River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-12

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cash there was, $4,000.
w. R. Hearst was nominated for
mayor of New York by a municipal
ownership massmeeting..
Earnings of the American Ship
building company for the last fiscal
year were reported at the stockhold-
ers' annual meeting as 81, ,450, an
increase of s521, 275 over the preceding
year.
The international tuberculosis con-
gress, now in session at Paris, may de-
eide to hold it's next meeting in Chi.
cago.
Illinois Methodists in the Rock
river conference denounced unions and
declared for open shop on account Of
the printers strike.
President Roosevelt took the first
step IN the strenuous campaign which
he will wage during the winter for
railway rate legislation by comforting
with Mr.. Townsend regarding the de-
tails of new bill.
Gassaway Davis, favorite nephew of
Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, and
heir presumptive to $10,000,000, after
working as a fireman at the Home
stead steel works, has disappeared, and
his relatives are searching frantically
for him.
Secretary Bonaparte declares Mary
lands proposed constitutional amend
ment will disfranchise many white
voters.
England is said to be ready for
an agreement with Russia over Con-
stantinople. Germany is eager for an
alliance with Russia and France.
Fire in the lumber district of Rhine
lander, Wis, destroyed property val
ued at 100000 and rendered 400 peo-
pie homeless. Two big lumber yards
and about Is small dwelling houses
were burned. About 100000 feet of
lumber was destroyed.
The Russian government has re-
ceived a large number of replies to the
peace conference invitations, all of
which are favorable. The announce
ment of the program and the date for
the meeting of the conference will be
sent out as soon as all the replies are
received.
Fire, which did damage to the ex-
tent of $4,000, destroyed an entire
block of wholesale houses in Portland,
Ore,
A terrific explosion of gas under the
floor of the county commissioners Of
flee at the courthouse in Cincinnati,
O., killed George Zimmerman, CHIEF
clerk of the commissioners, and Rus
sell Blair, an assistant clerk. Two
other men were injured.
Relatives of young student lost in
Colorado abyss, unable to recover
body, are building tomb over 1T.
Pat Grove denies absolutely the al
legged confession published in Butte,
and refutes the statement that he said
young Cudahy plotted with him to ex-
tort money from Mr.. Cudahy, senior.
The peace treaty passed the privy
council at Toxic. 1t is expected that
the formality of the emperor's sigma
ture will follow shortly.
Nearly every city in western Wis
consin and eastern Minnesota. espe
cially those bordering on the Missis-
sippi river, are suffering from an ice
famine. Continued warm weather,
coupled with small harvest of ice
last winter is the cause.
Capt. Josiah Hall, one of the few
remaining early pioneer mining men
of the Lake Superior copper district.
died at Calumet. Mich.
DR.. Thomas Patterson, the treasurer
of Edgefield county, South Carolina,
was suspended by the governor of the
state for alleged defalcation of the
county's money, amounting to $4,000.
Representatives of % central Michi-
gan breweries met at Grand Rapids,
Mich, and formed a cooperative brew
ing company, representing about So
100000 capital.
Russia will soon put on the market a
new bond issue for $3.50, 100000.
The home of Paul Baux, two miles
west of Danville, ILL.,, was destroyed
by fire. as the result of using coal oil
to kindle the fire. Charles Baux, two
years old, was burned to death, and
Mrs. Paul Baux was fatally burned.
Chief Wilkie, of the United States
secret service, has announced the dis
covery of new counterfeit $40 United
States ('Buffalo") note. It is of the
series of 1901.
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, head of the
liberal party in Cuba, landed in New
York and declared that liberty is dead on
the island. He blames the Palma gov
eminent for political murders and says
the United States is responsible for the
condition Of affairs.
President Roosevelt will go to New
Orleans despite the yellow fever cpl
demic. He will leave Washington Oc-
tober IS, and will visit ST. Augustine,
Fla, Mobile, Birmingham. Tuskegee
and Little Rock, reaching New Orleans
October rs.
The Union cotton mill, of Union, S. c..
one of the largest concerns of the kind
in the south, which has lost $500, 900 DUR
ing the year by speculation il cotton,
has been attacked in court by creditors,
who apply for the appointment of re-
ceiver.
Growth of the trust companies and
their freedom to loan practically with
out restriction was declared to be
grave danger to the country by New
York bankers at meeting of clearing
house officials.
The governor general of the Philip
pines notified the war department that
five officers, one postal clerk, six pas
sengers and q of the crew of tho coast
guard cutfer nvtn uaro Loot l,v tho