River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-07
LATER NEWS.

at Seattle.
The floods in Indiana continue to
rise.
Heavy storm at St. Louis swept a
street car from the track and nearly
drowned a passenger.
Low Chez, Chinese merchant OF
Chicago, is arrested for smuggling
Cinnamon into Che country.
The strike of the Iowa miners is on.
Not pound of coal is for sale in sew
eral Of the cities.
| Japan gives permission for news
paper men to go to the front.
The San Francisco mint is turning
out 81, 100000 gold daily.
Hereafter negroes will have separate
cars on the street car lines of Rich
mond, Va.
John S. Harvey, of Springfield, Ill,
was arrested for sending threatening
letters through the mails.
All the painters and decorators at
Superior, Wis, have struck.
Lieutenant Commander Warburton,
of the warship Maine, committed sui
eide by blowing out his brains.
Otis White, an old man, committed
suicide at Niagara Falls by walking
into the rapids and going over the falls.
Henry Tritsche, farmer near
Bridgeport, Wis, was shot and wound
ed by horse thieves while trying to
guard his property.
Three masked men held up the Ore
gon express, south bound, on the
Southern Pacific railroad five miles
from Keswick, Cal. killed w. j. O'Neil,
the express messenger, and carried off
the contents of the express box.
John Pelkola, a prosperous Finnish
farmer near Bruce's Crossing, Ontona-
gon county, Mich, was shot through
the neck, stabbed in the back with a
file and pounded with fatirons by his
wife and her brother, Albert Collow.
Probably fatal ARRAYS between uni
on and non nnion men and Vicious en-
counters between rival organizations
have marked sudden revival of strike
violence in Chicago. Five men were
seriously hurt.
Russa's cavalry retiring toward Wi
ju in great distress.
Russia claims nearly 10000 troops
in Manchuria, claiming Japan has
landed but $4,000.
American ambassador to ST.. Peters
burg does much to get japanese non
Icombatants out of Siberia.
Sidney Johnson, jumped from the
top of New York 21-story building
to the pavement below. Every bone
in his body was broken.
Four people lose their lives in the
floods in southern Ohio.
James Johnson was shot and killed
by hummer Spicer near Jackson, KY,
as result of the Marcum feud.
At st. Francisville, Ind, funerals
were held in boats on account of the
foods
Nearly all of East Marion, Ind, will
have to be rebuilt on account of high
water.
Congress the ID passed 319 pension
bills in two hours.
Canada suspends for one year the
Icoastwise law.
Two freight engines collided in the
Baltimore & Ohio yards at Clarks
burg, w. Va, killing three men riding
on the pilot
r. D. Meldrum, a deputy sheriff, was
shot and killed at Telluride, Col, by a
man named ThisseL
A corps of agents of the department
of commerce is investigating the beef
trust at ST. Louis.
Two persons were killed and a doz-
en- others injured in a collision be-
tween an express train and freight
on the Pennsylvania railroad near
lPottstown, Pa.
Japan officially admits overwhelming
odds against her, in matter of num-
bers and physical advantage in the ar
my. But she is planning carefully and
means to fight to victory.
japanese have established strong
lime of forces along south bank of YS
llu river, where first important battle
lis expected soon.
Troops are sent home from the Tel
Hurdle mine district.