River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

The battleship Mikasa, the central
figure in Japans victorious navy as
Togo's flagship, was destroyed by fire
and the explosion Of one of her maya
zines at Sasebo, and five men were
killed, 251 are missing and 243 were
wounded.
Patrick A. Collins, mayor of Boston,
died at Hot Springs, Va. The immedi-
ate cause Of his death was a hemor-
rhage of the bowels. Mr.. Collins was
one of the nations leading democrats.
He served six years in congress and
was United States consul general at
London from 1893 to 1897. He was the
presiding officer of the national demo-
sTatic convention of 1883. ~
According to the police estimate of
casualties during the recent rioting in
Toxic, 1888 constables, 16 firemen and
Two soldiers were wounded. Among
the mob and bystanders nine were
killed and 487 were wounded.
The town of Monte Rosso, Italy, an
almost inaccessible place of 5000 in
habitants, was destroyed by an earth
quake. 1t is believed that hundreds of
lives have been lost.
Vice President Perkins told the legis-
lative committee that the New York Life
donated $4,000 to the republican cam
paign fund last fall. The transaction
was hid from the finance committee. He
admitted that the 100000 over night
sale was to fix the books.
Marquis Ito denies that the recent RI
HiraOfn6 inc
Americans. He says there is not a
semblance of i'll feeling against Ameri-
cans or President Roosevelt.
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., president of the
Wabash railroad, made public declara-
ton in Pittsburg that he expects 8 beat
George j. Gould in the contest for the
control of the property.
Necessity for United States interven-
ton in ehalf of the Albers brothers, i'm
ington to be past.
Descendants of Kosciusko, the Polish
hero who aided in the American revolu-
ton, claim that the site of Chicago was
granted him by congress, and will pre-
sent a bill of 425, 900 900 marks.
A syndicate of New York capitalists
made 81, 100000 by the sale of contract
rights to the stock of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railroad.
A girl suicide in a New York hotel
was identified by her father as Ella
Berry, of West Bedford, Mass, who
killed herself because OF the shame fol-
lowing false story concerning her.
Railroads hope to forestall rate legis-
1ation by concessions as to private car
lines and terminals and thus defeat the
program of President Roosevelt.
Judge T. ]. Simmons, chief justice of
the supreme court of Georgia, died in At
lanta
Bud Rogan, the Tennessee negro
giant, is dead at his home in Gallatin.
Rogan was eight feet nine inches tall.
His hands were II inches in length. and
feet 1914 inches.
One man was killed and two seri-
ously injured in a wreck on the Chi
cago Terminal Transfer Railroad COM
pany, in Chicago, caused by spreading
rails.
Tammany plans to elect Mcclellan
mayor of New York then governor,
then president
Morris K. Jesup, of New York, has
been decorated by Emperor Nicholas
Tor his services to starving Russian
peasants.
United States officials would grant
Russia tariff concessions to pay for
the czar's act in abolishing retalistory
duties. but regard it as Impossible.
Minister Griscom cables from Toxic
that no antiforeign feeling was evil
dent in the recent disorders there.
Hours are shorter and wages are
higher, but the cost OF living is high
er still, as compared with the figures
of last year, according to the bureau
of LABOR.