River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08
LATER NEWS.

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Major Gen. Corbin, adiutant general
of the array, is to be assigned to the
command of the department of the
east with headquarters at Governors
Island, New York.
| In the extradition case of Leopold J.
Stern of Baltimore, wanted in Wash
| ington in connection with the postal
frauds, Justice Winchester of Toronto,
Ont, directed that Stern be turned
over to the United States authorities
| for trial.
In anticipation of the approaching
visit of the king of Italy to Paris, the
French police have instituted strict
surveillance over anarchists. Several
detectives have been sent to Marseilles.
Two suspected anarchists were arrest
at Nice.
| A disastrous head-end collision oc-
| Cured on the Southern Pacific rail-
road at Beoware, New. Allen Harper,
a passenger, was killed and a number
injured.
Officers claim the sugar trust has
robbed the city of Brooklyn of 81, 000,-
900 worth of water during the past six
years.
Elliott W. Shanklin, secretary OF
the Kentucky horse breeders associa-
ton dropped dead in his Office at Lex
ington.
Officers had battle with five sus-
pected robbers at South Haven, Mimi,
in which one of the gang was killed
and the others wounded.
| David Callahan was shot and killed
by Charles w. Simpson in house-boat
feud on the banks of the Mississippi
river at New Orleans. The trouble
arose in quarrel over a spool of
thread between the wives of the men.
Wearing coat of mail and using
self cooking revolver, Wun Lung
killed Chinaman at Boston, Mass,
and two others.
According to advices the backbone of
of the revolution in Macedonia is brolz-
en-, the Turkish troops are gaining the
upper hand everywhere, several insur-
gent chiefs have been killed or wound
ed, others are abandoning the strug-
gle and fleeing to the frontier, the re-
evolutionary bands are sustaining hea-
w losses and are seeking refuge in
large numbers. and the Turks occupy
every important point along the routes
of retreat to the frontier.
After lockout of over seven months
the employees of the plant of the
American Corn Products company of
Chicago, known as the Chic ago Glu-
cose factory, will go back to work un-
der union conditions
General Orlando Smith, formerly
vice president of the Baltimore & Ohio
road, died at Chicago.
A consolidation of the Gould rail
roads is being planned.
Ruth Bryan, daughter of VIM. J.
Bryan, and w. H. Leavett, of New
port, r. T., were married at Lincoln,
Neb.
A cloudburst at Baraboo, Wis, did
great damage. Nearly five inches of
water fell in three hours.
Frank Buchanan, of Chicago, was
elected president of the International
Association of Iron Workers.
In tornado that struck the villages
of Blaine and Almond, Wis, five per-
sons were killed.
Chief Justice J. Brewster McCullom,
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
died at Montrose, Pa.
The passenger steamer Hackley
foundered in Green Bay, Lake Michi-
gan, and twelve persons were drowned.
While attempting to hold devotional
service on the street of Harper's Ferry,
Iowa, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Wilson, travel
ing evangelists, were interrupted by
mob of Infatuated citizens and driven
out of town.
In defense of her own life, Mrs.
Catherine C. Snowden of Chicago, shot
and killed her former husband, Hen
ry f. Smith, from whom she had been
divorced for two weeks.
One of the immense cookers, in the
Corning distiliing company's plant at
Peoria, ILL.,, exploded, killing several
of the employees, manning many more
and wrecking the main building.
Two persons were killed, three fatal
" injured and score of others were
hurt in tornado which swept Indi-
pendence, Wis, and the surrounding
| country