The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-06-08

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diamond jubilee, and invitations have
been issued through the mayor to ex-
Presidents Grover Cleveland and Ben
jamin Harrison to attend. 1t is eX-
pected that the former at least will
be able to attend.
General.
A sugar beet syndicate has been
formed in Colorado.
The National Wallpaper company
won suit at New York involving $685.
100000 of it's securities.
Frank Slavin lasted just two min
utes in his fight with Jim Butler of
Philadelphia before the California
Athletic Club of San Francisco.
Texas is harvesting the largest grain
crop in it's history. Conservative esti-
mates place the wheat yield at from
twenty to twenty-five million bushels.
The Illinois senate has passed the
house bill appropriating $1,000 for the
painting of portrait of ex-Gov Alt
geld.
C. G.. Smith, the Black ThunderbOlt,
knocked out Jim Delaney of Portland,
Or, in thirty seconds of the second
round at the Maple Avenue Athletic
club at Elmira, n Y.
A new treatment for lock-jaw has
Just been successfully tried at the
German hospital at Sanfrancisco under
the direction of DR.. Conrad We'll. 1t
consists Of injections of tetanus
anti-toXin Of diphtheria.
Because of some boys pranks TWEEN
ty-three students of Parsons college
of Fairfield, Iowa, all belonging to the
OriO club, have been suspended till
fall Three are seniors. The rest will
all escape examinations.
The citizens of Logansport, Ind,
have completed the subscription of
100000 necessary to the reOrganlZa-
ton of the recently failed State Ma
tional bank and restore the. impaired
capital and the bank will be reorgan-
lied.
The international art exhibition was
opened at Munich by Prince Regent
LuitpOld in the presence of the court
dignitaries, ministers, members of the
diplomatic corps and the civil and
military authorities. There are many
American exhibits.
The West Burlington, Iowa, shops
working full time with a. full force.
An increase of $4,000 per month in
wages will result. Additional men
are now being employed over the en-
tire Burlington system.
Libby prison at Chicago will soon be
closed. The Appomattox table, the
first oil portrait of Grant and all the
other pictd~as, documents, canon,
Nj c1. oh no
lection of American war relics will
probably find a resting place in Wash
ington
At the National Sporting club in
London the twenty-rOund match for
$1,000 between Dick Burge and Tom
Causer was brought off before large
crowd. Burge was a warm favorite
He made some clever points during the
first five rounds but in the sixth he
was cautioned twice for hitting too
low, and in the seventh was disquali-
fed for foul.
Attorney General Boyle of Kansas
in the investigation of charges by the
Kansas City Stock Yards company,
Will take the testimony of President
Charles Francis Adams, Treasurer
Charles Merriam and others and try to
get at the original stock books in Bos.
ton. The Kansas officials hope to sub.
stantiate the claim that the company's
stock has been watered.
Loretta NJ Kane of Chicago has
brought suit for $4,000 against Sher
iff Phillips of Dubuque county, Iowa
and Mercy hospital. She was a teach.
er in a Chicago public school and had
some trouble with the board of edu
cation. She alleges that on June Ii
1896, she was imprisoned in Mercy
hospital for ten days. Her arrest was
due to a charge of insanity. Later she
was examined, reported not insane
end discharged.
1t is believed that no more crews