River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-31

William Traverse Jerome, district
attorney of New York, has been picked
by the nominating committee of the
Citizens Union as candidate for mayor.
The irrigation congress in session at
Portland, Ore, adopted resolutions
urging the federal government to in
crease its support in reclamation of
arid lands.
Catholics in national conference
commended state aid for parochial
schools and government aid for Indian
missions.
The receiver for the defunct Con-
tinental Finance company, in Chicago,
an alleged get-rich-quick concern, re-
ports that there is $1,216 Tor distribu-
ton among the creditors.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago told the graduating class
that plans are made for buildings and
Improvements to cost $6,00O.00O.
The United States government build
ing at the Louisiana purchase exposi-
ton, erected at cost of 100000, has
been sold to wrecking company for
structure alone cost 100000.
The estate of d. P. Morgan was rob-
bed of $4,000 through forgeries COM
mitted by clerk of the estate, at Nor
ristown, N. j., who confesses he lost.
the money in playing the races.
General Corbin in his report recon-
mends more Capitalization in the gov
o,.x, Of fbn Dbi1ipninnc
Laws against physicians who COM
pound prescriptions are urged by Hi
nois druggists.
An employe of the Santa Fe railroad
in Chicago issued irregularly to friends
more than $4,000 in transportation.
Guye Earle Howett, a Chicago boy,
enlisted in the navy, committed sui
eide on training ship at Norfolk, Va.
The estate of the late Col. Jacob l..
Greene of Hartford, who was president
of the Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance company and foe of graft
all his life, is found to be worth only
$4,000 instead of about $1,000,O0O as
was commonly supposed.
An electric storm of remarkable Sc
verify, accompanied by high wind,
visited Atlanta, Ga. One young man
named James Mcdaniel, was killed
by lightning.
Ben F. Ebert, a prominent Iowa
capitalist, met death in a small river
south of Des Moines, Ia, while driv-
ing. His team ran away and jumped
off the bridge into the stream. Ebert
cicfo
him.
A report has been received at
Buenos Ayres of the laundering of the
British bark Bidston Hill. The report
states that Is of the crew were
drowned.
Fire in a livery stable at Oroville,
Cal, caused a loss of $4,000, the
death of one man, John Preston, and
minor injuries to several others.
David t. Stubs, cashier of the Cit
liens Gas & Electric company of
Council Bluffs, Ia, has been found
short in his accounts and was arrest
ed on a charge of embezzling $1,875
of the company's funds.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, in let
ter to his family, says he expects to
have fully recovered from the wounds
received in the battle of the Sea of
Japan by the middle of September
Between 200 and 800 leading mem
bers of the bar, representing nearly
every state in the country, were pres
ent at the first sessions of the TWEEN
tieth annual meeting of the American
at Mo-
r. I.
Hope Young was convicted at Dig
by, ILL.,, of the murder of her ward,
Minnie Alice Ward Young, and SEN
fenced to death.
Zelda E. Stewart and John Char
tress, of Chicago, were picked up on
Lake Michigan after drifting Al hours
in skiff
On the Stringtown pike, two miles
below Constance, KY, Louis Wright
man probably fatally shot his BROTH
er, Jacob Wrightman, and Jacobs
wife, as the result of an old family
quarrel
Mrs. S. e. Mize, of New York, was
murdered in a Chicago street by a
Daughters of Temperance are to os-
tracize all friends who use intoxicat-
ing liquor or keep it in their homes.
Anthony Fiala, leader of the Zieg-
Ter polar expedition, arrived at Hull,
England, and tells of years of hard
ship.
A Michigan judge has an invention
to stop the rocking of boats, thus pre-
venting seasickness.
The storthing of Norway passed res
olutions asking Sweden to recognize
the act 6issolving the union
The Lake Shore and New York Cen
trail will spend $12,00O.O00 in improv-
ing their train service
Action was begun to test the valid
ity of trust amounting to $1,000,000,
in which the Catholic university at
Washington, d. c.. is beneficiary.
Russians decline to open their purses
to the car, the subscriptions to the
latest internal loan amounting to only
100000 in Moscow.
A celebration in honor of Admiral
John Paul Jones will be held in Wash
ington in April.
A mass meeting in Moscow con-
demned the proposed form of douma
as announced in the cars recent man
ifesto.
A st. Louis chemist, seeking a con-
sumption cure. was killed by an explo-
sion in hic laboratory