River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-25
LATER NEW9s

Four hundred thousand persons are
reported to be destitute and starving
as result of the crop failure in Fin
land.
John w. Barriger, Jr., resident en-
gineer of the ST. Louis, Memphis &
Southeastern Railway company at
Claraville, Mo-, was stabbed to death
by Thompson Morton, an unemployed
civil engineer.
United States Judge Edward B.
Thomas handed down decision de-
claring invalid q claim of $1,000 900
against the United States entered by
Lieutenant Commander William Ell. I'll.
Sutherland of the navy. The amount
was asked as prize money, the COM
mander and his crew of the Eagle, a
converted gunboat, having destroyed
the Spanish steamer Santo Domingo
during the Spanish-American war.
Louis Stern, q note broker, with Of
fees at GA Tacoma building, Chicago,
was arrested while, it is asserted, he
was attempting to dispose of alleged
forged commercial paper amounting to
$500.
Confirmation of the Panama canal
treaty with Colombia has again been
moved into the future, and it is now
said that no treaty can be expected be-
fore Christmas, and drobably not until
the beginning of next year.
A movement is on foot to bring the
headquarters of the Greek Catholic
church of America to Cleveland, O.
Ambassador Tower has presented his
credentials to Emperor William at the
palace at Berlin. All the members of
the staff of the embassy were present.
The stage running between Centen-
NAL and Laramie, WyO., is believed to
have been lost in a blizzard.
Representative Stephens of Texas in
PRODUCED bill to open for settlement
sos, 900 acres of land in the Kiowa,
Commanche and Apache Indian reser-
vations in Oklahoma.
Because he failed in his examina-
ton, Everett Harmon, of Malcomb, Ia,
student of the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with razor.
Voltarine Lecrye, an anarchist and a
4eacher of languages at Philadelphia
was shot and mortally wounded by
Herman Helscher former pupil. I'm
requited love prompted the deed.
Admiral Dewey has dispatched the
cruiser Albany to Venezuela.
Four section men were injured and
two locomotives demolished in col
lision near Oskaloosa, La.
Rev. George K. Mcdonald, New
York minister, has started a saloon
and tends bar himself.
Single takers have failed in their eff
fort to induce King Edward to put
their theories in practice in Ireland.
A freight train struck trolly car in
New York, injuring three women, per-
maps fatally.
Near Byron Hot Springs, Gala, a
fast passenger train collided with a
local train, killing Is passengers and
injuring 80 more. The collision was
caused by the engineer disregarding
danger signals shown.
During the week ending the Goth
the Reading company brought down
from the mines 2SS, 750 tons of anthra-
cite coal. The collieries are worked to
their utmost.
The Ohio river is out of its banks in
southern Indiana.
Secretary Wilson believes that the
danger of the spread of the foot and
mouth disease from New England,
where it is epidemic, to other states
has passed.
The allied powers have requested
President Roosevelt to act as arbitrator
in the Venezuelan dispute. The presi-
dent had proposed to the nations that
the question be submitted to The
Hague tribunal for arbitration, and
the powers replied with a counter
proposition that Roosevelt himself ar
bitrate the issues.
A car load of Christmas mail en-
route for the west was burned near
Peekskill, n. Y.
Fire caused heavy loss in the whole
sale district of Knoxville, Tenn.
Cold in death with his head crushed
in by blows from an ak the body of
Judge ]. A. Lewis, a pioneer of Lin
coin county, Washington, was found
in his house five miles from Almia.