The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-06-22
General.

General.
Private George f. Flascher Fort
Smelling, has been discharged.
Private Frank Randur, of Company
D. Third infantry, Fort Smelling has
been ordered dishonorably discharged
S. H. H. Clarke, one of the Union
Pacic receivers, is seriously i'll at ST
Louis.
The degree of LII. D. has been con-
ferred upon eX-President Cleveland by
Princeton college.
Cambridge university has conferred
an honorary degree on Hon. Wilfred
Laurier, premier of Canada.
The homeopathic physicians OF
Northwestern Iowa met at Hartley
and organized medical association.
The controller has declared a divi-
dend of 20 per cent in favor OF the
creditors of the Sioux National Bank
Of Sioux City, Iowa.
A serious landslide has occurred
near Brieg, Canton Of Valais. Part Of
the forest there and a number OF build
ings have been buried.
?. Carey has resigned as chief of the
fire department of Marquette, Mich.
He has held the office ten years and
has been twenty-seven years in the
service.
The Dental Trade Association of
America began it's seventeenth annual
convention at Lookout inn at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Over 100 members were
present.
Secretary of State LIE Sueur of Mis-
souri, has granted the British and
American Mortgage Company OF Lon
don, Eng, authority to do business in
that state.
Many Americans, among them Unit
ed States Consul General Dekay and
Mrs. DeKay, attended the diamond jul
biIee banquet given by the British col
ony at the Kaiserhof at Berlin.
The union plaSterers employed on
all buildings in New York where the
contractors refused to nominate fore
men to be elected by the union, have
struck.
Great dissatisfaction is felt with the
programme of the jubilee procession
in London because it gives no recogni-
ton to the civil and industrial side of
the queens reign.
Sheriff Conroy of Stark county, N.
D., passed through Miles City, Mant.,
with fifteen deputies in hot pursuit OF
a band of horse thieves who had about
$50 horses, making for the north.
The seven graduating cadets from
West Point who have been selected for
assignment to the engineer corps are:
w. D. ConnOr Cakes, Wolf, Morgan,
Cheny, AltStaetler and Ferguson.
The eighth annual convention Of the
Second Iowa District Christian En-
deayor societies met at Webster City,
Iowa. About 300 delegates were in
attendance and the session lasted three
days.
Mrs. Gusta Hennessey of Kaukauna,
Wis, has just been awarded $4,000
damages for the death of her husband,
James Hennessey, who lost his life
while switching in the yards of the
Northwestern road.
The jury at Austin, Tex. in the case
of the Waters-Pierce Oil company,
charged with violation of the anti
trust law, has brought in q verdict for
the state, cancelling the company's
permit to do business in Texas.
Sir Henry Irving unveiled the me-
mortal statue Of Mrs. Sarah Scott Sid
dons, the famous English actress, on
Paddington Green, close to Paddington
old cemetery, where her remains were
inferred siXty-six years ago.
Tommy Dixon and Johnny Lavack
fought a fifteen-round draw at Roch-
ester, n. Y. Both boys were careful
and mixed it up only in few rounds.
The contest was very close and the de-
cision was received with satisfaction.
The Barlow Corn Planter works at
Quincy Ill, was closed by creditors
who are secured by mortgages on the
real estate and personal property of
the company. The claims are for
$4,000 which is secured and $4,000
unsecured:
Asa w. Fiske Of Boston, son of a
noted money lender by a former mar
riage, has brought suit at San Fran
cisco to have his fathers estate held
in trust until certain claims amount
ing to $1,O99,064, have been satisfied.
He was cut off in the will.
1t is reported that Capt. Norman
Perkins will be reinstated some time
this week as division superintendent
of the railway mail service for the
tenth division with headquarters at st.
Paul to succeed Robert II. Barclay,
who will be transferred to some other
superintendency.
Coroner Hewitt, at Urbana, Ohio,
has rendered verdict on the death of
Harry Bell, who was killed when the
first attack was made on the county
jail on the night before the lynching
of Click Mitchell. The verdict is in
accordance with the facts. and no one
is held responsible. -