River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-12

| if revision and nominated ticket
headed by Curtis Guild, Jr.
Charles z. Hughes, chief inquisitor
for the insurance investigation, was
nominated for mayor of New York by
the republican convention, but declares
he will not run.
President Roosevelt orders legal ac-
ton which will break up the railroad
monopoly of the bridges and terminals
at st. Louis as the first blow in the
war on railroads.
A Vancouver dispatch says terrific
gale, which swept the coast, is believed
to have resulted in the drowning of at
least 30 Japanese fishermen, who were
out on the Gulf of Georgia fishing for
salmon.
The navy department has designated
the armored cruiser West Virginia as
the vessel which will carry the presi-
dent from New Orleans to Hampton
Roads on his return from the southern
trip.
A cave-in occurred at the Vermont
Slate company's quarry about two and
half miles from Granville, N. Y.
Ten men were killed.
William Stuckermolt was convicted
of wife murder by jury at Quincy,
III. He beat her to death with a ham,
mer while she was tied to her bed with
ropes. Punishment was fixed at life
Imprisonment.
Ten buildings in the little town of
Carlton, Mimi, were burned. Loss,
$4,000.
Horace T. Connect, for so years a
prominent resident of st. Joseph, Mo-,
fell from dam into a pond of water
and was drowned. He was IA years
old.
When the Leland line steamship An
she had nearly 100000 bushels of oats
and corn beneath her matches.
DR.. Joseph Huyett, said to be the old
est physician in Illinois, having prac-
ticed in Milan, ILL.,, for 81 years, died
at his home in that city.
Democrats of New York city adopted
resolutions praising President Roose-
welt for his work in ending the Russo
Japanese war, at the convention which
named George B. Mcclellan for mayor.
Famine in ice threatens Chicago and
the whole middle west, and dealers say
the prices may be raised.
Athletic contests at the vatican were
inaugurated, when $50 took part in va
rious games.
Secretary Root promised Baron Ro-
sen to make response accepting the
cars proposition for reconvention of
The Hague peace conference.
Earnings of the Illinois Central rail-
road for the fiscal year ended June 80
are reported as equivalent to 1906 per
cent. on the stock.
The ST. Petersburg municipality re-
fused to offer honor to Count White,
blaming him for events making peace
treaty necessary.
Representative Townsend, having
obtained the presidents consent to his
amended freight rate bill, announces
the measure will be pushed.
The National Civic Federation COM
mission to investigate municipal own
ership organized at New York by elect
ing M e. Ingalls, president.
The proposed treaty between Cuba
and Great Britain is vigorously op-
posed by American interests.
Mrs. e. d. Rand, mother-in-law of
Prof. George d. Heron, bequeathed
100000 to found a school for socialism
in New York
Three children were burned to death,
their parents rescued and taken in
dying condition to hospital, five 9TH
er tenants sent to hospitals suffering
from burns, and two f1remen hurt in a
fire in four-story fiat house in Brook
Ign, N. Y.
anti-diphtheria serum announces he
has found cure for consumption,
which he will give to the world next
August.
Louis Carmichael, the man that his
tory gives credit for the nomination
of Horace Greeley for the presidency
in 1872, was found dead in a barn at
Sydney, N. Y. He was SO years old.
James A. Radcliffe. a Brooklyn finan-
cier, challenged President Castro to
fight duel over the OrinOco COM
pany's concession in Venezuela.
A reduction. of bail for Henry A.
Leonard, the young man who stole
$3.50, 900 worth of securities from the
National city bank last week, from
$4,000 to $4,000 has been made
After an idleness of about two years,
the plant of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany, in Columbus. O., has resumed
operations.
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., was removed
from the presidency of the Wabash
Railroad company at special meet
ing of the board of directors held in
New York city. F. A. Delano was
elected as his successor. Mr.. Ramsey
has been engaged in a contest with
Mr.. Gould for the control of the road.
]. M. Childers, jailer of the La
Crosse county, Wisconsin, Jail, who
was convicted of assisting in the es-
cape of two members of the notorious
Eddie Fay gang of post Office robbers,
was sentenced to term of Is months
in the house of correction.
September figures show a surprising
increase in the number of immigrants
arriving in the United States.
The Illinois railroad and warehouse
commission is reported to have
reached decision in the freight rate
cases that will mean a loss of $S,000,-
600 annually to the railroads in this
state.