River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21

magazines published in IL states that
they must pay third-class rates for mail
ing their publications to Canada.
Panama canal engineers will wait to
determine the relative cost between the
lock and sea level methods of construct
ing the canal before deciding on plans.
Gen. Frederick d. Grant, in his an
nual report to the war department,
blames the abolishing of the canteen as
responsible for trouble in governing SOL
diers.
An automobile containing members
OF the party accompanying Gov. r. B.
Glenn, of North Carolina, plunged
over a bridge at Winchendon, Mass.
lnjuring four men. Gov. Glenn was in
a car directly behind, and only the
prompt action of the chauffeur avoided
a collision between the two cars.
According to preliminary figures OF
Iowa's state census, the state had a
total population January 1, 1905, OF
2,207, 372. This is loss of 30,481 since
the census of 1900, when the state was
accredited with a poplation of 2,231,-
$50. Practically all of the larger cities
and counties showed gains. The loss
was almost entirely in rural sections.
Judge G. G. Carrot, who had just re-
signed as chief justice of the First dis
trlct court of appeals at Galveston,
died at his home in Brennan, Tex,
aged SO.
Lightning struck the Hax-Smith
Furniture company's wholesale house
during a severe electrical storm at ST.
Joseph, Mo-, and it was totally de-
stroyed. Loss, 100000.
Ex-Auditor Sherrick, of Indiana,
was formally arrested in Indianapolis.
charged with embezzlement of the
states funds. He waived examination
and was bound over to the grand jury
under bonds of $4,000. Investigation
of the securities whicht were placed in
the hands of the governor tends to
show that they are of sufficient value
TO protect the state.
Joseph Gibson, from Stewartville,
Mo-, was picked up east of Tyler in a
manled condition, and is supposed 30
have been blown off freight train
during a tornado which visited that
section.
The explosion of fuse, followed by
a fire in a building of the Climax Fuse
company, at Avon, Conn, caused a
panic among 20 employees in the build
ing and resulted in the death of seven
and injuries to IL.
The sultan of Morocco ordered addi-
tional troops to Tangier to protect for
eign ministers in case of possible up
risings.
Chief of Police Collins, of Chicago
received six anonymous letters threat
ening to dynamite his home and kill
his family if he continues his crusade
on the thieves and gamblers OF the city
w. ]. Bryan, In letter to President
Roosevelt, urges him to lead the ma
lions to permanent peace.
The American cable in the Pacific is
to be extended from Manila to Japan
and China under concession granted
to the Mackay company.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles may be the
gubernatorial candidate of the Massa-
chusetts democra s, Gov. Douglas hav-
ing declined to run again.
A platform pledging the enactment
of a law abolishing the giving of passes
by railroads in the state was adopted
by the Nebraska republican conven.
ton.
The internal revenue department
rules that patent medicine makers and
sellers must pay liquor dealers tax.
Denmark has invited European pow
ers to intervene in the quarrel between
Norway and Sweden.
Walter w. Juntgen, former book.
keeper of the wrecked Edgar county
national bank of Paris, ILL.,, was in.
dicted by the federal grand jury al
Danville, ILL.,, for making false entries
and abstracting funds from the bank
Komura is threatened with assassina-
ton on his return to Japan.
The Russo-Japanese armistice proto
col was made public. The car is t.
send no more troops south of Hardin OF
the mikado north of Mukden.
A meeting held in Yokohama to pro-
test against peace was followed by an
attack on the police and troops have ar
rived from Toxic to preserve order.
An official of the Mutual Life Insur
ance company declared at the investi
cation in New York that banks contro
absolutely the underwriting syndicates
and that insurance companies are un
able to buy their bonds at first prices
in the open market.
Fire in the plant of the Featherstone
Foundry & Machine company in Chi
cago caused a loss of over $150,000.
President Roosevelt exonerateG
Chairman Shonts of the $4,000, 00(
graft charges in the award of a Pana
ma hotel contract.
President Roosevelt soon will issue
second call for conference of the
powers to make radical changes in The
Hague treaty. The purpose is to make
war difficult.
Otto Sarge, aged Is; Esther Sarge
aged nine; and Fritz Strate, aged nine
of New Kensington, Pa, were smother
ed to death by the caving of a sand
bank in which they were playing.
A large portion of the business sec
ton of Grangeville, Idaho, was de
stroyed by fire, causing a loss esti
mated at $250,OO0. Over 40 buildings
were destroyed.
Fire at Logan, Utah. destroyed the
mechanical shops at the agricultural
college Of Utah. Loss, $4,000.
While writing his name with piece
of chalk upon the dome of the South