River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-11

Five men were killed and II injured
by IN explosion of a ton of dynamite
in the Dolese e Shepard quarries at
Gary. I'll.
Mrs. Pauline Hermann, Miss Jewel
Reed and Mrs. Pulvermacher, of st.
Charles, Mo-, persisted in fire which
destroyed a boarding house conducted
by Erskine Reed at No. 1161 Missouri
avenue, st. Louis.
Elliott Danforth, state treasurer of
New York from 1889 to 1893, former
chairman of the Democratic state COM
mfttee, and Democratic nominee for
lieutenant governor in 1898, is dead.
On January 4 an explosion set fire
to q mine at Akita on the main island
of Japan, and 101 persons were burned
to death.
The Hotel Andwur and the block in
which it was located was destroyed by
fire at Elyria, o. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Aioysus Jaeger, confined at the coun-
ty hospital in San Francisco as the re-
suit Of self-inficted gunshot wound,
has confessed that at Sioux City, Ia,
IL years ago, he robbed the American
Express company of $1,000.
Mrs. Yerkes has arranged that the
hospital provided for in her husbands
will shall be built at once.
Iowa people, fearing the possible eff
feet of the biennial election law, will
seek a revision from the legislature.
The Catholic population of the Unit
ed States is given as IL, 651 ,944, an in
crease for the year of 189,151. Chicago
alone has 100000.
The campaign in England for the
general election is the most severe of
any in the last 20 years, contests be-
ing made in almost every district.
The Wall street faction headed by
James J. Hill objects to the deposit of
federal funds to relieve the financial
situation, as suggested by Jacob H.
Schiff.
Secretary Root is waging campaign
for larger appropriations for the con-
suiar service in order to enable Amer
lea to maintain it's prestige in other
lands.
Mary Mcdonald, a negress who
claimed to be 1875 years of age, is dead
at the home for aged and infirm col
ored persons in Philadelphia, Pa.
The defeat of former President Mo-
rales and killing of Gen. Rodriguez put
an end to the revolution in Santo Do
mingo.
Cable advices received at the state
department from San Domingo an
nounce that the revolution is practical
v at an end; the troops are dispensing
to their homes and the country is
again becoming quiet.
Ohio is to begin an investigation of
national and state insurance COM
panies rivaling the famous New York
inquisition Kentucky is also to act.
The Tennessee anti-betting law was
declared unconstitutional by Judge
Hart in a Nashville case.
Returns from Turkish warfare dur
ing 1905 show that 1,032 were killed,
no quarter being given the wounded.
A new Japanese cabinet has been
appointed, Marquis Saint being pre-
mier and Count Kato foreign minister.
New transcontinental schedules cut
two days off the mail time between
New York and San Francisco.
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of
the treasury, indorses Jacob Schiff's
statement that an elastic currency is
necessary if financial depression is to
be prevented.
President Angel, of the University
of Michigan, issued a call for con-
ference of western colleges in Chi
cago January IL to consider football re-
form
Premier White, in an inspired state
ment in ST. Petersburg newspaper,
virtually makes the announcement that
he will retire as soon as the national
assembly shall have been formed.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte is
sued an order at Washington giving
medals and $100 each to II members
of the crew of the gunboat Bennington
for heroism at the time the vessel was
blown up in San Diego harbor.
Germany's action in denouncing a
commercial treaty with the United
States is viewed seriously in official
circles.
A petition signed by 100 prominent
men, including Grover Cleveland and
Mark Twain, has been presented to
Gov. Higgins to save Patrick from exc
cution.
A fire in the business center of Kan
sas City, Mo-, destroyed three large
buildings, including bank, and the loss
is over 100000.
R. G. Dun G Co. report that the new
year has started with favorable condi-
tions in all branches of trade.
Mrs. Carl o. Almberg and J. E. Noel
Ter were found dead in an alley in
Chicago. 1t is thought the man killed
the woman and then committed sui
eide.
Mrs. Thomas Gorton and Mrs. Bert
Allen were killed in a grade crossing
accident two miles south of Flint,
Mich, by a Pere Marquette passenger
train. The two women, who are sis
tiers, were driving in double rig when
the train struck them.
The Specially Furniture company's
plant burned at Evansville, Ind. en-
failing loss estimated at 100000.
The public debt was reduced almost
$5,O00,000 during the year 1905.
Charles A. Edwards, New York
millionaire, was murdered in bed while