The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-04-20
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fight FitzsiTnmons.
The filibuster Dauntless was let go
at Jacksonville, Fla. No proof.
The Pennsylvania railroad is black
listing legislators who loan their
passes.
Gen. Weyler has ordered all houses
destroyed in the cultivated zone of
Cuba
Gov BloXam of Florida has issued a
call for fisheries congress at Tampa,
Jan. 10. 1898.
Ira Stockwell, q wealthy lumberman
of Lyons, Iowa, is dead at his home OF
paralysis, aged X.
The twenty-first and decisive game
of the Pillsbury-Showalte chess match
at New York was won by Pillsbury.
The final score is: Pillsburt, 10; Sho-
walter, 8; drawn. 3.
The business portion of the village
of Lindsey, eight miles west of Ere
mont, Ohio, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss will aggregate $4,000,
tWo-thirds of which is insured.
The president has under considera-
ton the question of the reorganization
of the Dawes Indian commission.
There are five members, each of whom
draws a salary of $1,000 per annum.
A thirty-year franchise has been
granted by the Superior, Wis, council
to the new Peoples Telephone com
pany. Long distance instruments will
be put in.
The New York Central has arranged
for the sale of $1O0,000,0OO of 31a per
cent hundred-year gold bonds and the
New York and Harlem for $12,O00,OOO
of the same class of bonds.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn,
which was injured in the ice gorge on
the Delaware in January, was sue
cessfully foated out of the dry dock
at League Island navy yard.
A dispatch from Washington an
nounces that the Carnegie company
has been invited by the Russian gov
eminent to bid on armOr plate for two
first-class battleships.
The runner HailstOne the property
of Conover 4 Co., died at the Windsor,
Ont, track yesterday. Hailstone has
won numerous races on the Western
tracks.
l.. Sandies, operating general stores
dG IdllAIOIl, NALL, anu dis OlCJ :,
Neb., has failed. Assets and liabili-
ties are not given, but are believed to
be large.
After a search of four years, Edwin
r. Mohler, millionaire lumberman of
Minneapolis, has located his divorced
wife, Loru Maude, and their eight-year-
old child, Paul Raymond Mohler. The
woman was fouad in Pasadena, Cal.
Walter S. Chance, for several years
a special agent of the treasury depart
ment at Philadelphia, has been pro-
NOTED to be supervising special agent,
vice J. J. Crowley, transferred and APP
pointed special agent at Chicago.
The appraiser of the estate of Maria
Louise Vanderbilt, wife of William H.
Vanderbilt has filed his report with
the surrogate at New York The value
of the personal property is found af-
ter deducting expenses and paying GER
tain debts, to be 1925, 47S.
Suits for damages in the amount of
$4,000 are instituted in the federal
courts of Marquette, Mich, against the
Northwestern railway. The plaintiff is
Gustave GOrgans, a fireman, who sus-
tanned permanent injuries by the eX-
plosion of his boiler near Escanaba
last July.
Clarence Sidney Verrill, son of Prof
Verrill of Yale, has broken the
strength record made by Charles Chad
wick, of Yale, recently. Chadwick
broke the total strength record of
Lowering, of Harvard, of 1923 kilos.
Chadwick's total was 1,63S. Verrilrs
total is 1,676.
Efforts are being made to form pool
between the Altoona Iron company, the
Portage Iron company of Duncans-
vile, the Hollidaysburg Iron and Nail
company and the Eleanor Iron COM
pany, the four leading concerns in Blair
county, Pa, for the manufacturing of
mill iron.
O. B. Harding and J. S. Campbell,
leading farmers and agents for Osce-
la county, Iowa, for India relief, will
soon ship car load of corn to st.
Joseph, Mo-, to be kiln dried for ship
ment to Calcutta. Winter before last
they shipped $4,000 pounds of -four,
the donations to Nebraska sufferers.
A letter written by ex-Gov. AltgeId
in 1893, in which he informs the
trustees of the Illinois State univer-
sity that President G. w. Spalding, of
the Globe Savings bank, was good
nan for the treasuership Of the uni
versity, is printed. Gov. Altgeld has
always insisted that he never Endorsed
| Spalding.