River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-05-07
LATER NEWS.

John Hamilton, a Chicago bartender,
was shot through the eye and fatally
injured 81 a fight with two men who
attempted to rob the cash drawer.
Hamilton opened fire on the men, who
fed, after firing the fatal shot.
The charred body of Edward Hill
was found on the road near Oleana,
Pa. He had evidently met death In
the forest fire which swept the Kettle
Creek territory. His horse was also
burned to death.
The safe of the Merchants State
bank at Freeman, S. D., was raided by
robbers. They secured about $4,000
and escaped.
The postoffice at Vaudeville, Mich.
was robbed of ST., 900 in stamps and $50
in currency.
The grand commandery of Knights
Templars of California has decided by
an unanimous vote that hereafter no
wine shall be served at templar BAN
quets.
The Kohl torpedo factory at Cleve-
land, O., blew up, resulting in the loss
pie were killed and possibly many
more, and from fifty to seventy-fve in
jured. Fully thirty employees were at
work in the factory at the time, mostly
girls.
Street laborers to the number of 3d.
900 quit work in New York, demand
ing an increase in wages. In Phila-
delphia more than 1000 members of
the building trades went out on a
strike.
Two thousand four hundred mem
bers of the Laundry Workers union of
Chicago struck for an increase of wages.
James E. Mcmahon, politician of
New York, was found murdered in the
vestibule of lodging house.
Eighteen hundred men, including
teamsters, hotel and restaurant en-
ployes and members of the building
Neb. Sympathetic strikes are expect
ed, which will bring the number on
strike up to 5000.
j. Wells Champney, the artist was
killed by falling down an elevator
shaft from the fourth floor in New
York city.
The marriage of Henry Hide brandt,
white, and Clara Van Dunk, black at
Morristown, n. j., caused race riot
in which the married couple were bad
ly used.
At Glenwood, Wis, during family
quarrel Richard Sachse shot his father
three times causing fatal results.
A political riot occurred at Infesto,
Spain, the gendarmes" firing a volley
into the rioters killing twelve men
and two women.
Daniel 7. Hedges an Iowa million
aire died in the bath tub ina San
Francisco hotel.
Andrew Herman endeavored to cross
a branch of the Eau Claire river north
of Thorpe, Wis, in wagon contain
ing his wife and two children. The
river being high, the two children,
aged two and eight, were swept from
from the wagon and drowned.
Two blocks of buildings at West
Point, Va, were destroyed by fire.
Three sheet metal workers were
killed and two others injured by the
breaking of scaffold at the union
station at Pittsburg, Pa. The cause
of the accident is not known.
Laura Beclman, an insane patient
at Mercy hospital, Davenport, Ia,
found a set of false teeth and tried to
wear them, although she had good
set of natural teeth. The false teeth
slipped down her throat and choked
her to death in five minutes
The Wells-Fargo express company
was robbed of SAP, 900 at Silao, Mexico.
All but $11 900 was recovered.
Seven excursionists from Toledo, O.,
were killed and many injured at De-
troit, Mich, by the Pan-American flyer
blowing through mass of 1880 peo-
pie who had gathered at crossing to
board train for their homes.
The wintry weather of last week has
cost farmers and gardeners millions of
dollars and given a setback to early
vegetation from which the people of
the entire country will suffer.
The number of Bulgarians killed
during the recent dynamite riots at
Salonica is now estimated at 100.
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