River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-26
LATER NEWS.

Frank n. Richardson, & banker oil
Wyoming, was found frozen to death
in pasture near Kewaunee, I'll.
General Wheaton is seriously i'll at
San Francisco, threatened with pneu
monia.
Alexander Young, of La Porte, Ind,
an astronomer, declares the sun is in
habited.
Incited by jealousy, John z. Bjor-
kens, of Wallace, Idaho who is totally
blind, mortally wounded Mrs. Hugh
Smith by firing two shots into her
breast and then took his own life by
blowing out his brains.
The Texas quarantine on Mexican
cattle has been declared off.
During the last trip of the steamer
Minneapolis across the Atlantic paper
was published daily with news fur
nished by wireless telegraphy.
The janitors' strike in Chicago has
been declared off. A compromise was
effected.
Two negro burglars were arrested IN
New York with 800 pieces of silver
ware stolenein Philadelphia.
Seven men were arrested in New
York for running a fake lottery.
Senior Arios was elected president of
Guatemala.
George T. Bailey, who was lannon's
as a circus man and was first rival
and then the partner of 2. t. Barnum,
died in New York at the age of 81
years. Death was due to paralysis.
MILFORD Mcdonald, the 2-year-old son
of George A. Mcdonald of West Super
Tor, Wis, set fire to it's crib while play
ing with matches, and was nearly Gre
mated.
James Digdan, well-known rail
road contractor fell from the third
story of a hotel in Spokane, Wash, to
the pavement below and was instantly
killed.
The state normal school at Edinboro,
| Pa, was closed on account of small
pOx.
After holding hundred policemen
at bay for several hours, Lafayette
Siros, a negro was killed at New Or
leans, La. The origin of the trouble
was trivial.
! Nevada people offer a purse of 49,
900 for the fight between Corbett and
Jeffries.
Senator Depew was arrested while
at dinner by the sergeant-at-arms and
taken to the U. S. senate to help
make quorum.
| G. W. Fulton was elected United
States senator by the legislature OF
=Oregon.
Karl Schlosser, the noted traveller
died at Vienna, Austria.
Reports received from along the Wa
bash, in Indiana, show that stream tC
be still rising rapidly. Hundreds OF
people have been driven from their
homes. A great deal of corn has been
destroyed.
The president has signed the Elkins
rebate bill.
Two passenger trains, with 100 per-
sons aboard, were stalled in the snow
in the most uninhabited portions OF
Newfoundland.
Fifteen or twenty persons were
burned to death and twice that number
seriously injured in the fire that de.
stroyed the Clifton MOTEL at Cedar Ra
pids, Iowo There were 12O guests in
the hotel when the fire broke out and
most of the dead are buried in the de
| bris.
DIR. Alice Fl. Burdic6, years of age
who practiced medicine in New York
city but, lived at Passaic, Nj, was
struck by train and instantly killed
at the Prospect street crossing of the
Erie railroad.
Frank Morgan, of Summit county
Ohio, was sentenced to jail three day:
a year for three years for non-suppcrt
of family.
Three trainmen were killed at Gale
ma Ill, in head-end collision between
the Chicago and Minneapolis passenger
train and south-bound freight trair
on the Illinois Central railroad,
Oil has .been discovered in Contra
Ireland.
The new White Star steamer Celtic
the largest vessel afioat arrived il
in New York from Europe after an
day run.
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