River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

President Roosevelt made descent
in Long Island sound, on board the
submarine torpedo boat, Plunger. At
one time the little boat was submerged
for so minutes, and in that time was
put through all of the submarine feats
of which she is capable. The president
expressed his delight at the novel eX-
perience.
There is good reason for stating that
a new AngloJapanese treaty of alli-
ance has been signed.
Escaping from her niece, who was
taking her back to her home in Texas,
after an illness, Mrs. Laura Oxford,
aged 80, jumped from a train that had
stopped on the Eads bridge at st. Louis
and was drowned in the river.
A petition by Mrs. Clara S. Hay,
widow of the late Secretary John Hay,
for the probate of Mr.. Hays will was
filed in Washington in the probate
court. Mr.. Hay left property real and
personal to the value of more than
S250,00
The Equitable Life Assurance soci-
ETY. has joined with the state of New
York in asking for a full investigation
in court of its directors and officers
and their alleged wrongdoings in man
eging the moneys of the society.
A fire destroyed the entire business
section of Lofts, small town in Iowa.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Judge John r. Carey died in Du-
7uth, Mimi, after a long illness. aged
rs years. He was one of the most
widely known and highly honored pio-
neers of that region.
At Grayling, Mich, Mrs. Naomi Aid
rich, of Frederic, Mich, was bound
over for trial before the circuit court
charged with having poisoned her two
little sons, aged six and eight years,
with arsenic.
The American Bar association adopt
ed a resolution advocating national
control of the insurance business.
Former Assistant Statistician Holmes
of the department of agriculture has
been indicted by grand jury for the
cotton leak scandals.
Freight officials of the western trunk
railroads have agreed on a uniform
rate on corn and wheat, to take effect
October /.
Poultry shippers ask the interstate
commerce commission to stop alleged
discrimination on the part of railroads.
Mail advices in London give details
of a massacre of Jews by Cossacks in
Bialistok. Thirtyeight innocent per-
sons were killed.
The report of Chief Wilkie shows
that secret service men have nearly
eradicated counterfeiting.
The census of babies in Greater New
York shows that 59,196 were born last
year, and that they comprise a large
percentage of the city's population.
\ A member of the Italian colony in
New York presented the pope with a
robe valued at $4,000 and $500 in
cash, the gift of Gotham Italians.
+ Women cat fanciers living in various
parts of the country incorporated at
Albany, N. Y, the Lock Haven Cat
club, for the purpose of cultivating an
interest in the ownership of thorough
bred cats, to find homes and care for
vagrant cats and to give private and
public feline exhibitions.
A syndicate is to be formed to dig q
canal from Au Train on Lake Superior
TO Gladstone or Escanaba on Lake
Michigan. Such canal would shorten
the route between Duluth and Chicago
by 265 miles, and would save upwards
of 200 miles on the route between Du-
luth and Buffalo.
Prince Adalbert third and favorite
son of the emperor of Germany. will
visit America with his uncle, Prince
Henry.
Mary Mapes Dodge, poetess, editor
of st. Nicholas Magazine, and author
of books for children. died at her sum.
uner home at Tannersville. n. Y.