The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-07-13
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It is rumOred that a dry dock is TO
be built at Old SUPERIOR Wis.
The Bell Telephone company of Mis-
souri, has increased it's stock from
100000 to 100000.
Miss Anna Hegeman, niece and
ward of Chauncey NJ. DepeW, will be
married in Paris on July to Baron de
BriSsOn.
Rev. A. ]. Krieds, pastor of the Car
melfte monastery at Falls View, Ont,
was elected provincial of the order in
the United States and Canada.
The National Tin Plate Company Of
Anderson, Ind, and the American Tin
Plate Company of ElwOod have start
ed their plants according to the new
wage scale.
Most of the men required on the
Crows Nest Pass railway in Manitoba
will be hired in st. Paul and Mime
apolis. Master of Construction Haney
will be there this week.
An important combination has been
formed by the principal transatlantic
steamship lines and the principal
Western railroad lines for the main
tenance of through rates for steerage
passengers.
The Socialist Labor party of Virginia
has put up j. j. QuantZ of Richmond
for governor and r. I. Maycomber OF
Fredericksburg for lieutenant govern
or.
Con Doyle of Chicago put out Jack
Crawford of Canada in two minutes
and a half Of the second round before
the Queen City Athletic club at Ell
mira, n. Y.
The queen regent of Spain has par
dOned 10S Cubans who had been de-
ported to the Spanish penal settle
mentS at Cauta, Fernando and the
Chaffarine islands. The men par
doned will be permitted to return to
Cuba
The president has pardOned q. q.
Fits, sentenced in South Dakota to
five years for mail robbery, and Chas.
Bode sentenced in Wisconsin to two
years for embezzlement. Pardon has
been denied to Edward Shimbersky
Of Minnesota.
Ten of the largest breweries in Allie
gheny county Pa.) have consolidated,
the company being capitalized at $1O,-
100000. The sole object, the manage
ment says, is to better control the
that any attempt will be made to in
crease prices.
A party on Commodore Charles Nor
gan's yacht, Acorn, sailing off Staten
Island and coast. came upon the body
of a man, fully clothed, floating face
upward. Wounds on the body indi-
Gated that he had been murdered. The
body is believed to be that of a vessel
captain or mate.
Special dispatches TO the government
at Madrid announce the complete paci-
fication of the Philippine islands, and
on the strength of these Marshal Pro-
mo Rivera, the captain general at Man
liza, has been authorized to revoke the
order confiscating the property of the
rebels.
Col. e. II. Sellers of Detroit, who has
been prominent member of the A. =.
A. and an organizer in patriotic asSo-
citation movements, has mailed several
thousand copies of an addresses urging
the formation OF a new political party
and calling a convention for that pur-
pose at st. Louis Aug. %.
C. B. Pride is completing detailed
plans and specifications for the devel-
opment of a water power on Apple
river in Wisconsin, the power from
which is to be transmitted electrically
to New Richmond for manufacturing
purposes. About 1000 horsepower
will be available. Contracts for the
water wheels and the electric appli-
ances have been let.
Olga Nethersole has served papers
unon Daniel and Charles Frohman at
New York in a suit for damages to
her professional reputation and pro.
tential share of the profits in the aban.
| doned London season. NetherSole
| had a contract with the Frohmans fol
| eight weeks in London this summer
at 5000 per week and percentage OF
! profits