River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-15

cede on the question of police supervi-
sion.
The Dreadnaught, England's mon
ster battleship, costing $7,500,OOO, was
launched by King Edward.
Arrangements for the wedding of
Mr. Longworth and Miss Alice Roose-
welt are practically completed. The
ceremony will be witnessed by LOO
persons.
John Witt, 2S years old, of Detroit,
shot and killed his four-year-old child,
wounded his father-in-law, and
mother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Whiting, the latter so severely that
she may die, and then committed sui
eide.
James Henry Smith, the New York
bachelor and clubman, whose fortune
is estimated at $4,000 900, has given
| 100000 to St. Luke's hospital in Chi
cago.
Jerry Rosa, an Italian, was hanged
at Hackensack, N. j., for the murder
of another Italian which was commit
ted two years ago.
Bunkie Richardson, a negro charged
with the assault and murder of Mrs.
Sarah Smith July 15 last, was forcibly
taken from the Jail at Gadsden, Ala,
and hanged to railroad bridge.
A gang Of forgers robbed business
houses in South Chicago, Ill, with bu-
gus checks purporting to be those Of
the Illinois Steel company.
A new polar expedition in search of
new continent will start for the
north next month, led by Capt. Einar
Mikkelson and Ernest De V. Letting
well, of the University of Chicago.
A giant trust has been formed to
control the mining, smelling and sale
of copper and lead, which rivals the
steel trust for size. 1t is controlled by
the Guggenheims and the Standard Oil
crowd
Fire damaged the plant of the l..
Schneider & Sons company, manufac-
turers of structural iron, at Cincinnati,
to the extent of $250,000.
Irving D. Smith, known as the mil
lionaire farmer of South Dakota, and
famous for his charities, died in Madi-
son, S. D., aged 80. He was possessed
of $1,500,000, nearly all of which is in
vested in farm lands.
Secretary Root is about to reorganiZe
the state department and put it on z
business basis. He will apply the same
remedy to the consular service. Inef-
ficient and incapacitated clerks are to
be dismissed and a corps of active alert
and competent clerks substituted. Red
tape is to be ruthlessly cut.
Helen Kellar, the deaf, dumb and
blind girl whose career amazed the
world, collapsed as the result of her
unceasing labors for others afflicted as
she is, and has been ordered to take
a complete rest.
Union carpenters and their en-
ployers in Chicago signed a three-year
agreement which gives the workmen
an increase in wages aggre eating
more than $1,000,000 year.
All records of sales OF automobiles
at shows outside of New York have
been broken at the Chicago exhibition.
The total for the week is placed at
$7,100,000, with big cars in especial de-
mand.
Mr. Longworth is confined to his
home by illness, but his physician says
he will be out by February II, when
he marries Miss Alice Roosevelt.
Sarah Jones, a 70-year-old woman,
was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree in Philadelphia for the killing Of
her foster daughters child within few
hours after it was born.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the poet of
the negro race, died at his home in Day
ton, O., OF consumption. His poem best
known was when Malindy Sings
which was written to his mother, whose
name is Malinda.
Mormons are required to take an
oath of vengeance upon the nation for
the death of their prophet, and polyg-
amy among members of the church is
increasing, said a witness before the
senate committee, which resumed
hearings in the case of Senator Reed
! Smoot.
Mariner w. Merrill, an apostle of
the Mormon church, died at Richmond,
Utah, aged IA years. He had been
married nine times, and leaves seven
widows, 40 children and lao grand
children.
At the Smott investigation in Wash
ington a number of Mormon church
songs alleged to be hostile to the gov
eminent of the United States were put
into the record. A witness testified that
these songs were sung frequently.
The grand jury indicted six men on
a charge of defrauding the city of
Brooklyn of hundreds of thousands of
dollars On sewer swindles.
Fifty-five natives were drowned owing
to the flooding of South Rose, deep
gold mine in the Transvaal.
All the judges of Minnesota will hence.
forth scorn railroad passes. A move
ment started recently by the district
bench of Hennepin county has resulted
III all the judges in the state sending
back their annual passes.
Gov A. B. Cummins, of Iowa, has au-
thorized the Des Moines Register and
Leader to announce that he will be can
didate this year for the Republican
nomination for governor.
Gen. John Eaton, distinguished civil
war veteran and noted educator, died
in Washington, aged ~ years.
Gov. Stokes, of New Jersey, granted
Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, the Hacken-
sack murtleress, further reprieve of