River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-06
AS result of an aggregate defalcation

assured the president that the investi-
CATION of the railroad rate question
would be continued by the committee
during the presidents absence in the
west.
DIR. William r. Harper, president Oh
the University of Chicago, who has been
recuperating at Lakewood, N. j., from
the effects of an operation, has so far
recovered that he will be able to start
for Chicago in few days.
Hugh McGoarty, one of the first min
ers in the anthracite region, is dead at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, at the age of 102 years.
He retained his faculties to the last and
died of general weakness.
Frank Byers, a junior law student in
the University of Michigan from Harlan,
Ia, was drowned while canoeing on the
Huron river at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dr. E. G. Hewett, for Is years president
suddenly in Bloomington, III. He was
II years old.
John Young (colored) was hanged at
Waxahachie, Tex, for themurder OF AL
burtis Moore.
Rear Admiral RobIey d. Evans, known
as Fighting Bob assumed command
of the North Atlantic fleet at Pensacola,
Fla.
Officers of Drake university, Des
Moines, Ia, received an offer from An
drew Carnegie of donation of $4,000
for the erection of library. The offer
has the usual provision that the Uni
versity must raise like sum.
Mrs. Leland Stanford's will gives
$4,000,000 to heirs, $1.250,0 to charity
and the remainder of her vast estate to
Stanford university.
Clearings of Chicago banks during
March reached total of 1856, 500, 533,
which is nearly $6,O0O,OO0 larger than
the clearings for December, the former
high record.
The United States Steel corporation
has raised the wages of it's 175,000 en-
ployes.
A movement for separation of church
and state finds favor in Russia.
Weekly trade reviews report expan-
sion under the influence of bright spring
weather and unusually favorable finan-
cial conditions.
President Alexander of the Equitable
gave an ultimatum to James II. Hyde,
demanding that he resign or face state
investigation.
Emperor William, fearing cOmplica-
tions with France, cut his visit to Nor
Deco short. Elaborate plans for his re-
ception were abandoned. He pledged
Moorish independence.
Senators who called on President
Roosevelt to consult with him as to the
probable time of the reassembling of
congress were informed that it is likely
that a special session will be called for
October 16.
In compliance with instructions from
President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft
has requested the members of the
Panama canal commission to tender
their designations. The designations
are requested in order that the presi-
dent may have free hand in reor
ganizing the commission.
President Morales declares that
President Roosevelt's approval of the
plan for American control of customs
collections in San Domingo opens the
way to clear up the difficulties of the
republic.
President Roosevelt has decided to
recommend J. Ross Gould, of Balti-
more, to collect Santo Domingo's GUS
toms under the new arrangement with
creditors and the United States.
Michael Novackovich was murdered
at his home in Pittsburg, Pa, while he
lay sleeping in a bed in his room, by his
wife, Annie. The crime was brutal
one, the woman using Ratchet. The
cause assigned for the crime was re-
venge for i'll treatment by the husband.
In three-cornered shooting affair at
Collinsville, ILL.,, Mrs. John Berta and
Barney Vossallo were killed, and John
Berta, husband of the woman, was
slightly wounded.
Stewart A. FELTON,, known to the sport
ing fraternity as sBig Frank" who has
been in the Toombs prison, New York,
for several months charged with murder
in the first degree, in having killed Guy
Roche, a gambler, has been released in
$4,000 bail.
Barney Science hall, at Denison uni
versity, at Granville, o., was burned to
the ground, entailing a loss of nearly
100000.
The equestrian statue of Lafayette,
the work of Paul Bartlett, will not be
ready for the fete on July 4, in Wash
ington, which was planned by the La
fayette memorial commission, and the
event has been postponed until 1906.
Two thieves stole diamonds valued at
$4,000 from the jewelry story of John S.
Allen, on the ground floor of the Guam
anty Loan building Minneapolis, Mimi.
Charles Scott, aged 80 years, and Ray
Scott, aged 10, of st. Charles, Mich,
were drowned in the marsh near that
place while duck hunting. A storm that
came up suddenly capsized their duck
skiff.
James A. Logan, Jr., a 17-year-old
colored boy who shot and killed Mrs.
Della Howe Tracey on the night eH
March 1, in Chicago, was found guilty
of murder and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life.
Three men were killed outright and
another so badly injured that he died a
few hours later, by an explosion at the
Schaghticoke powder mills, near Troy,
n. Y.
Gov. Pardee, of California, has APP
proved the bill passed by the last legis-
lature fixing fiat tax of $40 a year on
all corporations, foreign and domestic,