River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-09
LATER NEWS.


The Japanese have occupied the first
line of Port Arthur Notifications.
Nine persons reported killed and
many injured in collision on the Mis-
souri, Pacific near Martin City, Mo.
Five residences and church were
Okla. Several persons were hurt, none
fatally.
Storms at Joplin, Mo-, uprooted
trees and unroofed many houses.
Private Pitman, of the 14th infantry,
died at Butte, Mont, from an overdose
of bay rum.
The Kaw river at Kansas City is out
of it's banks
Wyoming democrats instruct for
VIM. r. Hearst.
Charles S. Deneen, states attorney
of Cook county, ILL.,, and candidate of
the anti-Lorimer republicans of Chica-
go, was nominated for governor of Illi-
nois.
Steel corporation director predicts
revival in industry and says iron and
steel will displace much wood con-
struction.
American jews will seek through
Secretary Hay better treatment when
they go to Russia.
Travis, the American golf champion,
wins amateur championship of Great
Britain.
Prof Koch discovers serum for the
e I'd ho
denies.
Admiral George Dewey officiated at
the ceremonies incident to the laying
of the corner stone of the new chapel
in the naval acdemy grounds at Ann
apolis.
Eight hundred cigar makers are lock-
ed out in Chicago.
Two hundred bricklayers in Buffalo
are locked out.
Several men are in the street car
steike at Houston, Tex.
Russia has placed an order for five
cruisers with Austria firm.
The prize fight at Chicago between
Ryan and Gardner is stopped by the
referee
1t is expected every paper mill in
Wisconsin will soon be tied up by
strike.
Three negroes were lynched at Trail
| Lake, Miss, as the result of the MUIR
der of John Sims and man named
Cato.
The strike on the great lakes is prac-
tically terminated.
A tornado nearly wiped out the
towns of Chattanooga and Axons,
Okla, and killed Mrs. Thomas Payne,
at Walter. All the crops in Canaan
che county are ruined.
Three men were killed by an explo-
sion in the Herculis Powder works at
Ponole, Cal.
Steady rains throughout Dakota
help crops amazingly.
At Elmira, N. Y, when the Liberty
bell passed through, the children be-
came so excited they could not sing,
as scheduled.
President Roosevelt joins the Span
ish War Veterans association.
Ten men were killed, score in iured,
80, 900 barrels of whisky destroyed,
and 5000 cattle burned to death as the
result of an explosion at the plant of
the Corning distillery company at Pc
oria, Ill.
Incensed over their failure to see a
genuine bull fight. which the author
ties had ordered stopped, riot was
started at st. Louis in an arena near
the worlds fair grounds by a crowd of
2, 500 men and boys, who were unable
to get their money back, and the build
ling was burned to the ground.
The Kwangtung heights were taken
by the Japanese after a desperate
struggle which was marked by the
most heroic fighting on both sides.
After terrifying the heights, the Jap
anese, pressed onward, capturing first
one and then another of the outposts
of Port Arthar and finally advancing
until the Russian flags flying from the
walls of the fortress came into view.
A twenty-foot pythen escaped from
it's cage in New York and for three
hours terrified the public.
A Russian gun boat is destroyed by
the japanese.