The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1899-02-14
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Gen. Egan is suspended for six years
when he will be retired.
Five additional cases of small pox
are reported in Washington, nearly all
colored persons. Most of them are OF
mild character.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany of Joliet, ILL.,, will advance wages
of all mill men 10 per cent. This ef-
fects several thousand men.
Inspector General Breckenridge has
discovered among the ratiOnS issued TO
the inhabitants near Havana hundreds
of cases of spoiled beef.
The directors of the st. Paul & Du-
luth railway have declared a semi
annual dividend Of 3 IL per cent on
the preferred stock, payable March l.
The owner Of the vessel loaded with
arms and ammunition for the F1l1pl-
nos, and which was seized by Admiral
Dewey, is an American, instead OF
German.
The Akron sewer pipe manufactur-
ers report hitch in the plan to form
combination of sewer pipe interests.
They say the formation of the trust Is
now very uncertain.
A mortgage for $2O,OOO,OO0, given to
the Central Trust Company OF New
York City by the Colorado d Southern
railway, was filed in Denver. The rev
enue stamps used aggregated $3.50.
Negotiations are in progress in New
York for the formation of a candy
trust, composed of about forty Of the
reading manufacturers of staple con-
IN hn
In the assembly at Albany, N. u, the
resolution urging the unseating OF
Congressman-elect Roberts because Of
his Identification with polygamy, was
adopted by a viva voce vote.
Lieut.. Col. Curtis Guild has declined
to accept the appointment recently ten
dered him as a member OF the colonial
commission. Col Guild has deter
mined not to make a statement at
present.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
of Atlanta, Ca, 100000 for free
public library, the conditions being
that the city furnish the site and de-
vote $1,000 per year to the maintenance
of the institution.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany, Cleveland, has advanced the
price of wire and wire nails 81 per
ton, making the price $1.45 a hundred
base at mills to jobbers, and wire nails
SLIGO a hundred.
A loving cup was presented to Mrs.
Sampson by the commanding officers
who served under Admiral Sampson
during the late war. The presentation
took place on board the flagship New
York.
The miners at Rendville, Ohio, who
have been on a strike for some months,
have broken away from the Independ-
ent Mineworkers' association and gone
to work at 40 cents, u cents less than
the scale.
Roundsman William Nesbitt, of the
Wakefield station, New York, the
preacher cop" is charged with leav-
ing his beat to preach a sermon, and
if found guilty will be punished the
same as if he were found drinking in a
salCcn.
AS q result of the consolidation OF
the Mattock company of Trenton, n.
Y, and the American Potteries compa-
nv, the combination of the Ohio con-
Germs is said to be well under way,
with prospects that the deal will be
closed within few days.
The Central New York Brewing
company, with a capital stock of 81
1000 and a bonded debt of $500
600 is about to be organized under the
laws of New Jersey. This means
consolidation of the nine leading brew
cries of Syracuse, N. Y.
NF,o o+forpoIyc, Uyo Y1ntino
at San Francisco of an appeal from the
conviction and sentence of life impris-
onment recently passed upon her. Ten
. DAVIS stay of execution has been al
lowed, and twenty days in which to
prepare bill of exceptions.
Judge Gildersleeve, in the New York
supreme court, on the application OF
the district attorney, issued an order
for the exhumation of the body OF
Henry Crossman Barnet, who died on
Nov. 10, 1898, and who is believed to
have been poisoned.
The executive committee Of the Ma
tional Municipal League has decided to
hold the next annual meeting Of the
league at Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 10, 16
and II. The Civic League OF Santa
Barbara and the Good Law League of
Detroit have been admitted to attiIi-
ated membership in the league.
A company to lay direct cable be-
tween Germany and the United States
now seems definitely assured. The
capital. 10000, 900 marks, has been fur
nished by number OF banks and pri-
vate capitalists at Berlin. The German
government Is understood to be fGvor.
ing this.