River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-01-25
LATER NEWS.

A British cruiser captured the French
steamer Gironde. The Gironde refused
to surrender until a shot was fred
across her bow. The vessel was taken
to Durham.
Thirty thousand more miners in the
mines of Austria have struck, their
employers having refused their de-
maud for higher wages and an eight
hour day.
As the result of hazing at Thiel coll
lege, Greenyille, Pa, two freshmen,
Forest Davis and Walter Zimmerman,
were seriously injured.
The continued warm weather for the
past week has resulted disastrously to
the growers of fruit announce that the
crop will be an entire failure.
Four eonvicts in the ~penitentiary at
Pueblo, Colo, stabbed to death VIM.
Whitney. captain of the night watch,
captured and bound two other guards,
and made their escape.
Captain Julius Friedman, a million
aire, was found dead in his bed at the
Palace hotel, San Francisco. Death
was caused by heart disease.
The rod mill workers at the plant of
the American Steel and Wire company,
Rankin, Pa, went on a strike, closing
that department of the big works and
throwing idle about 1000 men.
Mrs. Dunbar, a nurse at the Presby-
terian hospital, at Omaha, Neb.,
yawned in such a way as to snap or
break a cord on the right side Of her
neck.
Two companies of the 46th infantry,
under Maj. Johnson, and three com
panies of the 3sth infantry, command
ed by Maj. Muir, defeated 500 insur-
gents at Taal, province of Batangas,
taking the town. The United States
gunboat Marietta also shelled the
place. The insurgents had four can
non, two of which were captured.
Two Americans were wounded and 10
dead insurgents were found on the
field.
Two miners, named Kraft and Sweet
dropped nearly 1000 feet to death in
the Atlantic mine at Houghton. Mich.
Alfred Watts, the inventor of crys-
tai gold, which is used in dentistry,
died at his home in Brooklyn.
The supreme court of Iowa sustains
the inheritance law.
Official reports just completed give
details of terrible foundations which
destroyed property valued at over s.
600, 600 yen in Hokkaldo province,
northern Japan, in December. Thirty
FIVE towns in the district of lshikari
were devastated.
The Americans have occupied Santa
Cruz, on Laguna de Bay, Laguna pro-
vince. 1t was reported that many in
surgents were concentrated there, but
the town was found deserted.
The Beers have checked the advance
made by Gen. Warren, but he still
holds the position gained by fighting.
The Boer position is on higher ground
than Warren's and it is impossible to
see into it properly.
The official census of Porto Rico has
been finished. There are 957, 900 in
h~abitants on the island.
Henry Hazen, one of the chief fore
casters of the weather bureau, died in
Washington as the result of a bicycle
collision.
Watterson Stealey. a newspaper man
and a son of o.. O. Stealey of the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal, has been APP
pointed by Commissioner Peck to an
important position in the press bureau
of the Paris exposition.
Two hundred blacksmith helpers of
the Brooks Locomotive works at Dun
kirk Y V have struck.
The Glasgow steamer Ardandhu was
sunk in collision with the teamer
Herman Winter off the Massachusetts
coast. James Henderson, chief engi-
neer of the Ardandhu, and Fred Davee,
second mate, were lost.
War department officials in Cuba
have run to earth the head of a gang
of counterfeiters which had planned TO
flood Cuba and Puerto Rico with IS, $40
and $50 bills.
Guy bennett, aged 81 years. a nep-
hew of President Dole of Hawaii, at
tempted suicide at Denver by cutting
his throat with a knife in a rooming
house.
Archbishop Chapelle, papal delegate
to the Philippines, gave a reception at
Manila to the Catholic clergy and lay
men for the purpose of combating the
ornoeipr factions