River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15

O0cToCdTy OIL agriculture WILSON Is
reported to have announced his inten-
ton of resigning from the cabinet
should charges of leakage in the cot
ton crop repoT. be substantiated.
| A Pennsylvania train covered the 45S
miles from Chicago to Pittsburg in 440
minutes, or at the rate Of 141a hours
/ from Chicago to New York.
Prof. Elihu Thompson. of Lynn,
Mass, permitted 100000 volts of cleo
tricity, enough to kill $50 persons, to
pass through his body and was un-
| harmed.
Gov Deneen and Alton b. Parker are
added to the list of those under con-
sideration for the craftsmanship of the
Equitable board.
| A graft bomb was exploded in Mil
waukee, when an alleged "go-between"
of corrupt supervisors made full con-
! fession.
Storms that have swept Wisconsin al
most continuously for several days have
caused widespread damage In the
neighborhood of Fond du Lac the loss
has been especially severe, being esti.
mated at from $500, 600 to 100000
In wrecks caused by washouts on the
Grand Trunk, Detroit, Grand Haven &
Milwaukee and Pore Marquette railroads
in Michigan six men were killed and 10
severely injured.
President Roosevelt has informed
Gov. Douglas of Massachusetts, that he
! will attend the Harvard commence
ment as a private citizen and that he
wishes no official reception.
Engineer Phipps, Fireman SEVERN
and five tramps were drowned by the
collapse Of Wisconsin Central bridge
near Howard, Wis, which precipitated
train in Fox creek.
George G. Glenn, for many years
cashier of the Postal Telegraph COM
pany in Philadelphia, is missing and a
warrant has been sworn out, charging
him with the embezzlement of $4,000
from the company.
The New York state superintendent
Of insurance has unearthed $10,000,000
Equitable Life steal.
Gen. William j. Palmer, of Colorado
Springs and Andrew Carnegie have do
mated respectively 100000 and $4,000
as a nucleus to the 100000 endowment
/ fund the Colorado college is raising.
Fred Harris, of Chicago, employed as
a deputy sheriff during the strike of
railway employees at Saginaw, Mich,
wounded two other men in a fight with
strike sympathizers.
Clarence Young, who attempted to
rob the express car of the Northern
Pacific train two miles east Of Bear
Mouth, Mont, May II, has been SEN
fenced to serve SO years in the Deer
Lodge penitentiary.
Mrs. Belle Elsom, aged As, the
daughter of a prominent farmer, was
murdered at Axtell, Neb., by her hus-
band, George Elsom, in a fit of insan-
ity.
In the general shooting tournament
of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma
Sportsmens association at Ardmore, /.
T., the worlds amateur squad record
was broken Shooting from Is yards,
the squad broke 124 targets out of 125.
Barlow Granger, pioneer printer and
newspaper man of Iowa, died at Des
Moines at the age of SO years. Granger
at one time set type for Horace Gree
ley on the New York Tribune.
Millers from many parts of the
United States were in attendance at the
opening session of the third annual
convention of the Millers' National
federation at Kansas City, Mo.
Following family quarrel John Rran
shot his wife, Lottie, and then fired a
bullet into his own brain at the home
of the couple at Cleveland, o. Bran died
almost instantly while the wifes wound
is only slight.
The Illinois supreme court has refused
the application of the attorneys for Otis
Bolts, under senence of death for wife
murder, for sdpersedeas.
A fire at Cordele, Ca, destroyed BUSH
ness property to the extent of 100000.
John Bowles, 81 years old and al
most blind, was struck by freight
train and killed at Franklin, Ind.
The twentieth annual convention of
the National Editorial association was
called to order in Guthrie, Okla, with
1877 delegates present.
William Gennon, a farmer, worth
$4,000, hanged himself near Washing
ton la. This was the fourth suicide
in the county in nine days.
A runaway team at Sterling, H.,
caused harrow to fall on Cecile
Jones, aged IL years, and a~steel tooth
penetrated her brain, causing death.
George Craner, aged so, and Mrs.
Benjamin Craner, aged 81, are dead at
Marion, o., and Benjamin Craner and
Harry Winters are in serious condi-
ton from damp in a well which they
were cleaning.
1t was reported on the Berlin bourse
that the Russian emperor had been as
sassinated, but a dispatch from st. Pc
tersburg declared the rumor to be
groundless.
People of Norway are said to be ready
to make themselves independent of Swe-
den and declare local government
which will dethroLe King Oscar.
The New York court of appeals, by
a vote Of four to three, sustained the
verdict of murder in the first degree
against Lawyer Albert T. Patrick. for
killing Millionaire Rice.
Landlords are within their rights in
discriminating against children, says
Corporation Counsel Tolman, of Chi
cago, in a decision.
Two deaths and three prostrations
alt -