River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-11-19
LATER NEWS.


eight-hour day by the operators, all OF
the striking miners in the northern
coal fields of Colorado will return to
work.
Frank Lester, superintendent of the
Home Telephone company at Urbana,
ILL.,, was electrocuted while working at
the top of a pole His wife witnessed
the accident and was Frustrated.
According to an official statement
the Bulgarians killed during the dis
turbances in European Turkey, from
April Is to the present time total OF
49, 0O
John Otto was arrested in the gov
ernor's office at Denver, Colo, by off,
GERS who had been waiting several
hours for his appearance. He is charged
with writeing threatening letters to
Governor Peabody.
Nearly 200 burglaries were reported
in Chicago in one day, caused by the
employment of the police force in pro-
tecting the street cars
A hurricane off the coast OF Africa
wrecked seven vessels.
During the past year 6, 900 duels were
fought in Germany.
The village of New Richmond, Mich,
was wiped out by forest fires.
It is announced that the U. S. Steel
Corporation has been secured by John
D. Rockefeller, George Gould, j. }.
Hill and others.
A building lockout at Pittsburg, Pa,
throws 5000 men out of employment.
A rear-end collision at Kentwood,
La, on the Illinois Central, resulted
in killing 20 negroes. Three white
men were injured.
The street cars in Chicago are run
under police protection.
Germany recognizes the republic of
Panama.
Roy Booth was badly injured in a
football game at Salt Lake City.
Tewfik Pasha, the foreign minister,
called on the Austrian and Russian
ambassadors and notified them that
the porte's reply to the latest note of
the two powers on the subject of the
reforms in Macedonia would speedily
be presented and that it would be salts
factory.
After wild ride over country road,
Sheriff Algie Bourne of Stevens Point,
Wis, overlook and stopped a hack in
which, it is said, 19-year-old Bessie
Eggleston. drugged and unconscious,
was being carried away by travelling
men.
President Roosevelt would have
urged, had not the revolution occurred
in Panama, that the United States pro-
coed to construct the canal without the
formality of a treaty.
National w. G. T. u. opens it's thir-
tieth annual convention at Cincinnati.
Large force of Colombian troops is
reported to be marching on Panama.
United States asks Korea to make
Weju an open port.
Andrew H. Green, the originator of
Greater New York, was shot and killed
by C. M. Williams, acolored.
Mrs Edward d. Walsh left her guests
at banquet table in Mount Clair, N.
j., and going into another room, shot
herself to death.
The republican national committee
will meet in Washington Dec. IL.
George Harvey, crank, tried to see
President Roosevelt and was promptly
Iarrested.
The Native Sons of Minnesota, those
who were born in the state 35 years
Iago, have organized and incorporated,
with headquarters in Minneapolis
The second annual banquet will be
held at the Holmes hotel, in Mime
Iapolis, Nov. Is. The membership fee
lis So, and all eligible are invited to at
tend Address Frank L. Gowen, Min
lneapolis.
w. G. Hunter is elected to congress
from Kentucky by Is votes.
Two railway ticket forgers were ar
lrested in Chicago.
Henry Fleming shot and mortally
wounded his brother, Bowden, and
than committed suicide at Mandlow,
Mont. The shooting followed quar-
rel between the two brothers.
The Cuban reciprocity bill is ex-
pected to pass both houses of congress
without delay.
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