River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-09

All the schools in Escanaba, Mich,
were closed for two weeks because
many of the pupils and teachers are i'll
principally Of typhoid fever.
President Conrad Schaefer, Of the
American Stock Growers association,
has issued a call for its first annual
convention to be held at Denver May 8.
Adjutant General Scott, of Illinois,
made the final payment to the troops
that had been on guard at Zeigler dur
ing the mining strike. The total
amount paid out was $4,000.
Promoter Young, of the ship-build-
ing combine, has sued the Mercantile
Trust company for an accounting OF
$50 1905 900.
Commissioner Garfield's report that
the big packing concerns make small
declared, will not halt the grand jury
inquiry in Chicago.
r. A. Burris, immigration commits
sioner for New Ontario, Canada, who
has given 10000 acres of timber land to
homeseekers, is in Chicago to encour-
age settlers to go north.
The jury in the Sanderson murder
case at Bluffton, Ind, returned ver-
dict of guilty against the defendant,
William Cook. His punishment is
fixed at Imprisonment for life.
The Bryan Cotton Oil company's
plant in Bryan, Tex, was destroyed by
fire. Loss is 100000. with 100000 in
surance.
In rear-end collision near Pitts
burg between two special passenger
trains from Cleveland, on the Penn
sylvania railroad, en- route to Wash
ington, six men and one woman were
killed and &c others injured.
The number killed in the riots be-
tween Armenians and Tartars is given
as 800.
The British claims as result of the
North sea incident, as finally submit
ted to Russia, total $325,000 This
amount, it is understood, will be paid
without demur
Near Pikeville, KY, four men were
instantly killed, two fatally and four
dangerously injured by exploding dyn-
amite. The men were heating dyna-
mite in powder cans when the explo-
sion occurred.
Col Jackson M. Sheets, one of the
best known newspaper men in Illinois,
died at Paris, III. He served in the
civil war in the Twenty-frst Illinois,
originally commanded by U. S. Grant.
He was presidential elector in 1880 and
voted for Garfield.
Will l. Meet aged %, of Tulsa, I. T.,
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. They were married last
Sunday in Longton, Kan, and had just
returned from their honeymoon trip.
The Kansas senate unanimously
passed Senator Nofzinger's bill to pre-
vent the operation of trusts within the
state. 1t provides a fine of $4,000 for
each attempt to stifle competition in any
business. Provision is made for the ex-
pulsion from the state of any firm that
may persist in violating the law.
The CURL house bill, prohibiting trade
combinations tending to restrain trade
and control prices, was defeated in the
Indiana senate by vote of q to IA.
Apparently without cause, Ernest F.
Dubbert, aged 10, killed himself with
dose of carbolic acid at Ottumwa, Ia,
less than "a hours after his marriage
to Miss Minerva Fuqua.
The executive committee of the Illi-
nois Press association decided to hold
the next annual meeting of the associa-
ton in Chicago on May "a.
Six children were killed by an ava
lanche which overwhelmed the house
of peasant near Ausser Viligraten,
Austria.
Arnold Beuthien, the young cashier
of the wrecked New Liberty Qa) saw
ings bank, was sentenced at Davenport,
Ia, to term of four years in the Fort
Madison penitentiary.
The Illinois house passed the primary
election bill by vote of liz to 20.
William Robyn, 81 years old, the or
ganizer of the first symphony orchestra
west of Pittsburg, and who for many
years had taken leading part in all
musical enterprises in st. Louis, is dead.
John S. Johnson, accused of the MUIR
der of Patrick j. Doyle, in quarrel over
a dice game August 10, was convicted at
Milwaukee of murder in the second de-
gree.
The remains of the late Ex-senator
Wolcott, of Colorado, who died at Monte
Carlo, will be cremated in Paris, and
the ashes forwarded to New York.
1t is alleged that hearing in Chicago
shows that the drug trust costs the peo-
pie SAC, 100000 year.
DR.. w. S. Christopher, noted for his
ability as a physician among children
and former member of the board of edu-
cation, died suddenly at his home.
An attempt by a Philadelphia customs
officer to put so per cent. tax on sham
rock seeds failed.
A Honolulu chemist found 662 grains
of strychnine in a bottle from which
Mrs. Standard took dose of bicarbon-
ate of soda.
The Santo Domingo treaty is likely
to be amended, and even then may not
be ratified until after long debate in the
senate.
Adolph j. Bloch confessed at Wash
ington, Pa. that he committed murder
for which his brother was hanged Febru-
airy 2S.
The Lakeside malleable iron works, at
Lakeside, three miles south of Milwau-
kee, Wis, burned and will prove total
loss. The plant was valued at $125, 00O
In removing hill in the eastern part