River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-02
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house man in the balcony committed
suicide by shooting himself.
Judge E. F. Dunno was nominated as
democratic candidate for mayor of Chi
cago, with F. w. Block for treasurer,
w. B. Moak for attorney, and Adrian
G. Arson, the famous baseball player.
for clerk.
The Grand opera house, the second
Oldest playhouse in Akron. o., was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss Of $780,
900.
AS a result of an explosion in shaft
No. / of the United Coal & Coke com
pany at Wilcoe, w. Va, % miners are
supposed to have lost their lives. FIT
teen bodies have been recovered.
During a two weeks religious re-
vival in Louisville, KY, just closed
G, 500 persons confessed Christianity. AS
about 5000 of Louisville's 225, 900 pop
ulation had no church utilization before
the revival began, the two weeks work
resulted in the conversion of ten per
cent. of the unchurched.
A dispatch from Odessa says it is re-
ported there that ten Jews have been
killed and 30 wounded in an anti-Jew
ish riot at Theodosia.
Philip Burke and his wife, Eliza,
were convicted in Chicago of the muir
der of Andrew Larson and given Is
years each in the penitentiary
An anti-combine bill passed the low
er house in Indiana.
Floods in Italy swallowed whole fam
lilies and rendered 1900 homeless.
Mrs. Roosevelt's inaugural ball gown
was made in New York at a total cost
Of 1920.
The isthmian commission has signed
a report recommending the building of
a sea level canal
w. A. Lowell, on trial in Chicago for
wildcat insurance operations, was
found guilty and given prison term
with fine of $1,000.
Edward Cooper, a former mayor of
New York and son of Peter Cooper,
died suddenly from the effects of a
stroke of apOplexy a week ago.
Maj. Robert Clark, who Officiated at
the laying of the corner stone of the
Washington monument in 184S, died at
Erie, Pa, aged SO years.
President Roosevelt appointed Unit
ed States Senator Quarles, of Wisconsin,
to be federal judge for the eastern Wis
cOnsin district court, and Judge Seaman,
the present incumbent to be United
States circuit judge for the Seventh
circuit Later the president determined
to withdraw Senator Quarles name
from nomination for the judgeship until
March 4.
The attending physician says that Sir
Henry Irving is completely run down,
and that it is impossible at present to
make any safe prediction concerning
the prospects of his temperance on the
stage.
Maj. James G. Carlton, president of the
National Mexican War Veterans associ-
alton, died at Bedford, Ind, as the re-
suit of stroke of paralysis. He was 70
years old.
Piercing OF the Simplon tunnel
through the Alps has been completed
The work was commenced in 1898. The
meeting of the two boring parties (Swiss
and Italian) was signaled throughout
Switzerland by ringing of church bells
and salutes by cannon. The tunnel is
about II miles long, and cost $4,000 ,00O
The jury in the case Of Print Cooley,
charged with killing James Smith in
What Cheer, Ia, last October, returned
a verdict of guilty as charged.
Frederick A. Whittlesey, who was a
judge of the slave court under William
H. Seward, died atRochester, N. Y, aged
II.
Louis NJ. Hardy and wife, aged about
40 years, were found dead in bed at HON.
er, Mich. Each had been shot once in
the head and once in the heart. The po-
lice are working on a theory Of murder.
The petition for the pardon Of Jesse
POmeroy, now serving life sentence in
the Massachusetts state prison for the
murder of two children in 1874, has been
placed on file by Gov. Douglas. This
means that the pardon will not be grant
ed.
Standard Oil stock fell to $500 share
on the Broad street curb in New York,
representing loss of Sal, 900 900 in value
since the publication of the presidents
order for an investigation.
A comparison between railway acct
dents in the United States and Prussia,
shows that derailments are three times
more frequent in the United States, and
collisions three and-one-half times,
while the number of persons killed or
wounded is So times greater.
Walter Nettleton, a ten-year-old boy
living at Grand Marais, Mich, fell into
vat of boiling logs in creosote. With
weather below zero and his body literally
cooked from the waist down he ran
home one mile and died.
Washington has begun to assume holt
day attire in honor of the approaching
inaugural ceremonies. Flags and bunt
ing are being flung from the fronts of
buildings. Reviewing stands are rap
idly rising, covering the entire line of
march from Seventeenth street to the
capitol.
WOuld-be assassins failed in an at
tempt on the life of President Morales,
of Santo Domingo. Five assailants were
captured.
Mrs. Chadwick, in the Cleveland bank
ruptcy hearing, refused to answer any
questions and was upheld by the court.
The roof of building being recon
structed for theater at Marysville, Cal,
collapsed on account of a defective