River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-03-29
NEWS.

Senator Davis of Minnesota has in
tute for the Puerto Rican bill which
provides for free trade between the
United States and Puerto Rico, and ex-
tends the internal revenue laws with
amendments over the island. The act
is declared provisional and shall not
continue longer than March 1, 1902.
Lord Robe rts is delaying action in
the Free State to make sure of his base
of supplies. General Methuen appears
to be awaiting transportation, and
with Colonel Plumer's forces on half
r%ations, there now seems little likeli-
hood of the immediate relief of MAIZE
king.
Five well dressed men entered Pea
ley's restaurant in New York, and
while one of them engaged the cashier
in conversation one of his companions
went to the safe and got away with
So, 100.
The Me- chants' National bank of
Rutland, Vt, has closed its doors.
Chas. T. Mussey, cashier, admits a
shortage of $145, 900.
The fireworks factory of Hand & Co.,
at Hamilton, Ont, was wrecked by an
explosion and Walter Teale blown to
atoms.
Hon. ]. NJ. Stone, for 10 years gov
ernor of Missississippi, is dead.
Nine stores and dwellings at Kings
ton, Wis, were burned.
A British missionary was killed at
Taku, China, and a British warship
has been ordered to hat point.
John Ivankovich was stabbed and
killed at Great Falls, Mont, while the
festivities of his wedding were in pro-
gress.
The body of a good looking, fully
dressed woman was found frozen on a
cake of ice floating down the Mississip-
pi river at Fort Madison, 10. There
was nothing about the corpse by which
it could be identified.
BY direction of the president the
military post at Cayay, Porto Rico.
hereafter will be known and designat-
ed as Henry Barracks, in honor of the
late Brighten. Guy V. Henry, who
was military governor of Porto Rico
from Dec. 6, 1898, to May 8, 1899, and
who died on Oct. "a, 1899.
More than a hundred striking ma
chinists formerly employed by the
Siemens and Halske Co., Chicago re-
turned to work for that corporation,
their demands for a nine hour work
ing day and a minimum scale of wages
having been granted.
1t is said hat the Beers are massing
in their e~ntrenched positions at Big
garsberg, and it is added that their
transport ira MS are packed at New
castle in readiness to facilitate their
retreat in case necessity requires such
a step.
The negotiations looking to a par
cells post convention between this
country and Nicaragua, which have
been in progress for several month,
have been completed and the treaty
will be signed by the postmaster gen
eral.
The war department has recognized
Honolulu as an open port.
More than 1000 distinguished guests
will be invited to attend the Dewey
Celebration in Chicago in May.
The fast mail on the Atlantic & West
Point railway was wrecked near Ope-
hka, Ala, killing Express Messenger
Aslin and badly injuring Baggage
master Blunt.
At Barnville, Mo-, Ellsworth Evans
shot and instantly killed Assistant
City Marshal Hennecke. When shot
Hennecke was attempting to arrest
Evans after he had robbed a cigar
store.
A shipment of 81, 1913, OsO was made
from the New York s-ub-treasury for
payment of soldiers in the Philippines.
The cotton spinners of Japan have
organized a cotton yarn trust to con-
troll the Asiatic markets.
Will Edwards, colored, who muir
dered Edward T.. Johnson nea Green
vile, Miss, was taken by a mob and
hanged from a railway bridge.
One nan was killed and two proba-
bly, fatally injured by the premature
explosion of a blast of dynamite in a
stone quarry near Waterloo, \. j..
The supreme court of Michigan de-
cides that complete dominion over Ro-
man Catholic church property is vested
in the bishop.