River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-06

]. F. Wallace was forced to resign
as chief engineer of the Panama canal
He was bitterly arraigned by Secretary
Taft as unfaithful to the government
Three persons persisted in the burn
ing of the Collier hotel at Licking.
Mo.
ment, dredging company has thrown
up $4,000,000 contract for deepening
a channel in New York harbor.
Joseph Letter, of Chicago. sued for
$52, 900 in connection with the famous
wheat deal, claims fraud and misrepre-
sentation.
The Merchants distillery was de-
stroyed by fire at Terre Haute, Ind,
with loss estimated at $125.000.
j. G. Harvey, of New York, and G. P.
Early, of Pittsburg, have arranged an
after-dinner speaking contest for $1,000
side.
Chairman Morton, of the Equitable,
has cut off Senator Depew's annual
counsel fee of $4,000; also that of Da
vid B. Hill of $4,000.
The national treasury deficit for the
fiscal year amounted to $24000,000 due
to increased expenditures.
Recent diplomatic attacks by the
kaiser on France exposed secret plans
of nations to preserve the peace of Eu-
rope. They indicated the possible fall
of the Romanoff dynasty and erection
of the people as the rulers of Rus
STA.
French naval officers, assisted by
their countrymen generally, have made
every preparation for the ceremonial
delivery of the body of John Paul
Jones to the Americans sent to escort
it home.
King Edward awarded honors to an
Austrian and French admiral and
number of British subjects in celebra-
ton of his birthday.
The Ohio democratic convention at
Columbus nominated John NJ Pattison,
of Cincinnati, for governor, and full
state ticket.
George Fl. Mode and David Grant fell
from a scaffolding at the top of
chimney 100 feet high and were in
stantly killed at Negaunee, Mich.
D. H. Henderson, former speaker of
the national house of representatives,
is confined to hotel apartments in Du-
buque, Ia, suffering from a slight
stroke of paralysis. His right side is
affected.
At the Yale alumni meeting Presi-
dent Hadley announced that John D.
Rockefeller had promised a gift of
$1,000,000 to Yale, and that certain
graduates of the university had pledged
another $1,000 900.
Nine men were killed in a powder
works explosion at Emporium, Pa.
Confirmation has been received of
Chief Marengo's reported victory over
the Germans at Karasberg, German
Southwest Africa, June %. 1t is said
that 100 Germans were killed.
Frank Tice, a young musician who
lay at his home in ST. Louis suffering
from broken ankle, seized a pair of
scissors and drove one of the blades
into his heart, dying instantly, as
band, heading a picnic, marched past
his home playing the ''Star Spangied
Banner"
A large meeting of the leading Chi
nese merchants in Penang, Straits Ser
Element, decided to cooperate with the
Chinese of Singapore and Shanghai in
boycotting American products, pending
the withdrawal of the Chinese exclus-
ion act.
The Vigo County national bank, of
Terre Haute, Ind, on which there has
been run due to the cashiers short
age of $4,000, closed its doors. A ma
tional bank examiner is investigating
The Indiana organization of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America has $780,
900 deposited in the bank, which it
tried to withdraw, but was unsuccess-
full.
William J. Fielding, an actor well
known about the country, is dead at
his home in Richmond Hill, L. I.
Cornell won the four-oared varsity
race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Pennsyl-
vania was second and Columbia third.
Miss Ada Rehan, the American act
ress, was operated upon in London for
appendicitis. No complications ensued
and she is making good progress to-
wards recovery.
President Roosevelt made three
speeches at Harvard, and told the stu
dents what kind of men the nation
needs. A total of 999 degrees were con-
ferred by the university
Trustees of the Equitable Life elect
ed nine new members for board of di-
rectors and accepted designations of
several old members.
The knight, Donnelley & Co. failure
in Chicago is said to have been due
partly to S25,0 900 embezzlement by
trusted employee.
Illinois coal mine operators and
workers met in Chicago to settle the
wages for the shot firers under the new
law, and both sides agreed to arbitrate.
The constitutional party of Japan in
a resolution demands cession of terri
tory and indemnity as peace price.
The wreck of the Twentieth Century
has led to the removal of facing point
switches on the Lake Shore road.
Judge r. w Hilscher, of the
Eleventh Illinois judicial district, died
at Watseka, Ill.
big Frank Mccoy, the famous old
time partner of the late Jimmy"
Hope, of Manhattan bank fame, died at
the Metropolitan hospital on Black
wells island, New York, of a complica-
ton of diseases.