River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-07

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Miss Florence Carpenter, of Chicago,
while riding horseback at Excelsior
! Springs, Mo-, fell from her horse and
received injuries from which she died
a few hours later
! w. S. McWilliams confessed at IN
dependence, Ia, to killing his wife and
five children with a hammer and after
ward hacking their bodies with
butcher knife.
The election in Cuba developed into
a. landslide for the moderate party, ev-
cry nominee, from President Palma to
the provincial councillors, being
elected.
A coroner's jury in Chicago returned
verdict that Marshall Field, Jr., died
as the result of revolver wound,
which he accidentally inflicted on him
self.
e. G.. Lewis, president of the Peoples
bank of st. Louis, has been indicted
on the charge of using the mails to
defraud, and with swindling the gov
eminent by mailing sample copies of
his publications at the regular period
ical rate.
A hard fight on President Roosevelt'S
plan for making two states out of four
territories is assured at the coming
session of congress, New Mexico and
Arizona especially resenting being
made into one.
A recount of ballots in four New
York election districts gives Hearst a
| Of ~,
like proportion insures his election.
President Loubet, Of France, told an
interviewer that when he retires from
the presidency on February Is he will
quit public life forever.
Omaha Catholics were excommuni-
Gated by the bishop for attending the
wedding of a divorced person.
Jews of New York held notable
meeting to celebrate the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the landing
of Jews in America, and enthusiasm
was unbounded as President Roose-
velt's letter was read and speeches
made.
The city health officers of Los An
geles, Cal, confiscated shipments of
Thanksgiving cold storage poultry
from the eastern markets valued at
$4,000. The bad condition of many
of the shipments was due, it is stated,
to the poor refrigerating cars.
Public Printer Stillings proposes to
stamp out the system Of money lend
ing that has existed for years among
employees in his bureau.
Henry Arson, the founder of the
city of Marshalltown, Ia, and one of
the earliest settlers of central Iowa,
is dead. He was the father of Adri-
an G. Arson, the famous baseball play
er, and now city clerk of Chicago, who
was the first white child born in Mar
shall county.
The powers hesitate in their move
against Turkey, awaiting a move by
Great Britain, which because of home
complications is slow to act
Americans in London gave Thanks
giving banquet at which Ambassador
Reid was the principal speaker. DR..
Nevin conducted service at Rome.
The warehouse of the Standard Oil
company at Armourdale, Kan, was
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
$175,0O0.
The most important needs of the
Philippine islands are a market, bank
and better transportation, says the
chief Of the bureau of insular affairs
in his report to the war secretary.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
accompanied by two of their children,
left Washington for Plain Dealing,
their country home in Virginia, where
they spent Thanksgiving quietly.
Gov. Herrick, of Ohio, issued
Thanksgiving pardon to Jefferson
Shanks, of Miami county, who was
sent up for life July 6, 1893, for MUIR
| der.
Robbers wrecked the safe of the Cit
liens national bank, at Owl, 1. T., and
escaped with over $4,000.
Drugs worth from $4,000 to $780,
900 have been stolen from wholesale
chemists in New York during the last
few months, according to detectives
who arrested two men.
Mine owners of the interstate dis
trict offer miners an increase of five
per cent. in wages to prevent a strike
next month.
The Chicago drainage canal, Illinois
and Michigan canal and the Illinois
river will hereafter be regarded by the
national government as navigable
streams.
According to figures given out by the
census bureau nearly one-tenth of the
people in the United States are litter
ate.
Secretary Root accepted the resigna-
ton of Herbert G. Squiers as minister
to Cuba the vacant post being taken
by Edwin j. Morgan.
Robbers smashed a window at No. 76
Madison street, Chicago, at six o'clock
at night and stole diamonds valued at
$4,000.
Korea will make a strong appeal to
President Roosevelt to continue diplo-
matte relations, urging this as the only
means of preventing absorption by ia
pan.
Senator W. B. Allison, of Iowa, in an
interview in Chicago, said he expected
congress to pass railroad freight and
insurance laws.
The senate commerce committee has
received a copy of the rate bill pre-
pared by the interstate commerce COM
mission, in which it asks for rate-mak-
inc Y,0uorc