River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-08-02
LATER NEWS.


Humbert of Italy. was up to May last
an employee of silk mill at Paterson
| n. j.
A dispatch from the Russian Ad
miral Alexieff, dated at Tientsin July
| 80 and communicated to the foreign
Office, states that the latest news con
| firms the report that the foreign min
| istors at Picking are out of danger.
Gen. Prinsloo, with 5000 Beers, has
surrendered unconditionally to tn,
| British.
Gen. Chaffee, commander of tn,
American forces in China, has arrived
at Taku.
| j J. Corbett and Kid Mccoy are
matched to box 25 rounds at Madison
Square Garden, New York, the latter
part of August.
Nine persons were injured in head
end collision between trolly cars al
Dayton, o.
The wheat yield of Manitoba is esti.
mated at II. 900. 600 bushels.
Prince Alfred Ernest, duke of SAKE
Coburg, is dead.
Armour & Co., Chicago, have pre-
pared plans for $3.50, 600 packing plant
in Louisville, KY.
George Walker, a negro pugilist,
made an unsuccessful attempt to as
sassinate Chief of Police harrington, OF
Battle Creek, Mich.
William E. Phillips, railway clerk
of San Francisco, has been ordered tC
| Nagasaki to take charge of the United
States mails with the new postal ser
vice for our troops in China.
The salmon fishermen's strike al
Vancouver has been declared off.
Large numbers of Indians under the
lead of one Hario held a meeting al
which they decided to divide the Creek
nation into It's original ~ towns. They
propose to return to their tribal Gus
toms and establish their own courts,
although such course will conflict
with United States laws.
The Dutch steamer Prins Willem l.
has been wrecked on the north side oil
the Island of Inlgua. The passengers
and crew were saved. The Prins
West Indische Maildienst of Amster-
dam.
White caps living in the mountains
in the vicinity of White county, East
Tennessee, have decreed that all men
who live in that neighborhood must
work, and with the lash are enforcing
the order.
! A bicycle dealer named Sanborn of
Mddleport. Ohio, set trap to catch
/ 49,. !. cfr fsof he
door of safe and connecting it with
the trigger of loaded revolver. Har-
ley Sanborn his son, aged IL years, ac-
cidently set off the trap, and was NOR
tally wounded, the bullet piercing his
lungs
The census office made public the
population of Cincinnati, O. 1t is $685.
9O2, an increase of 2s, 1914 in ten years.
The police raided bucket shop in
Chicago and arrested nearly 400 per
sons.
Gen. Chaffee telegraphs from Taku
that the relief force would start for
Peking the 3ist.
The war department has issued an
order for general election to be held
in Cuba on the third Saturday OF Sep
TENDER, to elect delegates to conven-
ton in Havana on the first Monday of
November. This convention is to
frame and adopt constitution for the
people of Cuba.
The government is finding great diff
fculty in getting good horses for ser
vice in China.
Four young ladies were drowned
while bathing in the surf at Ocean
City, n. j.
The one time invincible George
Dixon was defeated in seven rounds a.
Coney Island.
A cloudburst flooded the valley Of
the Verde river, in Arizona, washing
away many camps and drowning j. Ii.
Jacobson and his partner.
John Clark Ridpath. the historian,
died in Boston.
Tien Tsin wires that Gen. Sir ALFRED
Gaselee and staff, together with large
foreign reinforcements, arrived there
on July %.
While threshing on the farm of ia
cob Simpson. nine miles south of Pana,
H., the engine boiler exploded, kill
Hing Charles Simpson and Marion Syl
vester and severely wounded thres
Others.