River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-29

FORMER GOV. FRANK X. LUBBOCK Qled
at Austin, Tex, aged 80 years. Gov.
Lubbock was on the personal staff of
Jeffersonal Davis, and was with Presi-
dent Davis when he was captured.
The British premier, in an address
welcoming Ambassador Reid to Eng
land, declared the time had come for
the United States to abandon a posi-
ton of isolation and assume the place
in the politics of the world her impor
lance entities her to.
The Illinois supreme court upheld
the right of courts to punish violations
of injunction without jury trial.
Weekly trade reviews indicate a
more rapid expansion of business aid
ed by a bright crop outlook and great
industrial activity.
Judge Stephen Neal, author of the
fourteenth amendment to the constitu-
ton, died at Lebanon, Ind.
Two men were killed by lightning,
eight persons were seriously hurt and
considerable property damage resulted
from severe storm which swept New
York and the surrounding country.
Peter Kiolbassa, former building
commissioner and city treasurer, died
in Chicago. Death resulted from blood
poisoning and complications due to
slight injury to his foot received nine
weeks ago.
Thomas and Paul Hyatt, brothers,
were convicted of murder in the second
degree in the criminal court at War
rensburg, Mo-, and sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary, for the kill
ing of Herman Martin last New Years
eve.
The wooden steamers City of Rome
river near Detroit, Mich, and both were
sunk. Two members of the crew of the
Linden, the cook and his wife, were
drowned.
The Vicksburg Exchange bank, of
Vicksburg, Mich, has closed it's doors.
There has been gradual withdrawal
Of deposits by small depositors for sew
eral days, and this forced the institution
to close for lack of ready money.
The Minnesota state supreme court
decided the case of the state of Mime
sofa versus Congressman c. B. Buck
man, of Little Falls, Mimi, to recover
damages for illegal cutting of timber
on state lands in favor of Mr. Buck
man.
The city of Peoria, ILL.,, was selected as
the place for holding the next meeting
of the head camp, Modern Woodmen of
America.
Gov. Carter, of Hawaii, mailed his
resignation to President Roosevelt.
Insurgents in Transcaucasua burned
four Armenian villages. Cossacks killed
100 and took over 800 prisoners.
Vermont's governor has reprieved
Mrs. Rogers from being hanged until
December %. Her case goes to the SUI
preme court.
A merger of the Freeman and Dicka-
son interests makes the fifth $1,000,000
combine in the Indiana coal field, and,
it is said, brings the Monon into the rail-
road competition.
Thousands of turner's paraded at In
dianapolis at the Gymnastic Unions
festival.
Attorney General Mayer, of New
York, plans legal action against the
Equitable society and it's officials.
Chief Engineer Wallace, of the Pan
MES he will resign.
Arthur Winslow, medical student,
sued Mrs. ]. S. Bookings and her daugh-
ter Thora, of Chicago, for $4,000 for
alleged SANDER.
A boiler at the sawmill of the Cur
tbs Alfalfa lumber plant, at Alfalfa,
Ala, exploded, killing four men.
President Roosevelt, in speech be-
fore Williams college graduates, de-
clared the nation must have new trust
laws.
The report of Superintendent Hen
bricks reveals the fact that the name of
one man who has been dead for more
than year and those of several ex-em-
ployes are still on the Equitable salary
list.
The administration will give Castro
one more chance. If he fails to come
to terms, summary action, virtually
amounting to declaration of war, is
to be taken.
Gen. Kitchener declares war between
England and Russia for possession of
India is inevitable, and the British gov
eminent decides to prepare for the
struggle.
Official announcements of the new Nor
way government has been made to the
state department at Washington.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, has entered into an investiga-
Gion of the Equitable Life Assurance
society trouble.
The biennial election law, passed by
the last Nebraska legislature and de-
signed to do away with "off-year"
elections, was declared unconstitu-
tional by the state supreme court.
A report comes from Newbold, Wis,
on the Northwestern line, of the
drowning of Mrs. Ezra Craw and Mrs.
Edward Craw and six children in the
Rainbow rapids, Wisconsin river.
Gov. Deneen, of Illinois, granted Jo-
ham Hoch a reprieve until July 20, in
order that the case may be taken to a
supreme court justice for a writ of
supersedeas.
The Illinois supreme court granted
a writ of error and supersedeas in the
case of Joseph ("Jocko') Briggs, SEN
fenced to hang in Chicago for the MUIR
der of Hans Peterson. This action
will give Briggs new trial.