River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

Joseph Cassidy, shortstop of the
Washington American League baseball
club, died at his home in Chester, Pa.
He had been i'll for seven weeks with a
peculiar disease, which his doctor
termed purpuro hemorrhagia, the
blood turning to water.
Former Mayor Samuel H. Ashbridge
died at his home in Philadelphia from
a complication of diseases. He was 81
years of age. Mr.. Ashbridge had been
in the city's service for 23 years.
Seven persons, three generations of
a family, were killed by a Reading
train near Sunbury, Pa.
Labor, led by President Gompers and
the American Federation of Labor, de-
clared it's purpose at Washington of
taking part in the coming congression-
al elections and attempting to defeat
all candidates hostile to legislation de-
manded.
Henry Fl. Rogers, defiant no longer,
answered questions of Attorney Gen
eral Hadley and trust ownership of
stock of reputed competitors was adj
mitted
August Auerbach secured a verdict
for $4,000 against the Chicago Ameri-
can League baseball club for injuries
received from foul tip at a game.
Richard Ivens, the self-confessed
slayer of Mrs. Bessie HOLSTER, was
found guilty in Chicago and given the
death penalty.
Two additional bodies were recov-
cred from the Century mine in West
Virginia, running the death list to 26.
All others have been accounted for.
John A Locke and H. G. Harris are
under arrest in San Francisco on the
charge of safebre2king and train rob-
berry, committed near Richmond, Ind.
While preaching to his congregation
Rev. j. B. Lentz, pastor of Latter
Day Saints church at Carson, Ia, was
struck by lightning, which caused his
death within an hour.
Russia plans loan of $5,O00,000 to
relieve landlords who suffered in the
recent agrarian disorders.
The insurance scandals are said to
have caused a mental and physical col
lapse in former Senator David B. Hill
American members of the interna-
tional commission urge quick joint ac-
ton with Canada in order to save Nj
agara falls.
The new battleship Constitution, de-
signed for the United States navy al
a cost of S10.000,000, will put the
Dreadnought in the shade.
A carpet tack caught between cog
wheels caused a spark that resulted in
the blowing up of the works of the
Phoenix Powder company, near East
st. Louis, ILL.,, and killing two men.
Andrew Carnegie, discussing the
railway rate bill, urges that appeals
from the rulings of the interstate
commerce commission be allowed the
railroads only in cases where the
earnings are affected to the extent OF
100000 or more a year,
Trade of the United States with Can
ada in the fiscal year 1905 aggregated
$202, 999,213, against SIS, 429,096 in 1904
Thomas NJ. Casey. former cashier OF
the Salmon bank, of Clinton, Mo-
sentenced to FIVE years on his plea OF
guilty to a forgery charge. entered the
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo.
The postmaster general issued an
order forbidding use of the mails to
So illegal medical offices" in New
York and Brooklyn.
Robbers entered the bank of Mag
ara, n. D., demolished the safe and
secured $3.50 in cash.
Andrew Hamilton, former legisla.
tive agent for the New York Life In
surance company, sent reply TO the
Fowler Investigating committee OF
that company, declining to appear be
but held the five packing firms fol
to his work for the company.
Representative George R. Patterson
of the Twelfth Pennsylvania district
died suddenly from heart failure.
August Buhr and A. G. Seebert
employees, were cremated in an ex
plosion at the gas works in Cedar
Falls, Ia, while third man is miss
ing.