River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-24
LATER NEWS

Fire started by ahot water heater
explosion in the basement destroyed
the Missouri pavilion at the louisiana
Purchase exposition in four hours and
caused the death of one fireman and
the injury of four others, two of whom
were buried under falling wall.
The Japanese resumed their attack
on Port Arthur, November II, making
furious assault which resulted in
their occupation of underground cham
bers in important positions.
Willard Adams of Chicago has been
appointed commissioner of the United
States to the international exposition
at Liege, Belgium, in 1905,
Steamer Sicilian Prince, carrying COO
passengers, runs aground off Long Is
land.
War is started against Inc tobacco
trust.
City Marshall Hughes is shot and
killed at Ardmore, l. T. by John Work
whom he attempted to arrest.
Cincinnati business district swept
by 100000 fire.
Shooting of white miner by negro
may start race war at Frazer, Iowa.
Russians accuse Japanese of viola
ting usages of civiliz ed warfare.
Two families smother to death in a
tenement fire in Brooklyn.
The crew of French steamer at Nor
folk, Va, are incapacitated by swarms
of mosquitoes
The death of DIR. Conklin at Peoria,
ILL.,, reveals case of bigamy.
Spiers' opera house at Westbrook,
Mass, is destroyed. by fire Flames
cut off the main entrance, but the
audience escaped with few injuries.
Six thousand garment makers in
Chicago have struck.
A mania for stabbing women lands
Ray Scott, college student, in prison
at Salt Lake City.
The postal treaty between the United
States and Belgium is signed by the
president.
The pay wagon of Forepaugh &
Sells Bros circus was robbed of $780,
900 at Tarboro, N. c.
The plant of the Foster Furniture Co.
at Lafayette, Ind, burns, causing a
loss of $50. 900.
Ten millions estimated to have been
lost by spectators on the turf this sea-
son.
Three election judges in Denver,
Colo, are convicted of fraud and SEN
fenced to prison and fined.
John Bloom, q wealthy land owner,
residing eight miles south of Shenon-
doah, Iowa, shot and instantly killed
his oldest son, Frank. The shooting
grew out of family quarrel
1t is expected that the next attack
upon. Port Arthur will be tremen-
dous affair. More reinforcements are
coming to the support of General Nogi
than are being dispatched to Field
Marshal Oyama. =
amuel Gompers and John Mitchell
are accused of being traitors to the
cause of labor at Federation conven-
ton in Frisco
Three Kentucky negroes are in dan
ger of being lynched.
Because his wife was late getting
dinner. John P. Ziegler of Bronx, N.
Y, committed suicide by hanging.
Great Britain joins the United States
IN demanding of the Turkish govern
ment that interference with the sales
of bibles cease.
The president appoints Francis T.
Leupp, of Washington City to be In
dian commissioner
Two men are killed and six badly
injured at foot Dall in New York.
The steamer Kroonlaud, supposed to
be lost arrives in New York.
In attempting to thaw out dynamite
at Burlington, Iowa, Carl Peterson is
blown to pieces.
Attorney General Moody has decid-
ed to remain IN President Roosevelt's
cabinet.
Trouble is again brewing at the Chi
cago stock yards between butchers
and employers.
An epidemic of small pox has brok-
out at Butte, Mon.
The strike of the Chicago teamsters
is over the men gaining their poinq
for increased pay.