River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-02-23

Four men killed and IA injured, of
whom three are in a critical condition,
was the result of two explosions on
board the British submarine boat
"A-5" in the harbor at Queenstown,
Ir2I-nd
A parcels post treaty with Great
Britain has been signed by the United
States. 1t will be effective by April l.
Claude S. Snivey. a prominent attor-
ney, pitched headlong from the fifth
story window in the Lonsdale build
ing at Duluth. Mimi, and was killed.
To successfully fight the trusts with
in it's borders, a constitutional conven-
ton may be called to broaden the pow
ers of the Kansas legislature
President Roosevelt has directed
James r. Garfield, commissioner of cor
poratiOns of the department of COM
merce and labor, to begin Immediately
the oil investigation requested by the
house of representatives in a resolution
adopted unanimously
Daniel H. Mccarthy, at one time one
Of the best known cartOOnists in the
country, is dead at his home in New
York of heart trouble.
Mrs. Rebecca Snyder and her niece.
Ida Shade, Of Liberty, O.. were killed
near West Carrollton, O., by being
struck by a train
Six men were injured two of them
seriously, in an explosion of chemicals
in the plant of the Brooklyn sulphur
works. in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Edinboro. Pa. the state normal
school town, was visited by one of the
most disastrous fires in its history.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
Jay Cooke, whose fame as a financier
is worldwide, died at the home of his
son-in-law, Charles D. Barney. at
Ogontz, suburb of Philadelphia. Mr..
Cook was SO years Of age.
The state department has received
word from Minister Bowen that the Ven
ezuela supreme court. under pressure
from President Castro. has reaffirmed the
decree sequestrating the property of the
New York Asphalt company.
President Roosevelt is preparing re-
quest to Judge Grosscup to punish heads
of the beef trust for violation of the in
junction.
The Wisconsin legislature has dis
missed pages under the age of IA, as re-
Quired by the child labor law
The Illinois railroad and warehouse
commission reported TO Gov. Deneen
that the state leads all others in.the to-
tai mileage of steam roads in opera
ton.
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria. is improy
ing in health, and will be taken south.
Gen. Lew Wallace, author of Ben
Hur," former minister to Turkey and q
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars,
died at Charlottesville, Ind.
G. c.. McKibben, a travelling salesman
for a typewriter company Of Derby,
Conn, was killed by falling from a win
dow of hotel at Providence, r.
A drunken Indian went on the war
path 80 miles south of Tonopah, New.
He killed three squaws and fellow. In
dian and then fled to the mountains.
Mrs. Elizabeth budding. aged 60 years,
was burned to death at Springfield, III.
She poked in a fireplace and her gown
caught fire.
Pitcher Jack Taylor, of the ST. Louis
National league baseball club, was eX-
onerated by the board of directors of the
association Of a charge Of "throwing'
the game between st. Louis and Pitts
urg in the latter city July 80 last.
The republican candidate for mayor Of
Chicago is John NJ. Harlan.
The Third Russian Pacific squadron
sailed from Libau for the far east.
Francis G. Lowell, now United States
district judge of Massachusetts, has been
appointed United States circuit judge
for the first circuit, just created by act
Of congress.
William Cullen Bryant, the publisher
of the Brooklyn Times and secretary Of
the American Newspaper Publishers
association, died at a sanitarium in
Plainfeld n. j.
Charles BIGGER, aged 81 years, fatally
stabbed his invalid wife Emma BIGGER,
aged AZ years, in Kansas City, Mo, after
which he severed his own jugular vein,
dying instantly.
The Missouri supreme court rendered
an opinion that while osteopaths are not
physicians and surgeons under the laws
of the state, they are liable for damages
resulting from injuries sustained by
persons whom they treat.
Two men met death from falling rock
in the Lake Superior copper mines at
Calumet, Mich.
The National Friends Educational
conference will be held in Richmond,
Ind, from July 81 to August 9 inclusive.
The conference will bring together
many prominent educators Of the United
States.
Judge w. William Douglass, of Prov
idence, was elected chief justice of the
supreme court of Rhode Island by the
general assembly to succeed Chief JUS
tice e. e. Tillinghast. deceased.
Gov Warner, of Michigan, has ordered
the removal from Office of Sheriff elect
John T. Hoffman,, of Wayne county.
Hoffman, is at present confined in the
Wayne county jail in Detroit He was
convicted of collecting fraudulent fees
from the state while filing the Office Of
coroner.
The Hartman lines will spend be-
tween $6,00O,000 and 100000 for new
equipment and new rails during 1905.
James Piersall, a negro under indict-
ment at Lexington, KY, for II desper
ate crimes committed January 20, was
convicted of criminal assault and given
aedeath sentence.