River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-22

/ J0He TSOuFkuc, were ldldI1y luJuIOu ia
collision between a passenger train
and switch engine at Jacksonville,
| Ind.
A great meeting was held at Carnegie
/ hall, New York, in the interests Of in
| ternational arbitration. Archbishop
| ireland and Oscar S. Straus were the
principal speakers.
! A Minneapolis man shot his fancee
dead and killed himself Illness is sup.
posed to have unbalanced his mind
Weekly trade reviews show that hol-
! iday sales have reached an unusually
large volume. Railroad traffic in
creases and collections are good. The
number of unemployed men is grow
ing less and fewer labor disputes ex-
/ ist
Robert H. Patton, newly elected ma
tional chairman of the prohibition par
ty, refuses the place. O. w. Stewart,
the deposed leader, declines to call an
| other meeting.
Owen Kelly, wealthy Philadelphia,
prominent in Irish societies and once
a Clan-na-Gael leader, has been miss
ing since October 25. Violence is sug-
gested as clue to the mystery.
Henry Wellington Wack, who says
he suffered in the recent slump Of
Amalgamated copper, asks the district
attorney of New York to indict Thomas
w. Lawson.
fast mail train on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railway was
wrecked near Bristol, Ill. One person
was killed outright, two fatally in
jured and number of mail clerks
bruised. The wreck was caused by a
spreading of the rails.
The contract for the sale of the prop
erty offered by the worlds fair COM
pany to a Chicago wrecking company
for $450,000, has been signed in ST..
Louis and the first payment of 100000
made.
August Belmont has been elected
president of the National Civic FEEDER
alton to succeed the late Senator Mar
Gus A. Hanna.
Fire in Goshen, Ind, destroyed
J Hawks hardware store, Hawks Elec-
| trio company, Collins saloon and the
! Globe Milling company. The loss is
about 100000.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from Kansas City to Cleveland,
725 miles, without relaying. This is
said to be the longest distance over
land ever covered.
Three men lost their lives and four
others were terribly scalded by a rush
of steam and boiling water in the fire
room of the battleship Massachusetts,
lying at the League Island navy yard,
Philadelphia.
! Philip Weinseimer, former president
of the New York Building Trades al
lance, who has been in the Tombs
since October Is last under sentence to
Sing Sing for extortion, was released
in $4,000 cash bail.
Horace Wolcott Robbins, lawyer and
well-known landscape artist, is dead at
his home in New York. He Wes ma
tive of Mobile, Ala, where he was born
in 1912.
A loss of between $150,000 and $780,
| 900 was caused in Cincinnati by a fire
which destroyed the Ohio Seat com
Anchor tannery.
| Disease of the spine, attributed to an
| injury received in football game, has
caused the death at Lakewood N. j.,
of Augustus F. Holly, Jr., a former
member of the Princeton team.
Acting presumably for the bondhold-
ers, Henry Jayne purchased the Musca-
tine North G. South railroad at receiv-
er's sale in Muscatine, Ia. The price
| paid was 100000.
Roosevelt's plurality in the state of
| New York was IT'S, 552, as shown by the
official returns That of Higgins for
governor was 80560. Parker is shown
to have run nearly $4,000 behind Her
rick.
The prohibitionist national executive
committee practically asked for the res
| ignation of Oliver w. Stewart, national
chairman though freeing him from all
charge of incorporation of funds,
A postal clerk in New York found pa
pers worth 100000 in trunk he bought
for four dollars at auction
In a conference of New York repub-
lican leaders to discuss the United States
senatorship II voted in favor of former
Gov. Black for the toga, only seven ia
voring Senator Depew.
A treaty of arbitration between Italy
and the United States has been signed.
A lone highwayman held up the bank
Of Chisholm, Mimi, during business
hours and secured $4,000. He forced
Cashier Greiser into the vault at the
muzzle of a revolver.
In an article on Violence in Labor
Conflicts Slason Thompson says that
during the q months from January L,
1902, to October 1, 1904, 1913 persons have
been killed, 1856 injured, and 6,114 ar
rested.
Led by girl, Is revolutionary con-
spirators resisted an attack by the police
in Odessa, with the result that seven of
the revolutionists and three policemen
were killed
First reports of the loss by a big fire
in Minneapolis, Mimi, were exagger-
ated. The amount is placed at $780,
900. Two men were killed and three
injured.
John Alexander Dowie asserts he has
$21 900 900 in property at Zion City and
denies he is in financial straits.
Joseph Willoughby, who killed negro
named Shaw at Oklahoma City, because
Shaw refused to take off his hat in Will