River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-09

Elihu Root, former secretary of war,
declined President Roosevelt's urgent
offer to become the hundred thousand
dollar man" to take charge of the con-
struction of the Panama canal.
The New Orleans carnival parades
opened with the pageant Of the knights
of Momus, and was followed by ball
at the French opera house, in which
Momus crowned Miss Florence Kells
as queen.
Fl. Rider Haggard arrived in New York
as a commissioner of the British gov
eminent to investigate the industrial
and agricultural colony organized in this
country by the Salvation army.
Miss Jennie Croker. of San Fran
cisco, has reached the age of Is, and her
estate of 100000 has been turned over
to her.
The massacres at Kisheneff have been
paralleled at Theodosia, in the Crimea.
Forty-seven Jews, including II women,
were killed and 1873 wounded.
The state of Kansas mas filed suit in
the supreme court of that state asking
that receiver be appointed for the
Standard Oil company's branch, alleg-
ing violation of the state laws. The leg
islature has passed the anti-discrimina-
ton bill.
Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, widow of
former United States Senator Stanford,
died in commissions in a Honolulu hotel,
whittier she had gone to escape attempts
upon her life, and physicians suspect she
was poisoned.
President Roosevelt limited to con-
gressmen that railroad rate question
and tariff revision have not been aban-
doned as administration policy, and may
be in a call for an extra session.
Former Senator Wolcott, of Colorado.
died in Monte Carlo after short illness.
Ice gorges in the Ohio river have
caused loss to river interests of over
100000.
In answer to an inquiry on the subject,
Secretary Hay has formally assured the
Haytien minister here that the United
States government has no intention
whatever of acquiring by annexation or
otherwise, possession of Hayti or San
Domingo, nor of extending American in
fiuence in that direction.
A passenger train was stopped by
three bandits eight miles north of Mann
moth Springs, Ark, and the express car
robbed. The safe was blown open and
all of it's contents were secured. 1t is
said that the robbers did not secure more
than $4,000
Two robbers blew the post Office safe
at Earlpoint. a suburb of Atlanta, Ga,
secured $1,000 worth of stamps and $40
in money, and made good their escape.
1t is officially announced that the earl
of Selbourne, first lord of the admiralty,
succeeds Lord Miner as British high
commissioner in South Africa.
George Rice, for many years well
in the Ohio field, is dead at Asbury Park,
N. J. He was IS years old.
Mrs. Joe Griston, Chippewa squaw,
was burned to a crisp in her home in
Waucedah village, IL miles from Nor
way, Mich. Her husband accidentally
set fire to the bed clothes while she was
asleep.
Thirteen Of the Is republican members
of the Colorado gubernatorial contest
committee have signed a report in favor
of seating James III. Peabody and the
nine democrats signed report in ia
vor of continuing Gov. Alva Adams in
the Office. The other five republican
members refused to sign either report.
John MART, bartender, is in Jail at
Uniontown, Pa, in connection with the
poisoning of his wife and three children.
All four were made i'll by drinking coffee
which contained arsenic.
William Vanderbilt, a wealthy farm
er living near Sioux City, Ia, beat his
wifes head to an unacceptable mass
with chair.
Mrs. Elijah Melvir Schrader, aged 81
died at Iowa City, Ia. She was the
daughter of a revolutionary soldier.
Her grandfather was transported and
kept in London Tower during the revo-
lutionary war.
Two freight trains met in head-on
collision few miles south of Lebanon
Junction, KY. killing two men and in
juring one.
The dead body of Elvina Schneider, a
13-year-old girl, was found near Neills-
vile, Wis. She had been frozen to death.
Eleven persons were killed and about
so injured by the collapse of the floor
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church in RrOOk1vn Funeral services
were being conducted at the time.
With the breaking of the ice gorge in
the Mississippi river and the passing of
the last of the big foes from the st. Louis
harbor, it was discovered that the new
government dyke, 900 feet long, had been
completely demolished. The cost of the
work was 5000, 000
Because the Iowa statutes which make
it a crime of embezzlement for banker
to loan money to himself fails to provide
a punishment for the crime, M. Beuthien
and Arnold Beuthien, president and
cashier of the wrecked New Liberty ia
bank, will go free, although one pleaded
guilty and the other is under Indictment.
A B. & o. train struck four men near
Evitts Creek, Nd, instantly killing
three and slightly injuring the other.
The bodies of the three dead men were
ground to pieces.
The six-story building occupied by
Frank Teller & Co., cigar manufacture
ers, on South Second street, Philadel-
phia, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at 100000.