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

Grover Cleveland was elected chair
man of the Equitable trustees and let
ter was issued to the 600 900 policy-hold-
erS.
The new 18-hour New York trains and
change in the Rock Island schedule
make possible a trip from coast to coast
in SO hours.
To round out 81 ,OO0, 900 in gifts, $780,
900 was raised in three days for the
Northwestern university at Evanston,
Ill.
A story of graft involving many mil
lions or dollars and leaders of Phila-
delphia's republican machine was told
in the hearing Of councilman charged
with being interested improperly in city
contracts.
Returns of the state census so far re-
ceived indicate that the population of
New York city is 1887, 154, an increase
of 549,952 since the federal census of
1900
Services in celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth Of
Gen. Robert Anderson, Of Fort Hunter
fame, were held in Memorial hall at
West Point.
The Scott Furniture company's ware
house at Winnipeg, Man, has been de-
stroyed by fire, caused by lightning.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Miss Georgia Knapp, aged 16 years,
and John Lat, Is years, were drowned
at quarry IL miles from Manitowoc,
Wis. The drowning was the result of
an accident to boating party.
An automobile occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard S. Sayer, of Englewood.
N. j., and their two sons was struck
by an Erie train near Goshen, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sayer were instantly
killed and their sons fatally hurt.
A dispatch from Zanzibar announces
the death of Tippo lib, the noted Arab
chief and slave dealer.
During gun practice on board the
British first-class battleship Magnifi-
cent, off Gibraltar, a six-inch she'll ex-
ploded. Eighteen persons, including
four officers, were wounded, II of them
seriously.
Mrs. George Campbell, wife of a
ranchman living four miles west of
sane and with rife chased her hus-
band from home. Then, before he
could return with help, she killed her
five children and ended her own life
by shooting.
Confederate veterans opened a re-
union at Louisville, KY, and gave Gen
Joe Wheeler an ovation.
Reports of the American Flag associa-
ton, in session in New York city, show
that four states within the last year have
adopted laws to prevent the dissertation
of the flag.
Robert Hagadorn. 80 years old, shot
his mother four times, fatally wound
ing her, at the family home near Alo-
mond, N. Y. He then killed himself.
The young man had been drinking, and
his mother demonstrated with him.
Following the shooting from ambush
of Richard Baker, merchant of Tioga,
ILL.,, Joshua Phyles, renter on Bakers
farm, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head. Baker will re-
cover.
Railroad men believe the hearing of
complaints OF Illinois shippers before
the state railroad and warehouse COM
mission at Springfield will result in re-
duction Of freight rates.
Announcement was made at Prince
ton of gifts to the university of 1876 acres
of land an annual income of 100000 and
a recitation hall to cost 100000.
The secretary of the American Tobac
co company was fined for contempt Of
court in New York, in refusing to reveal
secrets of the company and will test the
Sherman antitrust law ia the United
States supreme courr.
st. Louis business men summing up
the benefits derived by the city from the
worlds fair, vote the enterprise great
success.
Thieves crushed the head OF a five
year-old child at Shelbyville, Ind, to pre-
vent it giving alarm while they robbed.
The Iowa university conferred an hon.
orary degree of doctor of laws upon Vice
President Fairbanks.
A British blue book reveals details of
a $35, 100000 army scandal
President Roosevelt, actuated by the
growing tension with China, ordered Of
ficials to exercise more caution in en-.
forcing Chinese exclusion.
William Mitchell was found dead with
bullet hole through his head, and his
wife shot through the shoulder at their
h0mn in TROY Kan Mrs Mitchell saws
that her husband shot her and then shot
and killed himself as the result of quar-
rel over another woman
Jockey Hector, on Wellesley, was
killed, and Jockey Norris, on DR.. Clark,
seriously injured in a mix-up during the
steeplechase at the American Jockey
club track, st. Louis, Mo.
Charles j. Bonaparte will assume the
duties of secretary of the navy July 1.
Three persons were killed and 20 in
jured in the wreck of an east-bound pas
senger train on the Southern railway
at Golden Gate, III.
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild,
brother of the head of the Austrian
branch of the firm, died in Vienna. He
had been seriously i'll for long time.
Archduke Joseph, royal friend of
gypsies, died at his home in Hungary.
Commissioner of Pensions Warner has
received a contribution of $1,924 to the
conscience fund of the treasury. It came
from a pensioner who declares he did
not deserve and was not entitled to a
penSiOn.