River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-03

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yember 80.
Iowa's state executive council has
completed assessment of corporation
property, increasing that of railroads
So, 637, 400.
Both houses of the Swedish parlia-
ment have adopted the report of the
special committee proposing plan for
a. peaceable severance of the union
with Norway.
| The battleship Missouri won a race
between eight great men-of-war from
Newport News to New York harbor.
The victor did 1922 knots an hour.
| Official reports show that A persons
! have died of yellow fever in New Or
leans. The disease is spreading slowly
and a feeling of alarm is growing
among the citizens.
Action was brought in the United
| States court to have a receiver APP
pointed for the Equitable society, the
| stockholding company to be annulled
and the $421, 100000 assets to be turned
over to the society.
Total deaths from yellow fever in
New Orleans number As.
| Marquette, INCH, and other points
on the Marquette iron range expert
enced distinct shock of earthquake
A dull rumbling noise accompanied the
disturbance. Tall buildings were
swayed, dishes ratified and windows
shaken, but no damage is reported,
In st. Louis Frank W. Card. former
ly railroad conductor living at Como,
Col, shot and killed a woman named
Beulah Craft, and fired three bullets
into his head in an effort at suicide.
David Tosser, leading lumberman
of the st. Croix valley, died at Still
water, Mimi, aged "a years. He
leaves a fortune of more than 81 ,000,-
900.
The Cedar Rapids Transfer COM
pany's warehouse, Cedar Rapids, Ia,
filled with machinery and household
goods, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000.
| A stamp tax on stocks, bonds, checks
and patent medicines is favored by
Representative Livingston of Georgia.
William Anderson, veteran news
paper man of Pittsburg, and for so
years member of the editorial force
of the Pittsburg Gazette, died at the
age of IS years.
] At a session of the directors of the
Equitable Life Assurance society in
New York the designations of former
President James w. Alexander and Ne
vada N. Stranahan as directors were
accepted.
| A freight train wrecked in the Cen
trail Georgia railway yards in Atlanta,
| Ca. caused the deaths of three white
men and one negro and fatal injuries
! to Yardmaster Fred Woodall
/ Fire destroyed the Missouri Grain
company's elevator at Moberly, Mo-.
containing a large amount of grain.
Loss, 100000.
James e. Foye, private secretary of
| Millionaire Charles G. Gates, had his
mother arrested on the street in New
| York for asking him to give her money
for food
David Johnson, Ia years old, was in
| Stantly killed at Desplaines camp
meeting grounds by Northwestern
| train.
A combine of independent oil men is
said to have been practically complet-
/ ed at Pittsburg to fight the Standard,
based on productive field in Kansas
and a pipe line to the Gulf of Mexico.
Cardinal Gibbons in an interview de-
clares that corporation corruption is
inevitable, and that the only hope of
the nation is the dread of exposure
which actuates men of business.
| Three boys were killed by the col
! lapse of a cottage in Chicago which
they were tearing apart for firewood.
Emperor Williams visit to the car
is said to have been to obtain the lat
ter's consent for Hohenzollern prince
/ to ascend the throne of Norway.
Cleveland tenants formed an associ-
alton to blacklist landlords who object
to children in rented property.
! Congress faces the necessity of
enacting legislation to check the dan
gerous wave of immigration from
southeastern Europe. The increase in
the illiterate tide comes mostly from
Hungary, Russia and Italy. Educa-
/ tional and other tests are suggested.
Secretary Taft and members of his
party were received by the emperor OF
/ Japan.
President Gutheil, in his annual adj
dress to the United States League of
Savings and Building associations, said
/ the aggregate membership is nearly
4 100000.
| United States Senator Mitchell, of
Oregon convicted of using his office Of
United States senator to further the
law practice of firm in Portland, was
sentenced to pay fine of $1,000 and
six months penal servitude.
| Judge Mcpherson of the United
! States circuit court of southern Iowa
| denies the right of strikers to estab-
lish picket lines.
| Secretary of War Taft and party re-
ceived a demonstrative welcome to
Japan, the principal buildings, streets
and wharves of Yokohama and the
shipping in the harbor was gayly dec
GRATED.
Very Rev. Augustine F. Scheiner was
elevated to the high Office of bishop Of
the newly created diocese of Superior.
/ Wis. The ceremonies were conducted
in ST. Johns cathedral, Milwaukee, and
were most elaborate
The sentence of Emil Totterman,
who was to be executed for murder on
August 1, was committed by Gov. Hig
gins, of New York, to life imprison-
ment.
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