River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-30

The commission which is 10 arrange
plan for an assembly.
A survey has been made by the Chi
cago Great Western railway for a line
from Arispe, Ia, to Carroll Ia, and right
of way and property for terminals have
! been bought. The survey runs through
Cresten, Greenfield and Guthrie Center.
4 little Wyoming girl stuffed her baby
sitter with cotton to make her fatter,
and nearly killed the infant.
President Roosevelt took the first
steps to end the war by addressing a
note to the powers, including Russia and
Japan, that he is willing to act as medi-
ator.
Weekly trade reviews show an en-
couraging expansion in all the princi-
pal branches. Distribution is liberal and
railroad earnings are larger on enor-
nous tonnage.
Great numbers of immigrants seeking
homes in the west, southwest and north
west passed throughEhicago making
new transportation record.
The wife of a newly appointed consul
to Zanzibar appealed to President
Roosevelt not to allow ner husband to
sail for his post until he has provided for
the support of his family.
DR.. James Woods Slonaker, of Chica-
go, reputed to be the most scientific ex-
tractor of teeth in the United States, is
dead
John d. Rockefeller sent a letter to
the University of Chicago, which is in
terpreted as assuring a $50,000,000 en-
dowment for the big school.
A receivership for Santo Domingo,
with power to collect but not pay out
revenues was decided upon at confer
ence of six powers and Dominicans.
Mrs. Joseph Schmidt, aged Sc, died at
Chenoa, H., from burns due to her
clothing igniting from a fire in the
kitchen stove.
Millions of dead fish frozen in the Illi-
nois river have been found at Peoria.
They are considered a menace to health
and the state board of health will be
asked to remove the peril
Public funeral services we're held
at Brockton, Mass, for more than two
score of persons who lost their lives
last Monday in the shoe factory explo-
sion and fire. What appears to be a
final estimate places the number of
dead at So. Of these the bodies of SO
have been recovered, while those of
three are missing. OF the bodies re-
covered but II have been identified.
The battleship Kansas will be chris
NV IL Of
crude oil over it's brow in the place
Of bottle of champagne, as is the
usual custom.
Explosions of Vesuvius have abate1.
The only sign of internal activity is an
occasional light puff of material and
smoke.
Rear Admiral Chester, superinten-
dent of the naval observatory, has
completed arrangements for the obser-
walton of the total solar eclipse of
August 29-30 of this year, an event of
the greatest Importance to astron-
omers.
Two small children of E. Syring, a
farmer living near Brule, Wis, set fire
to the house in the absence of their
parents and burned to death.
Great Northern westbound passen-
ger train No. 1 was wrecked by a rock
slide near Katka, Idaho. Engineer
Owen Jones, of Hillyard, was killed.
The engine plunged into the Kootenai
river.
The district court at Sheridan, Wyo.,
has refused the petition of Col. Will
liam f. Cody buffalo BID for di-
vorce.
Ten peasants were killed and so
wounded at Lamenta, a suburb of
Kutno, Russian Poland, on March 81
They were shot down by infantry sent
to quell disturbances.
Alonzo j. Whiteman, of Danville,
N. Y, and former member of the
Minnesota legislature, was acquitted
at Buffalo, N. Y, on a charge of grand
larceny. There still are five indict-
ments against Whiteman, on charges
of grand larceny (three counts, for
gerry and attempted larceny.
Charles Seward Minis, aged 67, died
at Cedar Falls, Ia, of heart failure.
His remains were taken to Harbor
Beach, Mich, for interment. He was
a veteran newspaper man of Michigan.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Goddard one Of
the most prominent women in Colo
RADIO, has been appointed a deputy
sheriff of Ell Paso county, Col. She is
the only woman occupying this Office
in the state.
Theodore M. Pomeroy, speaker of
the house at the end of the fortieth
congress, died at Auburn, N Y, in his
S0th year.
One of the elevators of the Sparks
Milling company burned at Alton, ILL.,,
and the greater part of $4,000 bushels
of wheat in the elevator was ruined,
either by fire or water. The loss will
be about 100000.
William T. Brisbin, a painter, 35 years
old, has surrendered himself to the po-
lice of Los Angeles, CAL. stating that he
is wanted at Waverly, Mass, to answer
a charge of stealing $1,000.
Latest figures on the plague in India
show a total of 346,S99 deaths from
January 1 to March II.
Jonathan Reed, who since the death
of his wife. eight years ago, has lived in
her tomb in Evergreen cemetery, New
York, was stricken with apoplexy.
freight train south-bound on the
Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern, was
wrecked near Tellico, Tenn. The en-
oinoor and fireman were caught beneath