River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16

august ODerS was Killed ana three
others more or less badly injured by
the collapse of floor in the building
occupied by the Cleveland CO., Ma
chine Knife company.
The Russian authorities are unable
to check the rising of peasants; pill
lage and disorder continue
Warren county, Illinois, secured an
injunction stopping the oil trust from
building its pipe line across the county.
The Mothers congress, in session in
Washington, planned to renew the
fight for ousting Senator Smoot, and
will try to force action by the senate.
The United States and Great Britain
were unable to agree with Germany
on the amount of claims due German
subjects in Samoa, and commission
may be necessary to close negotia-
tons.
Henry Norcross Mum, editor of the
Scientific American, is dead at his
home in New York city. He was a
member of the firm which publishes
that paper.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change has been sold for $82, 800. This
is the high record price.
Land frauds declared to involve
100000 acres of land and S5,920,000
have been revealed in Utah.
The designer of the 2S-story Bread
building in New York was woman,
Miss Marion S. Parker
Government officials estimate 1,000,-
900 immigrants will have come to this
country by the end of the fiscal year,
and steamships are crowded.
The coroner's jury at Honolulu re-
turned a verdict that Mrs. Jane l..
Stanford died an unnatural death. The
verdict says that death was due to
strychnine poisoning, the poison hav-
ing been introduced into bottle of
bicarbonate of soda with felonious in
tent by some person or persons to the
jury unknown.
Tolstoi in a recent article attacks
all governments as evil, considers
Americans are slaves, denounces revolt
in Russia and war in Manchuria and
says the hope of all peoples lies solely
in perfecting the individual SO that III
restraint is necessary.
Mrs. Eudora Hailmann, of Laporte,
Ind, who, with Elizabeth e. Peabody,
opened the first kindergarten raining
school in the United States, is dead at
North Reading, Mass.
The three upper floors of the seven
story building at 1302-4 Hilbert street,
Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss to the owners and ten
ants of the structure of about $780,
900.
Joseph Jdbst, A years old. driver
of brewery wagon, shot his wife at
Fort Wayne, Ind, and then committed
suicide. The woman will live. She
had applied for divorce from Jobst.
An explosion in the wheelhouse of
the Buckeye Powder company at Ed
wards, ILL.,, reduced the building to
fragments and caused a property loss
of $25, 900.
J. G. Casey, head of the Casey Whole
sale Mercantile company. at Wichita,
Kan, was shot through the head and
instantly killed by James Oliver. Oil
yer lost $4,000 in the failure of the
Casey & Garst Mercantile company a
few months ago, and the misfortune
preyed on his mind.
A west-bound passenger train on the
Baltimore e Ohio railroad collided
with an east-bound freight train at
Mark Center, Ind Harry Cummins,
fireman of the passenger engine, was
instantly killed.
The strike on the subway and ele-
waited railway systems in New York
has passed the acute stage, and trains
are running with little delay.
Robbers set fire to d lrehouse at
Muncy, Pa, and the structure, together
with the stores of Jacob Per and Lewis
Smith & Sons and two dwellings,, was
destroyed The total loss is placed at
$50, 900.
AS the result of furnace explosion
at the Cambria Steel company'S works
at Johnstown, Pa, three men, foreign
ers. were killed
Mrs. Nancy Kelly, the oldest white
woman in Maryland, is dead in Balti-
more. at the age of 107 years. Her
oldest living son is ~ and her young
est daughter 63.
National mothers congress opens in
Washington with large attendance.
Programme for the week includes adj
dresses by President Roosevelt, Car
dinal Gibbons and Rev. DR.. Bristol, OF
Chicago.
National officers of the Brotherhood
of Engineers expel the New York sub
way and elevated strikers for violation
of their contract with their employers.
Vice President Fairbanks has appoint
ed as his private secretary his sen,
Fred c. Fairbanks. He was graduated
from Princeton in the class of 1908.
The government estimates of grain
still held in farmers hands of the crop
of 1904 show: Wheat, III, 900. 900 bush
els, corn, 954 ,000,O 900 bushels, and oats,
81. 100000.
The government must pay $5,000,000
to the sugar trust, according to the
decree of the federal court that
amount representing excess in duties
charged in 1908.
A fire which started in the general
store of A. 5. Leyman & Co. burned
out over half dozen of the principal
business buildings of Stanford, Ill.
Loss, $4,000.
Romeo Gwynn, negro. was lynched at
Tullahoma, Tenn, by unknown parties.
He was taken from the calaboose, where
he was held on charge of larceny.
and hanged to a tree near the center of
the town.