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

Ex-senator Quarles took the oath of
office as circuit judge for the eastern
district of Wisconsin.
Weekly trade reviews show an in
creased volume of business, due to i'm
proved transportation and the lessen
ing of the weather handicap.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perish and Thomas
Danick were killed by a train at cross
ing in Foley, MINI. The heads of both
men were severed from their bodies
and the body of Mrs. Perish was cut
in two by the wheels of the engine.
While seven men were being hoisted
in the carriage in the Clear Spring col
liery at West Prison, Pa, the rope
broke and the men were hurled to the
bottom, distance OF $50 feet. All
were killed.
United States Senator William Brim-
age Bate, of Tennessee, twice govern
or of his state, veteran of both the
Mexican and civil wars, and for IS
years conspicuous member of the up
per house of congress, died in Wash
to pneumonia and defective heart.
John Cavins, one of the best known
men in Indiana, died in Indianapolis,
He was five times elected mayor of
Indianapolis, and was pioneer in the
development of the coal mining indus
try of western Indiana. He was 81
years old and unmarried.
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ambassador to Great Britain, paid
1926, 1000 to Foreign Secretary Lans-
downe in settlement of the North sea
claims. and the incident was thus
closed.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations agreed to report .favorably the
Santo Domingo treaty as amended.
The vote was on party lines, every re-
publican voting for the treaty and ev-
cry democrat voting against it.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
with the clerk of the United States
district court in Springfield, ILL.,. by
Tere A. Clark, a mining promoter of
Quincy, Ill. He scheduled his iabili-
ties at 1854 800 and assets at $50.
Deaths in India from the bubonic
plague last week numbered $4,000.
Statistics show that the deaths from
bubonic plague in India within few
years reach nearly 100000. In 1903
the mortality in India from the plague
alone was $4,000.
Russell Sage's clerk is bankrupt
for $4,000, with assets of SIS.
Western Packing & Provision COM
pany," just incorporated, is said to
have $1,OOO,OO0 backing.
Kansas railways accused of changing
transportation conditions, favoring the
Standard Oil against Independent
shippers.
Attorney General Moody planned
fight on Chicago terminal lines for al
legged rebate practices.
Railroad officials of Chicago raise a
fund of $4,000 to entertain the visit
ing members of the international rail-
way congress next, May.
Finger is grated from the hand of
one woman to that of another, the sue
cessful accomplishment of an opera
ton began 81 days ago being reached
in a Gotham hospital. 1t is the first
case of it's kind in medical history.
w. J. Bryan lost the Bennett $50, 900
case, the Connecticut supreme court
holding that the bequest was no part
of the will.
Russia, in preparation for a conflict
with England, is rushing big army
to the frontier of India.
The new boys high school at Broad
and Green streets, Philadelphia, con-
sidered one of the finest structures of
the Norman type in the country and
built and furnished at a cost of more
than $1,500000, was damaged by fire
and water to the extent of about $780,
600.
Eighteen indictments against James
O'Leary, of Chicago, and his associates
in the drainage district poolroom have
been voted by the Dupage grand jury
at Wheaton, Ill.
At Shrewsbury, mining village Of
West Virginia, mine car loaded with
coal and carrying ten workmen who
were coming from the mine, dashed
1000 feet down the 45-foot incline kill
ing four of the miners and injuring four
others.
w. j. White, chief inspector OF emf
grafton agencies, who has just returned
to Ottawa, Ont from an extensive tour
of the United States, reports that fully
$4,000 settlers will enter the Dominion
from across the line this year, as against
46, 900 last year.
The report of the department of COM
merce and labor on the beef industry,
published last week, will have no effect
upon the investigation now being con-
Quoted by the department of justice to
ascertain whether the injunction issued
against the Beef combine in Chicago
is being observed.
The National Republican Editorial as
ISOLATION met in Washington. Several
addresses were delivered. including one
by Vice President Fairbanks. William
S. Cappeller, of Mansfield, O., was elect
ed president for the ensuing year.
Government officials estimate 1,00o.-
900 immigrants will have come to this
country by the end of the fiscal year,
and steamships are crowded
A plot to overthrow the Venezuelan
government has been uncovered in
Philadelphia.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
offered prayers on Mount Ascension.
Mount of Olives. at Gethsemane, and
Calvary.
A movement started in the Mississippi