River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-01
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
The notes received from the Euro
pean governments interested in the
Venezuelan controversy, including
Venezuela, agree to submit the ques-
ton at issue to the tribunal at The
Hague.
Sidney c. Tough, former cashier of
the defunct State Bank of Northwood,
N. D., who pleaded guilty to the charge
of receiving deposits in an insolvent
bank, knowing it to be such, was SEN
fenced to six weeks imprisonment in
the county Jail and to pay fine of
$500.
The hospital at Park Rapids, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire. All the pa
TENTS were safely removed.
According to the Railroad Gazette,
railroad building in the United States
for 1902 aggregated 6,O26 miles, total
not exceeded in any year since 1888.
Second track and sidings are not in
Guided.
1t is reported that a mob lynched the
wrong man at Pittsburg, Kas. Later
investigation of the trouble between
officer Hinkle and the Cooley brothers
tends to show that Joe and not Mont
gomery Cooley, the man who was
lynched, fired the shot which killed
the policeman.
The worst gale of many years visited
Denmark Christmas night and enor-
nous damage was done to property
and shipping.
Fifteen coal miners were killed in
freight wreck near Trinidad, Colo.
The will of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
was fled in Washington. The estate
is to be divided into four equal por-
tions.
The American Historical association
and the American Economic associa-
ton are in annual session in Phila-
delphia.
The Great Northern bridge at Mad
ison, Wash, was swept away by
snOwsllde.
Representatives of the striking shop
men on the Union Pacific have gone to
New York to attend a conference with
the railway officials.
Cardinal Gibbons left Baltimore for
Pittsburg, where he will take part in
the celebration of the golden jubilee
of the Passionist Order.
The Swedish bark Framnas, from
Cardiff with ATS tons of coal for the La
Guayra-C Caracas railroad, a British
concern, arrived off the port of La
Guayra, but was ordered to remain
outside the blockade line.
Freight handlers and railway clerks
in Chicago are preparing to demand
more pay.
portion of San Pedro, Cal. n. c. An
derson, a capitalist, and B. Swift, a
laborer, persisted.
Dollie Matthews, an actress at Phila-
delphia, committed suicide by taking
carbolic acid.
A snowslide which RACED the bunk
house of the Meelie Gibson mine, ten
miles from Lake Kootenai, B. c., is be-
lieved to have killed nine men and in
jured several others.
Queen Alexandria of England gave
Christmas dinner to 600 widows and
800 children of men killed in the Afri-
can war.
Burglars blew the safe in the bank
at Union, Mo-, and secured SIS, 900,
the entire contents.
Two negroes suspected OF numbering
w. K. Jay, a farmer near Greenwood,
S. C. were taken by a mob and lynched.
An oil heater set the bed afire in the
home of Mrs George Campbell, in Mil
waubee, and her two children, aged
and 10 years, were burned to death.
A train wreck, bringing death to
probably more than 80 persons and
terrible pain and suffering to fully as
many more, occurred at Wanstad, Ont,
a station on the Grand Trunk.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow
of General John c. Fremont, died at
Los Angeles, Cal.
The Venezuela revolutionists have
again resumed active hostilities against
President Castro. A lively engage
ment occurred between 1900 revolu-
tionists and the government forces.
The U. S. army transport Sherman
struck a rock near San Bernardino
light south of Luzon, sustaining a
heavy shock.