River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-23
Net earnings of the United States Steel

Net earnings of the United States Steel
corporation for 1904 are reported as $780,
/ 778, lis, a decrease Of $36, 526, 157 as COM
| pared with the preceding year.
The Missouri senate adopted clause
| in race track bill making nool selling
i felony which will stop all racing in
| the state.
A collector of customs placed at
Puerto Plata by the United States
/ aroused the hostility of Dominicans.
The south is clamoring for immigrants
/ from Italy.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
| left Jaffa, March 13 for Australia.
While going past Bolivar station, on
the Pennsylvania railroad, large loco
motive hauling long train OF empty
| steel hopper cars blew up, killing one
| man and injuring number of others.
William E. Treese, formerly book
keeper in the First national bank at
Cleveland, O., charged with embezzling
! about $4,000 of the bank funds several
months ago, pleaded guilty in the fed
eral court. Judge Tayler sentenced him
to serve six years in the state peniten-
| tiary.
Two seats on the New York stock ex-
change were sold for $50, 900 each. This
/ is new high record price.
Practically penniless, with only his de-
/ voted wife to watch and mourn, NJ Nib.
10, famous circus clown and pantomimie
| died in Denver COL, after suffering for
months the ravages of tuberculosis.
The Wisconsin assembly, after pro.
longed debate, killed the senate bill ap.
/ propriating $4,000 for an exhibit at tho
| Lewis and Clark exposition, Portland
/ Ore.
Nan Patterson will be put on trial in
/ New York once more to answer charge
of numbering Caesar Young, the wealthy
bookmaker. 1t was announced at the
district attorneys Office that the second
! trial of the case would begin April 10.
Henry Stadlander and, his wife were
found dead in their home in Grand Rap
ids, Md, and the police believe that they
committed suicide together.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Peter V. DeGraw as
fourth assistant postmaster general.
Miss Mary Mahoney. aged 100, pi-
oneer of Wisconsin and resident of La
] Crosse since territorial days, is dead.
/ Col. M. j. Burke, United States consul
at st. Thomas, Ont, since 1897, died OF
| pneumonia.
/ During the absence Of their mother,
who had gone to the grocery store, two
miles away, fire destroyed the home OF
a Finnish teamster at jerks Spur, neaI
Marquette, Mich, and two children, aged
six and four, persisted.
Fire destroyed a large part of the bust
ness district of Sidney, Ill. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
| Several ships were wrecked and "a
sailors drowned in gale off the Irish
and English coasts.
! Direct, 2:05A, former champion pac.
| ing stallion, dropped dead. He was
| valued at $4,000
David Starr Jordan in a statement
signed at Honolulu, said Mrs. Jane
StanfOrd's death was not due to poison
or to intentional wrongdoing of any per-
4 son.
/ Peabody supporters in the Colorado
/ gubernatorial contest propose that the
| legislature seat Peabody under dis
tinct understanding that he will resign
in an hour and turn over the office to
Lieut.. Gov. Mcdonald.
The isthmian canal commission has
many jobs open at various salaries. The
civil service eligibles will be used as far
as possible.
Witnesses called for the beef inquiry
hearing IN Chicago are reported to be
leaving the United States.
President Roosevelt's order creating
board Of architects to supervise the
construction of public buildings in
Washington is contrary to law and may
be withdrawn.
/ Henry Cyril Paget, marquis of Angle
| sey, died at Monte Carlo. The marquis
| was notable, through his personal and
| financial eccentricities. In the short
! space of six years he ran through $780,
/ 900 in addition to his annual income OF
upwards of 100000. Last summer the
crash came and it was found that the
marquis unsecured liabilities were over
| $3.50 900.
Nineteen persons dead, two score in
/ jured, some SO seriously that they may
die, and nearly 200 persons temporarily
homeless, is in brief the story of the
burning of a tenement on the East side
! in New York city.
Judge Watkins, at Bluffton. Ind. over
ruled the motion for new trial and
sentenced William Cook TO life impris-
onment for the murder of Preston San
| derson.
| The attorney for Mrs. Chadwick filed a
motion at Cleveland for new trial on
the grounds of errors in admitting in
competent testimony, excluding compe-
! tent testimony, and errors of law in the
| trial.
| The Nebraska house by vote of 43 to
| 40, agreed to Indefinitely postpone the
| bill making it a crime to give or accept
! railroad passes. This action disposes
| of all anti-pass measures, every one be-
ing defeated.
! Mrs. w H. Mosby. of Eldorado, H.,
/ saturated her clothing with oil and
| burned herself to death. She was the
! wife of prominent farmer and had only
recently returned from an asylum.
With tho renewal of the last four bod.
! les from Virginia mine, near Birming.
ham, Ala, the total fatalities from the
awful explosion of February 20. wa.
swelled to Ill.
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