River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-05
LATER NEWS.

E, T. Burdick, president of the Buff
falo Envelope company, was found
dead in his room with his skull crushed.
The U. S. senate passed the naval
appropriation and the military acade-
my appropriation bills. The motion
to take up the Littlefeld antitrust
bill was defeated.
The Burbank block at Lowell, Mass.
was destroyed by fire, and Mrs Sarah
F. Kittridge was burned to death.
The town of Port de Paix, Hayti,
was completely destroyed by fire.
While returning from a social near
Lamoille, Iowa a party of four were
were throw into ditch. The horse in
its struggles fell upon Mrs. c. V. How
ard and before she could be rescued she
drowned in ten inches of water.
The sultan of Turkey has ordered the
application of Austro-Russian plan of
reforms in Macedonia to all the six
Roumelian vilayets. The state coun-
Gil is preparing an organic statue for
the application of the reforms.
The press mill of the Latin & Rand
Powder company works at Truck, Kan,
exploded, killing three men and injur-
ing fifteen others, two of them fatally.
The grand jury at Chicago returned
rs indictments against owners of
nickel-in-the-slot machines.
After the close of congress Speaker
Henderson will enter New York law
firm.
d. Poster, cashier of the bank at
Lone Tree, Ia, shot and killed himself
in the bank
Magdalena Spies, wealthy woman
of La Caosse, Wis, was arrested for
stealing an armful of wood.
The senate of Washington passed a
bill making gambling a felony.
The boiler of the Keosauqua, Ia,
flour mill exploded, killing Anton
his son.
The president sent message to con-
gress urging the passage of the house
tariff bill relating to the Philippines
at earliest moment.
Two robbers blew open the safe of
Springs, Mich, and secured between
81, 900 and $1,000. They stole team
from the livery stable and escaped.
Pan Handle mail train No 8 was fired
on by tramps three miles east of Cos
hocton, o. A baggageman, had mar
row escape. Detectives are investi-
eating.
Fire at Halifax, N. s., destroyed
property valued at $500, 900. Three
iremen were seriously injured.
When the passenger train on the
Pan Handle road arrived at Columbus,
Pa, Engineer Smith was found dead
with his hand on the throttle and his
skull crushed. 1t is thought that
while bending out of his cab window
he was struck by some protruding OBJ
lect and killed
A passenger train on the Grand
Creek Mich. One man was killed, one
fatall: injured and several seriously
hvrt.
Six people were drowned while try
ing to cross the Ohio river, near Hiclk
man, KY, the swift current carrying
their boat into some driftwood; and
five people were hurt by a cyclone
which passed over Hickory Level Ga.
Twelve men, arrested, at New York
In connection with the smuggling of to-
bacco on steamships from Holland,
were sentenced to three months each.
Trouble on board the battleship
Maine, which is lying in dry dock for
repairs at Newport News, Va, culmi-
mated in the shooting of one seaman
by guard of the marines. 1t is re-
ported that the wounded man died
shortly afterward.
The fast passenger train, Chattanoo-
go to Salisbury, was wrecked on the
Southern road about 3]a miles west of
Lemon City, Tenn. The wreck was
caused by spreading rails. Three
deaths are reported and twenty-four
injured.
The United States senate passed the
Notifications appropriation bill and
the house immigration bill with amend
ments. The general deficiency bill,
the last of the appropriation measures
to be considered, was reported from
the committee.