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

1 Christian Herald OF that CITY, Is QeaO III
Los Angeles, Cal.
Ernest Terah Hooley, leader of Eng
lish high finance, who amassed 10000
900 in stock deals and lost it, was ac-
quilted of fraud in a London court. An
accompIice was given one year.
The steamer Glen Island was de-
stroyed by fire in Long Island sound and
nine persons persisted, two being pas
sengers. Twenty-Five were rescued by
courageous work on the part of the crew.
The Colorado supreme court threw out
the entire vote of three more precincts
in which the republicans charge fraud,
giving that party control of the leg1sla-
ture and probably the governorship.
Bernard B. McGreevy, of O'Neil, Neb.,
former president of the Elkhorn Valley
bank. which closed its doors on Thanks
giving eve, was arrested at Phoenix,
Ariz.
Pho Contra, the faithful attendant Of
the late Pope Leo Kill, died in Rome OF
apoplexy, thus fulfillingfhis own predic-
ton that he would soon follow his mas
ter.
L
persed a demonstration of 1900 students
who had assembled in the principal
streets and in front of the governors
palace. Three hundred Of the students
were arrested and so were injured.
M. S. Mccartney, patient at the state
hospital for the insane at Lincoln, Neb.,
was strangled to death by fellow pa
tient.
Six river laborers were killed near
Ashland. KY, by drinking wood alcohol.
John Alexander Dowie asserts he has
$21, 100000 in property at Zion City and
denies that he is in financial straits.
Subscriptions are being taken up
throughout England to care for the I'M
employed The London fund, started by
royalty, has reached $4,000.
Lumbermen of British Columbia will
make a strong demand on the Canadian
parliament for a duty on lumber i'm
ports from the United States.
J. J. Warren and his son, H. H. War
rem, and Edward Bickerson, merchant,
were killed in a street fight at Rosa, Ark.
growing out of a dispute over an account
of 25 cents claimed by Bickerson.
John Clapp, formerly a National
league baseball player, dropped dead at
ithaca, N. Y.
Because he kissed a fair customer,
| Hammond, Ind, women boycotted
Louis Breskin, resulting in his bank
| ruptcy.
Nearly all religious sects report larger
| percentage of increase in membership
! than in previous years, and in several OF
| them the ratio of growth exceeds the
| ratio of increase in population.
Officers of the National Association of
Retail Druggists issued statement ad-
hitting that the evidence in the hands OF
the federal authorities of widespread
sale of counterfeit drugs is absolutely
| convincing.
A blizzard along the Atlantic coast
drove many ships ashore.
The body of a murdered girl, her fea-
lures disfigured to prevent identification,
was discovered on a Colorado noun
! tain.
Three men were arrested at st. Cloud,
Mimi, on a charge Of having robbed
| the bank of Rice, at Rice, Mimi, of
81 900 in currency and several thousand
dollars in negotiable securities.
Joseph Ryant and Paul Wienewsky,
| fishermen, were drowned in the Grand
| Traverse bay.
With the completion of the agricul-
tural palace, which is now ready for
occupancy, the Lewis and Clark exposi-
| ton at Portland, Ore, stands practically
finished, so far as exhibit palaces are
concerned.
The big ice gorge above Cincinnati
| broke and a great mass of ice moved
| down the river for several hours, threat
ening damage to property, but finally
gorged again without having caused
much loss
The engine of a Wisconsin Central
| train became unmanageable at Chip
| pewa Falls, Wis, and George Rosine,
| the fireman, and Walter Mohr, the
| brakeman, jumped from the cab. Rosine
was instantly killed and Mohr was ia
| tally injured.
James Connors, the murderer of De-
putty Sheriff Sweet, of Blackfoot, was
| executed at Boise, Idaho.
The body of former President Paul
Kruger was inferred with impressive
ceremonies at Pretoria
Will Jones, colored, was hanged at
Helena, Ark, for the murder of A. w.
Robertson.
Mr. Davis, the American consul at
AleXandretta, who recently got into
trouble with the Turkish authorities be-
cause he lowered the flag from the con-
sulate during a celebration in honor of
the sultans birthday, will resign.
Augustus Macon, an attorney, died at
Denver, Col, of acute stomach trouble,
| aged 73 years. He was a native of Ken
lucky and studied law in Abraham Lin
coins office.
One girl was killed, two fatally in
jured, and score of others hurt by jump
ing from windows during an explosion
which wrecked Lloyd Adams & Simp-
sons toy pistol factory at Ports
mouth, o.
Plans are forming for the establish
ment of an exhibition of American
manufactures in Paris, France.
w w Kimball, pioneer of the piano
and organ-making business, died at his
Chicago residence at the age of rs
years
Newspapers of Sweden discuss the
| possibility of Prince Gustaf Adolph,
| heir apparent to the throne marrying