River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-28


carried out the zone will be as health
full as any other place in the tropics,
says Secretary Taft
Mrs. Laura Corey accepts the offer
OF a $1,00O,0O0 settlement with her
husband, who promises not to reopen
the affair with Mabelle Gilman, the
actress, on her agreement not to get a
divorce.
The jury to try the packers i'm
munity pleas in Chicago is completed
and the hearing set for January 9.
Frank Willard, an insane man, shot
and killed Sheriff Henry Smith in
Judge Whites chambers at Ukiah,
Cal. He then fired once at Judge
White, but missed him. Willard was
arrested.
The boiler of a locomotive drawing
a south-bound Lehigh Valley freight
train exploded one mile east of the
village of Van Etten, N. Y, killing
Fireman Frank Norris and fatally in
juring four others.
A dispatch from Toxic reports the
arrest of a former soldier named
Higurashi on the charge of being con-
cerned in plot to assassinate the
premier, Count Katsura, because he
consented to "disgraceful peace"
The motion for a new trial in the
Taggart divorce case was overruled by
Judge Edison at Wooster, o. Mrs. Tag
CARTS attorneys were fined for con-
tempt of court in criticising the rul-
ings of the judge in the former trial.
John N. Irwin died at Hot Springs,
Ark. He was former minister to Port
ugal, governor of Arizona, governor
of Idaho, mayor of Keokuk, Ia, and
head of wholesale mercantile COM
pany in the latter city.
Joseph H. Choate, who recently was
succeeded at the court of st. James as
United States ambassador by Whitelaw
Reid, in all likelihood will be named
by President Roosevelt as chairman OF
the American delegation to the second
The Hague peace conference.
George Fl. Turner was hanged at
San Antonio, Tex, for the murder of
Mrs Elizabeth Lynch, March 8, 1905.
He left a note wishing everybody a
Merry Christmas.
Gottlieb Arnold, saloon keeper, was
shot and killed and David A. Fuller,
a carpenter seriously wounded by an
unknown man, who attempted to rob
Arnold's saloon in Rockford, I'll.
Herbert H. D. Peirce, third assist
ant secretary of state, has been select
ed by the president as the first Ameri-
can minister to Norway. Charles
DENLY, chief clerk of the department,
or to Mr. Peirce in the state depart
ment
William Clark and III. H. McKiri-
han, members of the construction crew
on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad, were killed by a passenger
train while walking on the railroad
tracks at East Moline, Ill.
A heavy rain and windstorm, which
practically reached the dimensions of
hurricane, swept the Wyoming val
ley IN Pennsylvania. One man was
killed and property worth thousands
of dollars was destroyed.
Henry Harland. the American au-
thor, who wrote 1.-THE Cardinals Snuff
Box" died in Italy.
Patrick Reynolds, aged 81, died in
Philadelphia from the effects of a blow
received in a boxing match.
Mr.. Longworth offers a bill appro-
priating $5,000,000 to purchase build
ings for United States missions in all
foreign capitals.
Standard Oil men deny rumors in
Wall street that the company contem-
plates increasing it's capital stock from
$1O0,00O,O00 to $6O0,O00,000.
Mark Twain was crowned with a
laurel wreath at a dinner given in his
honor in New York.
Former Gov. William r. Taylor, of
Wisconsin, who was swept into power
by the granger" movement and who
first established the principle of state
control of railroads, has been beggared
by speculation and has entered semi
charitable home for the aged near
Madison.
Sir Henry mpbell-Bannerman, the
new British premier, has outlined his
policy. He favors arbitration and dis
armament, free trade and home rule
for Ireland.
Assessment figures in Illinois show
that the total wealth in the state
reached $5,4S6, 4S0,S85, an increase for
the year of $72,610,470. Chicago's to-
tai valuation is $2,177,515,3 800.
w. nj. Pryor, aged 81, a prominent
farmer, was shot through the heart
and killed by Mrs. Ella Gholson, a
young widow, near Paducah, KY, in a
dispute over a tree the woman wanted
cut down.
News of plot to assassinate Presi-
dent Reyes, of Colombia. and over
throw the government, was received
at Washington.
Mrs. Michael Schultz, a bride of a
month, died at Paynesville, Mimi, as
result of burns received while she
saved her three-year-old stepson from
death by fire.
A rumor is current throughout Tab
til that the United States government
has offered France s4.OOO,O0O for the
island.
Treachery and attempts to wreck the
Republican party of New York state
zre charged to President Roosevelt and
Gov. Higgins by Odell
Royal B. Stearns and w. B. Harsnell
were convicted of grabbing govern
ment lands in South Dakota and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary by St
Paul court