River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-28

mura met In Koruiloff bay September
16 and the admirals arranged the terms
of the naval arnistice.
King Alfonso signed the treaty of gem
eral arbitration between Spain and Bel
GUM.
On Beatty's ridge. in Switzerland
county, Ind, George Ford, who is be-
lieved to be insane, cremated his wife
and three children by setting fire to the
house in which they were asleep. All
four perished in the flames.
Two young children of Albert Brest-
haupt, Violet, aged II, and Harry, aged
nine, were smothered to death by the
cave-in of a playhouse they were dig
ging in the side of hill on their fathers
farm near Traverse City, Mich.
Ole Hagen, farmer, and Andrew Gill
bertson were instantly killed by the ex-
plosion of threshing engine boiler on
a highway near Newmarket, Mimi.
Thousands of Italians celebrated in
Rome the papacy's fall from temporal
power and decorated the graves of many
of the patriots.
Rev. Paul Matthews, dean of the Gin
cinnati cathedral, was elected bishop
coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Milwaukee.
An anti-peace meeting in Toxic called
on the Japanese cabinet to repudiate the
peace treaty or resign.
Former Alderman Murphy testified
before Milwaukee grand jury that he
was offered money and immunity if he
would give testimony against Charles
f. Pfister.
James j. Hill, speaking at a Minnesota
fair, said government control of rail-
ways would ruin farmers of the north
west.
The republic of Panama has opened
negotiations with Costa RIGA looking
toward annexation by the older nation.
America probably will not oppose.
It can now be stated definitely that the
exchange of the ratification of the
treaty of peace between japan and Rus
STA will take place in Washington short
ly after the treaty has been ratified by
the respective sovereigns.
Mrs. Charles Walcott, one of the oldest
women on the American stage, was
stricken with paralysis at her home near
Rhinebeck, N. Y. She is 70 years old.
William HI. Hunt, former president
of the defunct Pan-American bank, was
sentenced, in Chicago, to serve an indie
terminate term in the penitentiary at
Joliet, and to pay fine of 1928 as pun
ishment for receiving deposits after hs
knew his bank to be insolvent.
The Carnegie library at Portland, Ind,
has been closed owing to lack of funds
to support it, and it is probable that
Mr.. Carnegie will be asked to take back
the library, which was erected with his
gift of $4,000.
Frank Wood, a saloonkeeper at Bal
lentine, Mich, killed his wife in quar- :
rel Her body was cut to pieces with a
knife and she must have fought desper-
ately.
Two men were killed and over 40 per-
sons more or less injured in railroad
accident near Harvey, New, on the Ore
gon Short Lone division of the Southern
Pacific.
Ross J. Alexander, Indian commits
sioner under the second Cleveland adj
ministration, died ct Bridgeport, Conn.,,
of Bright's disease.
At Wausaukee, Wis, Joseph Cram
beau, seven years old, confirmed fire.
bug, burned his infant sister to death
in her cradle while left to care for her.
His mother saved the home and rescued
the boy.
Frank D. Reed, former cashier of the
bankrupt German-American bank of
Sidney, O., was found not guilty by a
jury of the charge of embezzlement upon
which he was indicted.
Disastrous fires in the mountains of
Rowan county, KY, destroyed thou
sands of valuable trees.
DR.. Thomas John Bernardo, of Lon
don, the well-known founder and di-
rector of philanthropic institutions by
which over $4,000 orphan waits have
been rescued, trained and placed out in
life, is dead.
The action Of the car in inviting a
second peace conference at The Hague
is declared without intent to take credit
from President Roosevelt. The latter
is said to have cordially accepted the
move of Nicholas.
The Minot national bank, of Minot
S. D., closed its doors because of bad
loans.
Emperor Nicholas has issued invita-
lions to the powers for second peace
conference at The Hague. President
Roosevelt yielded the honor Of sum-
moning the governments to the initi-
ator of the first meeting and it is be-
lieved that the call, made in secret,
already has been delivered.
The weather bureau reports that the
past week has been generally favorable
for crops, although in the central west
rain has damaged the corn to some ex-
tent.
Gov Hanly, of Indiana, in public
speech, charged Shel rick, the dismissed
auditor, with squandering the money OF
the state in drink and gambling and
with being an active agent of railroads
The Des Moines Capital appeals TO
Iowa republicans to get together for
Secretary Shaw for the presidency.
The coal operators, it is announced,
will refuse the eight-hour day demand
made by the miners.
AS the result of four fires inquiry will
be made into an alleged plot to destroy
the forts in New York harbor.
Almost the entire business section Of
La Porte, CAL, was destroyed by fire
that started in the Chinese quarter.
The loss is about 500. 600