River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-19

ganization at Junction City, Kan, as
the result Of quarrel Keeth has been
arrested.
w. e. Brown, president of the f lied
First national bank of Storm Lake, Ia,
was sentenced to five years in prison
for fraudulent banking.
The sum of $4,000 has been received
in Rome from J. Pierpont Morgan
for INbenefit of the sufferers from the
recek earthquakes in the province OF
Calabria.
The thirty-f1rst annual convention OF
the, American Bankers association in
session in Washington, John L. Ham
ilton, of Hoopeston, ILL.,, was made
president
After offering a donation Of $4,000
to North La Crosse, Wis, for public
library, Andrew Carnegie, after the city
had complied with the conditions, has
refused to give the money for the
library, on the ground that the city OF
La Crosse has good library and that
it is the duty Of the city to provide
library facilities for the suburbs.
AS a result of competition between
starch factories in Prescott and Ed
harrisburg, Ontario, syndicate has
been formed to merge all the Canadian
factories.
By reason of what appears to be dis
satisfaction with the situation in the
Philippines, Luke E. Wright, governor
general of the Philippines and president
of the Philippine commission, will re-
tire from the position about the first of
December.
The New York baseball team, cham
pions of the National league, defeated
the philadelphia, American league
champions, in the third game of the
worlds championship series by score
of to 0. The game was played in Phil
adelDhia.
The American Association of Bankers
in session at Washington, put itself
squarely on record as favoring govern
ment subsidies for the upbuilding of the
American merchant marine.
William Mills WINS has accepted the
republican nomination for mayor of
New York.
Harry A. Leonard, the young bank
clerk who took $359,000 worth of Sc
curities from the National City bank,
New York, has been indicted for larceny
in the first degree.
Prince Sergius Troubetskoy, long re-
garded as the foremost liberal in Rus
STA, was stricken with apoplexy in st.
Petersburg and died within two hours.
Gen. William T. Clark, of Washington,
D. c., died in st. Luke's hospital of can
Ger of the throat. He was the last sur
viving adjutant and chief of staff of
Gen. Grants army of the Tennessee.
The report of the bureau of immigra-
ton for August shows that GO, 400 aliens
landed during the month, as compared
with 59,777 for August, 1904.
Just after giving his testimony in a
legal case of minor Importance before q
justice Of the peace at Elkwood, Cum
berland county, Pa, Levi Brandt died of
heart failure before leaving the witness
chair.
The Mississippi river steamer Cor
waters edge at Jefferson Barracks, near
ST. LOUIS, MO. LOSS, SOB ,UOO.
In pitched battle at Midd1eport, O.,
Oscar and Arthur Myers, brothers, in a
dispute over the division of corn, Will
liam Haag, bystander, was killed and
John Myers shot and seriously injured.
According to the annual report of the
Great Northern Railway company that
company has saved to shippers by rea-
son of reductions made on freight
charges since 1881 the enormous sum Of
1915, 9S3, 1920.
Armitage Mathews, secretary of the
republican committee in New York,
committed suicide rather than face trial
for fraud.
Fire in the town of Warren, Ark, de-
stroyed eight business houses valued at
$4,000.
DR.. Norris Wiener, physician, play
wright and novelist of note, died at Bal
timore, Md. He was "a years old.
Miss Cornelia M. Dow, a well-Enown
worker in the fields of charity, rhilan-
thropy and reform, died in Portland,
Me-, aged 63, She was the daughter of
the late Gen. Neal Dow.
The president directed the appoint
ment of Col. Henry G. Sharpe to be chief
commissary of subsistence, with the
rank of Brigadier general, to succeed
Gen. John F. Weston, promoted to major
general
Associate Justice Tucker, of the SUI
preme court of Arizona, against whom
charges were made, has been asked to re-
sign.
One man was killed and another in
jured severely when generator of ace
tylene gas for lighting automobiles blew
up at Lake Forest, ILL.,
Five men, closely connected with the
administration of former Mayor Ash
bridge, of Philadelphia, were arrested
on building fraud charges at the in
stance of Mayor Weaver.
Admiral Dewey declares the United
States will meet disaster in the next war
unless warships are commanded by
younger men.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of John V. Streed, Cambridge
ILL.,, lawyer, returned verdict saying
he was killed by an unknown person.
At Glencoe, Ore, SO Greek laborers
fought with their foreman, named Pc
terstein, and in shooting that follow
ed, Mrs. Peterstein was killed and one
of the laborers was wounded
George Gould defeated Ramsey in
the fight for control of the Wabash al
the Toledo meeting, but Ramsey says
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