River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-02-23

drafted into the city. The police are
arresting the ringleaders.
In a fight between Bulgarians and
Turks at the village of Kuklitch, near
Strumitza, on February Is the Bull
garians lost 20 killed or wounded.
Five men were killed and 13 injured
in an accident on No. 2 slope OF No. l
coIliery OF the Lyle corporation at
Pottsville, Pa, by fall Of top rock
The funeral of Gen. Lew Wallace at
Charlottesville, Ind, was private in &C
cordance with his expressed wishes.
Only the family and few intimate
friends attended. Business was sus-
pended and the city did honor to the
memory Of the dead.
The three months-old child Of Will
Kennedy, of Johnston, Wis, was
smothered while its parents were driv-
ing with it.
DespOndent because his invalid faith
er refused to speak to him for two
years. Max Walters committed suicide
in Chicago.
The postmaster general of England
has reached an agreement whereby the
government will take control of the
National Telephone company December
81, 1911.
Fire insurance companies have de-
cided to retire from Arkansas on
March 1, as virtually none of them will
be able to operate under the King anti
trust law, which becomes effective
March %.
The United States government will
be urged to impress on the signatory
powers of the Berlin treaty of 1878
their obligation to obtain a humane
form of government for the people of
Macedonia.
Fire destroyed block of eight build
ings in indianapolis wholesale district,
with a loss Of 100000.
Kansas war on the oil trust promises
to be joined by Iowa, Indiana Missouri,
Arkansas and Texas.
Commissioner Host, of Wisconsin, de-
clares the split in the Equitable Life AS
surance society was a ruse to permit the
stockholders to raid the surplus fund,
which now totals $83,000,000.
The pope startled the cardinals by or
dering two automobiles, linotype ma
chimes for the vatican printing office,
wireless biography for the observatory
and electric lights to illuminate st. Pc
ters
President Roosevelt instructed the de-
partment Of commerce and labor 10 un-
dertake a rigid and searching inquiry
into the methods Of the Standard Oil
company, with especial reference to the
Kansas field The inquiry however, is
expected to be national in scope.
A Russian officer confesseS that he
placed the shell in the cannon which
was fired at the car across the River
Neya.
John Nichols (colored), Is years DID,
a newsboy in Cincinnati drank quart
of whisky on a wager and died at the
city hospital later after lying in a
stupOr for many hours.
A drastic antitrust bill, to take the
place of the law of 1898, which was
declared unconstitutional by the su-
preme court three years ago, was in
troduced in the Illinois legislature
One woman was burned to death and
Is men and women narrowly escaped
in a fire which damaged the Hotel
Winton in New York city.
Eli Bugg (colored) was hanged at
Mound City. ILL.,, as an accessory to the
murder of Chris Mathis at a picnic
On the scaffold Bugg claimed he was
innocent of the crime, and advised his
hearers to keep out of bad company.
A new trial for Nan Patterson, &C
cused of numbering Caesar Young, will
be begun on March in New York
in the criminal branch of the supreme
court.
DR.. John H. Grannis, said to have
been the first union soldier to enter
the town of Gettysburg at the time of
the battle, died at Saybrook, Conn,
aged GO.
Alexander Mead, a colored man 116
years old, died at Toledo O. Mead
was born in slavery October "a, 1889,
near the Big Sandy river in Greenup
county, Ky.
John Shaw, residing on farm about
20 miles northeast of Quincy, Ill, shot
and killed his wife, and then ended
his own life with the same weapon.
Legal and domestic troubles extending
over several years are responsible for
the tragedy.
Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, has signed
the bill passed by the legislature ap-
propriating 100000 for the erection
and maintenance by the state of an oil
refinery, with a capacity of 1000 bar
rels a day.
Dun's and Bradstreet's reviews show
favorable conditions of trade after a
general decrease owing TO weather.
An official of the Panama railroad
told the house committee on inter
state and foreign commerce that mem
bers of the canal commission draw
fees as directors of the railroad.
A Chicago woman captured a burglar
after a hand-to-hand fight, in which
she was stabbed six times.
Sensational charges in the West Vir-
ginia legislature may result in the i'm
parchment of Gov White.
Fire practically destroyed the inte-
rior of three-story brick building on
Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Mimi.
The loss IS estimated between SIS, 900
and 100000.
The house of representatives has or
dered a thorough examination of the
methods of the Standard Oil company,
voting Immediately on a resolution pre-
scented BY Campbell of Kansas.