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

and quotes Senator Cullom as expressing
the belief that congress must yield to
public opinion, possibly at this session.
Tammany hall has organized for
1905 by rejecting practically every
one of its officers.
Capt Hamilton Ezra Smith, inventor
of laundry machinery, in general use,
and of the first round-bale cotton bind
ing appliance, and who was member
of the citizens committee of New York
that overthrow the Tweed ring, is dead
at Salina, Kan, aged IS years.
During a violent storm in north
Germany four persons were killed and
a number injured by collapsing walls.
The entire Roumanian cabinet has
resigned in consequence of the resig-
nations of the ministers Of finance and
of domains.
Elias Hatfield, noted for his connec-
ton with one of the bitterest Of the
mountain feuds, was killed in tunnel
near Bluefeld, w. Va.
d. L. Jones, referee in bankruptcy,
is dead at Milwaukee of heart disease,
aged GA. Mr.. Jones, served through the
civil war in the Sixteenth Wisconsin.
He was prominent in G. A. r. circles
and was a mason of high degree.
The submarine tunnel connecting
Boston and East Boston has been
opened for public travel. The tunnel
is double-tracked, IA mile long, 2,7O0
feet of which is under the harbor wa
ters. The cost of construction was
100000.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific pas
senger train, west bound, collided
head-on with a heavy freight train,
east bound, on a sharp curve three
miles from Oklahoma City, Okla. The
engines and the mail car were demol-
ished Frank Curry, of Shawnee, Okla,
engineer of the passenger train, was
killed.
President Roosevelt has appointed ].
Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, chief
of the bureau of manufactures of the
department of commerce and labor.
The interstate commerce commission
postponed indefinitely the hearing of ar
guments in the case of w. r. Hearst, of
carrying railroads.
The station of the Crescent Oil & Gas
company, near Hartford City, Ind, was
blown up. One man was killed and five
injured. The destruction was complete.
Loss about $4,000.
Justice Olmsted handed down an opin-
ion in the New York court of special ses-
sions, holding that the law against the
selling or giving away of street railway
transfers is constitutional.
From December to December "a,
the night before Christmas, no less than
,084 international orders were for
warded to foreign lands from New York
city, and these orders called for $4,667,-
628.90.
OF the 705 steerage passengers brought
over on the steamer Merton, which ar
rived at Philadelphia, more than $50
were Russians. Most of these were able
bodied men, between the age of 20 and
80 years, and liable for duty in the army.
Rev. Richard Loyett, M. A, secretary
of the Religious Tract society since 1899,
and a we'll known writer on religious
subjects, died suddenly in London Of
heart disease.
Three persons lost their lives in a fire
which totally destroyed the farm resi-
dence of Charles Mcmillan, near Gene
SEQ, N. Y.
The last shipment of contract for a
million pounds Of barreled beef has been
sent from the Cudahy Packing company
in Sioux City, Ia, to the besieged Rus
slams at Port Arthur.
The Chinese government has pre-
scented the Chinese worlds fair pavilion,
which was erected at a cost of $135, 600,
to David r. Francis, president of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition COM
pany.
Colorado republicans are divided on
the proposed plan to reseat Gov. James
H Peabody.
The car has recalled Admiral Kama
kokff as a member of the North sea com
mission.
Fred Jones, who shot and killed Con-
stable William c. Gray and Mrs. Alb
bic Goodrich, at Charlottesville, N. Y,
Wednesday and then shot himself, died
of his wound.
President Roosevelt is flooded with
invitations to visit the south.
J. r. Barrow killed his mother-in-law,
Mrs W. H. Parish, made desperate at
tempt to kill his 18-year-old wife and
shot himself twice with rifle at TIL ON
asyille, Ga. He may die. Family quar-
rel was the cause.
Twenty-Five men were rescued from
wrecked oil steamer off Cape Hatteras
after being at the mercy of the waves Sc
hours.
Prisoners in the Folsom (Cal.) peni-
Tertiary attempted wholesale delivery.
Three were shot to death, four were
wounded, and the break was quelled in
20 seconds.
Jesse Rupert and his sister Cecil are
dead, and Rupert's wife and another sis
ter, Ethel, are dying as the result of
natural gas asphyxiation at the home in
Chanute, Kan.
Five negroes were frozen to death in
swamp near Monroe, La, including a
man and his wife and child.
Earl Roberts has shocked England by
declaring that the British army is unfit
to engage in war with any modern power.
He pointsSu deficiencies and tells what
the army needs.
Engineer Charles Heebe was instantly
killed, his assistant, Daniel Terrier,
probably fatally injured when the cyl
inder head of the great power engine in
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