River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-24
LATER NEWS.

LATER Me- Sc
Russell Sherim, highly connected,
was called to the door of his mothers
home and was shot to death by Calvin
and Thomas White, prominent business
men of Concord, N. c.
Land Commissioner Richards stated
that it will be several months yet be-
fore the 1885, acres of land in the
Chippewa reservation in Minnesota
would be opened for settlement.
After fatally wounding Chief of Po-
lice Fred Heuke and Police Captain
Brennecke and seriously injuring Coun-
Gilman Frank Lutz, Detective Thomas
! Hutchens of Evansville, Ind, turned
his revolver on himself and committed
suicide. The shooting was the result
of an old feud.
Fire destroyed all but the walls OF
| the extensive slaughter house of Abra-
ham Levy & Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The loss is 100000.
Three hundred Bulgarians have been
killed in fight between insurgents
and Turkish troops between Okrida
and Dibra. The Bulgarian dead in
cluded many officers, one of whom
wore Russian decoration.
A dispatch from Belgrade states that
the report of the assination of King
| Peter of Servia is without foundation
The dead body of Carl Mccoy, an
epileptic patient at the county farm,
| at Bloomington, ILL.,, was found out
| stretched on a cross of rude construc-
ton.
| C. O. Slater was found dead at Clean,
N. Y. The body was in a sitting pos
ture and the coroner is of the opinion
that Slater was choked to death by a
high collar which he was wearing.
The yacht Red Dragon was wrecked
in the storm near Atlantic City, N. j.
The bodies of Capt Dewitt Clark and
sailor were washed ashore. Three
other sailors are missing.
i Harvey Logan, commonly known as
Kid Curry, the noted train robber who
recently effected sensational escape
from the Knoxville, Tenn, Jail while
awaiting transportation to federal
prison to serve twenty-year sentence,
has been located near Chinook, Mont.
Nine passengers were injured n a
railway collision at Charlottesville, Ill.
While President Palma was deliver
ling an address at Santiago, Cuba, a
rifle in the hands of one of the guards
was accidentally discharged, causing a
panic. Order was soon restored.
1t is said that John d. Rockefeller
has decided to erect no fewer than fif.
teen large Office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district OF
Cleveland, O., at cost aggregating
more than $40, 0OO,0 600.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to hold up Northern Pacific train
near Napavine, Wash. The brakemen
and robbers exchanged several shots.
During street carnival performance
at East st. Louis, ILL.,, an angry lion
Isprang upon it's keeper and tore his
fright hand off.
| The steamer Daniel Weston burned
ISt. Johns river, New Brunswick, caus-
ling total loss A waitress, deck hand
and boy were drowned.
I w. p. Gamble, the United States de-
Iputy marshall, who confessed compli.
Icity in a plot to substitute old Chinese
for young Chinese, who had been or
ldered deported, committed suicide in
lBuena Vista Park, San Francisco, by
lsending two bullets into his brain.
Negroes overpowered the sheriff al
lLuxora, Ark, took ont negro named
HELEN, and hanged him TO q water
tank. HELEN was charged with at
lacking two negro girls aged 5 and II
Years.
| A mob of probably 1000 men and
hoy sympathizers of the striking tex
workers, attacked the dye works OF
William X. Edward in the northern
section of Philadelphia. The crowd
was finally dispersed.
Nathan Swift, son of the Chicago
lmeat packer, was killed by being
Istruck on the head by a polo ball while
lplaying the game.
Minister Beaupre has abandoned
hope of the ratification of the Panama
lcanal treaty. He cables the state de.
apartment under date of Bogota, Sept.
lis. that the situation is unchanged.
discussion seems hopeless and the con-
lgress will probably adjourn Oct. 20.
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