River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-10
LATER NEWS.


The ravages of typhoid at Butler, Pa,
continue undated. Twenty-six new
eases are reported.
Henry Billings Brown, associate
justice of the United States supreme
court is threatened with total blind
ness.
| Robert Matteson, a travelling show
man from Minneapolis, was accidental
| ly stabbed by the leading woman dur
ing performance at Gervais, Ore.
George Woods, Calfax Qa.) banker,
suicided by shooting himself in the
head while sitting at his desk in the
bank. He was worth half million.
The saloon of Ayers j. Taylor at Vim
cennes, Ind, was partially wrecked by
his wife, because of domestic troubles.
William Fl. Murphy, Milwaukee
alderman, and Sigmund j. Richter, ex-
alderman, were arrested upon charges
of having solicited and accepted brides.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
that the minister of war of Korea has
been executed at Seoul No details
are given.
Mrs. Dowie, wife Of John Alexander
Dowie, of Zion City, is at present in
France.
Herbert Spencer, the famous Eng
fish writer, is seriously ill.
A revolutionary outbreak is simmi-
nent all over the interior of Russia.
The secret service officers found
three men, who are said to be well
known counterfeiters, in well equip
ped plant in Revere, Mass.
A. M. Chesborough, wealthy lum-
! Der merchant, has bought of Francis
PALMS estate tract of hardwood land,
near Whitefsh Point on Lake Superior,
comprising 13,544 acres. The price
paid is $4O,63
Kalman Foldessy, who was arrested
in New York during President Roose-
yelt's recent visit for writing threaten
| ing letters to the president, was com
mitted to the Manhattan state hospital
| for the insane.
The propeller Embury was burned
in the Niagara river near Tonawanda,
n. Y. The crew escaped.
| Every building in Kol1omo, Ind. j,
was shaken and much glass shattered
| by the explosion of $50 pounds of dyna-
mite. No one was seriously injured.
| Vale college won the annual debate
with Harvard.
In an alleged attempt to smuggle a
party of Cinnamon into Buffalo from
Canada four of them were drowned.
Minnie Root, 10 years old, was shot
at through window at Morristown,
| n. j., and killed.
| The London Nails Tientsin- CORE.
spondent says that thousand Rus
slams expelled the Chinese officials
from the treasury at Mukden and in
stalled themselves in their places.
Numerous homes are destroyed by
forest fires at Santa Monica, Cal.
Speed trials of the Libertad, which,
with her sister ship, the Constitution,
has been sold to Great Britain by the
Chilean government, have resulted in
an average of 20.3 knots per hour,
thus showing that she is the fastest
battleship afoat.
| President John Mitchell and Gov.
Peabody of Colorado had a conference
lasting three quarters of an hour, and
the settlement of the strike is as far
distant as ever. Mr. Mitchell informed
the governor that the strike would
continue to the bitter end, and the
governor just as positively informed
the strike leade-' that he would toler-
ate no violence, but would order out
the troops at the first provocation
Lieutenant Commander Charles Ora
ban, an Italian officer commanding an
armed dhow, landed a party of friend
ly natives at Darbo, Somaliland, Afri-
ca, and ordered the Italian flag hoisted
On the fort.
The wooden steamer Siberia of the
Gilchrist fleet was cut through by the
heavy ice in Lake Erie and later went
to the bottom in Lake st. Clair.
As a result of the extremely bad
weather, with violent wind, which
has prevailed for some days, Venice
was almost entirely under water for 8
few hours.
An attempt was made at high It'd.
to float the cruiser Flora, stranded of
| Victoria, B. c., but the wreckers were
| Unable to move her.
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