River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-01-26
willard Elder. aged II; George Leipel.

aged 10, aud George Thomas, aged II,
while coasting at Tyrone, Pa, were car
ried under moving shifting locomotive.
Elder and Thomas were killed and Lei
per cannot recover from his injuries.
John Randolph Bull, veteran of two
wars, is dead at his home in Bayonne,
N. j. He served through the Mexican
war with the Louisville Legion and COM
manded union regiment during the civil
war.
The italian government has issued
decree providing for the abolition OF
slavery in Italy's East African colonies.
The new armored cruiser Colorado was
placed in commission at the League
island navy yard, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mignonette Seavey, patient at
the state insane asylum in Concord, N.
H., killed two inmates and injured a
nurse.
At the close of an exciting game of
chess at Osceola, Ia, Levi Taylor, one
of the players, dropped dead from an
attack of apoplexy.
Chief Wilkie, of the United States Sc
cret service, has announced the discov-
cry of new counterfeit $40 United
States Buffalo note. The note is an
excellent counterfeit.
Nathan Young, of Cranberry N. c.,
died in the city hospital in Kansas City,
Mo-, as the result of an assault upon him
by footpads on the night of January II.
At Wilson, Kan, City Marshal Till
man shot and killed Sam Hutchinson,
ms CT of
there, during quarrel, and then COM
mitted suicide.
Ex-Congressman B. f. Rice, who
served several terms as representative
from Arkansas, died at Tulsa, l. T.
Secretary Hay has secured positive as
surances from the powers that there
shall be no attempt made upon the integ-
rity of Chinese territory
While a party of young men were
"belling" newly welded couple, John
Moorfield, a we'll known young farmer
of Gracey, Washington county, O., was
shot through the heart and instantly
killed
The Arizona legislature passed unan1-
mously a joint resolution protesting
against statehood with New Mexico in
| any form, and .preferring territorial gov
| eminent forever.
In a wreck on the Powelton & Poca-
! hOntas railroad, near Charleston, w.
| Va, two men were killed and another
fatally injured.
A state society to prevent tuberculosis
was perfected in Chicago. A $25O,O0O
.,it icfr of I'M
| culosis sufferers are the aims in view.
Chicago leads all other cities, employ
| ing 100000 men in manufacturing indus
| tries.
President Mitchell, in the United Mine
| Workers convention at Indianapolis, re-
| futed the charge that he sold out the
miners in the Colorado strike.
Inability to break herself Of the cigar
| cite habit lead Mrs Sadie Thompson,
wife of the sexton of the Oak Park (lli.)
| Episcopal church, to commit suicide.
Great Britain proposes that the pow
ers take Macedonia away from Turkey
| practically and install a Christian gov
ernOr over the province.
After a sensational trial, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. w. Harvey were convicted at
| Carroll, Ia, on a charge of arson.
They were charged Nth setting fire to
| the hotel at Glidden year ago. Two
lives were lost in the fire.
William H. McKillip, a prominent
Michigan lumberman, died at Muske-
gon, Mich, aged SO years.
Frank Evans and William Elmer
| inn rod
Ind, charged with the murder Of Miss
Sarah G. Shafer on the night of jan
uary 81, 1904.
The president has decided to appoint
A. G. Stewart, of Iowa, attorney gen
eral of Porto Rico to succeed Willis
Sweet, of Idaho, resigned.
Charles Smith, 2l-year-old farmer,
living near Eaton Rapids, Mich, shot
and instantly killed Morton HINES,
aged Is years. Smith was jealous of
young HINES attentions to his Is
year-old wife.
/ A. B. LOutzenheiser paying teller OF
the First national bank of Duluth,
Mimi, is charged with the theft of
$4,000 from the bank and a warrant
| HAS DScu SWOIH OuL lOE HIS arrest.
The government school for Indians
on the Menominee reservation, Kesh-
ano, eight miles north of Shawana,
Wis, has been totally destroyed by
fire The loss will reach $4,000.
Fire destroyed the Mckay carriage
works at Grove City, Pa. The loss is
about $65, 900
President Loubet, CT France, has &C
cepted the resignation of the Combes
ministry.
Booker T. Washington, given an en-
thusiastic welcome by the Legislature
and officials of Kansas in the capitol,
later was rebuffed by every hotel in
| Wichita, from each of which he was ex-
Guided.
Hannah Elias testified in suit brought
by John r. Plat in New York to recover
| $6S5,000 which he claims she extorted
| from him. She declares every cent she
received from him was voluntarily given
and she knows ofno reason why any por-
ton should be returned.
Kuropatkin's reenforcements swell
his Mukden army to 100000 men.
John D. Rockefeller gave $4,000 to
help a Cleveland church out of debt.
An American consul reports that
Kurds massacred 5000 Armenians last
| summer.
Information comes from Clifton,