River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-05-27
LATER NEWS.

The birthday of Queen Victoria. who
was born May -, 1919, was duly cele-
brated throughout Eegland.
a. Dennis, a. Brown and James
Christie, workmen employed by the
city of Fort Wayne. Ind, in digging
water mains. became engulfed in quick
sand and were killed.
The L. 5. treasury the 2ith had a
cash balance of S23l, 1914, 900; gold re-
serve, Sl44, 104, SIC.
The National Bank of Commerce and
the Metropolitan National bank of
Kansas City have consolidated, with a
combined list of deposits amounting TO
nearly $4,000, 900
An explosion of chemicals in the
upper room of Armour & Co.'S pepsin
factory at Chicago caused blaze which
practically destroyed the building and
machinery.
The board of directors of the Ma
tional Board of Trade of Cycle Manu-
facturers have decided that no national
or local cycle exhibitions shall be held
or sanctioned between June /, 1897.
and June l, 1888. and designated Feb.
% as general opening day through
out the country.
The grand jury at st. Paul returned
another sensational indictment, Con-
gresham +. G. Stevens being named
and charged with an overdraft of 81,
/ 200 in his account with the Minnesota
Savings bank at the time when he was
a trustee and acting president of the
bank. The draft was paid some time
ago.
The decree of the Turkish govern
ment calling for the expulsion of all
Greeks from the Ottoman empire
which was n have gone into effect
the Gath been suspended in view of
the peace negotiations.
| At meeting of the Methodist min
ister of New York City a resolution
was adopted protesting against any
allotment of government land for a
Roman Catolic chapel at West Point.
The protest is to be sent to President
Mckinley.
The debate on the tariff hill began
in the senate the 25th. Senator Al
drich, on behalf of the republican mem
bers of the senate committee on
amendments to the tariff bill, which
will be offered as the bill progresses.
The president the 25th sent the fol-
flowing nominations TO the senate: Ed
win H. Conger, of Iowa, to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipo-
Tertiary of the United States to Brazil;
Gen. John f. Brooke, to be major gem
eral.
w. +. Mittman, while on the 18th
floor of the Chicago Chamber Of Com
merce building, shot himself and then
threw himself over the railing into the
court below. lie fell $50 feet. The
corpse was horribly crushed
of the 10 men OF Proviucetown,
Mass. whe sailed on the schooner Jo-
lseph L. johnson for the fishing grounds
on the west bank of Novia Scotia but
three came back. The other l6 are
still adrift in their dories off the west
ern bank, have found watery graves or
been picked up by some passing
steamer.
Roland Reed and members of his
company secured verdicts aggre eating
81, 900 against the Southern Railway
for injuries received in wreck in
Georgia.
Germany has finally approved the
conditions of peace and that the identi-
cal note was presented to the Turkish
government.
Senator Cullom the 25th introduced
by request bill. to amend the inter
state commerce law. The bill pre-
scribes relations for pooling, requiring
that pooling contracts shall not extend
beyond five years, and that they shall
the maximum minimum rates to be
charged, requiring the approval of the
/ interstate commerce commission be-
fore the agreements can become effec-
/ tive.
Charles X. HiIlyard. a well known
lawyer of Brooklyn, y. Y, became in
sane and shot his I3-year-old son and
then killed himself
May Campbell, a variety actress at
81. Louis, Mo, shot and fatally wound
I ed her husband and slightly wounded
Maud DeVere. another actress. Mr..
Campbell and Miss DeVere were ar
ranging for an elopement at the time
of the tragedy
The trial of II. o. IIavemeyer, presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
company, for refusing to answer sues-
tions of the senate sugar investigating
mmittee in the spring of 1924, began
/ in New York tie 25.