River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-20

Terrorists renewed their threats to
kill Gen. Trepoff and the Russian die
tator believes that his death is near
The body of a well-dressed woman,
who had been beaten to death, was
found on the grounds of the Arlington
Golf club, near Boston. The body had
been dragged IS feet and thrown over
a wall.
A report says that President John
Mitchell of the Mine Workers union
has lost $4,000 through the failure
of bank at his home in Spring Val
ley, ILL.,, and that this sum represented
his entire savings.
Senior Medeiros, a Brazilian deputy,
has introduced a bill offering prize
of 100000 to the discoverer of an
efficacious remedy for tuberculosis.
General Leonard Wood may be sent
to Panama by the president to
straighten out sanitary affairs.
The Franco-American Financial as
ISOLATION is incorporated in Paris
with capital of $10,0O0,000.
Secretary Bonaparte refuses the navy
yard employees Saturday half-holiday.
Stuyvesant Fish is refused new
trial of the suit in which a New York
furrier recovered $1,000, the court
holding a husband is bound to buy
wife's clothing.
Shippers have renewed efforts to Sc
cure government legislation in rail
road rate controversy.
The president has decided to call con-
greSS to meet in extra session November
10 to consider rate legislation, and will
send in a strong message on the sub
ject, according to special dispatch to
the Chicago Record-Herald.
The executive board of the Chicago
Federation of Labor has abandoned the
solicitation of funds for the striking
transfers. Contributions to the strike
fund have dwindled from $4,000 to
$4,000 week.
President Roosevelt assured Samuel
Gompers, of the American Federation OF
Labor, of his sympathy with the strict
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
law.
Maj. S. S. lockwood, aged 67 years,
was chief clerk in the department of ag-
riculture under Secretary jeremiah
Rusk. For the past ten years he was sec
rotary of the board of regents Of normal
schools in Wisconsin.
State Senator Charles H. Mckinley,
of Detroit, Mich, died suddenly near
Paul Smiths, in the Adirondacks, where,
with his wife and daughter, he has been
spending the summer. Pneumonia was
the cause of death.
Andrew Morrissey has resigned the
presidency of More Dame university.
Three lives were lost by the sinking
of the steam yacht Normandie, which
was run down in the Hudson river off
Dobbs Ferry, by the Norwegian tramp
steamer Volund.
Larry McCuen, 35 years old, and
James Brown, 16 years old, were found
dead under tree near GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The pair had been killed by lightning.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
in No. pit of the United Colliery
company at Wattstown, in the Rhond-
da valley, the center of the great
Welsh coal fields. Sixty-eight bodies
have been recovered, and the death list
will exceed 120.
An appeal for help has been sent to
Gov. Johnson, of Minneapolis, on behalf
of the flood-stricken farmers along the
upper Mississippi. The high waters
which have prevailed in the northern
part of the state have caused great havoc
among the river YARNS.
After saving his wife and two-months-
old baby from flames which were de-
stroying their home, Samuel E. Howard,
young farmer, living near Shambaugh,
Page county, Ia, went back after some
household goods, and was burned to
death.
A negro named McGill murdered ten
men, woman and baby, and caused
scuttlingo the boat in which all were
sailing from Utilla, on the coast of Hon
duras, to the mainland. He was cap
tured.
Fully 800 Minneapolis -four mill en-
ployes are idle, owing to the fact that
nine of the % mills are shut down. The
shutdown is indefinite, owing to the
poor demand for flour.
News has been received of the drown
ing of over 500 Chinese as result of the
collapse of all overcrowded mat shed
on the banks of the West river, near
Canton.
The twentieth annual reunion of the
Benevolent Order of Elks will be held
in Denver in 1906. One ballot decided
that at the grand lodge meeting in Buff
falo.
John T. Foster, one of the most fam
GUS inventors in the United States, un-
der whose direction the first gold pens
were manufactured in New York city,
died in Arlington, N. J.
The dates for holding the thirty-first
annual convention of the American
Bankers association at Washington
have been changed to October II, IL and
H. 1905.
Sixty-seven indictments against rs
individuals, most of whom are former
county officials, were handed down by
the Milwaukee county grand jury.
This batch of true bills, added to the 38
returned ten days ago, makes a total
of los. Nearly all the indictments
charge bribery.
Rodney B. Swift sued the Information
al Harvester company in Chicago, ask
ing the court to force it to return to rail-
way corporations 100000 secured by
rate rebates.