River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Operators rejected the demands of
the United Mine Workers and 100000
miners are expected to strike on April
]. The miners voted to increase the
defense fund to $13,000,000.
All hope of averting coal miners
strike on April l have been abandoned.
The strike will involve $500 men,
including anthracite WORKERS.
President Roosevelt is expected to
intervene in the coal strike and avert
a great strike. John Mitchell is hope
full.
The plant of the Southern Oil COM
pany at Cordele, Ga, was practically
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Mount Vesuvius is in eruption from
a assure 400 meters in length on the
right side of the mountain. 1t is a
magnificent sight.
Father Gilbert Simon and three stu
dents of st. Bede's college met death
by breaking through the ice while
skating en- Hackman's slough, near La
Sale, III.
All the buildings of the Home of the
Aged in the Faubourg de Paris, kept
by the Little Sisters of the Poor, were
destroyed by fire at Rennes, France.
Nine bodies have been found in the
ruins. Three women died from fright,
Ignace Ciohon, 20 years old, was
shot and killed and Joseph Reynolds
seriously wounded by John Senchal,
"a years Of age, an unbidden guest at a
wedding celebration at Park Place,
near Mahanoy City, Pa.
The Union elevator in East st.
Louis, H., containing 100000 bushels
of wheat, was entirely destroyed by
fire, entailing loss estimated at ST.
100000.
AS a result of the strict enforcement
of the Sunday closing law, 81 offenders
were arrested in Terre Haute, Ind.
Hotels, restaurants, drug stores and
news stands were the only business
houses open.
The six-story factory building at
Nos. 107-113 Grand street, at the cor
ner of Mercer street, New York, in the
heart Of the silk and linen district,
was burned, with loss exceeding
S250OOO
James DAILY, who shot and killed his
wife, Catherine Hogan, August IL,
1905, was found guilty by jury in
Chicago, and sentenced to life impris-
onment.
Railroads of the United States are
expected to spend $9S,000,000 for steel
rails in the coming year.
President Wilson, of Princeton uni
versity, has been named by Col. George
Harvey as a Democratic candidate for
president.
"A contest is expected in the Iowa
legislature over a proposed resolution
instructing the states delegation in
congress to support the railroad rate
bill.
An English woman who fears pre-
mature burial, has provided in her
will that if cremation of her body is
impossible, an artery in her throat
shall be cur before the remains are in
tered.
movement has been started in
Boston by national officers of the Wo
mems Christian Temperance Union to
obtain Miss Alice Roosevelt's coopera-
ton toward barring wine from her
wedding breakfast.
A crusade against keeping song
birds in cages was started in st. Louis,
John Werner, keeper of bird store,
being arrested by deputy game ward
ems and birds being seized from sew
eral other dealers. 1t is said that the
campaign may extend to all citizens
keeping song birds in confinement.
Capt. Castro and crew of six, who
saved lives from a wrecked steamer,
have been given Carnegie medals and
$500.
Fire destroyed about so buildings
covering an area of two squares in the
town of St. Adams, w. Va. The loss
is about $4,000.
Lord" harrington, or George Bar
ton, who, posing as an English noble
man, married several wealthy Ameri-
can women to obtain their fortunes,
and finally murdered his benefactor.
James P. McCann, in st. Louis. is
doomed to die March 10 by the Mis-
souri, supreme court.
Elmer Clerk, father of seven chill
dren, committed suicide with carbolic
acid at Hamilton. o., because he was
unequal to supporting large family.
Illinois and other state food COM
missions are said to be trying to bring
about defeat Of national pure food leg
islation.