River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-05-12
LATER NEWS

LATER NEWS.
vlcerov Alexieff and his staff mar
rowly escaped being captured by the
Japanese while leaving Port Arthur.
Several riots have occurred at War
saw, Russia.
Chas. M. Robinson, of Sioux City, Ia,
was fatally gored by bull.
Owen Dighton, of Eldora, Ia, was
killed by lightning.
Chicago fears bread famine on &C
count of bakers strike.
Seven inmates escaped from the in
sane asylum at Independence, Ia.
Fire on the Boston wharves does
$500, 600 damage.
The Chinese pavilion at st. Louis is
formally dedicated.
Port Arthur is cut off from the out
side world. The japanese landed at
Port Adams and at Pi-tsu-wo.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, one
of the most picturesque figures in
politics, and perhaps the most astute
politician in the United States, is calm
ly and deliberately making prepare
tons for his death.
Five miners are entombed and are
believed to be dead as a result of
fierce fire which is burning in the Lo-
Gusts Gap colliery of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company at
Shamokin, Pa.
Former Gov. Waller and DR.. Brothers
all but come to blows in Connecticut
Democratic convention, in which Park
err men are victors.
Great panic is prevented when fire
breaks out in New York theater by
GOODNESS and good management.
Board of lady managers of the st.
Louis fair plans reception for Miss
Alice Roosevelt when she visits fair.
Edwin Benson, son of Z. H. Benson,
was killed by lightning while standing
under a tree for shelter from thunder
storm at Appleton, Mimi.
The school house and many other
buildings at Wichita Valley, Texas,
were destroyed by a tornado. Sam
Horton, teacher, was fatally injured
Forest fires threaten the little town
of Highbridge, Wis.
Lennon Champoux was hanged at
Walla Walla, Wash, for the murder
of Lottie Bruce.
At Maron, Texas, Mrs. Mary Wagley
and daughter, Annie, and John Wag-
ley were killed by tornado.
August Altrock, of Lacrosse, Wis,
committed suicide by eating quarter
of pound of paris green.
Burglars robbed Frye Packhard's
store at Earlham, Iowa, of several
hundred dollars.
Secretary Shaw signed warrent for
$40, 600, 600 to be paid J. P. Morgan &
Co., as disbursing agents of the Pana.
ma canal purchase.
The limited train on the Lake Shore
road ran down and killed four I'M
known men at Elyria, o.
Congressman Champ Clark was re-
nominated by the democrats of the
North Missouri district.
| While a revival was in progress at
Wabash, Ind, unk nown persons dashed
a large bottle of chloroform over the
congregation. Numerous persons were
Iovercome and had to be dragged out
lof doors.
| NJ. Cadamo, president of Peru, is
dead, after lingering illness.
The bakers strike in Chicago has
been satisfactorily settled.
The conference between the lake
carriers and the Master and Pilots as
Isociation of the great lakes failed to
reach an agreement and commerce is
still tied up.
Dispatches from the far east indicate
startling advances in Japan's sensa-
Itional land campaign. She has again
put the Russian forces to flight. She
has captured Feng Wang Cheng. She
LANDED troops at Takushan, forty
miles west of the mouth of the Yalu.
She has completely blocked Port Ar
thur.
The interior of the Curtis theater at
Denver, Colo, which had just been
newly equipped, was destroyed by fire
that started on the stage.
The general staff of Peru has ordered
1.-TWO line battalions and one battery of
machine guns to proceed to Altoiurua
lby way of the river Amuoya to repulse
any Brazilian troops there may be in
1.-THE territory.