River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Boston suit case mystery was
further cleared UP when one of two
men arrested in New York made a con-
fession, in which he says he and his
companion disposed of the body by
throwing it into the harbor. The po-
lice believe that Susan Geary died at a
lying-in hospital.
DIR. Percy Mcleod, of Boston, has
been arrested in connection with the
suit case mystery. He is held on the
charge that he was the person who dis
membered the body of Susanna Geary.
What is confidently believed to be
the head of Susanna A. Geary, the
dress suit case victim, has ben recov-
cred in a leather handbag from the
bottom of Boston harbOr.
Minneapolis had a dry" Sunday,
every saloon in the city strictly obey
ing Mayor Jones order to close on
Sunday. Saloons outside the city, how
ever, did a thriving business.
The Endicott board estimates the
cost of engineering work on sea coast
Notifications at about $16000,000.
American interests at Riga and
Rostoff-on-Don are reported to Be in
peril.
Judge Mcpherson in the United
States circuit court at Keokuk, Ia, in
sentencing union labor pickets to jail
Tor contempt of court, bitterly de-
aounced union methods.
President Roosevelt has amended his
freight tariff ideas and now advocates
a maximum instead of a fiat rate.
Students from the University of Chi
cago were employed by Postmaster
Coyne as extra clerks to aid in hand
ling an unprecedented rush of mail.
Two soldiers were wounded and two
others are missing after an attack on
a house near Middlesboro, KY, which
had been converted into fort by 4
band of desperate and murderous ban
GIFTS.
New York Christian Scientists plan
to raise a fund of 100000 to provide
for Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, founder
of the First church.
American exports to China show
great gains in the last year, in spite of
the boycott.
Ambassador Sternburg declared that
the chief aim of Emperor William is to
promote world peace. His policy is
one of friendliness toward the United
States. He favors American control of
the Panama canal, and wants the open
door everywhere.
A Wisconsin circuit court judge de-
cided that railroads must pay ad val
crem tax on property in the state.
Two men were killed and three seri-
ously injured by an explosion in the
Potomac electric power house in Wash
ington, ID. G.
The Farmers national bank of King
fisher. Okla, has been closed by the
direction of the comptroller of the cur
rency.
w. o. Chadaeyne, of Buffalo, n. Y,
has completed motor cycle run from
New York city to San Francisco in AZ
days % hours and so minutes.
Cholera has broken out in LODI
Russian Poland. A number of cases
are reported in the most populous Sec
tion of the town.
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington from his visit to the south
thus completing tour of the entire
nation during his term of Office.
Gen. Tchertokoff, an aide-de-camp OF
Emperor Nicholas and formerly gov
ernor general of Warsaw, died sudden
ly in Paris.
Saloons in Minneapolis must close
on Sunday, according to drastic order
issued by Mayor David P. Jones, fol-
lowing 6 strenuous reform campaign.
Saloon passengers on transatlantic
liners in the future will be inspected
by federal doctors, like steerage trav-
elers.