River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-11
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
st. Petersburg hears E.any rumors OF
| disasters to Kuropatkin's army, but
nothing official has been received.
Judge Parker formally resigns as
chief justice of the court of appeals OF
| New York.
Department of agriculture aids de-
partment of commerce in meat trust
inquiry; run on stock yards bank.
The sultan of Turkey is threatened
with visit from American warsh1ps
unless American demands are granted.
William Stang, farm hand, met
horrible death in the barnyard OF Al
bert Braaten in the town of Burke,
Wis. He was attacked by a vicious
bull and when found his body was a
pulp of broken bones and mashed flesh.
1t is frankly admitted at both de-
partments of agriculture and bureau or
commerce and labor that federal in
vestigation into the present strike In
the Western stock yards is in full pro-
gress.
Joseph Scheron and his wife, Eliza
beth, who were married about month
ago, were shot and killed by Harry
Fisher at Philadelphia.
| The Japanese are reported to have
closed in on the retreating Russians
north of Hal Cheng, and that the
greatest war has been raging.
News which he received fusion in
Nebraska and Kansas nearly resulted
in Thomas E. Watson's retirement
from the Populist ticket as candidate
for president.
The whole business portion OF Ken
drick, Idaho, was wiped out by fire.
Seventeen prisoners, after desper-
ate assault on the warden at Laurel,
Del, escaped Jail.
While bathing in the Mississippi
river at Alton, Ill, Michael Riley, his
daughter and six of her children were
drowned.
A bite from an unknown insect kills
Frank Arndt, of Osceola, Wis.
Eight persons lose their lives by the
Laundering of the yacht Oneida at
Digby, N. 5.
Mosquitoes compel 800 men to quit
work on the Choctaw railroad near
Meridian, Miss.
A hunting party of ten young men
are killed by Indians in Mexico.
An unfounded rumor started a run
on the Drover's Trust & Savings bank
at the stock yards, Chicago
Work is resumed on the Blooming
ton, Ill, street railway after strike
of seven months.
Twenty thousand strikers march in
parade in Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Murphy dies at Meadville,
Pa, aged 124 years. She was born in
Ireland Christmas day, ITO.
Senator Lodge opens the republican
campaign at Boston.
An attempt was made to assassinate
the president of Uruguay.
M. G. Boil, one of the wealthiest
farmers around Mason City, Ia, COM
mits suicide by shooting.
Russians report that the Japanese
are advancing on Mukden, and that
Mukden and Liao-yang.
Fire at Black Bear, Idaho, wiped out
500, 900 worth of property.
NJ. w. O'Connell, formerly marshal
Victor, Colo, came to his death by fall
ing from fourth-story window of
Ihotol at Denver,
It is reported the Japanese attacked
the Russian position at Anshanshan
l(midway between Hai.Cheng and Lao
Yang) on August and were repulsed
with heavy loss. The Russian casul-
tiles are not known.
A mob at Bogota, Colombia, attacks
the United States consulate and in
lures Consul Gen. Snyder.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
pledges the packing house strikers
moral and financial support.
A special train was wrecked at
lBozeman, Mont. Thomas McGuigal of
Cedar Rapids, Ia, was killed.
In a riot among the strikers at Kan
Isas City, Mo-, John Lewis, non-union
negro, was killed and two others Sc
Iverely wounded
Fire destroys $50, OO0,O 900 worth of
timber in Newfoundland
The Russian battleship Slava was
accidentally torpedoed at Cronstadt,
lint sustained no serious damage.