River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-03
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Sakhalin. Four Germans, two British
subjects, one Norwegian and &c 9TH
ers were saved.
ARA Miller, aged 20, of Boonville,
Ind. is minus part of his nose and is in
a dying condition as result Of being
cut by Henry Broshears in fight.
George Crandstaff, of Boonville, Ind,
FL years ld,while carrying tar to the
roof of building, slipped, the hot tar
falling upon him, scalding him fatally.
An unknown incendiary in Sterling,
ILL.,, stole Samuel Elgin's horse from his
barn and drove Is miles, where he set
fire to and destroyed Mr. Elgin's cream
cry, valued at $4,000
Republican leaders of Cleveland boom
John d. Rockefeller for mayor and
frame platform promising to present
the street railways to the city and COM
pIete the public building plan.
Gov Folk, of Missouri, won his fight
on Delmar gamblers. The race track
has suspended pending the supreme
courts decision on the use of the police.
President Roosevelt is expected to ask
congress to increase the displacement
of the battleships Michigan and South
Carolina from $1,000 to 10000 tons, max
world.
The Mutual Reserve society issued a
statement to policy holders denying that
it falsified report.
France and Germany again face a
crisis because of inability to agree as to
the conference programme on Morocco.
The German view that foreign war
ships be excluded from the Baltic sea
causes vigorous protest in England.
The boycott on American goods in
China is declared to be harmless, being
the work of students without official
standing.
Wisconsin democrats started boom
for W. ]. Bryan for president
The wives of eight Kansas farmers
have been arrested for destroying a
saloon near Abilene.
An Indianapolis judge warmly criti-
cised fellow jurist who pointed out
the way to safely violate the anti-cig-
arctic law.
Weekly trade reviews report in
creased activity, due largely to the
promising outlook for crops.
Quarantine regulations against the
city of New Orleans are being rigidly
enforced.
The storthing voted to submit to the
people of Norway the question of the
dissolution of the union with Sweden
fixing August Is for the referendum.
The seventh annual congress of Zion
lists opened at Basic, Switzerland, in
the presence of over 1000 delegates
representing the leading forces of the
Zionist movement throughout the
world.
Charged with embezzling $4,000
from Bremen bank, Herman Schadow
was arrested in New York as he STEP
ped off the steamship Maine. The pris-
oner declared his willingness to return
to Germany to stand trial.
Matte and Grace Wigner, sisters,
aged IA and 16 years, respectively, were
drowned while attempting to ford a
creek west of Lacyne. Kan.
William Slugger shot his wife and
William Vivian at Noxen, Pa, and then
fired bullet into his head.
One of the most urgent calls for
harvest hands received in Des Moines
Ia, came from North Dakota, when a
local employment firm was notified that
1000 men were wanted in that state
to harvest the wheat crop.
Some doubt is expressed in official
circles in Washington whether it will
be possible to obtain China's consent
to another treaty with the United
States providing for even the exclusion
of Chinese laborers from this country.
Six men, all Italian laborers, were
killed and three others fatally injured
by being struck by an accommodation
train on the New York Central railroad
at Tribes Hill, N. Y.
An electric express train on the Ian
cashire & Yorkshire railroad, collided
with an empty stationary train at the
Hall road station, Liverpool, England
causing the death of % persons and
the injury of. many.
Four men have been killed by the
wrecking of an east-bound freight train
on the Northern Pacific between Myers
and Bighorn, Mont
Coal, railroad and dock properties
conservaIvely estimated to be worth
$50,000,000 were combined into one
company at meeting held in New
York.
Ex-State Senator William E. Finck
and wife were fatally burned by nat
ural gas explosion in their home at
Somerset, o. Both are dead.
The Norwegian government has pro-
posed to the storthing the holding OF
a referendum on the dissolution of the
union with Sweden.
Business organizations of the coun-
try plan to urge congress to provide for
better inland waterways.
Commissioner Sargent reports that
the Japanese are leaving Hawaii, caus-
ing bad labor famine.
Bishop Isaac w. Joyce, of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, died in Mime
apolis after a long illness.
A mob of a thousand persons at
tackled caravan of wagons in Chicago
and severely injured a nonunion
teamster.
Francesca Cefoli, an. Italian, was
hanged at Brookville, Pa. for the kill
ing of Pasquale Pillegrino, at Sykes
vile. on September "a, 1904.
After saving his mother and sister,
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