River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-11-26
LATER NEWS.

ID. V. Miller of Terre Haute and DO
seph M Johns of Rockville, Ind, were
acquitted of the charge of conspiracy
to extort bride from John j. Ryan,
made by the postoffice department.
The Democratic senators, at caucus,
decided to consider the Cuban bill on
it's merits and confine the discussion to
the bill itself, without bringing in col
lateral questions. This means that no
tariff amendments will be offered and
that the tariff question will not be dis
cussed.
Artillery fire is going on night and
day between the government forces
and the insurgents who are beseiging
San Domingo. Many noncombatants
have been killed by the rebel fire.
The pure food commissioners and
manufacturers, who are in convention
at Washington, have unanimously
agreed to support the pure food bill in
PRODUCED by Senator McCumber of
North Dakota, with amendments
which are acceptable to all concerned.
The supreme court of Nebraska is
sued a writ of mandamus against
teacher in Gage county, ordering her
not to read the Bible to her pupils.
The Lebaudy air ship, on defending
don, France struck a tree and blew up
The governor of Windhoek, German
Southwest Africa, reports that Lieut.
Jobst and Sergeant Gray have been
killed in a battle with the Bondelz-
wartz tribesmen, whose chief also was
killed. The governor adds that the
rebellion is ended.
Senator Dietrich has returned from
Was hington to Nebraska to surrender
to the authorities because of his in
dictment on a charge of conspiracy in
connection with postoffice patronage.
George Willets, Reading railroad
conductor, bit off his tongue while on
duty and bled to death.
Hart P banks, musical composer and
singer, died in Philadelphia.
The steamer Discovery, which left
Nome Oct. IA with 81 passengers, has
not been sighted since Oct %.
Fire in the Park theater at Butler,
Pa, destroyed 100000 worth of prop
erty and injured four fremen.
The old Masonic Temple at Louis
vile, KY, was burned.
Over the ownership of a dog has
arisen family feud near Evanston,
Ill, that has resulted in the burning
| of two houses and three pitched battles
between hostile neighbors.
John Dalton, the night Waterman at
the Philadelphia & Reading railway
station at Girardville, Pa, was at
tackled by four masked men at mid
night, who locked him in a room, rob-
bed him of SIS and stole three valuable
express packages.
The treaty for the ceding of the Isle
Iof Pines to Cuba was favorably acted
upon by the senate committee on for
leigh relations and it will be favorably
reported to the senate at the next ex-
!ecutive session.
Charles Mccormack, superintendent,
and Melvin Ell. Beck, a miner, were
killed by an explosion in the Vindica-
ter mine at Cripple Creek, Colo Off
GERS of the Vindicater Mining company
assert that the explosion was caused
ibv an internal machine and 400 militia
men have been placed on guard around
the company's properties.
The White Star line steamer Baltic,
1.-The largest in the world, was success
fully launched at Belfast, Ireland. Her
displacement is $500 tons.
The Kohn Iron works at West ST.
Louis was destroyed by fire.
The football game between Wash
Iington and West Virginia universities
lat Washington, d. c., ended in a row,
lin which number of heads were
broken.
Forest fires swept southeastern
Texas and Louisiana.
In row with rival union pressmen
daniel e. Long, foreman of the press
room of Donnelly & Sons, Chicago,
killed Emil Reichow in self defense
One million feet of lumber and some
LOADED lumber cars were burned at
lPenners Point, Va.
In S157, 900 fire at Elizabeth. N. j.,
live firemen were hurt.
The steamer Etruria arrived at New
York from London with 81 900, 600 in
l,ol1 coin