River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-24
LATER NEWS.

| All the schools in Iowa held services
the 18th in commemoration of the
Louisiana purchase.
| Mrs. J. Jasperson, of Hutchinson,
Mimi, was badly burned by gasoline,
with which she tried to start the
kitchen fire.
Sixteen hundred livery drivers in
Chicago struck for higher wages.
A damage suit for Sc, 200 against the
Franl1lyn union of Pressfeeders of Chi
cago was commenced by r. r. DON
nelly & Son.
Japan is trying to purchase the war
vessels built in Italy for the Argen-
tine government.
Daniel w. Willard, of the Erie road,
was elected second vice president of
the Burlington.
The little child of NJ. Leveque. in the
town of Somerset, Wis, was burned to
death. 1t set fire to it's clothing while
playing with matches.
To escape death by suffocation
twelve girls leaped from the fifth story
windows of the Candy building at Day
ton, O., landing on the roof and sky
lights of one-story building below.
A passenger train on the Chicago
| Great Western road was wrecked by
the breaking of rail mile out of
Mortified, Mimi, on a curve and high
embankment. Three persons were in
jured.
The Army and Navy Register de-
| mands court-martia1 for Gen. Wood
or Maj. Runcle.
Promoter Alexander declines to an
swer questions in shipbuilding receiver
| ship hearing.
A wealthy real estate operator of San
| Francisco and the alleged head of land
frauds is arrested in Washington.
President Roosevelt approves Foster
| bill for commission to abitrate labor
difficulties.
For the first time in the history Of
the country, six women sat upon a
jury in the juvenile court in Chicago.
| Lee Cribb, colored, convicted of muir
der, was hanged at Douglas, Ga.
Fire damaged the Walden univer-
the girls on the fourth floor could get
out they were surrounded by flames.
| There were no fire escapes and most Of
them persisted
An earthquake broke off the highest
peak of Mount Rainier, near Tacoma,
Wash. The glaciers, rolling down the
mountain side, were heard hundred
| miles.
The navy department has received a
| cablegram from Rear Admiral Glass at
Panama to the effect that according to
report which has just reached him
from steamer the small force of Col
ombian troo~~. which had been discov-
cred at the 4th of the Atrato river,
had sailed to the northward on Col
not been able to verify the report
President Roosevelt transmitted to
the house third iustallment of paper
relating to the recent revolution on the
isthmus of Panama.
Gen. John G. Black has accepted the
civil service commissionership and the
president will send in his nomination
when congress reconvenes on Jan. l.
Gov. Jefferson Davis and Associate
Justice Carol d. Wood of the Arkan-
sas supreme court fought with fists at
Hope, Ark, drawing blood and suf-
fered arrest, during a public discus
sion over the Democratic nomination
for governor of Arkansas.
w. G. Hodge, one of the organizers
of the republican party, died at Bloom
ington, Ill.
Albert Daggett, contractor for print
ing the United States postal cards,
died at Rumford Falls, Me.
A sea serpent Is feet long was found
on the beach at Atlantic City, N. j.
The grand jury of Chicago will in
vestigate the recent street car strike.
| The steamer Amor, from Skagway.
with SIS passengers for Victoria, is
overdue several days.
The cruiser New York has been or
dered to Korea.
VIM. Hurd, of Lake Mills, Wis, was
arrested upon the charge of numbering
his wife and only son.
A receiver is asked for the Blue
Grass Consolidated Traction company
at Lexington, KY.