River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23

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feiting $4,000 bail.
| Fire in the large warehouse of the
American Beet Sugar company's plant
at Rockford, Col, caused a loss esti-
mated at from 100000 to $500, 1000,
| fully covered by insurance. There
were about 100000 pounds of sugar
| in the warehouse.
William Sink was shot and instantly
killed at the Dichason mine, one mile
north of Linton, Ind, by Lee Ham
mond. The murderer was arrested
and admitted killing Sink. The men
quarreled over alleged attentions paid
to Hammonds wife ny Sink.
| Commissioner of Pensions Warner,
| ignoring precedent, appointed two wo-
men to serve on board of the pension
| review
Speaker Cannon and all the other
| officers of the national house will
probably be reelected by the republic
can members.
Secretary Root is ready to negotiate
a treaty with Great Britain covering
all disputes with Canada over tariff,
| fisheries, etc.
August Heusne, a farmer living eight
miles southwest of Carlyle, ILL.,, while
pulling bucket of water to water the
stock, lost his balance and fell head
long into the well and was drowned.
He was GA years of age.
Labor unions were denounced as
trusts by the Citizens Industrial asso-
citation at it's convention in ST. Louis,
and federal and state authorities are
urged to prosecute them.
While playing with shotgun Helen
Meunse, IL years old, of Muscatine, Ia,
accidentally shot and killed May
Meunse, IL years old,
Gov.-elect Pattison of Ohio is sus-
pected of the intention of nailingfdown
the lid all over the state, and putting
stop to Sunday saloons and con-
certs.
Attorney General Moody holds the
report of Commissioner Garfield in the
beef inquiry useless, will not use it in
the coming proceedings and denies any
hope of immunity for packers.
Charles S. Mellen, an eastern rail-
road president, took luncheon with
President Roosevelt, and announced
his intention of joining him in his
fight for rate legislation.
Minnie Mitchell, 80 years old, and
Allie Bowers, % years DID, were found
dead in the kitchen OF the fiat occupied
by them. Their deaths were 1ue to
poison 1t is thought something they
had eaten may have casued death.
In an explosion at the Buckeye pow
der works at Edwards Station, IA miles
northwest of Peoria, ILL.,, two men met
instant death and several other en-
ployes were injured.
S. P. Ayres, editor of the Marshall
town Qa) Herald, committed suicide
by shooting. He had become excessive
ly respondent because of i'll health.
Very Rev. Charles d. Williams,
dean of Trinity cathedral, Cleveland,
was elected bishop of the Episcopal
lot of the diocesan convention at De-
troit, Mich.
Miss Mabel Beland won $4,000
verdict in her breach of promise suit
at Chicago against ex-Alderman John
O'Neill.
In the presence of Mrs. Mckinley.
the trustees of the Mckinley National
Memorial association, other noted
guests and citizens and school chill
dren, the corner stone of the American
monument, the gift of the American
people, was formally laid at Canton, 0.
Rev. DR.. William Sims Knight, pres
ident of Carthage collegiate institute,
died at his home in Carthage, Mo-,
aged GO years.
The students of the Nebraska Cen
trail college, a prominent educational
institution in Omaha, have decided by
a unanimous vote to eliminate football
from the list of college sports
Attorney General Moody will fight
the packers plea for immunity to the
last
Three deaths were caused at Pater-
son, N. J., by the falling of heavy
picture on the wall which broke gas
pipe while the Schroeder family were
asleep. Chris Schroeder, his mother,
Catherine, and her grandchild, Ira
La Forge, were all asphyxiated.
Robert G. Lynn, or ''Col. Bob,' one
of the most widely known sporting
men and bookmakerS in the country,
died at Cincinnati, o., of pneumonia.
President Roosevelt reiterates that
he is in favor of joint statehood for
Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
The administration is declared to
hold that the Isle of Pines belongs to
Cuba, and American residents will re-
ceive no encouragement in plans for
annexation to the United States.
| One girl was shot and killed and an
other wounded in resisting hold-up
man near Grand Rapids, Mich.
David Gilwater, aged 10, is under ar
rest at Chillicothe, o., for the murder of
his brother Albert, aged 21s years, who
was found burned to death at the home
of his parents, near Three Locks.
| Another suit for a sum aggregating
$4,000 has been brought by the re-
ceiver for the Enterprise bank of Al
| legheny, Pa, against William H. An
| drews.
Secretary Taft arrived in Washing
ton and expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the work at Panama.
Col. J. M. Clark, brevet brigadier and
general in the confederate army, and
who was for number of years agent
for the Mescalero Apache Indians of
New Mexico, is dead at his home at