River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-01-19

year-old daughter.
| Mai Gen. Arthur Macarthur COM
handing the Pacific division at San
Francisco, will leave shortly, with per-
mission of Japan, for Manchuria To OBJ
serve the operations of the Japanese
troops in the war with Russia.
Notice of former Gov. James H. Pea
body's contest against Gov. Alva Adj
ans for the Office of governor has been
filed with the Colorado legislature.
From the western Kansas ranges
come reports of heavy losses of stock rs
| a result of the severe cold.
K. H. Sarasohn, the pioneer Jewish
| newspaper publisher of the United
States, died at his home in New York
city.
Lizardo Garcia has been elected pres
ident of Ecuador, and will assume the
presidency on August 10.
While a procession was entering the
Catholic church at Cayamhe, Ecuador,
thunderstorm broke and the altar was
struck by lightning, setting fire to the
| church. A priest and eight other per-
sons were MORALLY wounded.
| Nine. Emily De LaszowskiGerard,
novelist and literary critic, is dead in vi
enna aged Sc years. Her husband,
Chevalier Miecislas De Laszowski, who
was lieutenant general in the Austrian
army, died five weeks ago.
A collision between trains on the
Santa Fe road near Ration, N M, killed
three men and fatally injured two
Postmaster General Wynne has is
sued an order transferring the entire
corps of post Office inspectors from the
| jurisdiction of the fourth assistant post
master general and placing them imme-
diately under the postmaster general
| EX-GOy. Silas CARRIER. the first gov
ernor of Nebraska under the new con-
/ stitution, died at his home in Red
| Cloud, Neb.
Alexander c. Wilson, a young bank
clerk in Chicago, accidentally caused
! the death of his sweetheart by giving
! her poison, and was eXOnerated by cor
oner's jury.
The charity ball in Chicago proved a
splendid success socially and financially.
About $50 900 was realized for charity
from the brilliant affair.
Witnesses for the defense in the SmOOt
case denied political activity of the Nor
mons and declared there have been no
plural marriages in Idaho since the
manifesto was issued.
| Gov. La Toilette in his message to the
| Wisconsin legislature calls for state SUI
pervision of rates, tax on life insurance
and action against the trusts and the
| lobby.
Count Puechler, Germany's greatest
Jew batter, has been sentenced to jail
for melting class hatred.
Fire of supposed incendiary origin
destroyed the business section Of Arispe,
Ia Loss, $4,000.
A poll which the leaders of the house
have conducted of the republican mem
bers on the question of tariff revision
shows that 80 per cent of the members
who have been approached were against
revision.
John Matthews, an actor who for a
time was held as suspect in cOnnec-
| ton with the assassination of President
Lincoln, died in New York at the age
of SO. He was Wilkes Booths room
mate and one of his closest friends, and
was on the stage in the Washington
theater when the fatal shot was fired.
| Prof. William T. Matthews, an artist,
| the friend of many well-known men and
| the painter of portraits of a number of
presidents and others in public life, died
| in Washington, aged 70 years.
Frank P. Flint (rep.), of Los Angeles,
was elected United States senator from
California to succeed Thomas r. Bard.
Three men and a woman were killed
in wreck on the Cotton Belt railroad
at Piggott, Ark.
Silas S. Whitehead, for As years
| prominent editor, died at Marshall, Ill.
In 1854 he established the Evansville
| 0nd.) Enquirer, now the Courier. Later
he established the Eastern Illinoisan at
| Marshall
Committees were appointed in the
Missouri house and senate to investi-
gate the campaign contributions of
Thomas K. Niedringhaus, of st. Louis,
the republican candidate for United
States senator.
The imperial budget issued in st.
Petersburg shows that $310,500,000 has
been set aside to prosecute the war
against Japan in 1905. The expendi-
ture for 1904 is given as $685., 100000.
Mrs. Potter Palmer estimates the to-
tai receipts from the charity ball in Chi
cago at $4,000, which will leave about
! $22, 900 to be given to various chari-
! ties
J. ]. Hill declares the present a crit
zeal time to agitate for railroad rate
| legislation, but says he would welcome
any legislation to stop the rebate sys-
| TEN.
Robert M. Fair, for Is years with
Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, has
retired from the firm the tenth manag-
| ing partner the establishment has made
millionaire.
Commercial agencies, reviewing trade
conditions throughout the country for
the last week, report the outlook gener-
ally bright.
T. K. Niedringhaus admits receiving
| $21 900 from the brewing interests for
the campaign fund, but denies it was
meant as a bride to shape Missouri
| laws
The Illinois state board of charities
in its annual report asked for SIS, $780,
| $50 for the ensuing two years.