River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-24

ing without diving suit for tor
pedo.
Rev. G. Lindell, pastor of the Swed-
ish Lutheran church at Vasa, Mimi.
fell dead in a drug store.
From recent estimates made in Cal
ifornia of the citrus crop for next year
indications point to a record breaker
That there will be upwards of $4,000
carloads is certain, and the aggregate
may reach 10000 cars.
A dispatch to Honolulu by wireless
telegraph from Hilo says that Hama
the Hawaiian wife of Kailua, a Chi
nese, gave birth to one child on last
Thursday, two on Sunday, one on Mon
day, two on Tuesday morning and one
on Tuesday night. All are dead.
An appeal to congress for the pro-
lection of postmasters in the conduct
of post Offices has been resolved upon
by the Wisconsin Postmasters' associa-
tons convention
Walter Simpson, well-known ath-
letic authority and expert on rowing
matters, died at Cambridge, Mass, aft
er long illness. For IA years he was
president of the New England Associa-
ton of Amateur Oarslnen.
Mrs. Media Wells, a widow, shot and
killed William Burch, to whom she was
engaged to be married, at ner home in
Hutchinson, Kan, and then killed her.
self by firing three shots into her
breast.
Never before, it is said, has such ac-
tivity been witnessed in the erection OF
steel mills, furnaces and shops as is now
being done in Pittsburg and the Monon-
gahela valley.
Three children of Enos Adkins, living
on small branch of Guyan river, near
Ranger, w. Va, we're drowned in food
which swept thatse ction.
John Jebeles in fit Of jealousy fatal
ly shot Miss Leila Mcbride, aged %, at
Austen, Ala, and then fired bullet
into his own brain, dying instantly.
An attempt was made on the life Of
the empress of China as she was passing
through the northwest gate of the city
to her summer palace. Her assailant
was dressed as a soldier and was bayo-
Melted by the guard.
Two men were killed, two fatally in
jured and eight others seriously injured
in a collision of Baltimore & Ohio
Southeastern passenger train and a
street car at Winton place, suburb OF
Cincinnati.
An official account of the disturbances
at Bielostok, Russian Poland, confirms
the report that 40 persons were killed
Jews opened fire on the troops, who re-
piled with volleys.
The police at Granmichele, Sicily
fired on strikers who were stoning them
killing seven and wounding a number
of others.
A score of persons were more or less
seriously injured in st. Louis as the re-
suit of a violent wind and rainstorm.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
ask congress to amend the law requir-
ing the unloading and feeding of live
stock each 28 hours.
A census bulletin prepared by Prof
w. F. Wilcox, of Cornell. declares that
the birth rate in the United States has
been steadily declining since 1860.
The United Verde copper mine OF
Jerome, Ariz., for controlling interest
in which Senator Clark, of Montana,
paid $26,800, now earns for it's owners
100000 month
Four persons were killed in one day
while climbing the Alps.
Booker T. Washington, in a conven-
ton of negroes in Washington, declared
the south is the place for the black man.
Vice President Fairbanks was orator
of the day at the dedication of monu-
ment to Ethan Allen, at Burlington, VT.
The stable attached to the summer
home of Craig Biddle, at Radnor, Pa,
was burned. All of the horses and car
riages were saved The loss is $4,000.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson criticises the
action of the Norwegian storthing and
declares for republic
The coroner at Cleveland, o., in his of
fetal decision, says the night telegraph
operator at Mentor, o., threw the switch
that caused the wreck of the Lake Shore
Twentieth Century Limited, in which 19
persons lost their lives.
Delegates from all sections of the
country talked at the first days session
of the big Chicago trade convention in
favor of plan for reciprocity as cure
for the evils of American commerce.
The annual report of the interstate
commerce commission says 10,046 per-
sons were killed and 84,155 injured in
railway disasters in the United States
during 1904
Mrs. Harvey Mcpherson Null
charged with murder in the first de-
gree in having, it is alleged, poisoned
her husband, a well-to-do farmer, and
III. G. Kelley, a farmland, charged
with aiding and abetting her in the
crime, have been arrested at Pratt
Kan.
President Roosevelt, in letter to the
convention of the National Negro Bust
ness league in New York, says self-help
is the hope of the black man and the So
luton of the race problem
Dispatches received at the state de-
partment from China show that Shang-
hal is the only place where the boy
colt against American goods has as
sumed anything like a serious aspect
At Canton the movement has made
some Roadway, but at other points ii
has not been successful.
The war department may soon or
der arrests, as the result of an expose
showing that the government has been
defrauded of $150,000 on fur contracts
OF Tho Cohrv1lyil1 orrora1