River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-11-05
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
W. II. Engel, of Flncennes, Ind,
was shot and killed by a burglar, who
escaped.
Harlan L. Green, aged rs, and his
wife, aged 70, were found dead in their
bed in Chicago from gas asphyxiation.
Elma Bachman was burned to death
in a straw shed near Charles City, La.
She was hunting for kittens with
lighted lantern, which tipped over and
set the shed on fire.
All the structural iron workers in
the country threaten to strike. 1t
will affect 100, 600 workmen.
A constitution and bylaws for the
National Employers association were
agreed on by the delegates to the con-
vention at Chicago.
Ex-United States Senator N. c.
Blanchard and General Leon Jastrem-
ski, candidates for the democratic
blows at joint debate at Ponchatoula,
La.
w. j. Burnett, president of the
Farmers and Citizens Bank of Sapul-
pa, OKLA, stood before mirror IN his
room at the Grand Avenue hotel and
shot himself in the head, falling on
his bed dead.
Sister Mary Louise, nun in st. Ag-
nes' convent at Omaha, Neb., has
eloped with young carpenter, Edward
johnson, who obtained work in the
convent in order to be near the object
of his affections.
Authority has been granted by the
war department to Maj. George L.
Scott, Tenth cavalry, acting Indian
agent at the Leech Lake Indian reser-
walton, to call on the commander of
the department of Dakota for troops in
case an outbreak should occur among
among the Chippewas on the reserva-
| ton.
A negro was taken from Jail at Hat
with entering the house of Ell. T. Allen
during his absence with intent to COM
nit criminal assault on one of the
family.
Dun's commercial agency reports an
improvement in the industrial stu
alton.
The "Chicago Flyer" on the Santa
Fe road was wrecked by unknown par
ties near Pueblo, Colo, and the engine
and four cars plunged into creek.
Thirty or more trainman and passen-
gers were hurt, but no one killed.
Three men were killed and two in
jured by the caving in of mine at
Pennington, Ill.
Two masked men entered the little
town of Auburndale, Wis, and almost
caused panic. They robbed one sa-
loon and fired several shots at citizens,
but caused no injury.
While going mile a minnie, Albert
mobile on the race track at New York
and severely injured.
Fire broke out in that portion of the
vatican at Rome which contains the
hall of inscriptions, where the pope
gives his audience, and which is ada
Icent to the famous Pinacoteca, or gall
Ilery of pictures. No lives were lost,
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/ A tornado demolished most of the
houses at Hydro, Okla, killing three
persons and fatally injuring several
|others.
Twenty-Five people persisted in a
tenement fire in New York.
The Purdue special train, due at In
dianapolis with 1900 Purdue students
aboard, crashed into freight engine
on the Big Four at Holten's Place,
killing nine and probably more Pur-
due students, and injuring eighteen.
The Continental National bank of
IChicago has filed a claim in bankrupt
toy against the Acme Harvester COM
Ipany.
The legality of the South Dakota
divorce law will be attacked in the
Polk county, Iowa, district court.
! Charles S. Mellen was elected presi-
Ident of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad company by the di-
lrectors of the road.
/ Peter mccarthy, convicted of throw
ling vitriol into the face of Mrs. Anna
HasIan, completely binding her, has
been sentenced to twenty years in the
lpenitentiary by Judge Stone of Cleye-
Hand O.