River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-05-19
LATER NEWS.

Three prisoners escaped from Jail at
Independence, Ia.
Chas. A. Larson, a jeweler at SUI
perior, Wis, was found dead in his Of
fee.
Wisconsin proposes to build new
capitol, to cost So, 900, 900.
James A. Hinsor, president of the
National Car Coupler Company, died
in Chicago
The japanese torpedo boat No. AZ
was destroyed while removing mines
from Kerr bay, north of Port Dalny
Seven men were killed and seven
wounded
Twenty-Five dwellings in Montreal
were destroyed by fire.
Cold weather compelled the Filipinos
at st. Louis to wear American clothes,
much to their disgust.
At Pittsburg, Pa, Fred Schuetz shot
and wounded Mrs Minnie Mccormick
and then fatally shot himself.
Some of the Chinese viceroys are
anxious for war with Russia.
Subscriptions to the japanese loan
placed in New York are oversubscribed
more than five times.
By presidential proclamation the
Rosebud Indian lands will be thrown
open to settlement Aug. s.
The entire business section of Steel
vile, Mo-, was wiped out by fire.
John Kotloba, a 6-yeal-old boy of
Wauzeka, Wis, died as the result of a
cherry pit getting into his ear.
John j. Smith was found dead upon
the banks of Knife river, near Mora,
Mimi. He had heart disease and it is
supposed that during a seizure he fell
from the dam and was drowned.
Eugene f. Ware, commissioner of
pensions, has handed his resignation
to President Roosevelt, to take effect
at the pleasure of the latter.
The Armour soap works at Chicago
was destroyed by fire, causing loss of
5000 Several persons were hurt
in panic following rumor that a
tank containing 100000 feet of gas
was about to explode.
The Nipsic, one of the old wooden
vessels of the United States navy, has
been ordered out of commission at the
Puget Sound navy yard, where she has
been serving as receiving ship.
Joseph Coils of Olean, n. Y, aged
sixty years, shot his wife and then
took his own life. Neighbors rushed
in to find them both dead, she on the
floor and he on the bed.
Indications are that Chicago labor
trouble will make idle 40, 900 men.
The Japanese main army is within
twenty miles of Liao-yang and bat
| tie is imminent.
Stag is sold as Pelee souvenirs by
Reading men, who are found out, as
result of hunger for wealth.
Defeat in the east is breeding home
revolt against the car.
William r. Hearst denies he will bolt
the st. Louis convention. On the con-
trary he will support the nominee.
Miss Pauline milestone, of Brad.
dock. Pa, broke her arm buttonine
the back of her dress.
The old Newgate prison at CRANKY,
Conn. a relic of colonial days, was de.
stroyed by fire.
Hasal's single mills at Nanaimo,
B. c., burned. Loss $780, 900.
After being in session two days and
casting "a ballots, the Illinois state
republican convention failed to nomi-
nate candidate for governor
The Methodist general conference
decides to retire six bishops on account
of age.
| Gen. Plug telegraphs that according
to reports of patrols and missionaries
the Chinese at Tapadziatsi, 100 miles
northwest of Mukden and just outsids
of the Russian sphere of influence, are
preparing to rise against the Russians
and Christians generally.
AS result of wager that he could
eat quart of sailed peanuts at one
.sitting. Rex Subbs, of Fairfield. Iowa,
lis dead.
Three inches of snow fell at Calumet
! Mich, the 14th.
The Lamas on the Pataun frontier
in Thibet are going from valley to val
Ilev, preaching holy war.
The dead body of Stephen Bazal
was found in the Chicago canal.