River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
Secretary of War Root has sailed for
England. He will act with Senator
Lodge and ex-senator Topper as rep
resentative on the Alaskan boundary
dispute.
Samuel J. Parks. the labor leader of
New York, was found guilty of de-
handing money of employers under
threat to call a strike.
A horse driven by farmer at Spring
Valley, Wis, dropped dead in the
street, scared to death by the cars, AS
the train came up behind it, the horse
jumped and struggled, falling dead
just as the engine passed.
Fire at Beaumont, Tex, destroyed
twenty-five derriclxs in what is known
as the shoestring district in the Sour
lake oil fields.
The war department is arranging
for the shipment of 10000 pesos in
silver certificates to the Philippine
islands as registered mail.
While the streets were crowded with
shoppers daring thief smashed the
show window of a jewelry store at
Canton, O., grabbed a tray containing
So, 900 worth of diamonds and escaped.
Major Samuel Reber, signal corps,
general staff officer, das been detailed
as secretary of the army war college.
Konrad Won Fielitz, an actor, at Ber
lin, Germany, was sentenced to nine
months imprisonment on a charge of
lese mejeste in ibeling the German
emperor in his jokes at the theatre.
| If Lieutenant Commander ISam
| Takeshira of the imperial Japanese
navy can carry out his plans Japan
will have a yacht in the contest for the
Americas cup.
John Ellsler, the veteran actor, died
in New York.
| Bertha Harmon, IA years old of Phil
adelphia was killed by being struck on
the head by golf ball while watching
the game.
Billy Buck won the $40, 900 purse at
Brighton beach.
| King Peter Of Servia threatens to
abdicate
| Nebraska cattlemen, who have fenced
thousands of acres of government land
for ranch purposes, have abandoned
the fight to maintain the boundaries,
and the land will be thrown into
ranges.
Six fremen were buried under a
falling wall during a fire that de-
stroyed the store of the Luehrman Hay
company at North ST. Louis.
The cooks and walters in the Chicago
restaurants have decided to strike
again. The hotels will not be in
volved.
| Allen M. Newman, of Bristol, Mass,
was killed in a ball game. He was
struck in the head by a foul tip, break
ing his skull.
The body of Attorney Albert w.
Barnum of Chicago was found in Wal
loun lake, Michigan.
An automobile at Cleveland, O., be-
came unmanageable and ran away
down steep hill. Miss Fitzpatrick
was killed and three other persons
were injured.
| 10 Sanders, a negro accused of an
attack on a young girl at Henderson,
Texas, was shot to death by citizens
who went to arrest him. Sanders was
lstanding in his door with shotgun
when the men approached.
| In a SPLENDID twelve to fifteen knot
breeze, over windward and leeward
lcourse of thirty miles, the American
Isloop Reliance beat Shamrock III in
commanding style by exactly nine
minutes actual time, or seven minutes
and three seconds after deducting the
lone minute and 81 seconds which the
defender comedies to Sir Thomas Lip
tons third challenger on account of
Iher larger sailing plan as at present
measured.
| Officers of Russian warship who
Icalled at Burgas, in Bulgaria, north of
Iniada, for provisions, have reported
THAT all the villages along the coast of
Adrianople, from the Bulgarian from
liter to Iniada have been burning for
the last three days.
Christ Kiefer, laundryman at Prai-
RE du Chen, Wis, committed suicide
by hanging.
A DELEGATE legal question has arisen
lin Missouri. A sixteen-year-old girl
had her father arrested for spanking