River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
LATER NEWS.


While at banquet at Frontenac:
N. Y, Il. A. Magiu dropped dead just
as he finished responding to a toast.
At Pleasant Ridge, o., while at play
in the school house, the floor collapsed,
throwing 21 children into the vault
below. Nine were killed, all girls.
While dreaming, lady at Battle
Creek, Mich, jumped out Of four
story window and escaped with only
slight injuries
The worlds fair society will admit
iclergymen free during the month of
November
A wallet containing $40, 900 in cur
Irency is found in bath room of hotel
at Sioux City, Ia.
Blood poisoning, the result of bite
from his son while he was chastizing
him, caused the death of Carl Balstock
Of Gray, la.
A train on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad struck wagon loaded with
dynamite, at North Branch, w. Va.
Two men were killed and nine injured.
willed his brains to Cornell university
for investigation.
Two Minneapolis men are arrested
on suspicion of having murdered a
man at Annandale, MINI.
The strike of the machinists on the
Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern rail
road is over, the men agreeing to
reduction in wages.
General Harrison Allen, deputy au-
ditor fdt the postofice department,
died suddenly at his residence in Wash
ington, aged 59years.
Sheriff Joe Smith was found guilty
at LeSueur Center, Mimi, of attempt
ed criminal assault in the second de-
gree. The jury was out fifteen hours.
While making an ascension at Rein
beck, Iowa, "Frenchy" Rapael fell
from his balloon when it had reached a
height of hundred feet and sustained
serious if not fatal injuries to his
spine.
The Japanese have engaged in a
general assault upon Port Arthur,
which is more furious than it's prede-
cessors, attacking the town on three
sides; simultaneously and employing
their whole forces, being determined to
to finish the business.
1t is expected that Kuropatbin will
retreat from Mukden without a general
engagement.
The boiler in a cotton gin at Raleigh,
n. c., exploded killing four men and
fatally scalding another
Messengers carrying suit cases con-
tanning 81, 400 into a San Francisco ex-
change, are made prisoners by rob-
Der who escapes with loot
Twelve-year-old Magaret Stumpf,
wealthy street railway man and bank
er at Lincoln, Neb., was discovered by
the police in her fathers stable where
she had been ceufned for five years.
George NJ. Collier, Columbus, Ohio,
formerly chief examiner of steam en-
gines of Ohio, who disappeared from
Columbu year ago, is under arrest at
Kansas City Mo-, charged with having
embezzled So, 700 state funds.
Hf6S1O6nU 1OOSeVclU announced UIdC
an early date he would ask the ma
tions of all the world to join in Sec
ond congress at The Hague for the
promotion of arbitration.
Over fifty persons and more than 125
are suffering from injuries as the re-
suit of head-on collision of two pas
senger trains on the Southern railway
miles east of Noxville, Tenn
The British steamer Crusader was
captured by the japanese and taken to
Hakodate.
Hector Van Doorlaer, clerk of the
house of deputies, Belgium, was found
dead in bed in Washington.
While George Cooper and his wife,
colored, were at church at Winches-
ter, KY, their home burned, and their
four children persisted in the flames.
Ten prisoners escaped from jail at
Billings, Mont.
Fire at Dawson, Alaska, DESTROYS
property valued at S250,OOO.
Mt. Vesuvius is more active, and the
eruptions are violent, discharging
large streams of lava.
Prof. Niels Finsen, discoverer of the
sa-called Finsen rays of light for the
cure of lupus, an6 head of the Finsen
ray institute at Copenhagen, is dead.