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

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term as mayor. and had long been
prominent in the Republican party OF
the city and state.
| DR.. Jessie NJ. McGregor, noted
Scotch physician, died at her home in
Denver, Col, after a five days illness
of cerebro-spinal meningitis. DR.. Nc
Gregor was possessor of The highest
degree ever. attained by a feminine
physician.
The wife of H. e. Huntington, the
California millionaire, was granted a
divorce decree after a hearing lasting
seven minutes in San Francisco.
John ID. Rockefeller ILL.,, the new
son of John D. Jr., is the richest baby
in the world, as, if he lives, he will
inherit the fortune of the head Of
Standard Oil.
The car, De Witte and Lamsdorf
are said to favor proposed railroad
from Siberia to Alaska with tunnel
under Boring strait.
The Russian officials are alarmed by
plans of the revolutionists to establish
a government of their own.
The present famine in Japan is de-
clared by the New York Red Cross So
ciety to be among the worst in mod
ern history. 1t is claimed 1000, 900
persons are starving. i
New York Life trustees deny that
Andrew, Hamilton's vouchers show
how and for what he had spent ST.
100000. They say 100000 is still I'M
accounted for.
The confessions of a former alder
man in Green Bay, Wis, involves 27
prominent people in graft charges.
Andrew Hamilton is absolved from
all blame in letter written by John
A. Mccall, former president of the
New York Life, the day before the lat
ter's death
President Roosevelt has offered a
new solution of the Morocco problem.
1t amends the Austrian plan. 1t is
not wholly acceptable to France, but
is the best in sight
The administration will continue
the prosecution OF trusts in spite of
the setback in the Chicago beef case,
and the president may ask congress
for law to overcome the obstacles
encountered in that proceeding
The death list Of the train catas-
trophe at Adobe, Col, it is admitted
will reach between 40 and So
Attorneys for David Sherrick, former
Indiana auditor of state, convicted in
the criminal court, a few days ago, of
the embezzlement of $4,000 of state
funds, filed their motion for a new
trial in Indianapolis.
The union depot Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio and the Louisville & Nashville
Railway companies at Winchester, Ky,
burned with all contents. Loss, $50
900.
A double-header freight train on the
Grand Trunk railroad collided head
on a few miles from Sarnia, Ontario,
with a passenger train. Two firemen
were killed.
An enormous snowslide came down
in the Winfield and Clear Creek min
ing district in Colorado, killing, it is
reported, ut least half dozen men.
The Ohio house went on record as
opposed to the adjustment of capital
punishment when it voted 20 to 81 to
indefinitely postpone bill making life
| Imprisonment the extreme punishment
for murder.
Prof. f. Ogden Doremus, the noted
chemist, died at his home in New
York, aged SO years. 1t was as an ex-
pert on the effects Of poison, perhaps,
that Prof Doremus was best known.
President Roosevelt received me-
mortal from Samuel Gompers and a
delegation from the American FEEDER
alton of Labor setting forth the de-
sires of labor in the matter of legis-
lation, and in reply declared that the
requests, in a number of instances, are
against what he considers good ma
tional policy.
The firm stand taken by President
Roosevelt arouses labor leaders and
President Gompers reiterates threat
that the Federation of Labor will en-
| ter politics.
The body of William Mariner, son
of Ephraim Mariner, one of the rich
est men in Milwaukee, Wis, was found
| dead in his room at his home in that
city with a bullet hole in the head. It
is supposed that he committed suicide.
In a fight between foreman and
italian laborers on the South & West
ern railroad, near Marion, N. c., the
foreman, in defending himself, dubbed
seven of the men to death with crow
| bar.
A Russian military tribunal has SEN
| fenced Gen. Dobrovsky and Prince Ba-
| grafton to three months Imprisonment
| in a fortress for failing to send troops
| to the rescue of an officer who last
summer was tortured and burned to
death by mob.
~ new mutiny among Russian sail
ors and massacre of officers is report
| ed at Sebastopol.
| Mrs. Cornelia Botesma, and her one
year-old child were struck by Mich
igan Central passenger train near
Grand Rapids, Mich, while driving
across the track. The child was in
stantly killed and the mother died at
Butterworth hospital. N
! The Ohio senate by vote of Ii to IL
defeated the Pollock pool selling bill.
| The bill legalized pool selling at races
throughout Ohio.
The village of Brentwood, WIS, suf-
| fered a disastrous fire and the loss is
estimated at $4,000.
President Roosevelt will take part in