River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-21

OF Inc engagement or tnelr daughter,
Alice Lee Roosevelt, to Congressman
Nicholas Longwortn, and that the
wedding will take place about the mid
die Ct next February.
February IL has been decided upon
as the date for the wedding of Mr..
Longworth and Miss Alice Roosevelt.
When Miss Alice Roosevelt, as Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, goes abroad in
June with her husband, in every coun-
try she visits she will be presented at
court by the American ambassador or
minister.
Frederick A. Busse has been con-
firmed as postmaster of Chicago by
the senate.
Five men were killed by the ex-
plosion at the Dupont company's dy-
Mantle works of about /, 400 pounds Of
nitroglycerin in the mixing house of
the company's factory, which is three
miles distant from Marquette, Mich.
The international fleet which has
been making demonstration in Turk
ish waters has been recalled.
Four lives were lost in fire which
destroyed the Verbeck theater at Lo-
rain, o.
Edward S. Dreyer, the Chicago
banker whose fight for freedom has
attracted after ton for years, has been
paroled. He had served over two
years of a sentence to the penitentiary
at Joliet for misrepresentation of $780,
900 of Chicago park board funds.
Mrs John Lashaway, aged 70, her
and the latter's two-year-old baby
were killed by train at a street
crossing at Weston, G.
President Roosevelt informed a del
egation of shakers that he regards the
disarmament of the nation impracti-
cable and said resort to war in some
cases is proper.
In duel fought in their cornield
on a farm 20 miles from Jerseyville,
ILL.,. William Andrews was shot and
instantly killed by his brother, Joel
Andrews. There had been bad blood
between the brothers.
The North Coast limited express,
west-bound, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, was held up and robbed Is
miles west of North Yakima, Wash.
The express car safe was blown open
with dynamite. 1t is thought the
amount taken will not exceed $500.
The state bank of Colby, Wis, was
robbed of $4,000 by two highwaymen,
who were captured a few hours later
The stolen money was recovered.
John A. Burbank, aged 70. former
territorial governor of Dakota, died
in Richmond. Ind, after a brief ill
ness. He was stricken with paralysis.
The large stores of Chicago report
the biggest Christmas holiday trade in
the history of the city.
A Kansas grand pury indicted State
Senator F. Dumont Smith for alleged
connection with land frauds.
The flood of Christmas presents for
Europe gave steamers sailing from
New York record-breaking loads.
Because her husband refused to kiss
her before going to work Mrs. Werley
Peyton, at Charleston, w. Va, shot
him, inflicting a dangerous wound.
The presidents of eight Illinois and
Wisconsin colleges have decided to
abolish professional football coaching
and put the game in the hands OF the
faculties.
Ore shipments from the Mesaba
range exceed by 100000 tons the rec
ord of 1902.
The president will shave Panama
officers salaries and dispose of the
press agent to obviate congressional
criticism.
Chicago and South Bend, Ind, will
be connected with a traction line
which, the promoters insist, will be
the largest and finest of the kind in
the United States.
In a letter to Attorney General
Moody President Roosevelt strongly
sustains the formers position in refus-
ing 10 bring case against Paul Nor
ton IN the Santa Fe rebate case.
Zion City has been placed in the
hands of triumvirate by Dowie, who
will recuperate on a Caribbean sea
island.
President Mccall of the New York
Life is dangerously i'll of pneumonia.
Bishop Cotton of Buffalo was robbed
of valuable cross worth $1,000 in a
church dedication.
Henry E. Weaver, president of the
Weaver Coal and Coke company and
one OF Chicago's leading men, died
from apoplexy while at the dinner Ia
BILE.
Judge Brace in the municipal court
in Milwaukee, Wis, decided that
Charles F. Pfister was not guilty of
larceny as bailee, as charged in the in
dictment returned on August last
by the grand jury. The jury was or
dered to return verdict of acquittal.
Johann Hoch, of Chicago, must
hang for the murder of Marie Walck-
er-Hoch, one of his wives. The Illi-
nois supreme court denied his motion
for a reversal of his case and the
granting of an order for new trial.
The court set the hanging for Febru-
airy %.
William Guy, just discharged from
killed his brother-in-law, Harry Flint.
aged Is, and an 1S-months-old child,
and fatally wounded Mrs. Elizabeth
Bennett, in Cleveland, o. He was ar
rested.
Fire destroyed the wholesale gro
Gerry establishment of Wadhams 6
Kerr Bros, at Portland, Ore, causing