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

The southern industrial parliament
/ urged congress to lower tobacco tax and
help the south otherwise.
Postmaster General Cortelyou warns
postal service employees to avoid poll
tics.
Equitable officials in New York learn
that any national inquiry into its affairs
| instituted by President Roosevelt is inn
possible, even if asked by all interests.
Charles w. Mayer has sued Alexander,
Tarbell, Hyde and other Equitable heads
for $1,500,000 losses in the Shipbuilding
| bubble.
The Thebes Gid bridge, across the
Mississippi opening new gateway to
the soutL vest and a triumph in railroad
engineering, was forally opened TO traf-
! fc.
John G. Smith was elected commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic of
Illinois and a resolution was adopted to
return confederate flags captured in the
civil war.
An adopted son of the late William
Ziegler will receive $4,000. 900 as the re-
suit of his foster fathers death.
| William Ziegler, the capitalist and
| promoter of arctic explorations. died
at his country home near Norton,
| Conn.
William French pleaded guilty in
the United States district court at
Springfield, I'LL, to robbing the post
Office at Mulberrygrove, Bond county,
H., and he was sentenced to three
years in Chester penitentiary.
At Butte, Mont, Michael Haggerty,
a miner, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife. shot their 14-year-
old son and then killed himself Jeal-
lousy of the wife is the supposed mo-
| tive.
Fire, originating in the foundry de-
| partment Of the Ohio Brass company
at Mansfield, o., destroyed a large part
of the plant. The damage, it is esti-
mated, will amount to 100000 or
! more.
The Ohio democratic state central
committee fixed Columbus, June q
and 20, as the date for the state con-
vention.
The comptroller of the currency has
| been advised that the First National
bank of Lexington, Okla, has failed.
M. e. VALLEY was killed by an ex-
| plosion of nitroglycerine on vacant
| lot in Denver, Col. Fragments of
the body were found three squares. dis
| tant from the scene of the explosion.
| Hebrews of st. Petersburg and
and other cities have decided to abb
%of1
certs, etc., for three months, as mark
OF mourning for those killed during the
recent rioting at Zhitonair.
The Wisconsin senate passed the
McGillivray antitrust bill:
| The Presbyterian general assembly
| at Winona Lake voted for committee
| to take up with the Washington pres
| bytery the question of erecting Pres
byterian cathedral at the national cap
| ital.
William e. Trautmann, of East st.
Louis, will be appointed district attor-
ney for the eastern district of Illinois,
according to an announcement made
| by the president in Washington.
President Roosevelt, replying to a
1
| investigate the Equitable affairs, says
an inquiry is being made to ascertain
| the powers of the government in the
matter.
| Thousands witness the parade of the
| Illinois veterans of the Grand Army at
Rockford, which was the chief feature
of the encampment.
1 NCSa ~
Denver report, is reinstated in the post
Office department, and appeared in
| that city to inspect books Of the local
Office.
A st. Thomas (Ont.) judge ordered
the deportation of railroad officials
who had been taken from the United
| States to take the places of Canadians.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce concluded inquiry on the
railroad rate question. 1t is absolutely
opposed to President Roosevelt's
views.
President Castro suppressed lead
ing newspaper of Caracas and threw
the editors into Jail for printing an
article praising President Roosevelt.
The French silk industry, facing
ruin, asks the government to treble
the tariff
Prince NakachidZa, governor of
Baku, Caucasia, was killed by bomb
and lieutenant and bystander were
also victims.
BritonS celebrated the anniversary
of Queen Victoria's birth.
JOhu Stewart CrOSSy known through
out the theatrical world as j. c. Stew
art, one of the 1.-TWO Johns, the famous
fat men of the stage, died in ST. Louis,
aged II years.
The Ohio supreme court in a recent de-
cision upheld the direct inheritance tax
law
The four-story dormitory of the Rog-
ers Williams university, an institution
for the instruction of negroes, was de-
stroyed by fire at Nashville, Tenn. The
loss was about 81 900.
August w. Machen, under sentence of
two years Imprisonment for his connec-
ton with postal frauds, pleaded guilty
to an additional Indictment and was SEN
fenced to an additional two years i'm
prisonment.
Over 400 mules persisted in fire that
destroyed the sales stables of Maxwell
and Crouch and Sparts Brothers, at the
National stockyards, East St Louis, III.
The total loss is estimated at 100000.