River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
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Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick in Cleveland
pleaded not guilty to the new Indictment
recently returned charging her with aid
ing and abetting Cashier A. B. Spear OF
the Oberlin bank in making false entries
in the banks books and untrue state
ments to the comptroller of the currency.
Carrie Nation, Myra McHenry and
Mrs. Lucy Without were found guilty in
Wichita, Kan, of destroying property,
and were given heavy sentences, punish
ment being suspended pending good be-
havior.
Lawyer Charles M. Reed, who pleaded
guilty at Boston to embezzling from es-
tates of which he was trustee, was SEN
fenced to state prison for from six to
eight years.
Weekly trade reviews report improved
conditions due to the good crop outlook,
the opening of lake navigation and the
increased use of money
A crisis in the Russian revolt is ez-
pected on May day, and the people are
much alarmed. Large quantities OF
bombs and arms have been struggled in
and bloodshed on a large scale is ex-
pected.
A fund of 81 ,000, 900 was bequeathed by
Benjamin F. Ferguson to the Chicago
Art institute, the income of which is to
be devoted to municipal art in Chicago.
A slight earthquake was felt in and
near Keokuk, Ia. Buildings were shak-
en-, but no serious damage was done.
The r. B. Grover company and its
agents were declared to be blameless
for the explosion which destroyed its
shoe factory at Brockton, Mass, on
March 20, and caused the death of 81
persons, by the finding of Judge Fred M.
Bixby.
Claude Whistler was bound over to the
grand jury at Bloomfield, Ia, on charge
of manslaughter for the murder of Frank
Ogden, his wife's former sweetheart.
Admiral Schwartz, who assisted on
board the frigate Niagara in laying the
first Atlantic cable in 1857, is dead in
st. Petersburg.
DR.. Edward Anderson Alderman was
installed president of the University OF
Virginia at Charlottesville, Va.
sin, signed the anti-cigarette bill. The
measure prohibits the sale or manu-
facture of cigarettes or cigarette tobac-
co or paper, or the giving away of ciga-
rette papers, The bill goes into effect
on July /.
Six unknown robbers robbed thepri-
vate bank of Oscar Candy & Co., at Cher
ubusco, Ind, of $3.50. Mrs. Candy, wife
of the banker, was shot in the neck by
one of the two guards stationed outside
while the safe was being blown open
with nitroglycerin. She will recover.
James Lewis (colored) was stoned to
death by John Morton (also colored), in
fight at Lexington, Ky.
Mrs. S. w. Wider, the wife Of a news
paper man, shot and killed Mrs. III. c.
Douglass, of Colorado Springs, in the
National hotel in Cripple Creek, Col.
Seven hundred democrats attended
the Jefferson day banquet of the Demo
cratic club of New York at the Waldorf
Astoria. Alton 3. Parker was the prin-
cipal speaker.
The Wisconsin senate concurred in
the anti-frecracker bill, which was pre-
viously passed by the assembly. The
bill prohibits any dynamite crackers in
this state, and any other crackers except
those not larger than five inches III
length and five-eighths inch in diane
ter.
William Conway, aged So years,
choked to death on piece of ham taken
from free lunch in saloon at James
vile. Wis.
The National Council of Women, in
session in Washington, elected Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, of San Francisco,
president
The Virginia Park summer hotel. four
miles from Holland, Mich, owned by
Peter Mccarthy, of Chicago, burned to
the ground Thursday. Loss, $4,000.
The gold standard will go into effect
i'll Mexico without postponement May 1.
President Roosevelt has ended his
hunt in Oklahoma and started for Col
orado.
The beef grand jury in Chicago in
dicted four employees of Schwartzschild
& Sulzberger company on the charge OF
obstructing service of a subpoena.
Commissioner Garfield is investigat-
ing the raising of reight rates on oil in
Kansas simultaneously with the compile
ton of the Standards pipe line.
Nan Patterson appeared in a New
York court in connection with the
charge of conspiracy between herself
and J. Morgan Smith and his wife to ex-
tort money from Caesar" Young.
Before she could make an cutlery Mrs
George Lucke, formerly of Clinton, Ia,
was forced to see her husband drink a
fatal potion of carbolic acid at Mime
apolis, MINI.
The president will use the Panama
route to compete with the tranScontinen-
tai lines, the rates to be greatly cut.
Plans are reported completed for a
merger of the Union Pacific, New York
Central and Northwestern railroads.
The car appointed special commits
sion to devise means of giving Russian
farmers more land
Germany wants to act with the United
States in settling the Morocco trouble.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
promises Ireland practically home rule
if the liberal party regains power in
Great Britain.
Elias Coon, IS years of age, retired
farmer, worth $4,000, committed sui
eide at Vinton, Ia, by hanging himself
in his barn. Melancholia is thought to
be the cause of the act.
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