River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-19
LATER NEWS.

couraging.
LATER NEWS.
Herbert w. Bowen, Venezuela's rep
resentative in the peace negotiations
at Washington, the 18th signed with
each OF the allies representatives at
Washington a protocol providing for
the immediate raising of the Venezue-
Ian blockade and for the reference of
the question of preferential treGtment
of the claims of the allies against
Venezuela to The Hague arbitration
tribunal.
The anthracite coal strike commits
sion, after being in continuous session
for more than three months, closed
its hearing the 18th.
Three turf investment offices in Chi
cago were raided by the police and a
number of attaches arrested
A horse belonging to James Wilcox,
of Hayton, Wis, was killed by crows
which alighted upon his back, pecking
and scratching until it sank exhausted
to the ground.
A thief, disguised as an electric
meter inspector, entered the ST. Rose
Catholic convent at La Crosse, Wis,
and escaped with a large amount of
valuable property.
The First National bank of Ashbury
Park, n. j., was closed by the con-
troller of the currency.
Henry Conklin, retired farmer near
Niles, Mich, died as result of cat
scratch.
The Elkina bill passed the lower
house of Congress by vote of PAL to 6.
Those voting in the negative were Mes
srs, Cochran and De Almond of MissOu-
ri; Glass, Dem, Va.); Hooker, Dem.
Miss.); Klutz, Dem, N, O.; and Ne
vile, Dem. Neb.
Charles Carpenter, farmer residing
three miles east ofOskaloosa, Iowa was
robbed of $3.75O that was secreted in
the celler of his house. The money was
buried in an iron kettle eighteen inches
below the surface.
The steamer Ajax arrived at New
York with the remains of the nine
sailors who were killed by explosion
of the battleshlp Massachusetts.
Arthur B. Turner, a travelling man
from Chicago was found dead on the
grave of his wife at Grinnell, Iowa.
A hurricane visited Budapet, Austria
doing enormous damage. Sixty per-
sons were injured.
A package of letters containing up
wards of $50, 900 in commercial paper
was lost by the postal authorities be-
tween Chicago and indianapolis.
An Austrian steamer bound for New
York put in at Algiers and landed IS
Sicilian stowaways who had struggled
themselves aboard at Palmero. Mad
dened by thirst they appeared on
deck, armed, and threatened the Off
GERS, but were subdued by the crew.
The stowaways were turned over to
the Italian consul.
The jury in the case of DR.. Alexan-
dianapolis, Ind, failed to reach an
agreement after being out 4S hours.
The blockade at La Guayra has been
officially raised. The commander of
the British cruiser Tribune, the only
warship there, sent an officer ashore
the 10th with the announcement that
the Tribune would leave in the after
noon for Trinidad. The populace is
wild with JOY.
The police at Anaconda, Mont, have
arrested Napoleon Savoy, who has
been identified by Express Messenger
Otis as the man who last October, held
up the Northern Pacific limited at
Bear Mouth and shot and killed En-
gineer O'Neill, who made fight
against the robber.
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, COM
handing the United States army, his
wife and party, arrived in New York
on the steamship Lucania. The gen
eral, who has been abroad five months,
has, in that time, been around the
world.
Minister Bowen expects to begin inn
mediately the preparation of the pro-
tocols with the representatives of the
unallied powers for the settlement of
the claims of the citizens of those ma
tions who have suffered as result Of
the trouble in Venezuela. / There are
eight of these claimant nations, includ-
ing the United States.
Dynamiters attempted to destroy the
toll line cables of the Commercial Tele-
phone company in Warsaw, Ind.