The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-10-05
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At Buffalo, n. Y, Matte Matthews
of New York won from Frank Garrad
Of Chicago in twenty rounds Defofe
a crowded house at the Olympic .Atn-
letic club.
Hubert Golf, who claims that his
father was the trainer of the famous
horse Dexter, has been arrested at
Vienna, charged with fraudulent prac-
tees on race tracks.
The twenty eighth annual meeting
of the Fire Underwriters of the North
west will be held in Chicago next
Wednesday and Thursday. Fully 100
delegates are expected.
The war department has ordered an
investigation of the accounts of Lieut..
Matthew E. Saville, Tenth infantry,
who is reported to be short in his ac-
counts as post quartermaster.
The three European cities of Dublin,
Barcelona and Madrid are to be
equipped with trolley systems. The
contract has just been closed with the
British ThompsonH Houston Company
of London.
@. w. Berkeley, an eccentric farm
hand, who died from brain fever near
Green Springs, Mo-, left $1,000 in
money, which he was not known to
have until his death. He went to
Green Springs from Kansas City.
T. Witten, farmer living near
Combs, O. T., has raised a 1O0-pound
watermelon, which is the wonder and
admiration of that whole country. 1t
measures 3 feet 9 inches around one
way and feet inches the other way.
For the first time in the history of
the New York College of Veterinary
Surgeons women have been admitted
to the classes, will attend the lectures
with the men and go through exactly
the same tuition during the entire year.
A freight car famine such as the
railroads of Pittsburg, Pa, have never
witnessed has set in as Il result of the
rush of the coal miners to work. There
is so much coal loaded in cars and
awaiting shipment that some of the
railroads are temporarily blocked.
Convict firemen extinguished a fire
started by convict incendiaries i'll the
state prison at Sing Sing. n. 7. The
purpose Of those who started the blaze
was not merely to destroy the build
ings and contents, but was chiefly to
might escape. The plot utterly failed.
The controller of the currency has
declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent national banks
as follows: Ten per cent, Union Ma
tional Bank of Minneapolis; 10 per
cent, Marine National Bank of Duluth,
Mimi; - per cent, Huron National
Bank of Huron. S. d.
A special from Montrose, Colo, says
the Bank of Montrose failed to open
it's doors The president is also a
stakeholder of the Bank of Rico,
which closed few days ago, since
which time the Withdrawals from the
Montrose concern have been SO heavy
that the directors thought best to
forestall a run.
The control of the Detroit gas prop
critics has been acquired by New
York syndicate, headed by Emerson
Mcmillan & Co., brokers. The same
interests last week purchased the en-
tire gas properties at Buffalo, and
have controlling interests in the gas
works at Grand Rapids, Mich, and
Milwaukee.
The British tramp steamer Egremont
Castle arrived at New York from Fer
nandina with the captain and crew of
the lumber bark Carrie l.. Tyler, from
Savannah for New York, which was
abandoned about fifty miles south
southwest of Frying Pan shoals light
ship on Sept "a in dismasted and
waterlogged condition.
Gov. Pingree of Michigan and Col.
Sutton Of the governors staff are seek
ing an important railway concession
from the Venezuelan government. The
matter will be presented to President
Crespo next week by Mr.. Loomis, who
is visiting Prsident-elect Andrade and
investigating the gold district of Guar
ice.
Fifteen colored men, representing
the Colored Baptist churches of Kan
sas, are holding a meeting in Atclison,
with view of establishing a college
for the education of Afro-Americans
for preachers, mechanics and farmers.
The institution, which will be called
the Baptist Theological, Agricultural
and Industrial college, will be located
in Atchison A temporary college will
be opened in two moths.