River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-02-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Feb. "a.

employees.
The Twenty-n1ntn regiment left Fort
Sheridan, H., for the Philippines.
Lord Rosebery's desertion of the liberal
party has stirred politicians in England.
Daniel Kennedy and wife, of Cochrans-
vile o., were drowned in the Ohio river.
Albert Bierstadt, the noted landscape
artist died of heart disease in New York.
Washfngtons birthday ceremonies were
held in many places throughout the coun-
try.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. arrived in Wash
ington from Groton, Mass, much i'm
proved.
Swimmer H. f. Brewer broke all records
for 500 to 1000 yards at the Sportsmen's
show in Chicago.
Justice Horace Gray, of the United States
supreme court, is suffering from a slight
attack of paralysis.
James E. Watson, of Rushville, Ind, has
been renominated for congress by Sixth
district republicans
Severe sleetstorms in the east have
caused loss of life and suspension of bust
ness in many places.
Kansas populists, after a lively session
at Topeka, decided against utilization with
democrats this year.
Two hundred additional teachers sailed
from New York for the Philippines on the
transport Mcclellan.
British naval estimates for the present
year provide for an expenditure of $75,00O,-
600 for new warships
Joseph Jefferson celebrated the seventy
third anniversary of his birth at Palm
Beach, Fla, Thursday.
Kroonland, the largest vessel thus far
built in the United States, has been
launched at Philadelphia.
Fire at Lafayette, Ind, destroyed several
stores and damaged the Journal office, the
aggregate loss being $25O,0O0.
Richard Gillian, of Mount Vernon, Ill,
was waylaid by three boys and killed while
on his way home from church.
H. J. Avery established worlds record
at three-cushion billiard tourney in Chi
cago by making so in 81 innings.
Rev. Calvin Holman, one of the pioneer
preachers of Methodism, died at his home
in Topeka, Kan, aged IS years.
Tidal waves on the Salvadorian coast
caused a loss of more than so lives and the
partial destruction of seven villages
Billy Emerson, the once famous min
strel, known all over the world, died in
poverty in an obscure Boston hotel.
Lieutenant Commander Won Reistorff,
who came over in Prince Henry's suite,
will explore the Amazon river country.
The government has secured option
on 1000 acres of land in McHenry and Lake
counties in Illinois for an artillery range.
by the Illinois auxiliary of the Mckinley
Memorial association to date is $50, $500
H. r. Brewer of San Francisco, won the
G00-yard swimming championship at the
Coliseum in Chicago, breaking the record.
Dr. Harper and Prof. Jameson of Chi
cago were awarded degrees Of LII. D. at
the Johns Hopkins university quarter CEN
tennial
The National Civic Federation committee
in q nj a
tribunal to prevent threatened strikes and
lockouts.
Lord Rosebery and Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman are hopelessly divided on the
status of Ireland, the former fatty oppos-
ing home rule.
Erskine C. Murphy, Of 472S Langley ave-
nue. Chicago died of excitement after
finding that a burglary had been commit
ted in his home.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg, of Fond du Lac,
Wis, sole surviving commander of the old
Iron Brigade, celebrated his seventyffth
birthday Thursday.
Attorney General Knox, by direction of
President Roosevelt, is preparing bill in
equity to test the legality of the Northern
Pacific railway merger
Congress has passed a bill crediting the
account of Postmaster Coyne, of Chicago,
with $74,610, the amount taken by thieves
who cut into the stamp vault.
Minister WI violently denounced James
.. Phelan, former mayor Of San Francisco,
in New York hotel for the latter's oppo-
sdtion to Chinese immigration.
The annual report Of the Chicago fire in
surance patrol for 1901 shows the total loss
on buildings was 81, 456,3S4, and on contents
$2,937,313, making a total of 81, 1913, 657.
Weekly trade reviews show no abate-
ment of consumptive demands, although
business has suffered a temporary check
along the Atlantic coast because of storms.
Isaac Henderson, of West Lafayette,
O., student at Drews theological SEM
mary, committed suicide at New Bruins
wick, N. j., because of remorse for wick
eGness.
The fight between Dave Sullivan and
Terry McGovern at Louisville was award
ed to McGovern after Is rounds on a Pc
culiar decision by Bob F'itzsimmons, the
referee.
Ambassador White, in an address to
Americans in Berlin, denied that there is
any hatred for Germans in the United
States, and insisted that the attitude of the
emperor during the war with Spain was
proper at all times