River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-16

or American history In the university
of Berlin.
James L. Ord, Chicago descendant
Of King George ". and Mrs. Fitzher-
bert, who is one of the heirs to for
tune of $125,000,00O, will push his
claims at once.
Secretary Bonaparte ordered a court
martial of Midshipman Meriweather
for manslaughter in connection with
the death of Cadet Branch, killed by
injuries in fist fight.
Fire at Johnson City, ILL.,, destroyed
nine business houses. causing a loss
of $4,000.
Coroner Scarborough, at Mount Yer
non, o., finds that Stuart Pierson, the
student at Kenyon college who met
death on a railroad bridge while being
initiated into fraternity, was bound
to the rails when killed by train.
Gov Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania,
has ordered an extra session of the
Pennsylvania legislature to discuss a
variety of reform measures.
A mob of 200 men broke into the
Jail at Henderson, Tex, and over
powered the officers, took out John
Reece, Robert Askew and one other
negro suspected of murder. They We're
hanged in the public square.
Dan Patch, the pacing champion, in
an exhibition mile on the track of the
Memphis Trotting association, lowered
the worlds pacing record without a
wind shield by IA seconds, covering
the mile in 1:5S fiat.
Athens, Ga, was visited by dis
astrous fire, which wiped out large cot
ton warehouse belonging to Deadwiler
& Co., and more than 1900 bales of cot
ton stored therein. Loss, $80,000.
Edward G.. Cunliffe, the express
company's clerk who on October 3
stole $101 900 from the Adams Elk
press company's agency in Pittsburg
was sentenced to Imprisonment for
six years.
News has come from Mexico that
the United States Steel company has
purchased the famous Solid Iron
mountain at Durango, the richest of it's
kind in the world.
One hundred and ten cottages with
their contents were destroyed by fire
which swept Acton Park campmeeting
grounds, IA miles southeast of Indi-
annapolis, Ind. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Germany plans to spend an immense
sum in charging the countrys navy.
Chicago printing firms plan to re-
move plants from that city to escape
labor difficulties.
Rev. John q. Torgerson, who had
married $4,000 couples, died at his
residence in Chicago.
James H. Hyde will sell the furnish
ings of his Long Island home at auc-
ton and go abroad to live.
A brewing association has petitioned
the president to discourage prohibit
ton clause in the constitution of the
new states in the southwest.
Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, Chinese
minister to the United States, plead in
an address in Chicago for fair play
and less rigid restrictions in the ex-
clusion of his people.
George w. Buttrick and William
Jackson were burned to death in the
city Jail at Lake City, Ia, by a fire
started by Buttrick.
Dun and Bradstreet report the weeks
volume of business strong with increas-
ing, tendencies: in, all lines.
The total yield of corn in the United
States during 1905 is estimated at over
2,707, 100000 bushels.
Gen. Trepoff has been removed from
the powerful position which he occu-
pied, that of governor general of St.
Petersburg and assistant minister of
the interior.
President Hegeman, of the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance company admitted
before the New York investigating COM
mittee that his company made campaign
contributions in 1896.
Despondent through ill health, Miss
Fannie Baines, Of Detroit, Mich, leaped
to her death from the fifth story of the
Boston store in Chicago.
New York supreme court dismissed
the suit of John r. Plat to recover $685.
900 from Hannah Elias, finding no evil
dence that the money was extorted by
coercion.
The Ramona hotel, three-story
structure of 800 rooms, filled with east
ern tourists, largely women and chill
dren, was destroyed by fire at San Luis
Obispo, Cal. Loss, 100000.
Confession to the robbery of 500, 900
worth of gems from fashionable New
York homes in the last two years was
made by Harold Prescott, a painter.
His profit on pawning the jewelry,
Prescott said, was but little over
S., 000
Delegates of IA southern states in con-
ference at Chattanooga, Tenn, asked the
federal government to take exclusive
charge of quarantine regulations.
Gov. Folk. of Missouri, sent out in
structions to all of the state mine in
spectors to enforce the eight-hour law,
which the United States supreme court
in the Cantwell case recently declared
constitutional.
Prince Louis of Battenberg says New
York city would be at the mercy of a
big naval fleet in case of war, and
could be blown to atoms in a jiffy.
The date of the second peace confer
ence at The Hague has been tentative
ly fixed for May next.
Military and naval garrisons at Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, revolted against the
government. Hundreds were killed in
the streets. A warship threatened to