River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-29

co from Mobile to Honduras. She came
from Detroit down the Mississippi.
| Former Crown Princess Louise Wis
tied Dresden and pleaded in vain at
the palace gates to see her children.
/ On Tug river, Lawrence county, KY,
Morgan Curry, a feudist, was shot and
instantly killed by a railroad detective
during fight near the Curry home.
The Currys have been terrorizing the
men who were operating new rail-
road.
! The steamer Lady Mitchell, which
sailed from Tsingtao with supplies, am
munition and dynamite, reached Port
Arthur during a snowstorm.
| The Hay memorial chapel given to
Westminster school at Simsbury, Conn,
| by Secretary Hay, in memory of his son,
Adelbert S. Hay, was burned. The loss,
estimated at s12,500.
Mrs. John Johnson. the wife of la
borer, and their two sons, aged seven
and three years, lost their lives in fire
which destroyed their home at Bangor
| Me.
o. C. Lille, cashier Of the closed First
national bank of Conneaut, O., and
president and owner of the Marine saw
/ ings bank, at Conneaut Harbor, which
| is also closed has made an assignment
| A train on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
| St. Paul road was wrecked by broken
rail at Lena, a point near Menominee,
| Mich. Engineer Martin Gavan and Fire
man Louis Miller were killed, and Is
persons were injured.
Fire in Columbus, o., destroyed prop
erty and stocks valued at between $780,
900 and $4,000, in the center of the
business district Five fremen were in
jured.
Mrs. Mary Ann Anderson, one of the
best-known temperance workers and
woman suffragists in Indiana, is dead
at her home in Laporte, Ind.
Prof. J. L. Budd, for % years at the
head of the horticultural department at
Iowa state agricultural college, and one
of the most widely-known pomologists
in the world, died at San Antonio, Tex.
/ Officials of many industrial concerns
| in and about Pittsburg are searching
| for men whom they wish to put to work
in their plants. The bright prospects for
an increased amount of business after
the first of next year are responsible for
| this move.
1t is stated that Russia has bought
Anthony J. Drexel's fine steam yacht,
paying $650,000.
The Wade Park bank, of Cleveland, o.,
Of which ri Reynolds is secretary and
treasurer, together with two branches,
/ has been taken over by the Cleveland
| Trust company which will conduct the
| business of the three institutions.
James r. Garfield, commissioner of
corporations, in his first annual report,
made to President Roosevelt, recon-
mends compulsory regulation of corpor
ations under a federal license or fran
| chise.
Receipts of the Britt-Nelson glove
contest amounted to $4,000, of which
Britt received So: 877 and Nelson SIS ,918.
The postmaster general removed two
more mail carriers for interference in
politics and legislation.
City Clerk Edward M. Schuengel, of
Milwaukee, Wis. aged At years, died sud-
denly. Mr.. Schuengel had been suffering
| from Bright's disease and heart trouble
for some time.
George l.. Shoup, former United States
senator from Idaho, died at his home in
Boise, Idaho, in his sixty-eighth year
Mrs. William GLADDEN. shot and killed
her husband at their home at Requa
gulch, south of Cripple Creek, Col She
says that he abused and beat her.
| Republican leaders conferred on the
proposed railway rate bill and assured
President Roosevelt congress will act
| during the present session.
Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, the
father Of the British navy" died at
Portsmouth, England, after lengthy
| illness. He was the last survivor of the
battle of Navarino, fought in 1927, which
resulted in the destruction of the Turk
| ish fleet.
The Metropolitan clubhouse, the
home of the most fashionable club in
Washington, was Quilted by fire, involv-
ing an estimated loss of from 100000 to
| 100000.
The bodies of John C. Kenyon, Will
liam Lilly blade and William Emmermon
| nave U6Gu TAKEN from the CTOCkGT no.
tel ruins in Minneapolis, MINI.
There were ten slight earthquakes, fol-
lowed by one strong shock, at David,
Panama Numerous houses were dam
aged.
w. G. Matthews, the negro football
and baseball player, has been elected
one of Harvard's senior class day Of
| ficers.
The Illinois state board Of equalization
made cut of 100000 the in assessed
valuation of all property in the state.
After lingering illness of three years,
due to infrmities of old age, Rt. Rev.
Richard Phelan, bishop Of Pittsburg do
cese, of the Roman Catholic church, died
at Pittsburg, Pa, aged rs years.
Fred Jones, who shot and killed Con-
stable William G. Gray and Mrs. Abb
bic Goodrich, at Charlottesville, N. Y,
| Wednesday and then shot himself, died
| of his wound.
Requisition for DR.. Chadwick has
been issued in Ohio, and Cleveland Of
ficers have arranged to arrest him on
his arrival in New York from Paris.
Friends of the physician are trying to
find bondsmen.
James P. Eagle died at Little Rock,
Ark, after an illness of three weeks. He
was governor of Arkansas from 1889 to
1899