River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

At South Bend, lnQ., BeneQlcJ d Co.,
"get-rich- quick" concern, abandoned
its offices, leaving many creditors.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Frank Candee
shot and killed his brother and sister
and himself while temporarily insane.
In Greenville, Miss, and surrounding
territory, the flood situation shows
improvement, and there is little fear
of further complications.
In nearly 20 states the old wage
scale between the bituminous miners
and operators has expired and the to-
tai advance in wages aggregates $685.
100000.
The senate defeated a bill to abol-
ish capital punishment in Nebraska.
President Roosevelt has selected
Wayne MacVeagh to represent the
United States in the Venezuelan case
before The Hague tribunal.
In decision Judge Simson, of Terre
Haute, Ind, says that boards of health
cannot exclude unvaccinated children
from public schools.
A wheat crop expert predicts the
yield in Kansas and Oklahoma will
break records,
In Chicago Alderman n. T. Bremen,
of the Ninth ward, was held up by
three men and robbed of $500 and
horse and buggy in broad daylight.
In San Francisco Terry McGovern
was knocked out in the eleventh
round by young" Corbett in a fight
for the worlds light weight champion
ship.
In Indiana 10000 miners struck be-
cause the operators ultimatum ig-
nored the demand for extra men to
fire explosives.
At Sibley, ILL.,, fire destroyed bust
ness block, including the post office
and all the mail.
Over 100000 men went on strike in
various parts of the country, April 1
being the date usually set by labor
unions on which new wage scales or
other changes in the relation of en-
ploye to employer take effect.
Robbers took $1,1O0 from the post
office at Auburndale, Wis.
The legislature of Texas has adopt
ed a sweeping antitrust law, apply
ing to labor organizations as well as
to corporations.
In st. Louis Judge Adams dissolved
the temporary injunction preventing
trainmen of the Wabash railway from
striking, but an amicable settlement
of the difficulty is expected.
Thomas Foster died at San Francisco
at the age of SIS years. He was one
of the oldest newspaper men in the
country.
Advices from all sections of the
country indicate that winter wheat is
in very promising condition generally.
The gold production at Cripple
Creek. COL for March was 1860 tons
of 81, 466,47O gross value.
In a brick tenement at Louisville,
Ky. falling walls killed two negroes
and nine other persons were injured.
Burglars dynamited the safe in the
post office at Wellington. O., and Sc
cured $1,000 in cash and stamps.
The republicans of the Seventh Kan
sas district have nominated Victor
Murdoch for congress.
Amateur championship of the West
ern Golf association has been awarded
to the Euclid club of Cleveland. o.
At the age of SO years Bert T. Reid,
right eminent grand commander
knights Templar of Wisconsin, died at
Chippewa Falls.
All indications point to an amiable
adjustment in a very short time of the
differences existing between the Wa
bash railroad and its employees.
At Des Moines, Ia, Jefferson ban
quet was attended by 800 democrats
who split when W. ]. Bryan appeared.
His followers agreed TO organize for
control of state convention.