River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-01-05

| presentment repudiate their signatures.
| Irvine's friends hint of criminal libel
proceedings.
Four blocks of business houses and
| residences were burned at Hartford.
Ark, causing a loss of about S125,O0O.
Gov. Odell and otner republican lead
ers, after a conference in New York,
announced that Senator Depew is to be
reelected without opposition. The gov
ernor says he yields in the interest of
party harmony.
Gov. Carter, of Hawaii, asks for an
amendment to the exclusion law so that
Chinese labor may be employed.
A civil service board has been estab-
| lished for the Panama canal zone.
Robert w. Taylor, former congress
to the federal bench.
Near Hiawatha, Kan, Constantine
Miller, an old soldier, lost his way in the
storm, and was frozen to death.
A brakeman named Perry was killed
near Decatur ILL.,, by being blown off
freight car and run over.
A Chicago Great Western freight train,
south of Melbourne, "a, causing injuries
to six train and section men.
The Japanese government has agreed
to negotiate an arbitration treaty with
| the United States.
Norman King, formerly Minneapolis
city detective under Mayor Ames, and
who was convicted and sentenced to a
in cfo oh nf
completely in a diamond robbery, has
been granted full pardon.
1t can safely be asserted that
it is Mr.. Choate's intention to tender his
resignation as ambassador to the court
of st. James soon after the inauguration
| of President Roosevelt.
A brick house occupied by John Shan
non and Charles Droste was destroyed
by fire at Richmond, Ind, and Raymond
Droste, IL years of age, was suffocated
After binding the engineer and the
Waterman employed in the Garden City
Brewing company's plant Chicago, four
cracksmen blew open the safe and es-
capped with $4,000.
In fire at Villa Ridge, ILL.,, John Ma
honey, farmer, was burned to death.
While Mrs. Pasquale Dell and little son
were eating breakfast at Fairmont, w
Va, a lamp exploded and ignited the
clothes of both. They were so horribly
burned that they died within few
hours.
DR.. Johann Jacob Eisenhut, 104 years
old, the oldest person in Colorado, died
Wednesday at st. Anthony's hospital,
in Denver.
The home of Nathan O'Neall, five miles
west of Bloomfield, Ind, was burned to
the ground and O'Neall and his daughter
Nora were burned to death.
James Robinson was sent to jail for
80 days, at Mobile, Ala, for an assault
The offense for which he was committed
was kissing young lady against her
will.
Four men were killed and one injured
by an explosion of four boilers at the
saw mill plant of Walworth & Neville,
at Walville, Wash.
Mrs. Cora d. Gookins, widow of Col
James F. Gookins, of Chicago, sued the
Western Union Telegraph company for
100000 for delay in delivery of mes
sage announcing his fatal illness.
Gov.-eIect Adams has petitioned the
Colorado supreme court to appoint a
commission to open the Denver ballot
boxes.
The government final estimate of the
cereal crops of 1904 shows total of
4,081, 460,00 bushels, the second largest
| in her history.
Farmers and merchants of the south,
fearing bankruptcy as result of the
slump in cotton, have began burning the
staple in order to advance prices, and
propose to destroy 2,000, 900 bales.
Juray Piper was drowned at Sheboy-
gan, Wis, while trying to recover his
hat from the river, where the wind had
blown it.
| Attorney General Moody says the at
| tack on the paper trust is only the be-
ginning of long series of similar at
tacks to be made on other trusts at di-
rect order of the president
Cecilia M. Moss, of Lancaster, Pa,
| leaped to her death from the window
Of New York city boarding house.
The coroner believes she did not COM
NIT suicide, but killed herself in an at
tempt to escape from the house.
A syndicate of Cleveland men is said
be ready and willing to furnish bail up
| to the sum of $4,000 to procure the
release of Mrs Cassie L. Chadwick, held
| in Jail awaiting trial on the charge OF
| forgery.
The body of Capt. Howard w. French
constructing Quartermaster at the new
army post at Chattanooga, Tenn, was
| found with bullet hole through the
heart. He is supposed to have commit
| ted suicide.
Fire at Council Bluffs, Ia, completely
destroyed the four-story warehouse and
| the entire stock and fixtures Of the Fuller
& Johnson Shugart company, causing
loss of s150-000.
| Thomas E. Watson, of Thomson, Ga,
the candidate of the peoples party for
president in the last election, will pub
lish a monthly magazine called Tom
Watsons Magazine
Judge Francis ]. Wing, of Cleveland,
! O., has forwarded to the president his
resignation of the Office of United States
district judge for the Northern district
of Ohio.
The federal grand jury at Portland,
Ore, has indicted S. P. Ormsby, William
H. Davis, mayor OF Albany, Ore; C. E.
LOOMS, Henry e. Young, George Sor-
orcoy ood Tobp Doo opd De-