River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-22
GaTER NEWS.

1Om Hail. alias OOuSldSS. d ACSAOs
charged w;Sh shooting Crockett Child
ress, white boy, at Kevil, KY, was
taken from Jail by mob of 100 men
and hanged to tree in the Jail yard.
Caleb A. Simms, president of the
United States Colored Democracy OF
New York, known among politicians
as the tColored Croker" was shot and
killed at the clubhouse of his organl-
cation.
In riot, the result of strike at a
rag factory in New York, several girls
were stabbed, one SO seriously that
she had to be taken to a hospital
AS the result of an attempt by three
officers to arrest negroes at Glassport,
Pa, Constable William Shields of
Glassport was shot through the heart
and instantly killed and Peter Melvin,
one of the negroes, was shot dead by
Peter Kelley.
Gordon Allen, well known mining
operator, was shot and killed by Ben
jamin Aylor of Webb City, at the Ay-
lor mine near Prosperity, Mo. Aylor
is a son of j. w. Aylor, the million
srie mine owner.
Sir Chentung Lian-Chang, the Chi
nese minister to this county, is plann-
ing to bring over the United States 10C
boys from China before the opening of
the next school year to be placed in
American schools.
At Buxton, Ia, @. I'll. Smith shot and
killed Mrs. Cannaday Smith.
Two masked men held up Arthur
Bell at Delton, Wis, and robbed him
of his watch and money.
Two masked. men entered the camp
of r. d. Hunter, on Ophir creek,
Wash, and robbed him of $1,000 in
gold dust.
Baris Sarafoff, the famous Mace
DOMAIN leader, is dead.
The Grady hospital at Atlanta, Ga. {,
vas damaged by fire. Two women
died from excitement.
Fire at Aberdeen, Wash, destroyed
property valued at 81, 100000. Four
men were killed and a number injured
The bank at Lime Grove, Ia, was
robbed of 500.
| Mrs. Alexander Dowie, upon arriv-
ling in New York, was robbed of a
Isl, 500 pearl brooch.
photographers on the Rock Island
road have been given an advance in
wages.
The Southern Pacific ferry steamer
Newark crashed into the ferry steam
er Oakland in the middle of the bay at
San Francisco during dense fog. The
Newark struck the Oakland's aft pad
idle box, tearing hole in her side, but
fortunately did not damage her ma
chinery.
| Heavy snowstorms in northern Swed-
en- have buried the barley which was
cut and spread out to dry. Rigorous
frosts have damaged the potato crop.
The Alaskan boundary commission
reached an agreement whereby all the
American contentious are sustained
with the exception of those in relation
to the Portland canal, which Canada
wins. All that remains to be done is
for the commissioners to affix their
signatures to the decision and COM
plete the map which will accompany
lit.
A stage rnning to Orangeville, Idaho,
went over an embankment fly feet
high, injuring six passengers, two IA
tally.
Burglars robbed the Bank of Nova
Scotia, at st. Andrews, N. B., of sew
eral thousand dollars.
Charles E. Greene, the famous bridge
engineer, died at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Oil was struck within few miles OF
Pueblo, Col.
At Charleston, S. c., Mrs William
Mazyck, bride of two hours, was
Drained with an ak by Alice Mazyck,
la first cousin of her victims husband,
and who lived at his home.
Eight vessels were driven ashore on
Newfoundland by the storms.
Gus Wenzel was shot and killed by
James McValley, who occupied a room
lin Wenzels house at East ST. Louis.
The shooting resulted from quarrel
over the payment of rent.
| Robbers dug through the three-foot
wall of the Hubbard (Neb.) State Bank
and with nitroglycerine destroyed the
safe, escaping with 81, 200.