River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-27


Chicago saloonkeeper, did not know
how to turn off the stops.
The jury which is to decide the fate
of Man" Patterson, on trial in New
York for the third time upon the
charge of numbering Caesar" Young,
bookmaker, has been completed. 1t
is composed almost entirely of mar
ried men, only two of the accepted
panel of II being single, one a bach
elor. the other widower.
The anniversary of the battle of
Lexington was observed as a holiday
in Massachusetts.
Rev. Daniel Lloyd, the Oldest Meth
odist minister in Ohio, who would
have reached his one hundredth birth
day next week, died at Portsmouth
while seated in his favorite chair.
Secretary of State Hays physician
reports from Nervi, Italy, that Mr..
Hay has recovered his health.
Edgar NJ. Calm, an attorney, filed
suit in the civil court in New Orleans
on behalf of himself and other policy
holders of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society of the United States. ask
ing for a receivership.
Hon. Henry G. Thayer, 72 years old,
prominent Indiana republican and
Mason, is dead at his home in Ply
mouth, Ind.
The railroad strike in Italy con-
tinues. Several thousand emigrants,
mostly going to America, could not
leave Rome because it was impossible
for them to reach Naples.
Secretary Taft has concluded to visit
Toxic on the occasion of his Philip
pine trip, and pay his respects to the
Japanese foreign Office officials.
In an attempt to escape three pris-
oners fired the parish jail at Pont-
chatoula, La, 4S miles from New Or
leans, two of them being cremated and
third fatally burned.
The Illinois building at the Lewis
and Clark exposition will be an exact
reproduction Of Abraham Lincoln's
home in Springfield. In addition, a
pagoda will be erected short dis
lance from the main building.
Arrangements are completed for the
annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic of Illinois at
Rockford May %, "a and 25.
Prince George, of Greece, governor
of Crete, is reported assassinated. He
ruled six years as tyrant.
John Barrett, American minister to
Panama, is accused of duplicity toward
his own and isthmian governments in
canal zone crisis and is likely to be
retired to private life.
Gov. Higgins, of New York, signed
the bill placing a tax of two dollars
per hundred shares on transfers of
corporate shares, or two cents on each
$100 par value thereof.
The designations of nine of the ten
pension examiners constituting the
board of review, who were accused of
irregularities, were accepted by Secre-
tary Hitchcock at Washington.
Worcester, Mass, the home city OF
United States Senator George Frisbie
Hoar, paid a tribute to his memory at
a great meeting in Mechanics hall.
The Unileu .-,ateS supreme court de-
clares the New York law limiting
days work in a bakery at ten hours
unconstitutional because it interferes
with the free right of contract between
individuals.
After many annoying delays Nan Pat
terson for the third time went into court
in New York to stand trial on an indict-
ment charging her with the murder of
Caesar Young, a wealthy bOOkmaker.
Bessie Jordan, colored, 40 years old,
and her daughter, Mary, nine years old,
were burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed their home in Marion, Ind.
Russia seems disposed to end her
policy of trade retaliation against the
United States, begun in 1901.
A gas buoy in process of filling on
board the government steamer Scout
exploded at Kingston, Ont, killing one
and injuring four of her crew.
Samuel R. Boyd, prominent lawyer
and democratic politician, aged 45 years,
was found dead in his bed at Cynthi-
ana, KY.
Elliott Northcott, assistant United
States district attorney for the southern
district of West Virginia, mas been ap-
pointed United States attorney for the
same district.
Senator James B. Taliaferro was for
mally reelected to the United States SEN
ate by the Florida joint assembly for the
term ending 1911.
The state department has advised Am
bassador Porter that an American
squadron will be sent to Paris to take
the body of Paul Jones to the United
States, probably in June.
Fire, startiAg in the west end of the
Diamond sawmill at Minneapolis, Mimi,
entirely demolished the structure, en-
failing loss of about $50, 900.
Without debate by vote of IS to IL,
the Wisconsin assembly passed the adj
ministration railroad rate commission
bill.
President Diaz and party of friends
left Mexico City on special train for
Parque Station, on the Cuernavaca
branch of the Mexican Central, where
they will begin weeks deer hunt in the
mountains.
Seven children of a family named
Boucher at Ste. Anne de Pocatiere, some
miles from Quebec, in the back woods,
have been burned to death in the Bou-
CHER home.
Several arrests were made in Indiana
for smoking cigarettes, and fines were
imposed.
Rojestvensky is said to be mapping
out a campaign to harass japanese ship
ping.