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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
THE Fast.

New York tenement fires, some of
which were of incendiary origin, caused
the death of three persons and injury to
a score Fifty were overcome by smoke
and an equal number made homeless.
In a barn which was destroyed by fire
at Altoona, Pa, four tramps were burned
to death.
The wife of Ex-President Cleveland
performed the ceremony of laying the
corner stone of the new building of the
Hebrew technical school for girls, now
being erected in New York.
Flames ruined "Harcourt Studios"
a building in the Back Bay district of
Boston, occupied mainly by artists,
causing a loss of 100000. Several art
lists who were sleeping in the building
had narrow escapes.
A firm of brokers, known as the Fed
eral Stock and Grain company, of Bos-
ton. which lost 100000 in the last six
months, has assigned, with liabilities of
$15O,O00.
A woman whose husband suffered a
ruptured heart in a wreck, but lived a
year ana nail, mas DeeH aWdTueu 9oo,-
900 by New York jury.
In the case of Joe Walcott, the colored
pugilist, charged with manslaughter in
shooting Nelson Hall, Jr., about three
weeks ago, no bill was returned by the
grand jury at Boston. The jury found
that the shooting was accidental.
A storm of wind and snow, with it's
center over New York, Frustrated wires
and caused disasters to shipping along
the Atlantic coast and on the great lakes.
Several lives, it is feared, were lost.
Thomas e. Watson, in a statement is
sued in New York, declares the result OF
the election was due to the personal
popularity of Mr.. Roosevelt and the i'm
mense unpopularity Of Mr.. Cleveland's
administration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

An automobile killed a woman in
New York and the chauffeur was
arrested and charged with homicide,
after being beaten almost insensible by
a mob.
Reports to the agricultural depart
ment show large increase in the yield
Of corn throughout the country. The
otal yield for the year will be 2,453,-
| 100000 bushels.
John A. Johnson, son of a pauper
and a washerwoman, is governOr-elect
of Minnesota, and now is talked of as
a possible democratic candidate for the
presidency.
National Corporation Commissioner
Garfield is preparing evidence against
| the beef packers and the tobacco trust
for submission to congress.
Rosalie MontmassOn, the repudiated
wife of the late Premier Crispi, of It
ally, and who was decorated on the field
of Garibaldi, is dead.
Burlington officials are testing the
staff signal system as a protection
against train collisions.
Emperor Nicholas, it is said, would
treat for peace if the proposal would
come from Japan direct.
Colorado republicans have decided to
make a contest in the courts for the
state offices, charging fraud.
Cress Unger, for 25 years connected
with the custom house in San Francis
CO, has been arrested on a charge OF
embezzlement.
| 1t was stated unofficialIy at the war
department in Washington that Private
John T. Smith, stationed at Salem,
Mass, who recently attracted attention
| by marrying a negress, will be dis
charged from the army for the good of
the service"
| The total registration for the present
year in Cornell university is announced
as 2,S57. The total for 1903 was 1855.
The greatest falling off is. in the arts
and the greatest gain in civil engineer
ling.
| News was received in New York that
Gen. Rachael Reyes, the new president
OF Colombia. had appointed Enrique
Cortes as minister to the United States.
Gen. Andre, Frances minister of war,
was slapped in the face during sit
ting Of the chamber of deputies. and
the session broke up in a free fight.
Charles Ihlstrom pleaded guilty at
Philadelphia to forging the name of ex-
President Cleveland to a check.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

During a quarrel Edward Truman,
aged 20, and who was a member of the
noted Quantrell band in Missouri, shot
and killed by James McCabe at Sedan,
Mimi.
At the driving park in Memphis, Tenn,
Lou Dillon trotted a mile in 2:01 break
ing the worlds unpaced record. The for
mer unpaced trotting record was 2: II ,
| held by both Lou Dillon and Major Del
mar.
At the age of SO years, Alexander
Sutherland, said to have been the last
survivor of the famous Balaklava six
Hundred, is dead at his home in Den
yer. Col, where he has resided for 40
years. He was the trumpeter who
sounded the bugIe call for the memoir
able charge immortalized in verse by
Tennyson.
From the orient the steamer Coptic,
which has arrived in San Francisco,
brings 100000 worth of raw silk
and over 100000 in gold.
An unknown assassin murdered Ju-
Illus Weber his wife, their 19-year-old
daughter Bertha, and their son Paul,
aged IA years, at Auburn, Cal. He then
set fire to the home in an effort to cover
his crime.
A jury at Decatur, ILL.,, found Ray
Brown guilty of killing Richard L. Rob-
erts in April last. and sentenced him to
40 years in the penitentiary.
The famous pioneer and journalist of
Kansas, Col. D. r. Anthony, died in
Leavenworth from heart disease.
Fire destroyed the Browning, King &
Co. building at Madison street and Wa
bash avenue, Chicago; estimated loss,
$500, 900.
One life was lost and SO horses per-
| ished in a fire which destroyed Eckes
| & Fohs' barns in Hayton, Wis. James
| Rahleigh persisted in attempting to save
the horses.
| Reports to the government from Ohio.
Indiana and Michigan announce that
wheat is badly affected by Hessian fly.
| Worlds far admissions during the
week ending November II were 49S, 149;
total admissions since the opening of
the fair, 17,065,SS6.
In the outskirts of st. Louis IA persons
were hurt, two fatally, in the wreck of a
train on the Wabash road.
A band of masked men wrecked a bank
at Rio, ILL.,. and escaped with $500.
In collision near Green River, Wyo.,
IL persons were killed and several in
| jured.
Chicago was defeated by Michigan
at Ann Arbor in a stubbornly-fought
football game by the score of % to. u.
On the charge Of numbering his IA
| Their. mother, sister and brother, and
setting fire to the house to conceal the
crime Adolph Weber was arrested at
Auburn. Cal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
WIN
AT THE BALLOT BOX
Roosevelt and Fairbanks Elected President
and Vice President by Overwhelming
NATURALIZATION Returns

New York, Nov. 14.-Theodore Roose-
welt, of New York, and Charles W. Fair
banks, of Indiana, will receive, accord
ing to the latest returns from the cleo
ton last Tuesday, 343 electoral votes for
president and vice president, as against
1873 votes for Parker and Davis, the
democratic candidates. The total pOpu-
lar vote is estimated at 14,500000, of
which Roosevelt received 1885, 500; Par
ker, 6,143,500; RoOsevelt's plurality,
2,213, 900. President Roosevelt has an
nounced that he will not be a candidate
for another term.
1t will require the official count to
determine whether Maryland will be
placed in the republican or democratic
column. From the returns thus far re-
ceived the indications are that the re-
publicans have elected seven and the
democrats one of the electors Of that
state.
While Massachusetts gave Roosevelt
about $4,000 plurality, w. L. Douglass,
the democratic candidate for governor,
was elected, defeating Gov. Bates by
about $4,000.
Missouri is another state which elected
democratic governor, while giving it's
electoral vote to Roosevelt by 10000 plu
rality. Joseph W. Folk (dem.) defeated
Walbridge (rep.) for governor by a plu-
rality of between $4,000 and 10000.
In Colorado the plurality of Adams
(dem.) over Peabody (rep.) for governor
is nearly 10000. The plurality for
Roosevelt, however, is about 10000.
The result of the election in Wisconsin
shows that Roosevelt carried the state
by .luraIity estimated at about $50, 600,
and that Gov. La Toilette was reelected
by about $4,000 plurality.
Roosevelt carried every county In
Michigan, the state giving him plural
it, of about 100000, while Warner (rep)
for governor has only So, 154 over Ferris
(dem.). A notable feature of the Mich
igan election is that the republicans Sc
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
COLLISION AT SEA.
Schooner Struck Off Barnegat Light
Captain, Wife and Two Sea-
men Drown.

New York, Nov. 12.-Capt. Robert
Walton, his wife and two seamen, lost
their ives Wednesday night off Barne-
gat J. at, when the United States sup
ply ship Culgoa cut down the Norfolk
lumber schooner Wilson and Hunting.
Three members of the crew, the mate,
cook and seaman, we're rescued by
the Culgoa and were brought here Fri
day. The accident occurred, according
to the survivors, about seven O'Clock
in the evening. The schooner was ten
miles west of Barnegat, lacking off
shore, when she was struck by the Gull
goa, which was making for New York
The steel bow of the supply ship struck
the schooner nearly amidships and cut
half way, throwing the smaller vessel
on her beam ends. The Cu,goa kept on
at full speed, with the intention of
keeping the schooner fastened to its
bow until the crew could be rescued.
The gaping hole in the side of the sail
ing vessel was SO large, however, that
it slid off to one side. A boat from
the Culgoa rescued three men. No 9th
ers were seen and it is thought that
Capt. Wilson went below after his wife
when the collision occurred and that
they were both drowned, with two sea-
men, who were in their hunks. The
Culgoa stayed by the capsized schooner
all night and at daylight Thursday
morning lowered two more boats, but
the sailors were unable to discover any
signs of life on the wreck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Emperor William Of Germany has de-
cided to hereafter use the pardonins
power literally in cases of lese majestic.
This is radical departure from the pre-
Yious practice.
The inquiry by the London board of
trade into the North sea incident will
open at Hull November Is.
A Japanese shell exploded g. mine at
Port Arthur and the Russians lost zoo
men.
A revised list of the casualties at the
battle of Shakhe river places the number
of Russians killed or wounded at 49,
$50.
Advices from Berlin state that the
German emperor looks to President
Roosevelt to mediate in the war, and
would second any such effort to secure
peace.
The famous japanese commander
Gen. Kuroki, was struck by a splinter
from a bursting she'll and ded in Lao
yang, October 4, according to a dis
patch from Nemirovich Danchenko,> a
Russian correspondent in Mukden.
In his report Gen. Mackenzie says
that seacoast forts need rebuilding, and
he asks for an appropriation of $2S,-
100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNIOl
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

The decision has been reached by
President Roosevelt to attend the Lou
isfana Purchase exposition on Saturday,
the 26th of November.
All records in the production OF corn
have been broken, the official report OF
the government experts showing that
the total yield for the year will be
2.453, 600 900 bushels.
The proposition for the United States
to intervene in the Russo-Japanese
war, which was favored by Japan and
Great Britain, will not be acted upon by
President Roosevelt owing to the hos
tile attitude of Russia.
The first steps toward treaty OF ar
bitration between the United States and
Denmark have been taken.
Denmark will accept President Roose-
velt's invitation to participate in Sec
ond peace conference.
The announcement is made by Pres1-
dent Roosevelt that Hon. John Hay will
continue as secretary of state during
the four years beginning March 4, 1905.
Congress will be urged by the presi-
dent to revise the Philippine tariff
schedule.
The president On his approaching trip
to St. Louis will make no stops at other
cities, either coming or going.
Secretary Shaw will not call for $780,
600 900 from the banks, at least not be-
fore January.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
LATER NEWS

Samuel Levin, of Hartford, Conn. !,
wins $4,000 betting on the size of
Debs' vote for the presidency.
Samuel Dicl ey, of the national pro-
hibition committee, charges o. w.
Stewart, chairman, of looting the cam
paign fund.
The east was swept by blizzard
the 14th. In Pennsylvania a foot of
snow fell. All wires are down and
the markets are affected.
The Chicago labor unions are re-
organizing on new basis
George Curley. aged 10, of Chicago,
was fatally injured in football game.
The car of Russia will double-traclx
| the Siberian railway.
The tug Gregory foundered at Cleve-
land, o., and Captain Dell Minney lost
his life.
Helen Pickett beat off ruffian who
attempted to assault her on the streets
of Omaha.
The reported death of General Ku-
roki is denied.
The old court house at Park Rapids,
Mimi, is destroyed by fire.
The schooner w. S. Crossworthe
bnrned at Grand Marias, Mich.
A. N. Bendz, a street car conductor
at Superior, Wis, was shot and
wounded by a holdup man.
| Isadore Rush, the we'll known ac-
tress, died at San Diego, Cal, from
heart failure, while bathing in the
ocean.
The latest indications from the front
point to an early resumption of mill
tary oberations on large scale. Field
Marshall Oyama has received heavy
reinforements from Niu-Chuang and
evidently is about ready to wage bat
tie for the possession of Mukden.
| A. r. Jaures, editor of the Venezue-
Ian Herald, has been ordered expelled
from Venezuela by President Castro.
The private bank of e. FL. Skinner at
Birmingham, Ia, has entered volun-
tary bankruptcy because of heavy in
vestments in a railroad project This
makes a total of thirty-eight Iowa
banks to fail in a year,
Socialism is the chief issuo confront
ing the American Federation of Labor,
in session at San Francisco
Francois airship at St. Louis meets
with failure in an attemptto fly with
only fans to steer it.
Rural Mail Carriers association Off
GERS who mixed in politics are to be
fred if president can find out who they
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ception of Allegheny, in which Pitts
burg is situated, but from where a
close estimate has been obtained, show
that President Ro0sevelt's plurality in
Pennsylvania has reached 494, 525,
probably the largest plurality ever
given a presidential candidate by any
state in the political history of the
country.
Colorado.
Denver, Col, Nov. 12.-The demo
Gratis now concede the election Of three
republican congressman in Colorado.
Revised returns give Franklin e.
Brooks (rep.) majority of 1876 over
John r. Shafroth (dem.), for congress-
man at-large, and show 2,7S5 plurality
for r. w. Bonynge (rep.) in the First
district, and 6,026 plurality for H. M
Hogg (rep) in the Second district
The plurality of Adams over Peabody
for governor, amounts to 9.646.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

Vice President Elect of the United States.
cured every member of the legislature.
A plurality of $4,000 is claimed for
Roosevelt in Indiana.
Illinois elected Deneen, republican
candidate for governor, by over 25O,0OO
plurality, and gave about 267, 900 plural
ity to the republican national ticket.
Nearly complete returns from ONO
show close to $780, 600 for the Roosevelt
and Fairbanks electors.
In Iowa the entire republican ticket
was elected, Roosevelt securing about
lac, 900 plurality.
Plurality for Roosevelt in New YORK
was 1000, and in Pennsylvania, 494,UUo.
Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Nov. 10.-Fhe result OF
the election in Wisconsin shows that
Roosevelt ran ahead of every ticket and
carried the state by plurality estl-
mated at about 10000; that Gov.
La Toilette has been reelected by
plurality of about $4,000 and that the
congressional complexion remains IN
changed from two years ago. The leg
IS1dlul6 WHICH IS Lo SAeSI q CA4Ah0N $1,000
senator to succeed Joseph V. Quarles, is
largely republican.
Illinois.
Chicago, Nov. 1O.-Rev1sed uno1nclal
returns, based in some cases on careLui
estimates, from all counties in ILLINOIS,
show that Roosevelt and Fairbanks car
ried the state by 267,853 plurality over
Parker and Davis. Charles S. 'Deneen'
for governor. and the rest Of the repub-
lican state ticket, will have approx
mately the same plurality as the ma
tional ticket. Along with the great plu-
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WILL KEEP HIS PLACE.
Hon. John Hay, the President Says
Will Not Leave the
Cabinet.

Washington, NOV. 12.-President
Roosevelt made the announcement Fri
day that Mr.. John Hay would continue
as secretary of state during the four
years beginning March 4, next. You
may state positively" were his words,
chat Mr.. Hay will continue as secretary
Of state up to the 4th Of March, 1909"
The president was asked regarding other
possible cabinet changes, but indicated
that there was nothing to be said at pres
ent. His announcement regarding Sec
rotary Hay was made to number OF
newspaper representatives in his Office
late in the afternoon. Mr.. Hays sue
cession to the state department folio
fixes the most important place in the
new cabinet and is the first and only
step so far taken ia that direction.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

Train robbers are VIGOROUSLY no re-
specters of persons and the belief is fast
spreading that they have furthermore no
respect for place. These gentry have
made their latest appearance at Havre de
Grace, Md, where they tried to hold up an
express messenger. This is q disquiet-
ing demonstration of the desperation OF
the criminal classes If a train on a
busy eastern railroad can be thus ap-
preached, there is no safety anywhere.
If the express messenger can be assailed
in the security of his own car, what guar
anty is there that robbers will not go
through the passengers?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

1t is good news that treaty providing
for the arbitration of disputes not in
Volving the vital interests. the honor or
the independence of the two contracting
parties has just been signed by the repre-
sentatives of the United States and
France. This marks another step to-
ward a contamination devoutly to be
wished by all men of intelligence and
good will. Perhaps the time is coming
when international agreements to re-
frain from hostilities will be extended to
every potential cause of controversy.
and when means will be found and. il
necessary, taken to compel compliance
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

A Missouri paper says: Our advice
TO Missouri is, don't buy automobiles;
buy mules. This blast of wisdom is
based upon a prediction of government
authorities that next year picked mules
will be worth $3.50 and draft mules viii
be in demand at 5000 each. The mule
has become social and economic neces-
sity. As one enthusiastic writer puts it:
1.-THE mule is the httest, hence It's bound
to survive. Long after the last human
has been kicked of the face of the earth
by the tentative, rehensiIe dipper of q
Missouri mule that animal will roam
and bray.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

Nine members Of the Fourteenth
United States artillery have been indict-
ed at Athens, O., for their alleged part
in the killing of Corporal Clark, of the
Ohio militia, in a soldiers riot there last
summer.
Hon. John Hay, secretary of state, has
received a dispatch announcing the
death of his brother, Maj. Leonard Hay,
U. S. A, retired, in the seventeen year
of his age. He ded at the Hay home
stead at Warsaw, III.
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rality for the republican national and
state tickets % republicans were elected
to congress out of 25 members to which
the state is entitled. Only two demo-
crats-R. T. Rainey, in the Twentieth,
and NJ. D. Foster, in the Twenty-third
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

lican victory, it's total is much lower,
Roosevelt having plurality of 1852.
The figures secured by the two papers
agree more closely on the result of the
gubernatorial election, tn : Globe-Demo-
crat giving Folk (dem.l a plurality of
1886 and the Republic giving plu-
rality of 26,S5S.
New York.
New York, Nov. 10.-Returns from all
parts of New York 90 not materially
affect the figures given out earlier in the
day. The legislature will have 102 re-
publican assemblymen out of $50 and
S5 republican senators out of so. The
returns from the whole state show that
Roosevelt has approximately 174,O00
plurality, and that Higgins (rep.), for
governor. has $4,000 plurality.
Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Nov. u.-Complete
but unofficial figures received from
every county in the state, with the ex-
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The Next Congress.
Probable Cabinet Changes.

Washington, Nov. 14.-PrObable
changes in President Roosevelt's cab
met are already discussed. Hay and
Taft are certain to remain. Cortelyou
may go into private business or become
secretary of the treasury. Shaw is to re-
tire March a.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

The United States cruiser Olympia
ran into and damaged a British schoon-
er near Gibraltar few days ago. In
Justice to the Olympia's crew it should
be explained that she didn't have even
q pint Of vodka aboard.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17
Indiana.

latest returns from over the state have
not changed materially the earlier esti-
mates of the plurality for the republican
national ticket. Republican State Chair
man James p. Goodrich is persistent n
his prediction that $4,000 plurality for
Roosevelt is conservative. Returns
from the legislative districts indicate
that the republicans will have a ma
jority of 100 in the legislature which Will
this year elect two United States sena-
tors to succeed Charles w. Fairbanks,
vice president-elect, and Albert J. Bev-
eridge. The republicans gain two con-
gressmen, defeating Representatives
Miers and Robinson in the Second and
Twelfth districts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

Already the New York subway is being
disfigured with unsightly advertise
ments. Some people will think it a pity
when they get to Heaven-if they ever
do-that they can't line the streets of
The New Jerusalem with billboards.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

However, it is a trifle disconcerting to
think what decline in population Chi
cago would suffer if the proposed penalty
of capital punishment for highwaymeD
ever became a reality.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

In Colorado the women voted Tor
president It's lucky thing for the
women Of Colorado that election doesn't
come on Thursday, when the girls are
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

A white woman was Kissed for enter
ing a St Louis theater with a Filipino
soldier. She was wise enough, however,
to hold off until it was too late to make
a campaign issue.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

Japanese and Russians around Port
Arthur are blowing up one another's
tunnels. Chicago may find occasion to
hire them for a small job of that sort
when the cruel war is over.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-17

King Edward now wears a bracelet,
but let it be said in his behalf that he
does not, as yet, go about carrying his
pocketbook in his hand or hang his
watch on a little hook upon his breast.