River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
LATER NEWS.

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Some 5000 Japs at Vancouver are
preparing for departure to Japan the
moment war is declared. Most of them
are army reserve men.
Street car men of Salt Lake, Utah,
made an infectual attempt to storm
the city Jail and lynch John Shock
leigh He is charged with shooting
and killing John Gleason, a moterman.
and fatally wounding Thomas Brigh-
ton, conductor.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of of ]. j. McCardy of ST.
Paul, to be auditor for the postoffice
department.
| Congress is expected to pass laws
opening to settlers large tracts of the
Indian lands in North and South Da-
kota.
American warships patrolling the
eastern coast of Panama may make a
demonstration against Colombians.
The cabinet decides that a hundred
thousand government employees must
work half an hour longer each day.
The case against Senator DIETRICH of
Nebraska was dismissed. The court
decided that he was not senator when
the alleged bride was accepted.
The president nominates Major Gen
eral Adna r. Chaffee to be lieutenant
general, vice Young, to be retired.
The boiler in the high school at
Spirit Lake, Ia, exploded, but no one
was hurt.
J. Ell. Coutts, president of the First
National bank at Upton, Ia, dropped
dead in a hotel at Cedar Rapids.
Capt. Fred Pabst, the deceased Mil
waulxee brewer, left an estate of &c.
900, 000
All the Jewish bankers in Europe
have decided not to help Russia in
placing large loan.
France has decided not to mix in the
Russo-Japan squabble.
At Kansas City trolly car jumped
the track and fell down a ten-foot en-
bankment, injuring five persons.
The licences of seven theaters in ST.
Louis are revoked until building re-
quirements are complied with.
Three poolrooms were raided in New
York and eighteel persons were ar
rested.
Fifty-two persons We're drowned
when the steamer Clallam, of the Seat
tie and Victoria feet went down mid
way between Smith Island and Dunge-
ness, in the straits Juan de Fuca,
Wash. Every woman and child aboard
the Clallam persisted within three
miles of shore, at the time when it
appeared certain the passengers of the
Clallam had been saved.
Secretary of State Hay has deter
mined to ask the Canadian government
to Join in conference looking to the
establishment of international fish
hatcheries on the Frazer river in Brit
| ish Columbia for the propagation of
salmon.
| Japan addressed a note to Russia the
9th through Minister de Rose. Its
lcharacter has not been disclosed, but
| it is said that Japan requires an an
swer within given number of days.
! The White Star line steamer Celtic,
on which w. j. Bryan is. a passenger,
arrived at New York the 9th. The
sseamer was met at quarantine by a
committee of prominent Democrats.
| A. z. Withee, postal clerk was ar
rested at Gladstone, Mich, forrobbing
the mails.
A dispatch from Pelkin says the Chi
nese emperor has ratified the American
and Japanese treaties with China.
| Lieutenant General John B. Gordon,
the famous confederate officer, died at
his home at Miami, Fla.
| Charles Foster, former governor of
Ohio and secretary of the treasury
under President Harrison, died at
springfield, o.
| The democrats of Massachusetts, en-
dorse Richard Olney for the presidency.
Adam Midlinger, a rich malster of
New York, fell dead on his doorstep
| in New York.
VIM. w. Skies, congressman from
the 14th district of Ohio, is dead.
Fire at Detroit, Mich, destroyed the
carriage factory of Sievers Sc Erdman.
A volcano on Sugar Loaf mountain
in Rowan county, KY. is assuming
alarming proportions. Smoke issues
from five assures