River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-17

Maj. Taggart, on the witness stand,
called relative of his wife cowardly
cur and free-for-all fight in the court
room was narrowly averted.
Maj. Taggart, on the witness stand
in his divorce case, gave details of
drinking bouts in which his wife is
declared to have taken part.
British opinion deemed Japans
terms not excessive, while Germany
doubts if the car can accept The
conditions caused depression in Paris
A report that William H. Belcher,
the absconding mayor of Paterson, N.
j., was reported as having been seen
at Stockton, Cal, was denied.
During an alteration at Jefferson
vile, Ind, John Taylor killed Lou
Phelps with a knife.
The Catholic Total Abstinence union
gave vote of thanks to President
Roosevelt for his visit, adopted resolu-
tons for temperance reform, and adj
journed to meet next year at Provi-
dence, r. l.
Mrs. Naomi Aldrich, of Grayling,
Mich, is in Jail charged with having
poisoned her two boys, aged 10 and IL,
to collect $50 life insurance on each.
Twenty fremen were scalded by an
explosion of grease IN a burning soap
factory in New York city.
Trade reports were less uniformly
favorable, but adverse factors were of
temporary nature, and the net re-
hn ;cfo .f<
according to Dun's trade review.
Rear Admiral Andrew E. K Ben
ham, retired, is dead at Lake Mahopac,
n. Y. He was a member of the
Schley court of inquiry.
Harry Parker and Harry Johnson
confessed to the murder of Pawnbrok-
er Joseph Meyer at Detroit
The court of inquiry in the Benning
ton disaster has completed it's investi-
cation at San Diego, Cal, and the
members will now prepare their re-
port.
Edward Drouin, formerly wealthy
and influential merchant of Philadel-
phia is dead at Peoria, Ill.
Perry j. Luster, formerly manager of
the Cumberland Telephone company,
of Guthrie, KY, who disappeared from
that place July 20, on which date his
wife was found dead in her room with
bullet through her brain, is under ar
rest at Ogden, Utah.
Peter Hale, proprietor of the Greg
son Springs, one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Butte and Anaconda, and one
of the best known men in Montana. is
dead at Butte.
After spree August Deseck, of
Rock Island, ILL.,, shot and killed his
wife and committed suicide.
At least three men were badly
burned in an explosion at the Illinois
Steel company's works, in South Chi
cago, Ill.
William Rissetter, wealthy farmer
of near Dixon, ILL.,, fatally stabbed his
son in quarrel over a horse.
j. E. Ort, aged 35, of Harrisburg,
Pa, fell asleep on the railroad track
at Pana, ILL.,, and was instantly killed.
Noah Fowler, aged SO years, prom
inent farmer of Pana, ILL.,, died from
the effects of lemon extract which he
drank.
The Pere Marquette railway engine
house at New Buffalo, Ind, burned, de-
stroying two Peres Marquette and one
Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville loco
motives.
A Nashville (Tenn.) physician advo-
Gates the limitation of crime by Undue
ing poor people to limit the number of
their offspring.
Five deaths and eleven prostrations
were reported in Chicago as result
of hot wave which swept over that
city.
President Shea, of the Transfers
brotherhood admitted before the ma
tional convention at Philadelphia that
he ordered alteration of records of
joint council at Chicago to destroy evil
dence against himself and other in
dicted strikers.
Secretary Taft, in a banquet address
at Manila, says Filipinos must learn
the principles of democracy by educa-
,tion and that representative assembly
will be granted natives in 1907 if no
instruction exists.
The British parliament was pro-
rogued after session checQuered with
strife with tie premier
Capt. Horace M. Reeve, who was a
member of the general staff of the
army, is dead of typhoid fever at
Washington.
In frni Crh m "a on
Rock Island & Pacific railway, near
Limon Junction, Col, DR.. Wright An
dyman and Joseph Miller, both of
Omaha, were killed. The men are said
to have been riding on the trucks.
Mrs. Chester Winstanley, at New
drowned her daughter in bathtub.
Selling pistol, she shot and danger
ously wounded her husband, and then
swallowed quantity of carbolic acid
dying an hour later
The condition of the farming COM
munity in the province of Seville,
Spain, is becoming desperate. Thou
sands of laborers being without bread
Or other food, have been reduced to
eating the roots of wild plants. Bread
riots are reported to have occurred at
many places, where bakeries were
looted.
A fire on the piers of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western railroad in Ho-
boken, N. j., destroyed the main depot,
with its 600 feet of train sheds, the ferry
house, hotel nearby, the terminal of the
street railway. a new Immigrant station.