River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
Al1 NEGOTIATIONS for a settlement Of

All negotiations for settlement of
| the Chicago teamsters' strike have been
| declared off after failure of employers
and labor men to come to an agreement.
| The employers refused to grant arbitra-
ton of the garment workers strike,
| while the union leaders declared that
any arbitration plan must include the
garment workers.
Henry G.. Prick, acting for an investi-
eating committee of the directors of the
Equitable Assurance society, has called
on President Alexander for full details
of the society's doings.
Joseph Chamberlain comes out for a
stronger and permanent Anglo-Jap-
anese alliance.
st. Petersburg thinks President Roose-
welt has offered the car his aid in MAX
ing peace with Japan, because of Ambas-
sador Meyers reception at TSarSkoe
Selo.
Gen. J. F. Grant, grand secretary of the
sovereign grand lodge of odd fellows in
the United States, died at Baltimore,
where he was operated on about four
ton.
Miss Howard Weeden, the southern
poet and artist, is dead at Huntsville,
Ala.
The king and queen of England ar
rived at Palma, Island of Majorca, on
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert and
were enthusiastically welcomed by a
large asscmblage.
AS a result of the breaking of steel
cable in a power block in Cleveland, O..
an elevator was hurled to the bottom of
the shaft, killing one man and fatally
injuring another.
Arthur Lutchford, secretary and treas
urer of the Mechanics savings bank of
Rochester, N. Y, committed suicide at
his home by shooting.
Judge w. N. Allison, once prominent
in politics in Ohio, was run over and
killed by switching engine at Snyder,
Okla, while attempting to cross the
track. He was IS years of age.
One person is dead, one fatally in
jured and five seriously as the result of
a fire in a saloon and boarding house at
Grand Rapids. Mich.
The demand of Russian Rear Admiral
Prince Ouktomsky for a court-martial
has been granted. Ouktomsky was
blamed for the Russian defeat in the sea
battle off Port Arthur last August
A lawyers congress has started to
overthrow the autocracy in Russia
through a national league of educated
classes. A parliament is demanded.
Russian peasants seized more land and
COssacks were sent to crush them.
Because his dinner was not ready
when he returned from business, John
Eirand, Hungarian shopkeeper of New
York, shot and probably fatally wound
ed his wife, and then sent three bullets
into his own body. He also will! die.
The French senate has voted $24 ,200,-
900 to enlarge the navy.
Fuller reports of the damage lone by
the cyclone in Madagascar early in April
show it to have been greater than first
reported. Numerous villages were de-
stroyed by floods, over 100 natives were
drowned. roads were cut, the railroads
were greatly damaged and crops were
destroyed.
David Braham, the well-known COM
poser and orchestra leader, is dead at
New York, from kidney trouble, after
an illness of several months.
The Ohio republican state central COM
mittee has decided to hold the state con-
William H. Taft will be temporary chair
man.
A hurricane near the island Of Tahiti
and north of there caused much damage
to shipping.
Delegates to the national council of
women at Washington say President
Roosevelt should look to the women of
his own social set for race suicide.
The Illinois house killed the compre-
hensive state civil service bill and adopt
ed the charitable institution merit
measure.
Two bills providing for municipal
ownership of gas and electric lighting
nois house.
The post Office department excludes
from second-class mails after Septem-
Der 1 cut-out pictures and other forms of
supplements not essential parts OF Sun
day newspapers.
Commander Booth Tucker, of the Sal
walton Army, says the American immi-
grafton laws should be revised to shut
out Europe's scum.
President Castro's answer to Minister
Bowen's last demands for arbitration is
in the nature of defiance to the United
States government.
Bristow finds the South American gov
ernments and not the Panama railroad
are crippling shipping interests.
Official reports show the recent earth
quake killed $4,000 persons in two dis
tricts of India.
Fire caused by dynamite explosion
at Lowell, Mich, destroyed Is store
buildings. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$55, 900.
James Malloy, fisherman of Barry
town, N. Y, started across the Hudson
river in a rowboat at that place with
six Polanders and before reaching the
other shore the boat capsized and NAL
10y and four of the Polanders were
drowned.
J. J. c. Howard, representative of
the Kentucky legislature from the
Seventy-first district, was shot and
killed in saloon near his home in
Clay county by Tilford Benge. The
men had Quarreled.
One of the cars Wallets has been ar