River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
United States Senator J. r. Burton,
of Kansas. was reindicted by the federal
grand jury in st. Louis on the charge of
accepting fees to the amount of $4,000
from the Rialto Grain & Securities COM
pany of st. Louis, in whose behalf, it is
alleged, he acted as attorney before the
post office department in Washington.
The body of John Paul Jones was dis
covered in cemetery in Paris, and the
remains have been identified by the high
est French medical experts as unques-
tionably that of the famous American ad-
miral who founded the American navy.
The playing season of the two leading
baseball organizations-th National
league and the American ieague-has
opened. The weather at most points was
chilly and somewhat disagreeable, but
the attendance at all the games is re-
ported as heavy.
The next annual session of the Farm
ers' National Congress will be held in
Richmond, Va, September 1922.
Two more bodies were taken out of
the Letter mine at Zeigler, ILL.,, making
the total number of bodies recovered 81.
There are known to bethree more bodies
in the mine, making the total number
killed by the explosion So.
The Massachusetts senate rejected by
a vote of II to IL the bill to authorize
the submission to voters at the various
elections of all questions of public policy.
Failures during the week ending April
IA numbered 214 in the United States
against 225 last year, and 20 in Canada
compared with 16 year ago.
Earl McKinstry, 20 years of age, and
Fred Harrison, 10, of Fishers Station,
were killed mile south of Noblesville,
Ind, Friday by northbound Pennsyl-
vania passenger train.
The paper mill of the West Ware Pa
per company at West Ware, Mass, burned
Friday. The loss is estimated at SITS, 900.
The extensive porcelain industry at
Limoges, France, is threatened with Sc
rious interruption. The leading factories,
including the Haviland works, have de-
cided to shut down, owing to the de-
mands of the workers. About 10000
workmen are idle.
Alexander and Wesley Miller, broth
ers, aged SO and 60 years, were instantly
killed at Cincinnati by Big -Four pas
senger train which crashed into their
wagon at crossing.
Mrs. Susan B. Anthony declared that
divorce is refuge for women, but her
plea did not prevent the National Wom-
ems Council in Washington from adopt
ing condemnatory resolutions.
James II. Hyde returned to the Equit-
able S135,000, his action being the first
restitution from the big profits made by
ing deals.
An indictment for conspiracy against
Nan Paterson was Quashed at New York
on motion Of District Attorney Rand.
A contract has been let for the con-
struction of new island to be part of
the Ellis Island immigrant station at
New York.
c E. Torrington, of Chicago, one of
the rvivors of the massacre by Yaqui
Indians in Mexico June 10 last, says
claims aggregating $3.50, 900 will be made
against the Mexican government.
Fresh earthquake shocks caused q
great loss of life in Sultunpur, India.
The British bench and bar gave Am
bassador Choate a farewell dinner in
London. Lord Halsbury praised him as
the greatest apostle of the modern
school of diplomacy.
The Wisconsin assembly has passed
Gov. La Follette's railroad rate bill, ere
ating an appointive commission with
certain special powers.
A resolution will be offered in the
Tennessee senate asking the consent OF
congress to create new state of east
Tennessee.
Father Leopold Van Corp, of st. 1gna-
titus mission in the Bitter Root valley OF
Montana, is dead. Father Van Corp was
pioneer of the northwest and one of the
most widely known Catholic workers
who have given their lives to the Chris
tian education of the Indians and the
uplifting of white
The supreme court of the United
States holds that portion of the Alaska
code providing for jury of six mer
to be unconstitutional. The opinion
was by Justice White, and was based
on the ground that Alaska is a par
of the territory of the United State.
in the full sense of the word.
The Baptist Missionary society in Bos
ton HIS accepted the original $100,00(
Rockefeller gift, and also another of ar
equal amount.
Federal authorities seized six trunks
IN a safety vault at Chicago which art
believed to contain private papers o.
packers.