River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15

"A new STdUu jury III mllWduhSS Will
continue the investigation of charges of
boodling among city and county Of
ficials and more convictions are ex-
pected.
Railroad men say that speed war
between Chicago and New York may re-
suit in 16-hour trains.
Secretary Wilson is pushing the in
vestigation of the charges of leak on
cotton reports. An assistant statisti-
clan has been suspended.
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis
has been INDICATED by the inquiry into
the charges of former Minister Bowen.
President Roosevelt is ready to par
ticipate in a proposed congress regard
ing Morocco If all other nations do.
A history hotel, to cost $15, 600,
and to have nearly 1000 rooms, and to
rival any similar structure in the world,
is planned for New York.
The Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology corporation decided in favor Of
amalgamation with Harvard university.
The New York court of appeals, by a
vote of 4 to 8, sustained the verdict of
murder in the first degree against Law
yer Albert T. Patrick for killing Mil
lionaire Rice.
Patrick S. Kelleher, who was en-
gineer of Detroit express No. 6 on the
Pere Marquette railroad the night it coll
lided with Saginaw train at Elmdale,
the collision killing several people, was
found not guilty of manslaughter.
The leader of the Filipino insurrec-
lowers have been slain.
Claud Morgan, aged %, living five
miles east of Alexandria, Ind, commit
ted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
Upon the strength of the confession of
Eva Wertz, aged IA, Levi Bevard was
arrested for the murder of his mother
in-law, Frances Wertz, at Newark, O.
In appreciation of the aid and succor
given to the injured in the South Har-
risburg wreck of May II by the people
of Harrisburg, Pa, the Pennsylvania
railroad has donated 900 to the Har-
risburg hospital.
Crown Prince Frederick William and
Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin were married in the palace
chapel at Berlin. From 60 to 70 mem
bers of the royal families from German
and foreign states were present. AM
bassador Tower represented the United
States.
Submarine boat AS was lost off the
breakwater at Plymouth, Eng. Three
explosions occurred on board before
she foundered. She had on board Is
officers and men, including her regular
crew and men who were in training.
Fourteen of the number were drowned.
The others were saved.
The attorney general decides that
coolies, whom it is proposed to use on
the canal, are virtually poems.
Fast through train No. on the
Grand Trunk railroad was wrecked
near Dawson, Mich, by spreading
rails. Thirteen persons were injured.
Louis Browning, known Is years ago
under the familiar name of pete
Browning, as one g the" greatest ball
players in America, has been commit
ted to the asylum for the insane at
Lakeland, a suburb of Louisville, Ky.
Joseph Gawronsky died in hospital
in Chicago, the victim of three bullets
fired by Benjamin Miller, who told the
police that he was jealous because
Gawronsky paid attentions to Mrs.
Miller
The extensive mills of the Granite
Linen company at Wortendyke, N. j.,
were totally destroyed by fire, involv-
ing loss, it is estimated, at $150,000.
George Mahan, colored, on trial for
the killing Of his wife, has been found
guilty in st. Paul, Mimi, of murder in
the second degree and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
John Frazier, a negro, was hanged
at Desarc, Ark, for the murder of Web
ster Switzerland, time-keeper on the
Searcy & Desarc road, near here, No
vember last.
William w. Karr, the accountant of
the Smithsonian Institution and dis
bursting agent for the government bu-
reaus under it, was arrested in Wash
ington on the charge of embezzlement,
which, according to his own confession,
aggregates $4,000.
Judge James feathers, of the Marion
county Ind, superior court, decided, in
the case of the state against w. w. Lowry,
indicted for smoking cigarette, that
the anti-cigarette law passed by the
last legislature is constitutional, ex-
cept wherein it may conflict with the
interstate commerce law.
A bold address, adopted by the zem-
stvo congress in Moscow, takes the
czar to task for failure to keep his
reform pledges and demands national
assembly to decide on peace or war.
The president has finally given up
his plan of calling an extra session.
A mysterious explosion of dynamite
wrecked the Edgar county national
bank in Paris, Ill. The banks furds
are intact.
Directors of the New York Mer-
chants association adopted resolutions
favoring reciprocity treaties and urg-
ing the repeal of the Chinese exclusion
act.
Bigelow and Coll, ex-oficials of the
Milwaukee national bank, were indict-
ed on several counts at Milwaukee. The
charges include embezzlement and false
entries.
Three men were killed and two seri-
ously injured by cap blowing off one
of the boilers at the American Steel &
Wire company's furnace at Cleve-
land, o.