River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-13

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Feb. 10.

The explosion of a boiler on a towboat
| in Pittsburg killed six persons
| Thomas Sidney Cooper, noted land
| scape painter died near London.
Gold assaying SIS ton has been dis
covered on farm near Depeyster, n. Y.
Archduke Leopold of Austria and the
archduchess made balloon trip of zoo
miles.
President Roosevelt went to Groton.
Mass. to see his son, who is i'll with pneu-
monia.
The cabinet council of Spain has author
| lied a treaty of friendship with the United
States.
Tom Brown (colored was lynched by
| mob at Nicholasville, KY, for assaulting
white girl.
j. Pierpont Morgans special train ran
from Philadelphia TO New York. 80 miles,
| in 81 minutes.
Frank Fennell killed Annie Johnson and
himself at Great Falls, Mont, after
| lovers quarrel.
Armstrong Hens1ey was hanged at Err
win, Tenn, for the murder of his six-year-
| old stepdaughter.
Kaiser Wilhelm is taking steps to OPP
| pose the establishment of Christian Sci
ence in Germany.
| Orpehon music hall in Chicago was de-
| stroyed by fire, and eight persons were in
| jured, one seriously.
| Frank Knapp, merchant and postmaster
at Bertram, Iowa, was run over and killed
| by a Northwestern train.
Gen. De Vets last gun and his chief
| lieutenant commandment Vessels, nave
| been captured by the British.
| The Manila chamber of commerce has
sent address to congress urging sale OF
government lands to settlers.
| Fire in Brooklyn destroyed the Shadbolt
wagon factory and other property worth
| $500, 900 and injured IA persons.
| The Chicago health department is or
| ganizing cooperative crusade to crush
| out smallpox in the middle west.
| Emperor William has issued an order
barring from court all professors in spir-
| itualism faith cure and kindred cults.
President Roosevelt has consented to his
| daughters going to King Edwards coro-
nation as the guest of Whitelaw Reid.
| Gov. Van SAINT in message to the Min
nesota legislature gave the details of the
| states fight against the railroad merger.
New York tax commissioners will test
| the right of millionaires to avoid taxes by
| taking up legal residence in Rhode Island.
Three barges loaded with coal were lost
| on their way from Newport News to Bos-
| ton and crews of 13 persons were drowned.
The steamship Philadelphia, on its last
| trip west, exchanged wireless telegraph
| messages with England until $50 miles from
| land.
| Capt Grossman, an army officer walked
| 20 miles on the Danube river with his
| newly invented shoes, towing small
| boat.
| The industrial commission, in its report on
| combines, urges laws giving more public
| ity to their affairs and to prevent over
| capitalization.
| The state railroad commission declared
| the Park avenue tunnel disaster IN New
| York city due to negligence Of New YORK
| Central officials.
| The Presbyterian committee on creed re-
| vision issued statement asserting that
| the church does not teach that those dying
| in infancy are lost.
| Euless Whitaker (colored), charged
| with the murder of John Dorster was
| taken from jail at Lynchburg, Tenn, and
! hanged by mob.
/ A merger of the Northwestern, st. Paul
| and Rock Island roads is said to be con-
| templated by the Vanderbilt, moore anu
| Rockefeller interests.
Every law enacted by the last Wyoming
legislature is invalid, for the reason that
! the bills were not read and recorded prop
| erly in the lower house.
| Gov. Taft continued his argument before
| the senate committee on the Philippines,
| and insisted that tariff reduction of at least
| SO per cent. is imperative.
| The date of the national conference of
| for Milwaukee, mas been changed to De-
| troit May 2S to June inclusive.
| President Roosevelt has Endorsed the
report of the board recommending honors
| for the heroes of the Cuban campaign with
| one exception and that is himself.
A Cincinnati judge has ruled that strik-
| ers must not employ persuasion or any
| other means to interfere with nonunlon
men desiring work in a carriage factory.
| By the death of Anna Kushner, aged six
| years. the fifth victim of the recent fire
| at Waterloo, Ia, is dead. Of the entire
| family only an 18-months-old baby sur
| wives.
| The house committee is building finan-
| cial bill said to be calculated to fortlfy
| the country against reverses that upset
| business and demoraliZe values 1t is
| thought congress will put the measure
through at this session.
| The Hindoo twins, Radica and Dordlna,
| who were united in manner similar to the
| Siamese twins, who were exhibited
throughout the world, were separated at
| Paris Sunday afternoon by DR.. Doyon. The
| operation lasted 20 minutes, and was en-
| tirely successful.