River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-05


DR.. Arthur Weir tombstone, lead
ing specialist in abdominal surgery,
died in Cincinnati, O., after a weeks
illness from appendicitis. DR.. John
stone was widely known in his pro-
fession in this country and in Europe.
The wreck Of the British steamer
Chatham, in the Suez canal, with hel
cargo of 80 tons of dynamite and blast
ing gelatin, was blown UP by mines
distributed around and inside her hull.
These were fired by an electric cur
rent from Raselech, about five miles
away. No serious damage was done
to the canal
Chicago Federation of Labor, proposes
to organize professional baseball play
ers into a union.
Livingston Quackenbush of lie Sueur,
Mimi, was convicted of receiving mon
ey into an insolvent bank. His bank
failed in March, 1904.
Secretary Taft and more than SO of
the party which visited the orient have
reached San Francisco. The secretary,
in an interview, says the Philippines
snow great gains, that the Chinese
boycott will fail and that Japan really
is glad of peace. He declares that
Filipinos are unfit for lf-government,
and independence cannot be realized
for generation to come.
The prosecution won first blood in
the packers conspiracy cases in Chi
cago when Judge Humphrey ruled that
the manner in which the grand jury
proceedings were conducted is legal.
Norway, says Foreign Minister
Loevland in an interview to the CORE
spondent of Paris paper, plans 10
ask the powers to recognize its indie
pendence at once. :.
An employee of a sewing machine
company in New York is held for a
$250,000 theft.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., entered
Harvard just % years after his father
did.
Tie German press is indignant over
the new Anglo-Japanese treaty.
Gov. Folk of Missouri has ordered
the Police board to close all bucket
shops in st. Louis.
Prominent Chinese regard last Sun
days bomb outrage as a protest against
China's effort to crush the anti-Ameri-
can boycott.
Socialists and supporters of the Hun
garian coalition parties rioted in the
streets of Budapest and more than 40
persons were injured.
Former Gov. Yates of Illinois will
not be a, candidate for the United
States senatorship against Shelby M.
Cullen.
A. H. Linneke has been appointed re-
ceiver of the business of Johnson &
Sloan. retail drygoods merchants of
Minneapolis, MINI. The liabilities, it
is said, will be about 100000.
Five children were burned. and as
phyxiated in the fire which destroyed
the home of Frederick Adamson at Fort
Dodge. Ia.
The confederate organizations of Mis-
sissippi have joined in a request for the
return of two Mississippi battlefiags now
stored in the Colorado capitol building
at Denver.
Jacob Lift, the well-known theatrical
manager and owner of theaters in New
York, Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul,
died in Yonkers, N. Y.
Wheeler H. Peckham, the noted law
yer, died suddenly in his Office on Broad
way, N. Y. Apoplexy is thought to have
caused his DEATH,
In a rear-end collision near Glen
wood, Ind, passenger train No. Al, on
the c., H. & D. r. r. crashed into a
freight train. Five persons were in
jured, one fatally.
The First national bank, Orrville, O.,
closed it's doors by order of the comp
troller of the currency, on account of
continuous run upon the bank.
Fire at Rolf, in the Chickasaw Nation,
l. T., destroyed business block in Main
street. Loss estimated at more than
$4,000.
Announcement made that Rev. DR..
William Bayard Hale, of Richmond,
Ind, has been decorated by the king of
the Belgians, being a knight of the
Order of Leopold.
The eighth annual convention of the
National Association of Postmasters
opened in Dayton, o. Z
The Subway tavern, the saloon which
was opened in New York with prayer
by Bishop Potter year ago, has been
closed. The owner locked up it's doors,
saying that the temperance saloon had
not been paying investment.
w. ]. Bryan, in an open letter, urged
President Roosevelt to "stand by his
guns" in his battle for railroad rate
legislation. He offered democratic
help.
Washington plans to make the home
coming Of President Roosevelt the &C.
casion of an enthusiastic demonstra-
ton, in which men of all parties will
join.
The New Anglo-Japanese treaty,
made public in London, shows that the
alliance is very strong. The aim of the
contract is declared to be the further
ance of peace in the far east, and each
nation binds itself to defend the others
possessions.
Cleveland friends of John d. Rookie
Teller celebrated the anniversary of his
advent into business life So years ago.
Senator Foraker denies he is fighting
President Roosevelt's rate policy.
The political trouble in Cuba puts in
peril $100,000,000 of American capital
invested in the island.
Ex-Gov. Joseph w. Fifer, of Illinois,