River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-02
LATER NEWS.

Disquieting reports have reached
Washington concerning the Panama
canal treaty in the Colombian congress.
1t is learned beyond doubt that the
two last ministers from Colombia to
the United States, DIR. Concha and DIR.
Silva, are now in Bogota laying plans
to defeat the treaty.
The wholesale millinery store of
Lyman Bros, Cedar Rapids, Ia, was
robbed of 81, 900 worth of silks by rob-
bers, who entered through the sky
light.
The fruit growers and shippers of
southern California have formed a CO.
operative combination.
Herr Merger, the German consul at
Caracas, Venezuela, accidentally killed
himself
Two companies of Macabebe scouts
signally defeated the main body of
San Miguels force near Mariquina. 1t
is believed San Miguel was killed.
Lieutenant Reese was seriously wound
ed. The scouts lost forty five men
killed and eleven wounded.
While galloping through the forest,
the empress of Germany was thrown
from her horse and had her left arm
broken.
Andrew Carnegie has added 81, $780,
900 to his library donations at Pitts
burg.
The $50 single mills in western
Washington threaten to close down on
Ioo Of 6n 1a Of ho 1,lyp
Three sailors who deserted from the
sealing schooner Triumph at Bam-
| fields Creek are lost somewhere in the
forests between that point and Victo-
ria, b. c., the deserters having essayed
to walk to Victoria.
A team backed off bridge at. Ha-
warden, To-, killing Mrs. Schaber.
Two hundred Polish girls in the
handkerchief factory of Heller & Long,
Passaic, n. j., struck without giving
any reason.
Will Dorsey, colored was hanged at
at Birmingham, Ala, for highway
robbery.
A passenger train was derailed near
Thompson, ILL.,, and twenty persons
were injured The two rear coaches
and Pullman sleeper were turned
over and caught fire.
Two hundred Irishmen, whose feel
ings had been outraged by the per-
| Torrance of "McFadden's Row of
Flats in New York, rose in their seats
in the theater at a signal and pelted
the performers with rotten eggs.
Major General Macarthur has been
assigned to the Pacific coast command.
L. B. Ring, postmaster and editor at
Neilsville, Wis, was publicly horse
whipped by DR.. j. III. Brooks.
James S. Harlan, attorney general
of Porto Rico, has resigned.
European brokers have raised the
price of diamonds 5 per cent.
| A vein of good anthracite coal was
discovered near Havre, Mont.
The report that San Miguel, the Fill
Pine leader, was killed in the fight
near Mariquina, is confirmed. His
body has been identified and delivered
to his relatives for burial.
! Robbers dynamited the safe in the
postoffice at Lake Mills, Ia, securing
several hundred dollars.
Gustavus f. Swift, president of the
Swift packing company died at his
home in Chicago from hemorrhages re-
sulting from a surgical operation.
Robbers took 81, 500 from the safe Of
Rood & Woodbury., Springfield, Mass.
During March 81, 900 immigrants
| landed at New York
Baron Whitnall, the Belgian minis
ter to England is dead.
| A great strike riot, accompanied by
much bloodshed occurred at the town
of Slatousk, in the government of
Oofa' Russia, in the Ural mountains.
! Twenty-eight persons were killed and
fifty others were wounded.
In preference to fighting the unions
atlLowell, Mass, the agents of seven
big cotton mills ordered a suspension
of work for an indefinite period.
The treaty of reciprocity between
Cuba and the United States, as amend
ed by the senate of the United States,
was approved in the Cuban senate.
Near La Costa, Tex, two passenger
trains collided, injuring 10 persons and
killing three Mexicans Fire destroyed
the wreck.
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