River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-06

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hood of Transfers, has been decided
upon by the international executive
board. A "triaT' has been held and
President Shea has been found guilty
of violating the constitution and by
laws of the transfers organization.
A fve-ton boiler mounted on truck
ran away down the Amsterdam hill at
bath street, New York, and killed JOS
eph Olive, Waterman, who lost his
life while averting a collision between
the runaway and a crowded street car.
Paul Morton has relinquished the du-
ties of secretary of the navy. Charles
J. Bonaparte of Baltimore has taken
the oath of Office as Mr.. Morton's sue
cessor.
The comptroller of the treasury has
allowed the claim of the state of Mich
igan in the sum of $47,608 for reim-
bursement for expenses incurred by
the state in aiding the United States
to raise the volunteer army for the
war with Spain.
Imports of merchandise through the
port of New York for the year ending
Thursday night were valued at 1884,
497,042, as compared with $500, ITO, 033
last year. They exceed those of any
previous year by $66,0O0,000.
Adolph Frederick, an officer of a La
Crosse, Wis, lumber company and a
former member of the Minnesota
legislature, committed suicide by
shooting. Disappointment in love is
given as the cause.
The Norwegian war department says
there is positively no truth in the re-
port to the effect that Norway is arm
ing for conflict with Sweden. The
Norwegian troops, it is explained, are
merely undergoing their usual train
ing.
In his airship, at Toledo, O., A. r.
Knabenshue sailed through the air a
distance of three miles, landed on top
of ten-story Office building in 25 min
utes from time of starting and then re-
turned to the spot from which he
started.
Graft indictments to the number of
SO, involving 81 persons, have been re-
y ,
business men as well as officials being
accused.
John D. Rockefeller has given $10,-
900 as an endowment fund, the in
come from which is to be used by the
general education board of New York
for the benefit of the colleges of the
country
The American warship squadron
which will bring Paul Jones' body to
the United States reached Cherbourg,
and was saluted by the French forts.
Refugees from Panama declare yell
low fever is sweeping the isthmus, and
that official negligence causes it.
The great cattle ranges around Fort
Worth, Tex, once a stock center, are
being plowed up and good crops are
raised on what was thought to be
waste land.
Italian Catholics are warned by the
latest encyclical of the pope to have
given permission to take part in po-
litical life.
A tornado caused much damage to
property at Phillipsburg, Kan, and
vicinity. Eight persons were killed.
President Roosevelt arrived in Oys-
ter Bay, and will remain at Sycamore
Hill, his summer home, practically
continuously until the latter part Of
September.
Nine prisoners were taken from Jail
at Watkinsville, Ca, and eight shot TO
death by mob of masked white men
within 200 yards of the center of the
town. The ninth escaped death by
falling to the ground when the volley
was fired and feigning that he had been
killed. Recent murders and an assault
upon a white woman caused the mobs
action.
Gen. c. G. Hilton, proprietor of the
new Hotel Hilton, at Beloit, Wis, died
suddenly while receiving guests at
the hotel. He was adjutant general of
Illinois under Gov. Altgeld and was in
the civil war.
Railway wrecks in Kansas, Ohio and
Pennsylvania killed a total of seven
persons.
In the annual boat races at New
London, Conn, Harvard oarsmen won
the four-oared and freshmen eight
contests, while Yale was winner of the
annual four-mile race by one and one
half seconds.
Standing on the loftiest beam of the
unfinished Harrison street 'sjack-knife"
bridge in Chicago, Thomas j. Meehan,
of Clayton, Ia, deliberately leaped 70
his death in the river, so feet below.
a servant girl.
Jesse Koser, Is years old, has con-
fessed that he stoned to death Jacob
Weaver, aged Go, at Savannah. H., as
the result of a quarrel.
While climbing the steep grade irto
Castle Rock, Col, heavily laden
freight train, going south, broke in
two sections, and SO cars, rushing down
the hill, crashed into the head of a
passenger train, demolishing the loco
motive and killing one man.
The employment of professional ball
players in the various departments IN
Washington in violation of civil SER
vice laws is the cause of much COM
ment.
The president has pardoned Philip
Scott, a full-blood Creek Indian, con-
victed in the Indian Territory of rape
and sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
There is serious doubt of the Indians
guilt.
A tornado passed over section of
South Dakota, causing much damage.
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