The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-06-15
General.


Dealers National association will be
held in Des Moines June % and 30.
The corner stone of the new building.
for the Nora Springs, Iowa, seminary
was laid with appropriate ceremonies.
The Ashland. Wis, blast furnace
will make foundry iron in addition
to the regular output of charcoal iron.
This will be a great advantage to the
fCuEdrieS.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph. company have declared the
regular quarterly dividend Of IA per
cent in accordance with The recon-
nerdatiOn of the executive committee
Prof Burrell, of the Jesup, Iowa,
schools, has been arrested for severely
furnishing a girl of fourteen. The girls
body shows marks of severe beating
with a ruler. Her shoulder was dis
located and fractured.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the American National Association OF
Masters of Dancing is being held at
New York. About thirty members are
present from all parts Of the United
States.
At the direction of Attorney General
McKenna, United States District At
torney John r. Walker has filed suit at
Kansas City against the Traders Live
Stock Exchange, alleging violation OF
the Sherman antitrust law.
DR.. A. Owen, of electric belt fame,
is dead at his home in Palatine, Ill,
from being kicked by one of his blood
ed horses. DR. Owen was at one time
one of the most extensive advertisers
in tho nn1JntrU and made fortune
few years.
Should the government accept the
proposition of the Union iron works to
provide diagonal armor for the battle
ship Wisconsin, it is thought that an
armor plate plant will be established
in San Francisco by Abbott Brown OF
Edinburg, Scotland.
Fire, which broke out in the fourth
story of the Renwick block, one of the
finest business structures of Daven-
port Iowa, damaged the building to
the extent of $4,000, and almost de-
stroyed the stock of the Davenport
Furniture and Carpet company.
Fire at Cairo, Ill, destroyed $4,000
worth of property, including the new
Baptist church and annex, the Halli-
day warehouse and contents, Glynn S
transfer stables with tWenty-SiX head
of horses, and several dwellings,; part
ly insured.
An English syndicate has secured
options on all the coal fields on the
Cincinnati Southern railway in South
ern kentucky formerly owned by the
Cumberland River Railroad and Coal
company. 1t consists of enormous coal
fields with railroads along the Cumber-
land river
Constables levied on q locomotive
and three passenger coaches of the
Centralia & Ches4 railroad just as
the train was leaving the depot at
Salem, III. The action tied up all
trains and traffic was entirely sus,
pended. The seizure was to protect
local creditors.
The Pacific Coast Jockey club direct
ors are trying to arrange an interna-
tional handicap to be decided at Ingle-
side, near San Francisco, next spring,
In all likelihood a $4,000 or $4,000
purse will be offered if the directors
can bring together the best of Ameri-
can, Australian, Irish and English thor
oughbredS.
Jake Gaudaur, champion oarsman of
the world, who has located at Rat
Portage, Man, has issued a challenge
to row any man in the world for the
single scull championship and a purse
of from $1,000 to any amount desired.
He is also willing to back himself and
Hackett for the double championship
of the world for a stake Of $1,000 and
upward.
The State of Texas has secured con-
firmatlon in the court of civil appeals
of a lower court judgment against Gal
weston, Houston & San Antonio and
the Houston & Texas Central railroads
for one and quarter millions Of dol
lars. This money was borrowed by the
roads and paid in Confederate script,
which it is now contended was never
legal tender.