River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The OXford-Cambridge annual boat
race at Putney, England, was won by
Cambridge by six lengths.
In an automobile race at Nice Count
Eliot Zborowsk, of New York, and
Baron de Pallange, his chauffeur, were
killed.
In the presence of brilliant audi
ence President Diaz opened the Mex
lean congress.
The house of commons in Canada has
adopted resolutions in favor of home
rule for Ireland.
Alonzo c. Baker, appointed second
lieutenant in the navy from Illinois,
died at San Juan.
A plan is on foot in the British gov
eminent for the dissolution of parlia-
ment and an appeal through general
election for Irish home rule.
For killing his cousin, Joseph Fede
len, as the outcome of a feud that
started years ago in Germany, Frank
Dudash was hanged at Kittaning, Pa.
At Buda-Pesth three aeronauts fell
from balloon and were fatally in
jured.
Fifty blue jackets from the United
States cruiser Atlanta were landed at
San Domingo to protect the American
consulate there, which was threatened
by the revolutionists.
The king of England arrived at Lis
bon, Portugal, and was greeted by an
enthusiastic throng.
Five men were killed and 60 wounded
in political riot at Monterey, Mexico.
LATER NEWS.
The railroad bridge oyer the Angista
river, near Drama, was blown up by
Bulgarians during the night of April /.
All the telegraph wires in the vicinity
have been cut. Drama is about thirty
miles from Seree, Macedonia.
A six-story tenement in New York
was destroyed by fire. One person was
burned to death and several injured.
Chicago was struck by a heavy snow
storm the Sd, which cut off all tele-
graphic communication.
A locomotive with three cars plunged
over an embankment 40 feet high near
Mortified, Vt. Fireman Timothy
O'Neil was killed. None of the other
train hands or passengers were injured
beyond few slight bruises
A destructive tornado swept over the
vicinity of Washington, Ind, doing
great damage. The storm came from
the southwest, and after crossing
White river, swept through the coun-
try, carrying barns, houses, trees and
general destruction with it. At the
Wathen school district, forty children
were eating dinner. One end of the
building gave way and fell inward.
An earthquake in Flathead county,
Montana, did much damage. AT
point on the Whitefish river, near the
Helena fats, where the disturbance oc-
Cured, more than five acres of bluff
land was carried distance of 500 feet
and dumped into the channel of the
river
Walter n. Demmock was convicted
at San Francisco of stealing $50, 600
from the U. S. mint.
James Farrell was shot and killed in
a hand-to-hand struggle with police
man, who surprised him in the act of
forcing an entrance into a residence in
Chicago.
Eight men were killed and fourteen
others were entombed as a result of a
gas explosion in a mine at Ostend,
Prussia
Men and firms of high standing in
the Chicago board of trade were in
dicted upon the charge of bucket
shopping.
The grand jury at Philadelphia re-
turned twenty-five true bills of indict-
ment against the seventeen men ar
rested at the Peoples theater for dis
turbing the performance of ''McFad-
denis Row of Flats"
Dennis Corcoran, for years worker
on the streets of Dubuque, To-, has
come into possession of ST., 5000, left
him by his brother who recently died
at Syracuse, NY.