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

James Green shot and killed his IL
year-old wife at Sheridan, Wyo., and
then turned his revolver upon himself
and ended lis own career.
President Roosevelt was given an en-
thusiastic greeting at Worcester, Mass.
on his visit to Holy Cross college and
Clark university, where he was given .
degree.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
issued a permanent injunction re-
straining the merging of the cities of
Pittsburg and Allegheny City.
The Wisconsin legislature adjourned
sine die, closing the longest session
in its history, 1872 days,
The report of Superintendent Francis
Hendricks, of the state insurance de-
partment, to Gov. Higgins, upon his in
vestigation of the Equitable Life As
surance society sharply criticises the
management of the society, as well as
the new trust arrangement for voting
the stock agreed upon by Thomas f..
Ryan and the three trustees designated
by him.
Heavy rain and hailstorms have
caused considerable damage to crops
in Nebraska.
An assassin shot and killed Carrie
Cushenberry (colored girD on Judge
Joseph M. G. CAROLS place, near Hop
kinsville, KY, as she was getting into
bed. The shot was fired through the
window.
Brown university held her one hun
dred and thirty-seventh anniversary
commencement exercises at Providence,
r. 1. The graduates numbered 125.
The City Trust e Safe Deposit COM
pany, for years rated among the most
reliable financial institutions in Phil
adelphia, closed its doors as direct re-
suit of the forgeries of the late Benja-
min H. Gaskill, through which the COM
pany lost about $4,000.
After holding 1000 persons at bay for
two hours in Eddy street, San Francisco,
shooting nine people and defying the
police, Thomas Lobb, maniac, killed
himself.
Chicago's population mark has passed
the 2,250,000 mark, according to figures
in the possession of the Chicago Direc-
tory company.
The navy department announces that
the name of the old cruiser on the great
lakes. has been changed from Michigan
to Wolverine.
Byron Trammel, postmaster of Do
than, Ala, shot and killed r. J. Barnes,
a young cotton buyer. Trammel sur
rendered and declined to state the cause
of the tragedy.
Johann Hoch. of Chicago, the convict
ed wife murderer and -bigamist,
will be reprieved for one week, and pos
sibly longer. 1t was announced au-
thoritatively that Gov. Deneen intended
to take such action In order to permit
carrying the case before the supreme
court.
The Fifth Avenue bank at New York
declared an extra dividend of 120 per
cent. in addition to the regular quar-
terly dividend of 25 per cent.
The national bank summary for the
country shows the smallest gain in indi-
vidual deposits for any spring period.
BY the will of the late John w. Parme-
lee the income from his estate, valued at
100000, after the death of his brother
is to be used to supply fuel and heat
for the poor of Chicago.
All classes in Russia rejoice in the
cars promise to convene national as
sembly of the people.
Other states are expected to adopt
Wisconsin's new law, which provides
for a distribution or accounting of the
surplus of life insurance companies at
least once in every five years.
King Oscar of Sweden. in solemn
session of the riksdag, protested against
Norway's charges Of injustice, but ad-
vised against union that must be pur-
chased with coercion.
Bowen, in reply to the presidents ar
raignment, declared the state depart
ment tried to bride him with an ambas-
sadorship to call off the Loomis contro-
versy.
President Roosevelt decided not to
prosecute Paul Morton and the Santa
Fe officials in the rebate case. The cor
respondence is made public, generating
the officials. The company is to be
prosecuted.
A hundred harvest hands held up
freight train at Manhattan, Kan. The
conductor refused to move his train un-
til the men were removed and the mar
shall, after firing several shots, succeed
ed in driving them out of town.
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the Imperial council, Ancient Arabic
Order of the Mystic Shrine, opened at
Falls with very large at
tendance.
Grant Plumb has been sentenced to IA
years in the penitentiary at Deer Lodge,
Mont. Plumb was convicted of second
degree murder for the killing of his
daughter.
The entire Spanish cabinet has re-.
signed and its resignation has been ac-
copied by King Alfonso The resigna-
ton followed the rejection of a vote of
confidence in the cabinet
The head camp of Modern Woodmen
of America opened its fourteenth BIZ
ennial convention at the Davidson the
alter, Milwaukee, with between 600 and
700 delegates representing over 11,O00
camps and nearly 100000 members pres
ent.
Paul Morton, chairman of the Equi-
table directors, has announced that he
has accepted the resignation of James
w. Alexander as president and James
Hazen Hyde as first vice president.