle be-
tween The two factions. A riot call was
at once sounded, but the three I'M
known men had made good their es-
cape by the time of the police arrival
| on the scene
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
BIG MINE AFIRE.
Disaster In the Calumet md HccIa--
Many Men Overcome by Gas
-One Is Dead.

Houghton, Mich, May 2s.-Fire
broke OUT at the twentieth level in No.
? shaft in the Hecla branch of the
Calumet & Hecla mine at seven o'clock
Sunday evening. The shaft was
promptly closed down, all the men
escaping, and force of men was sent
down in No. 3 shaft adjoining to putty
up the doors to prevent the fire from
spreading. One consisting of u men
was almost overcome with the gas
from the burning timber and started
for the ladders in order to escape One
man, VIII McRae, fell behind and had
TO be abandoned. ! he men barely
crawled to the surface. where the en-
tire medical staff of the Calumet &
Hecla mine had been called to their
assistance with oxygen apparatus.
After a rescue party had gone down
twice after the missing nan he was
brought up from the ninth level,
where he was found hanging on lad
der. Efforts at restoration failed.
Five others of the party, Ben Saun-
ders, John Haun, Richard Martin,
Richard Richards and Simon Russell,
are now in the hospital Russell is in
precarioHs condition. The men are
leaving other parts of the mine be-
cause of gas.
[The Calumet and Hecla mine is on the
Kewanee peninsula in northern Michigan,
and was discovered in 1865, it is said by a
pig roofing about in some old leaves in
a hole. This was the first clew to the lost
copper mines told of i'm the legends of the
Indians. The development was slow at
first. but was continuous, and in the course
of time the magnitude of the deposits be-
came known. over $55, 000, 900 has been paid
in dividends since then and the plant as it
stands now, while the company is capital
lied for only $2.500,000 is considered to be
worth 60000,000 To bring the mines up to
a paying stage of development $1,200,000
was spent. The company owns mines
stamps, mills, smelters, railroads and. in
fact several towns with a population of
not less than 60, 000'people dependent on the
mines for their living. The mine company
property covers hundreds of acres and the
shafts in some parts are the deepest in the
world. Prof. Agassiz made tests in the Cal
umet and Hecla pits for ascertaining by
comparison the heat OF the interior of the
earth and the rate at which it increased or
diminished, The last big fire in these mines
was in 1884 and for long period parts of
the working were abandoned until the fire
could be got under control
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31
DUAL TRACK MEET.
Results of the Contest Between Ath-
Ietes of Universities of Chicago
anr Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis, May 2S.-Chicago
won from. Wisconsin in the dual meet
at Camp Randall Saturday morning,
taking II points to 81 for Wisconsin.
Chicago was first in seven events and
Wisconsin in nine. The feature of the
sin records-the pole vault, mile run,
half-mile run, broad jump and mile
walk Chicago was first in the 800
yard hurdles, 100-yard dash, mile BIZ
cycle, one-third- bicycle, show put
and hammer throw. Wisconsin took
first in the mile run, high jump, dis
Gus throw, mile walk, 220-yard dash,
pole vault, broad jump, S0yard run
and 220-Yard hurdles
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-31

THE SIGHTS OF BOSTON.

The Back bay district was gained
from the saltwater tides by filling in,
mainly between 1857 and 1887, the
land sales giving the state profit
of $3.500.0O0 above costs.
Fanenil hall, "The Cradle of Lib.
erty." was built in 1742, by Peter
Faneuil. the Huguenot merchant, for
market and public hall, and pre-
scented to the town. Smibert, the
pioneer painter, was the architect.
1t was rebuilt after fire, in 1853,
and dedicated by James Otis, and
much enlarged in 1906, Bulfnch be-
ing the architect.
Boston was called Shawmut, mean
ing THE place where boats CO." by
the Indians; Tri Montaine. by the
carly English settlers at Charlestown,
from the three bold peaks of Beacon
Hill; and finally Boston Tin 1630),
by the order of the Massachusetts
legislature, after Lincolnshire sea-
port from which some of its people
came.
Kings Chapel burying ground, the
oldest in Boston, dates from 1880,
and contains the remains of the three
governors Winthrop, Gov. Shirley.
Gov. Leverett, Gov. Endicott, John
Winslow, Lady Andres and Cotton.
Davenport, Oxenbridge and other IL
lustrious divines, with Brattle, Sheafe
and other great colonial merchants,
and learned judges and several gal
liant officers.
The old statehouse, at the head of
State street, was built in 174s. in
the walls of it's predecessor, erected
in 1913, and on the site of the town
house of 1857: and for half CEN
tury the honorable provincial coun-
ell and the state senate met in the
eastern hall, and the house of rep
resentatives in the western hail.
Here, according to John Adams, I'm
dependence was born" and for "a
years Samuel Adams and Hancock,
Otis and Quincy and other patriots
resisted British aggressions, with
fiery eloquence. Here the stamp act
cIearances were burned; the Brit
ish troops were quartered. in f7ss;
Gems. Howe and Clinton held their
war councils, surrounded by officers
clad in scarlet and lace, and the state
constitution was planned
Chicago is the greatest railroad cen
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THE EAST.

At Monsey, y. Y, Boer sympathiz-
ers burned British flag hoisted by
an Englishman in honor of the queens
birthday.
In Boston Louisa Chamberlain, a
wealthy woman, rs years old, took as
her fourth husband w. A. Hutchinson,
an actor. aged "a
At the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the 25th ag-
gregated 81, ,7O4,O7t, against $1.6S4,-
372 ,2s4 the previous week. The de-
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 1873.
In the United States there were 167
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1T the
week previous and 15s in the CORE
spending period of 1899.
John J. Mcdonnell an aged Catholic
priest of New York, ended his life by
jumping over Niagara falls.
DR. Richard Lea, the oldest Presby-
terrain minister in Pennsylvania, died
at his home in New Alexandria, aged
~ years.
Percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 27th were: Philadelphia
643; Brooklyn, $50; Chicago, 567;
st. Louis, .552; Pittsburgh. .531; Gin
cinnati, .429; New York, $40; Boston,
Dos
Flames at jamestown, Pa, de-
stroyed 70 buildings, including the
post office.
In Boston Mrs Julia Ward Howe
celebrated the eighty-frst anniver-
sary of her birth.
Joseph Mullett and James Fitzhar-
ris, Irish invincibles convicted Of the
Phoenix park assassinations. but re-
Gently pardoned. were ordered deport-
ed from America.
Capitalists have bought the entire
town of Frugality, Pa, with its coal
and coke interests.