River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-29
secretarv Hay sent a note to the DOW

| left to the international bureau and ex-
pressing qualification at the results
achieved.
Holiday trade is the greatest ever
known, according to the weekly reviews.
Business begins earlier than usual and
| shows accommodating strength.
Thousands of Christmas shoppers
were imperiled by a fire in the retail
center of Sioux City Ia, which destroyed
| rs buildings, covering two blocks, caus-
ing a. property loss Of 100000. A fire
man was killed.
Edward Cassiday, colored, was hanged
at Towson, Md, for felonious assault on
a girl.
Fire destroyed brick building at Los
Angeles, Cal, occupied by the Pioneer
Roll Paper company, entailing loss OF
| $1,000
President Roosevelt and Attorney
| General Moody plan to prosecute the to-
bacco trust for alleged violation of the
antitrust Sherman act
Four members Of the sophomore class
of Columbia university were suspended
| for attempting to haze Kingdom Gould,
and the students in a mass meeting pc
titioned the faculty to reinstate the
men.
A massacre of foreigners at Fee is
feared and all the powers ordered their
subjects to leave. France has broken
diplomatic relations. The situation is
critical.
r. H. Roberts. prominent business
e ffch Il m In a
New York city hotel as the result of
heavy losses in Amalgamated Copper
stock.
The county grand jury at Cleveland,
| O.. returned indictments against both
DR.. and Mrs. Chadwick on the charge of
| forging the name of Andrew Carnegie
| to note for $5,000,000 in May, 1902. DR..
| Chadwick is now on his way to New
York from Paris.
Edward T. Potter, a Well-knoWn archi-
| tect, son of the late Bishop Alonzo Pot
| ter of Pennsylvania, and brother of
Bishop Henry G. Potter, is dead at his
| home in New York. He was 73 years old.
Nathan Edward Spencer was found
guilty, at Nashville, O., of the murder
| Of William G. Tanner on August 10. The
motive for the crime was robbery.
Announcement is made that the late
Hugh Mclaughlin, for years the leader
of the Brooklyn democratic organiza-
ton, left an estate valued at 100000.
Two British warships have sailed for
the Tonga islands, it is reported with
the intention to annex them.
Seven men were suffocated in the No.
soft clay mine of the Reese Hammond
Fire Brick company, near Bolivar, Pa.
A building at the mouth of the mine
took fire, and the smoke rolled into the
shaft and suffocated the victims.
The international commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the North sea in
cident met at the foreign office in Paris
| and organized by electing Admiral Four
nier as president.
The Dedham savings bank, of Ded-
ham, Ia, has been closed and the presi-
dent, J. G. Cation, who left ostensibly
for funds, cannot be found. He is said to
| be short about $4,000.
The official canvass of the votes cast
| November for presidential electors has
| been completed. The total vote cast was
| 1868 ,496, against 13 1858 STA in 1900 a de-
crease of 460,078. Roosevelt received
over all 1716,768 votes, and over Parker,
| 2,547,57S In 1900, Mckinley had 467, 046
more than all the other candidates, and
| 1884 more than Bryan.
The death is announced of Henry
O'Meara, for many years Boston news
! paper man and writer of poetry. For
| some time he was a cowOrker with John
Boyle OReilly.
Jacob Kuhn, a travelling man, fell
| from a fourth story window at Evans
vile, Ind, and was instantly killed. He
was 60 years old.
Travelling statesmen have no right to
collect funds of companies by which
| they are employed, and spend the same
| for their expenses. This rule is laid
down by the Illinois supreme court.
Mrs. Thomas E. Barnes was killed in
her home at Detroit, Mich, by the ex-
| plosion of a ''one-pounder" rapid fire
gun cartridge, which it is supposed she
was using for a hammer. She was hor-
ribly mangled.
Eight business houses at Mitchell
vile, suburb of Des Moines, Ia, burned,
| entailing a loss of $4,000.
Eastern financiers assure money for
a great power canal at Duluth and
work will Immediately be pushed.
Thirty-seven banks have failed in
Iowa in two years, and ten persons
connected with the banks of the state
| have committed suicide.
An unusually early movement of
grain catches railroads unawares, and
| Chicago is deluged with between
100000 and 100000 bushels of GER
calls, vainly awaiting transportation to
| the seaboard and intermediate distrib-
uting points.
In a head-on collision between
| freight train and work train on the At
| lantic Coast line so miles from Mont
| gomery, Ala, one man was killed and
four more or less seriously injured.
The car dashes Russian hopes for re-
forms by refusing the petition of one
zemstvo. He writes that the petition
is arrogant and tactless.
Manager Tied" Murphy is said to
have disappeared from San Francisco
with $4,000 of Battling Nelson's
money.
A disastrous storm which suddenly
burst on the northern coast of Portugal
has caused great loss of life From re-
ports already received 81 persons have