River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-08

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elected president of the Citizens Indus
trial association.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition
closed in a scene OF pandemonium on
the Pike following day and evening of
| celebration in which ST. Louis showered
honors and gifts upon President Fran
| els, the head of the enterprise. The
| total attendance. during the fair was
about 100000.
Forty-two hunters were killed and 10
wounded in the open season in the north
woods of Wisconsin and upper Michigan
| which has just closed. The number of
deer killed is estimated at 1000.
Jacob Moore, merchant of Mount
Auburn, Ind, was killed by John Hash,
aged II. Hash claims Moore attacked
him while under the influence of liquor
and that he shot in self-defense.
Rev. William T. Manning, D. D., vicar
of st. Agnes chapel, Trinity parish, New
| York city was elected first bishop of
! the newly organized Episcopal diocese
| of Harrisburg.
| Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis has
| been appointed by the president on the
| Dogger Bank court of inquiry. He has
accepted the appointment.
The strike of coal miners in the Mas
| sillon, O., district, in which 1000 men
have been involved, was settled, the
| employers granting a concession OF two
cents more per ton for loading.
Three deaths resulted from the ex-
plosion and fire at the Swiss laundry in
New Orleans, La. The victims are
| young girls.
Receipts of the internal revenue
| bureau for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1904, were 1922, 9O4, OO4. an increase
| of 81, 163, 079 over the collections for the
year preceding.
The four states having the largest
production of distilled spirits during the
year ending June 30, 1904, are Illinois,
| 41,785, 899 gallons; Kentucky, 23,07O, 162
gallons; Indiana, POSSESSES gallons;
Ohio, 1918 37 gallons.
A verdict for $4,000 damages has
been awarded in the New York supreme
court to Mrs. Anna Morhard, wife of a
Staten Island physician, who was killed
a year ago in the cellar Of his home by
an electric shock.
Joseph Letter was indicted at Du-
quoin, ILL.,, on three counts on the charge
of bringing armed men into the state
contrary to the recently passed statutes.
One man was killed and three fatally
| injured in an explosion at Goes, 0. A
press mill of the Miami powder works
| exploded with several thousand pounds
of powder, destroying the building.
The American White Cross First Aid
society, intended to supplant the Red
Cross in America has been organized
in Chicago and embraces physicians Of
the highest note and Miss Clara Barton,
founder of the older organization.
Mrs. Richard Yates was burned while
! driving in Springfield, ILL.,, hot bricks in
the carriage setting fire to her skirts.
! The governor smothered the blaze with
his overcoat before she was seriously
| injured.
The city council is preparing to rid
Chicago of the deadly grade crossing,
the work already done in this direction
having cost more than SGT 600 900 and
the expense of other improvements
swelling the total to more than $685.
100000.
Battling" Nelson and Jimmy Britt
are matched to box December 20 in San
Francisco.
The Citizens Industrial association
in convention in New York adopted
resolutions urging the state to estab-
lish artisan schools as part Of plan
for combating labor unions.
Peter Nissen, who started from Chi
cago across Lake Michigan in his boat,
called the Fool Killer No. g." was
found dead on the beach two and a half
miles west Of Stevensville, Mich. When
the wrecked aquatic balloon was tow ed
ashore in it was found note written by
him saying an air hose upon which he
depended to renew his supply of air had
broken and that he was doomed to die of
suffocation.
During the year ended June 80, 1904,
members of life-saving crews rendered
assistance to LOCI vessels, involving
1928 lives, of whom a total of "a were
lost.
Miss Nancy Carver Letter, the second
daughter of the late Levi z. Letter, of
Chicago, and Maj. Colin Powys Camp
bell, of the British army, were married
in Washington.
Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska, has offered
a reward of 5000 for the apprehension
of the slayer of Lulu Johnson, who was
shot and instantly killed on the night
of October 20, near Valentine, Neb.
The final hearing by the interstate
commerce commission in the matter of
the complaint of William r. Hearst
against the coal carrying roads was be-
gun in Washington.
The will of Richard M. Scruggs, a
prominent merchant and philanthropist,
who died in st. Louis recently, provides
for the distribution of SAT, 800 among
religious institutions.
More Italians are returning to Italy
at the present time than ever before,
according to statements issued by the
various steamship companies whose
boats run from New York city to Italian
ports.
The official vote of Iowa in the recent
election gives Roosevelt, BOT ,907; Par
ker, 1914; Swallow, II, Sol; Debs, IA,
SAT; Watson, 2,2O7 Roosevelt's pJpr-
ality over Parker is 1876.
Enoch Sloan, farmer, went home
from Shelby, KY, in a drunken condi-
ton and shot and killed his wife and
four small children and then shot him