River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-01

the Victorian, was launched at Belfast
Ireland.
Terrific storms, accompanied by snow
swept over italian peninsula.
LATER NEWS,
A dispatch from Rome says Cardinal
Satolli brought 100000 in Peters
pence from the United States.
Judge Julian Bennett died suddenly
at Watertown, s. D., of heart failure.
He weighed 44O pounds and was
known as the largest Judge in Ameri-
ca.
Yung Hing, Chicago Chiniaman,
secured marriage license to wed Bes-
sic Bailey, colored. Clerk Salmonson
declared that the marriage was the
first of its kind in his experience in
the marriage license Office.
The oil tanks at Hoboken, Belgium,
containing about $4,000, 900 gallons Of
Petroleum, are burned, together with
all the sheds, wagons and parapher.
malta.
In the prize fight at San Francisco
between Jeffries and Munroe, the lat
ter was knocked out IN the second
round.
Two Italians who informed the Lee
high Valley railroad detectives of the
identity of several members of the
Malta, were seriously stabbed at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The Avenue hotel at Elmira, N. Y,
was demolished by dynamite, in an
attempt to kill the proprietor, but who
escaped injury.
| A small fire caused a panic in the
Golden Eagle hotel, Chicago.
It is now confirmed that the Para
guayan revolutionists have seized a
train containg stores and which had a
number of government officials on
board.
Max Mailer held up his fathers
funeral for several hours in New York
by insisting that he be paid certain
amount of the dead mans money be-
fore the burial took place.
After being mourned as dead for %
years, Sylvester Short, of Ansonia,
Conn, was discovered to be alive by a
pension commissioner, who was look
ing up his record prior to granting a
pension which Short had applied for.
Miss Cora Beckwith, the champion
woman swimmer of the world, de-
clared that she will try the rapids at
Niagara on Sunday, September 25.
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London Standard says that placards
have have been discovered at Tsinan-
flu lin the province of Shantung) ur-
ging the massacre of foreign devils
after the seventh moon," and that the
native Christians are fleeing.
Two men were killed and two others
fatally injured by the falling of an
elevator at the Rabbits soap factory
in New York.
Japan has addressed note to the
powers informing them that unless
Russia forthwith d1sarms her warships
in Shanghai Japan will be forced 70
take whatever steps she deems neces-
sary to protect her interests.
The latest reports received from
Port Arthur are to the effect that the
japanese il their attack during, the
night of Aug. % captured Poyodo, q
fort midway between Takushan and
the eastern defences, and reduced
another fort Immediately east of the
railway.
A forest fire in which fatalities are
reported to have occurred is said to
have taken place at a camp owned by
Tom Aoki, situated on Gambler island,
ICan.
Fire broke out in the Amphitheater
of the state fair, Ia. A farmer noticing
lit bought bucket of lemonade and
quenched the blaze and prevented a
panic.
Battleship Louisiana was launched
at Newport News, Va, the 27th.
The statement that Cinnamon are
being run into the country by the way
of Superior, Wis, will be investigated.
Peter Sells, of Sells Brothers circus,
was stricken with paralysis at Column
bus, o.
Two important deposits of copper
are found near Houghton, Mich.
A riot occurred at the stock yards
I'm Chicago, in which one man was shot
but not fatally.
/ Chas. E. Norris, of Denver, dropped
dead on the streets of Chicago.
Nine persons were poisoned by eat
ling veal pie at picnic at Iowa City
Iowa.