River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-14
The Chinese government has ordered


O., has been elected COMMUNICATIVE
chief of the United Spanish War Vet
Grams.
Afonzo A. Lewis, an employe in an I'M
dertaking establishment in Indianap-
oils, Ind, killed his divorced wife, Nora
Lewis, with razor, and then slashed
his own throat, infiicting wounds which
will prove fatal.
Rear Admiral Charles J. Barclay has
been placed on the retired list of the
navy on account of age, after As years
continuous service.
Judge William L. Penfield has been
designated by the president to make an
investigation of the trade relations be-
tween the countries of South America
and those of Europe with view to i'm
proving American commerce with the
countries lying to the south of the Unit
ed States.
While trying to save his two children,
son and a daughter, both under ten
years of age, from fire in crowded
tenement building in New York, An
tonic Coletto and both children were
suffocated by smoke.
Morris Busch, contractor, and Robert
Charlton, inspector at the Schuylkill
arsenal, are to be tried for conspiracy
to defraud the government.
The drivers strike is not allowed to
interfere with transportation of mail
through the streets of New York.
An explosion of eight gallons of gas
cline in Newark, N. j., killed one wom-
an, injured five persons and caused big
damage.
Two boys, six and seven years old,
robbed bank at Youngstown, o., of
$500, but were caught after a chase.
Solicitor Penfield's trip to South
America, under direction of the presi-
dent, is expected to result in a better
trade understanding with Brazil.
The printers strike now on in Chica-
go is to be extended at once to all other
western cities where the eight-hour
day is not already in operation.
Mayor Jones, of Covington, Ind,
promptly shot and killed man who
threatened to take his life.
Unfairness in the awarding of $780,
100000 concession by Chairman Shonts
of the Panama canal commission is
charged by unsuccessful bidders.
The treasurer of the New York Life
Insurance company admitted to the
legislative inquisitors that securities
worth more than $6,000,0O0, assets of
the concern, were hidden from the pub
lie, and made over to a trust company
by office boys, who signed notes.
Charles F. Pfister, of Milwaukee, be-
gan a 100000 suit for conspiracy
against District Attorney McGovern.
his assistants and the editor and direc-
tors of the Milwaukee Free Press, de-
claring they plotted to ruin him be-
cause of political differences.
A home for the members of the Let
ter Carriers association who may be-
come victims of the great white plague
will be erected at Colorado Springs.
Col.
DR.. Meneens, ST., one of the best
known physicians in the south, died at
his home in Nashville, Tenn, aged &c.
DR.. Meneens was a member of the con-
federate congress.
Steve Davis, a negro, 20 years old,
was burned at the stake near Howard,
Tex, for assaulting Mrs. S. H. Norris.
He was identified and confessed.
Two persons were killed, one of them
girl 16 years old, when building at
Grand and Mott streets, New York, COL
lapse0.
Two dead and probably so injured Is
the record of a train collision on the
Western New York and Pennsylvania
division of the Pennsylvania lines,
near Newcastle, Pa.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the business portion of Forest Port,
N. Y, entailing loss of about $780,
900.
The total amount disbursed for pen
sions for the fiscal year ending June
so last was Sal, 142,S61.
Roberts Jacobs, 81 years old, of De-
troit, Mich. was drowned while canoe
ing in the Ossipee river, at Cedar Falls,
Me. He was padding down stream,
when the swift current swept the canoe
over high waterfall.
A fast passenger train on the Penn
sylvania railroad ran into a party OF
FIVE workingmen at HomewOOd, Pa.
Three men were killed and the other
two were seriously injured.
The total amount of money paid for
pensions since the foundation of the
government is $500, 1922, and of
this amount $3,144, 1896, 405 has been
paid on account of the civil war.
Morocco yielded to French demands
by apologizing and paying an indem-
nifty for the arrest of an Algerian citi-
zen, thus adjusting a threatening situa-
ton.
The Swedish and Norwegian dissolu-
ton commissioners adjourned to re-
ceiye further instructions from their
respective governments.
The Berlin police admit inability to
keep cholera from the city and urge
citizens to adopt sanitary measures.
An official of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company admitted that officers
of the company have made personal
profits by bond transactions of the
concern, at the legislative investiga-
ton in New York.
Many college men attended the dedi-
cation of monument to the founders
of Granville, o.
Marshall Field and Mrs. Arthur
Cation, of Chicago, were united in mar
riage at st. Margarefs church, West
minister, London. Canon Herbert
Hensley-Henson, of st. Paul's cathe-
dra1 assisted hy Rny Samun1 Kirch-