River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-22


County National bank.
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, who
died June 13, left the sum of $4,000
900 70 be distributed for various char
table purposes.
Samuel Greason, colored, has been
acquitted at Reading, Pa, of the MUIR
der of John Edwards. Mrs Kate Ed
wards, wife of the murdered man,
whose testimony convicted Greason
over three years ago, exonerated him.
Mrs. Edwards is under sentence of
death.
At st. Paul, Ind, William Board
man, quarry man, aged As years,
killed his wife with revolver as she
lay in bed with a baby in her arms,
and then fatally shot himself The
cause is attributed to jealousy.
President Roosevelt has begun 4 war
on red tape in the government service,
appointing committee to map out the
undermining of business methods.
The new Missouri game law may
force women to abandon bird hats and
cause milliners q loss of millions.
Despite labor troubles, Chicago trade
for the last week showed enlarged
volume and increased activity.
The treasury department has issued
a new $50 gold certificate with por-
trait of Washington on it.
Secretary Taft, it is said, will sue
coed Chief Justice Fuller, who is to be-
come a member of the international
board.
President Castro, of Venezuela, may
visit the United States personally to
settle the asphalt dispute. -
The graduating class at Ann Arbor.
Mich, this year will ncmber 900.
An incendiary fire at Fort Francis,
Ont, destroyed all but three of the
towns business houses.
Weekly trade reviews report an in
crease in business, despite labor trou-
bles. Orders for future delivery are
liberal and collections prompt.
Much apprehension is felt in France
over the situation in Morocco. 1t is
feared in Paris that Germany is seek
ing to goad France into war. Orders
have been given for all soldiers on
leave to rejoin their regiments. Spe-
cial trains are in readiness to move.
A granite shaft erected to the memory
of those who lost their lives in the dis
aster to the excursion steamer General
Slocum in East river just year ago was
unveiled in the Lutheran cemetery in
Middle Village, L. 1.
Francis w. Brown, mayor of Lincoln,
was nominated for congress by the DEM
ocrats of the First Nebraska district.
The election is to be held next month,
and is made necessary by the resigna-
ton of Elmer j. Burkett, who was elect
ed senator.
William Hansbro, anegro, was hanged
at Warm Springs, Va, for the murder
of James r. McKeen.
The treasury department has issued
warrant for $3.50 in favor of President
Roosevelt, which represents the two
months extra pay allowed the officers
in the Spanish war under an act passed
by congress in 1899.
Gov. Higgins has issued call for the
New York legislature to convene in extra
The Misses Halle, Famine and Annie
Belle Booth, daughters of DR.. Grant
Booth, were drowned while bathing in
the Ohio river, near Crecillus, Ky.
For the first time in the history of the
West Point military academy repre-
sentatives of the Chinese empire have
been admitted as cadets.
IN
mann, bishop Of Cleveland, celebrated
his fortieth anniversary as priest.
Herman G. Hurand, whose wife and
five children died suddenly a short time
ago, shot himself on the graves of his
dead in the cemetery at La Crosse, Wis.
Dependency, due to the loss of his fam
lily, was the cause of the suicide.
Gov. Folk will, tits said, instruct that
the Missouri law closing barber shops
on Sunday be put into effect along with
the saloon closing statute.
A married woman and girl executed
a compact to die together at Freeport,
ILL.,, and their bodies were found in the
river.
King Oscar, in vigorous letter to
the Norwegian storthing, asserts the
right of Sweden and himself to decide
when dissolution of union can take
place.
Sweden has filed protest at Wash
ington, D. c., against American recog-
milton of Norway's independence.
Kansas farmers will need rs, 200 men
and 2,240 teams to harvest their crops
The harvest, including the threshing,
will last about go days, and the wages
will, it is stated, range from $1.75 to
$3.50 a day.
Col. w. G. Greene and Augustus
Heinze are said to be forming a big cop
per merger to fight the amalgamated.
Princess Margaret of Connaught and
Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
were married amid scenes of splendor
at Windsor castle.
The Harriet A. Hart, a passenger
steamer bound from Mackinaw City to
Detour, Mich, was burned when few
miles from Detour. The boat was valued
at $4,000. No lives were lost.
Thomas F. Ryan told the trustees of
the majority of the Equitable Life AS
surance company's capital stock that
he alone purchased the stock from
James H. Hyde. paying $2.500,OO0 for it.
Gifts amounting to s4G5, O63.5O have
been made recently to the University of
Chicago, according to the announcement
made Tuesday at the ifty-fifth convo-
aafs0y