River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-01

to report from the American consul at
Harput
Following family quarrel Charles
Broeg, Jr., shot and instantly killed Capt
E. d. Redeck, his father-in-law, at Shaw
neetown, Ill.
George w. Gay and his son, Lester
Gay, were arrested at the entrance tn
the cemetery near Agency, Mo-, on the
charge of numbering Mrs George Gay,
wife and mother of the prisoners.
Francis Buell. Cooley, founder Of
the wholesale dry goods house of
Cooley, Farwell & Co., from which
sprung Field & Letter, Marshall Field
& Co., and many other dry goods
houses in Chicago, died at Hartford,
Conn, aged 80.
Jimmy Michael, the professional BIZ
cycle rider, and three years ago cham
pion middle-distance rider, died
aboard the French liner La Savoie, en-
route for America.
The failure of the potato crop is
causing great distress and suffering
among the peasantry OF Connemara
Reports from various districts Of Ire
land state that the pinch of hunger
is already severely felt
1t is learned, ON excellent authority,
that the Japanese army has been or
dered to renew it's attack on Port Ar
thur, and to take the main fortitca-
tons at any cost.
Secretary Hay has received from the
German government a cordial note
accepting in principle President
Roosevelt's suggestion for another
conference at The Hague.
Four leaders Of the zemstVoist con-
gress were received in audience by the
car for discussion of the reform me-
mortal presented to him. The news
caused sensation in st. Petersburg,
some believing that Russia is on the eve
of new era.
The barn and dog kennels at Hickory
Valley, Tenn, have been destroyed. Six
dogs, among them several Avent hounds,
which had taken many premiums in the
United States and Canada, were burned.
At Wartraco, Tenn, passenger train
struck a buggy containing three occu-
pants Miss Sadie Waite, aged Is, was
instantly killed,
Three children of Thomas Moran, liv-
ing near Wayne, Neb., set fire to barn
in which they were at play. One was
burned to death and the other two are in
a serious condition.
Keen frost and heavy snow squalls are
reported from all parts of the United
Kingdom.
Rear Admiral John Russell Bartlett,
U. S. NJ, retired, of Providence, r. l.,
died at the Marine hospital, st. Louis,
from pneumonia.
Judge Kavanagh, Of Chicago, passing
on the habeas corpus application of union
pickets, holds the railroad and ware
house act valid and says labor thugs
may be punished under it.
The home of e. e. Thomas, prominent
reformer of Omaha, was wrecked by a
bomb, and leading organizations offer
rewards aggregating $500 for the mis-
creant
Nan Patterson nearly collapsed when
skeletons were used in her trial in New
York to illustrate the course of the bull
let with which she is alleged to have
killed Bookmaker Young.
Sebren Profit, a prominent citizen
of Moreland KY, was assassinated by
unknown men while hauling water.
One person was killed and two
others were SO severely burned that
their lives are despaired of in a fire
in house in Chicago caused by the
explosion of a kerosene lamp.
Prompted by jealousy, Frank Saylor.
a negro farm hand, at Philadelphia
shot and killed Henry Henderson,
aged % years, and when he was over
taken by George Henderson, Henry's
uncle, fatally shot him Also
The Janney Manufacturing COM
pany, capitalized at SIPS, 0G0, and one
of the largest manufacturing enter
prises of Ottumwa, Ia, has passed into
the hands of a receiver
The Cunard liner Ivernia from Liv-
erpool, arrived in Boston, bringing
2,262 passengers, of whom 2,092 came
in the steerage.
Six men are under arrest as the result
of a murder and other violence in con-
nection with the Cincinnati and Ken
lucky molders' strike, and warrant has
been issued for j. F. Valentine, national
president of the union.
The new United States cruiser Penn
sylvania, on her official trip, averaged
22.43 knots an hour. Her contract
called for % knots. This shows the
Pennsylvania to be the fastest war
ship of her class in the American
navy.
Miss Nellie Slower. of st. Paul, MINI,
laughed SO heartily at a story told by
one of party of friends at her home
that she dislocated her jaw.
BY the explosion of the boilers in a
cotton gin, in the town of Walters,
suburb of Vicksburg, Miss, two lives
were lost and five persons injured
A monument to the memory of Pres
ident William Mckinley was unveiled
at the main entrance of Golden Gate
park, San Francisco.
Fire destroyed tie old Hill building
in Minneapolis, Mimi, owned by Presi-
dent ]. J. Hill, of the Great Northern
railroad, and occupied by three firms,
mourning a total loss of $4,000.
A number of men blew up and prac-
tically destroyed the building of the
Southern Maryland savings bank at La
Plata, Md. They secured $4,000 in cash.
An incipient revolt in Panama was
checked by prompt action Of the
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