River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-13
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
A panic occurred at funeral at La
Crosse, Wis.,, by the floor sinking sew
eral feet from the weight of the peo-
pie assembled. Several were injured.
George johnson, a negro waiter at
Fort Hamilton, n. v, dislocated his
jaw trying to put two golf balls in his
mouth at the same time.
Large numbers of sheep were killed
Fin Colorado by hail. Chunks of ice
measuring ten inches in diameter fell.
Five war vessels being built for the
Mexican government at Elizabethport,
N. j., were seized by the sheriff for
non-payment of material.
Rudolph M. Hunter will esta blish a
plant at Philadelphia for the purpose
Of converting silver into gold.
The Mexican government has pur-
chased a controlling interest in the
National railroad-one of the two lines
from the City of Mexico to the Unified
States frontie.
An air brake on the second section of
Wallace brothers circus train refused
Ito work in the Grand Trunk railway
yards at Durand, Mich, causing col
lision between the two sections in
which twenty-one people were killed
and over a dozen injured.
During quarrel between Gottlieb
Schultz and members of his family in
the town of Self, Wis, Schultz shot
and killed his daughter, Mrs Patrick
Legion.
/ Won Sternburg, the German embas-
sador, presents credentials at Saga
more Hill.
/ Turkish troops, supported by artil-
lery, defeat seventeen hundred Bull
garians.
The empress of China summons the
Iprinces to consider the reform crusade.
/ Sir Thomas Upton is complimented
ct a banquet as doing a great politi-
Zeal work.
i Serious trouble is threatened be-
tween whites and blacks at Henrietta,
N. C.
Rear Admiral Remy, the ranking Of
ficer of the United States navy, retires
August 10.
Gen. Nelson A. Niles retired from
the United States army and is succeed
ed by General Young.
Willard S. Allen, of Boston, treas
urer of the Preachers Aid Society of
New England, is self-confessed en-
bezzler of the funds of the society.
|. The unexpected announcement is
made that a consistory will be held
the day following the cornation of the
lpope.
At Eldorado, Ark, Marshall Tucker
shot and killed John c. Parnel.
Two men Fperished in the mine at
Chisholm, Mimi, owing to a cave-in.
Both were Finlanders.
The textile strike at Philadelphia,
which began ten weeks ago, is over.
The workers returned to work.
The insurrectionary movement in
Macedonia appears to be increasing.
Six people died from the heat in
Paris the 9Th.
A walk at the Philadelphia National
baseball park collapsed, killing four
people and injuring 162 Others
/ A lovers quarrel over Florence
Mackay, an Indian girl, at the Cree
camp near Havre, Mont, resulted in
the death of Cree Tom and the injury
Fof two other members of the camp.
+ Amos Jones, a negro, was hanged by
mob at Hattiesburg, Miss, for NOR
tally wounding Jailor Sexton.
/ The wedding of Prince Andreas of
Greece and Princess Alice of Datten-
berg will occur Oct. II.
| A tornado passed through the thick
| ly populated mining district north and
east of Pittsburg, Pa, killing two per-
sons, injuring sixty persons and de-
stroying hundreds of houses, mine tip
Piles and buildings of every description.
Tit storm converted into ruin a strip
of thiclxly populated territory eight
miles long and two miles wide
/ A mob of men and boys dynamited
and set fire to house in Orchard Park,
Okla, which was being built for ne
gro woman. The whites in Orchard
Park have warned the negroes to leave,
but they have refused and have armed
themselves
NJ. Rostkovski, the Russian consul,
at Monastir, Turkey, has been shot
and killed by Turk whom the consul
reproved for failure to salute him.
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