River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-16
LATER NEWS.

Lieutenant Maurice Moore, of the
Twenty-second street police station,
Chicago, and four Italians were wound
ed by revolver shots in a riot.
Governor Murphy of New Jersey has
vetoed the anti-cigaret bill. He said
he believed that cigarettes did not hurt
boys under 16 years of age, and that
the law could not be enforced.
VIM. Tanl1e was convicted of murder
in the second degree at st. James,
Mimi. He was given life sentence.
The union carpenters at Vancouver,
b. c., threaten to strike for an eight
hour day at the same wages they are
now receiving
Captain Pershing's force captured
Bacolod, Island of Mindanao, killing a
hundred Moros and wounding many
others. Only three Americans were
wounded
The worl1ingmen's strike at Amster-
dam, Holland, has been declared off.
The strike was never really effective.
Fifty head of cattle were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the
on his farm near Fairmont, Mimi.
Ethel Webster, 1O-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. Webster, was IA
tally burned while near bonfire, at
| West Superior. Wis.
The bank of Nicollet, Mimi, was en-
tered by burglars, who were fright
ened away before securing any money.
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Five men at work on the mines and
metallurgy building at the worlds
fair site, st. Louis, were injured, three
of them probably fatally, by the fall
ing of derrick with several tons of
building material.
Yung Lu, the controller of finances
and first grand secretary of China is
dead. He had been suffering for some
time from dropsy and was known to
be critically i'll.
A plot to kill King alexander Of
Servia has been discovered.
In fight in saloon at Jackson
vile, Ohio, over game of cards four
people were fatally and one quite seri-
ously shot.
An explosion has occurred at the
Canton, China arsenal powder factory.
Fifteen hundred persons are reported
to have been killed.
Evelin O'Donnell, aged years, was
playing around bonfire at Dubuque,
Ia, and was burned to death.
Rev. Milburn, the blind chaplain of
the u. S. senate, is dead.
Brigham Young. president of the
council of the twelve apostles of the
Mormon church died at Salt Lake City.
The courts hold that the Association
of Master Plumbers of st. Louis is an
illegal combination.
The cost of repairing and overhaul
inglthe Iowa, including damage caused
by the recent explosion, is estimated
by the navy department to be $500, 900.
A tornado swept over the country
west of Fort Dodge, To-, wrecking
number of houses.
The big dam of the Boney reservoir
near Olathe, Col, gave way causing
damage of $4,000.
A sharp shock of earthquake was
| felt at Mexico City.
The supreme court of Kansas decid-
ed that the Topeka board of educa-
ton can maintain separate schools for
white and negro children and can
compel the negro children to attend
the negro school.
The American cup defender Reliance
was launched at Bristol, r. l.
Mrs. Aline Matthews, aged As years,
wife of well-known civil engineer,
was murdered in her bed, at Shreve-
port, La, by a negro, who, it is be-
lieved, outraged his victim before slay-
ing her. The woman's 1O-year-old
daughter was fatally wounded. An
AK was used in both cases.
VIII Alexander, 80 years of age, shot
and seriously wounded Miss Irba
Young, handsome young milliner, on
the street of Little Rock, Ark, and
| then shot and killed himself. Miss
Young will recover.
| A fight between two white men and
negro at indianapolis, Ind, precipi-
tated a race riot, and the negro, Cliff
ford Bell, about 20 years old, narrowly
escaped violence at the hands of mob
of 100 men.