River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-01

| ing milkman, and then ended his own
| life
The Canton. o., state bank, with in
| dividuaI depositors of more than 5000,
| 900, closed it's doors. The directors
state that the bank will not be able
| to resume business. The failure was
brought about by heavy loans to w
l.. Davis, vice president, without ade-
quate security.
Fire in tho furniture store of James
| FitZsimmons & Co., on Michigan aye
nue., Detroit, Mich, caused loss OF
about $4,000 on stock and $4,000 on
the building.
The First National bank of Barber
ton, o., was closed on the recommend
alton of w. F. Albertson, national bank
examiner, who found between $4,000
and $4,000 doubtful paper, which it is
claimed was carried contrary to the
national bank laws.
FRED Scott and A. J. Meyer, stock
men of San Antonio, Tex, were found
dead in bed at the Peoples hotel, in
Sioux City, la. Death was due to as
phyxiation.
A large array of troops will escort
Vice President Fairbanks to the Lewis
and Clark fair for the opening, June 1,
King Oscar has resumed the reins
of government on account of growing
friction between Sweden and Norway
Former Gov. Francis, of Missouri
was badly hurt in an automobile acct
I111f nj Nr1s
gan, of Chicago, escaped serious in
jury.
Justice Maddox, of Brooklyn, in the
suit of Franklin B.. Lord, issued an
order enjoining the naturalization of
the Equitable Life Assurance company.
Frank J. and Helen Gould are said
to have lost more than 100000 in
the failure of the Merchants Trust
company, of New York.
Canadian members of the interna-
tional waterways commission opposed
operation of the Chicago drainage
canal and the project to connect the
great lakes with the Mississippi river.
The bankruptcy proceedings in the
case of Jacob Cohen, in Chicago, re-
yealed the fact that he lost SCI 900 in
poker games after selling his property.
Ten Philadelphia councilmen who
for the gas steal, terrified by social
and business boycott, deserted the ma
chine and have promised to sustain
the mayors veto.
Milton j. Palmer, brother of the late
Potter Palmer died suddenly.
Three prominent New York LAWYERS
were indicted on the charge of con-
spring with David Rothschild, of the
defunct Federal bank, to steal a $72.-
900 estate.
the dead body of a young man be-
side which lay 15-year-old girl badly
wounded, was found near Wheaton
MINI. The girl says they had planned
to die together, and that she killed the
man and shot herself.
Gov. La Toilette sent to the Wiscon-
sin legislature a message urging legis-
lation that would destroy secret lobby.
ing.
J. 0. Pattee, for several years master
mechanic of the Great Northern and
Milwaukee roads, died in st. Paul.
Mimi, from the effect of a fall down
the cellar of his house.
During Jewish disturbances in War
saw, Poland, over an attempt of the
Jewish socialist organization called
the Bund to purge the Hebrew district
of Warsaw of all disreputable persons,
eight persons were killed and 100
wounded
Joel w. Juett, on trial at Cynthiana,
KY, for the murder of his father last
December, was acquitted by jury.
Juett pleaded self-defense.
Three gold medals given by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to three German blue
Jackets who saved the lives of several
sailors of the United States ironclad
Monadnock in Chinese waters were
transmitted by Ambassador Tower to
the foreign Office in Berlin.
Burnett, Cummins & Co., bankers. Of
Boston, failed. The liabilities amount
to $1,700,000.
The Ohio republican convention at
Columbus nominated Gov. Herrick for
reelection.
United States Senator Ben Tillman,
of South Carolina, was thrown from a
buggy at Edgefeld, S. c., and painfully,
though not seriously, injured.
At Cheyenne. Wyo., Judge Scott
overruled the motion for a new trial of
Col. w. F. Cody's divorce suit. The
case will so to the supreme court on
appeal.
Lawmakers seek to change the presi-
dents plan for an extra session in Oc-
tober.
William c. lutte, of Pittsburg, who
lost fortune of SIS, 900, 900 in three years
fired bullet into his heart at an Allan
tic City hotel.
The new ruling by Attorney General
Moody makes possible the displacing of
older commanders of warships by
younger men, which is the presidents
plan.
President Roosevelt, in a message to
the Presbyterian general assembly in
session at Winona Lake, expresses the
hope that all branches of the church
would soon be Joined.
Southern Caucasus is afiame with
racial strife between the Moslems and
Armenians and armed mobs control the
villages, the authorities being helpless.
In family quarrel at Hendricks, Ma
coffin county. KY, Dora Arnett shot and
fatally wounded her husband, Dudley
Arnett, with revolver. Arnett, it is
said, had beaten his wife and was trying