River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-02

guilty of manslaughter in the first degree
in New York.
Weekly trade reviews report an i'm
provement in business due to the pass
ing of severe winter weather Jobbers
are kept busy and the retail movement
grows.
The anniversary of the uprising of 1895
in Santiago, always a national holiday,
was celebrated with unusual significance
by the unwilling in Havana of mag
nificent statue of Jose Marti, the Wash
ington of Cuba.
Jonathan Ross, former chief justice
of the state supreme court and former
United States senator, died at st.
Johnsbury, VT, of injuries received
when his sleigh was struck by train
and Mrs Ross was killed.
Rev. Joshua Cooley, q minister of
the Southern Methodist church, is dead
at Bethel Ridge, KY, aged 80 years.
He had been preacher for 20 years,
and five of his sons are ministers.
A peace jubilee in 1915 to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the close of the
civil war was proposed to President
Roosevelt Thursday by Newell Sand
ers, OF Chattanooga Tenn.
Gov. Hoch has signed the bill pro-
viding for separate high schools for
whites and blacks at Kansas City,
Kan.
President Roosevelt has decided to
appoint A. G.. Smith, of Storm Lake,
Ia, as collector of internal revenue for
the Northern district of Iowa, to sue
coed j. U. Sammis, resigned.
The anti-tipping bill, introduced in
the Missouri legislature by DR.. Alonzo
Tubbs, was killed in the lower house
of the legislature by vote of 65 to so.
Col Charles S. Arnal, one of the
best-known insurance men in the
south, and a distinguished citizen of
Atlanta, Ga. committed suicide at his
residence by shooting.
w. A. Nelden, who had just retired
as president and manager of the W. A.
Nelen Drug company, committed sui
eide at Salt Lake City, Utah, by shoot
ing. III health and recent financial
losses are given as the probable cause.
The Indiana house of representa-
tives passed the Davis anti-pass bill,
which prohibits the issuance of rail-
road passes to any citizen of the state,
by vote of 35 to 8.
For the first time in the history of
the city, Baltimore is without oysters
during the season. Dealers say lovers
of the bivalve must expect to do with
out them until a thaw comes, which
will enable the dredgers to get fresh
supply.
The Wisconsin state assembly unan-
imously passed a bill prohibiting the
sale of giant firecrackers and other
dangerous explosives specified.
The dOorkeeper of the Indiana house
declares that other representatives re-
ceived white envelopes from an al
legged briber, and they spoke against
the anti-cigarette bill.
The president, it is said, has decided
to call an extra session of congress in
October.
A coroner's jury in Chicago held
bigamist Johann Hoch to await the
action of the grand jury on charge
of wife poisoning.
Emperor William praises Germany's
new trade treaties, now ratified, and
has rewarded ministers who made
them.
A bill intended to prevent race bet
ting in Missouri was stolen after hav-
ing been passed by the house and the
legislation is endangered.
Chicago - packers indicate that pri-
vate car and refrigerator lines will be
the channels through which the beef
men will be attacked by the federal
grand jury.
President Roosevelt and Emperor
William received the degree of doctor of
laws from the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
Washington's birthday was generally
observed throughout the country.
Word has reached the state depart
ment of the death of John Todd Hill,
United States consul at San Juan del
NOrte, Nicaragua.
Former City Treasurer George Hol
comb, of Everett. Wash, is under arrest,
charged with embezZlement from the
city of Everett while treasurer, of the
sum of $11 500.
The Mexican forces under Gen.
Torres, numbering about 400, have killed
40 Yaquis and taken 1877 prisoners in
two days with the savages in the noun
tains east of La Colorado. Mexico.
While an inquest over the body OF
Mrs. Sternbach, aged SO years, who was
found to have been poisoned, was in
progress at the Sternbach residence at
West Bend, Wis, John Behrens, aged so.
who was suspected of her murder, COM
mitted suicide in the room next to that
occupied by the coroner's jury.
After being out all night the jury al
Dubuque, Ia, in the case of James Reade.
the slayer of Policeman Norton. re-
turned verdict Of guilty of murder in
the second degree.
Rudyard Foust, the four-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Foust, of Muncie,
Ind, fatally shot his sister three years
old, through the head with a revolver.
Adolph Weber was convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree at Auburn, Cal,
for the killing of his mother. Weber,
who is only 20 years old, is also accused
of killing his father, sister and brother
and of burning the family residence.
The tragedy occurred November 10,
1904.
In a fire in the center of London's mo-
burned, the damage estimated at 81, $780,