River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-04-05
LATER NEWS.

AT M~uscatine, To-, three children of
August Tobias, aged 4 and 3 years,
and 6 months, were locked in the
house by their mother and during her
absence the house was burned. The
youngest is dead and one of the others
cannot recover. All were seriously
burned.
Webster DaYis, assistant secretary
of the interior, has rendered his resig-
nation. He will go IN the lecture
platform in the interest of the Beers.
There is great Boer activity along
the Vaal river. About 5000 burghers
have assembled at various points be-
tween Fourteen Streams and Christi
ana. About 700 men are occupying
Witrand, north of Klipdam, and 400
men are laagered at Boetsap.
The president has named Charles
Barnes of Illinois to be consul at Co
logne.
While performing a surgical oper-
alton on the foot of Mrs. David Sweet,
of Webster, Mass, the physician found
a large incisor tooth behind the heel
bone. 1t is supposed the tooth was
swallowed by her when a child.
The explosion of a boiler in a brick
yard at Atlanta, Ga, killed two men
and injured six.
Advices from Caracas, Venezuela, re-
port that the revolutionary general,
Hernandez, has been obliged to retreat
to the banks of the Orinoco.
The grand jury at Frankfort, KY,
has begun It's investigation INTO the
assassination of Gov. Goebel.
In a f~ree-for-all fight near Keystone,
S. D., Charles Norton, a wood hauler,
was shot and killed, with seven bull
let's in his body.
An attempt was made to destroy the
residence of George B.. Cox, a republi-
can leader of Cincinnati, o., by plac-
ing on the veranda a package of dyna-
mite addressed to Mrs. Cox. Mr.. Cox
suspected danger and turned the box
over to the police.
Edward Young shot and killed j. S.
Casey near Troy, Kan. The trouble
arose over the ownership of some land.
A Chinese fisherman was found
bound hand and foot and tied to a
stake on an uninhabited island near
San Francisco. 1t was probably the
work of h%ighbinders.
The reverses of the British near
Bloemfonteln were worse than first
reported. 1t now appears that seven
guns and all the baggage of Col.
Broadwood's column were captured by
the Beers, while the casualties on the
British side numbered $50, including
200 missing.
The Puerto Rico tariff bill passed the
United States senate by a vote of 40 to
81. Only the amendments advised by
the committee were adopted.
Further details of the British re-
verse near B~loemfonteIn waterworks
tend to show that greater cohesion ex-
lists among the burghers of the Free
States than had been imagined.
Gen. Cronje, Col. Shiel and 1000 Boer
prisoners sailed from Cape Town to
st. Helena.
The b. Wild factory, a local branch
of the American Biscuit company at
Fond du Lac, Wis, has been ordered
closed by the trust.
The president has appointed Smith
Mcpherson, of Iowa, to be United
States district judge for the southern
district of Iowa.
David Payne, deputy United States
marshal. who is charged with the as
~sassination of David and Milas Wood,
near Ducktown, Tenn, several weeks
ago. broke Jail at Benton and made
good his escape.
Admiral Dewey authorizes the New
York World TO o TO the Ameri-
can people that after mature reflection
and in response to the earnest entrea-
ties from all parts of the country his
former decision not under any circ UNI
stances to run for the president Is re-
cinded.
The treasury department has amend
ed the mint regulations relative to APP
pointments and promotions, by provid-
ing that in each of the operating de
partments apprentices may be APP
pointed as the needs of the service
require.
The Queen of England arrived at
Kingston and was accorded a brilliant
reception by great crowds.
The application of the contract labor
law to citizens of Porto Rico is in
volved in an arrest made by the barge
Officials at New York City.