River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-10-05

nal for $250,000 damages. The suit
grew out of statement of the Ladies'
Home Journal that testimonial from
Congressman George H. White, of
South Carolina, used by the Peruna
company, was fraudulent. The Pc
runa company claim to have the orig
inal letter of Congressman White, and
will offer it as evidence.
William H. Chandler says the vast
Illegally to defeat rate legislation.
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe,
testifying in the rate cases in Chica-
go, declared that the present rates on
live stock are too low and shippers Of
other commodities have to make the
losses sustained by the railroads in
the live stock traffic.
Acting Postmaster General Hitch
cock, in a circular mailed to all post
masters, has renewed the campaign
started recently against Objectionable
post cards. Most of the complaints
come from persons who have been the
recipients of vulgar cards mailed an
onymously.
James Garfield, aged IL years, was
instantly killed at Gilberton, Pa, by
the collapse of platform during a
moving picture show.
A tornado struck Malmesbury, a
Cape Colony town of 5000 inhabitants
and reduced it to ruins. A number of
persons were killed.
1t is officially announced that so
cases of cholera of which % resulted
fatally, occurred in Poland between
September 20 and September 81.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
returned to Washington from his an
nual vacation, most of which has been
spent on Long Island.
William r. Travers, a millionaire
man of leisure, son of the celebrated
wit and Wall street operator, William
r. Travers, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in
his apartments in New York city. The
suicide is inexplicable.
Alderman Walter Vaughan Morgan
was elected lord mayor of London for
the ensuing year. Mr.. Morgan is a
septuagenarian, banker and bach
elor.
Attorney General Wade H. Ellis is
going to investigate the harvester
trust in Ohio, and if he finds that the
trust is violating the Ohio antitrust
law he will GUST it from the state.
A posse of citizens in EldoradO,
ILL.,, fought a rifle and revolver battle
with band of burglars who had blown
open the vault in the bank of G. B.
Burnett G Sons. The thieves escaped
with between $4,000 and $4,000.
Secretary Wilson expects meat will be
cheaper this fall, as a natural outcome
of the immense grain crops.
Senator Morgan, in biting letter to
Chairman Shonts, declares canal work
will fail and it is useless to visit Pan
anna.
The city council of Montgomery, Ala,
which invited President Roosevelt to
visit the city, refused to appropriate
money to entertain him.
President Roosevelt is preparing TO
make hard fight in the senate for rati-
fication of the Santo Domingo treaty.
Members of the Panama canal COM
mission and the board of consulting en-
gineers sailed from New York for the
canal zone to decide on a report as to
the best type of canal.
Senators and congressman returning
to Washington report that the people
everywhere are aroused at the increased
cost of living.
Fire destroyed the greater part of the
business section of Vermillion, ILL.,, in
Guiding the post Office and Odd Fellows
building, causing loss of $27, 800.
Miss Helen Gould will erect $150,000
Y. M. c. A. building in st. Louis as me-
mortal to her father.
The National City bank of New York
was victimized out of 100000 by a
forged check.
Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee, demanded
of grand jurors that they indict him or
stop rumors of graft. He told how he
threatened to kill Charles Pfister if he
gave up the traction fight.
Mrs. A. j. Conditt and four children,
a daughter of Ii and three boys from
six to ten years old, were murdered in
cold blood at their home near Edna,
Tex. The perpetrators of the terrible
deed are unknown.
In a battle with four footpads at
Berkeley, CAL, Policeman John j. Lee
strange shot and killed one of the
David Sherrick, deposed auditor of In
diana, was indicted for embezzlement.
The decennial census just completed
shows the population of Kansas as en-
rolled by the assessors in March, 1905,
to be 1,543,81S, an increase of 209, 084.
Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel, who command
ed the Russian forces at Port Arthur.
is suffering at Moscow from stroke of
paralysis, which affects his entire left
side.
Mrs. Phoebe j. Adams, a missionary,
dropped dead in the aisle of Bethany
Baptist church, in Sellwood, Ore, as
she was about to Ask one of the church
members to preside at the organ.
Heart disease was responsible for her
death.
Prof l. Eddy, the oldest teacher at
the Kentucky state school for the deaf
at Danville, KY, dropped dead while
in the schoolroom.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw will leave the cabinet February
1, 1906. He makes the definite an
nouncement in a letter to the Polk