River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-23
The following oficers were elected

at the annual meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic: Commander
in chief, r. B. Brown, GAINESVILLE, o.;
senior vice commander, William Fl.
Armstrong, Indianapolis; junior vice
commander, e. B. Fenton, Detroit;
chaplain, -in-chief, Archbishop John
Ireland, ST. Paul; surgeon general, W.
H. Johnson, Lincoln, Neb.
One death and many prostrations
are reported as the result of the IN
tense heat in Des Moines, Ia. The
whole state is suffering from the heat.
The visit of members of the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining Engineers,
who went to Germany after the close
of their joint convention with the
Iron and Steel Institute of London,
ended with a trip on the Rhine to
Dusseldorf and Coblense.
Cannon Balf' train No. 6 of the
derailed five miles east of Mesquite.
The trucks of the tender left the
tracks, causing the baggage car, mail
car, dining car and chair car to
leave the tracks.
1t is practically agreed by the
French press that the publication of
the pope's encyclical to the arsh-
bishops and bishops of France pre-
scribing their attitude with regard to
the church and state separation law
means religious war. Although one
or two papers treat the situation as
but little changed, others perceive Sc
we're trials for the church and possibly
even civil war.
Several large forest fires are burn
ing fiercely west-south of Biwabik,
Mimi. Hundreds of acres of second
growth and thicket have been burned
over and still the flames sweep on I'M
resisted
B. A. Lamason, a wealthy banker,
cashier of the Bank of Ankeney, Ia,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
Fred o. Murray, collector of GUS
toms, and formerly deputy county
treasurer, was acquitted at Buffalo, N.
Y. of the charge of grand larceny in
connection with the graveyard" scan
dial.
The Physicians Defense company,
from Kansas.
The Montana board of equalization
assessed w. A. Clark $1,OOO,000 on his
San Pedro railroad stock, $2,440,000
on his United Verde mine, and raised
his bank assessment $649, 900, an in
crease of nearly $4,000,000.
The Superior mills of the Ypsilanti
Paper company, located a short dis
lance outside of Ypsilanti, Mich, were
practically destroyed by fire. The loss
is about 100000.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
of Cincinnati. was elected secretary of
the International Policyholders' COM
mittee of the New York and the Mu-
tual Life Insurance companies.
A Warsaw telegram to the London
Jewish Chronicle says: after the
disturbances, which the police quell-
ed, $50 Jews were killed or wounded
by the soldiers
The fishery off Labrador is the
worst this season in 20 years. Amer
lean halibut fishing vessels have
Jared badly.
AS an, echo of the crash of the Mil
waukee Avenue State bank at Chi
cago, the Garfield Park bank closed
it's doors. Deposits approXimating
100000 indicate the extent of the
failure to the community.
The boiler of mint distillery on
the farm of William Mohney, three
miles from Three Rivers, Mich, ex-
ploded, killing Mr.. Mohney and his
son Roy, and seriously wounding two
of Roy's children.
Rumors are rife in Zion City. 1t is
limited on all sides that a visit made
by Voliva to DIR. Dowie may have as
it's object the compromise of the war
ring interests in the city and their
union for the benefit of the city's in
terests.
The navy department has been in
formed that the estimate of the dam
age done to the battleship Illinois in
recent collision with the Alabama
amounts to $4,000.
Following a series of whippings
which has precipitated race war, the
negroes of Slick, Mo-, are selling their
property and fleeing.
The Philippine war veterans were
entertained at Fort Des Moines with
a review of the Eleventh cavalry, the
regiment which was kept from the
Fort Riley maneuvers in order to at
tend the encampment.
Plans are being perfected to have
all colored troops in the United States
army stationed at one post because
of race feeling that exists at many
points where both white and colored
soldiers are stationed.
A new morning newspaper, to be
known as the Washington Herald,
will be published at Washington, be-
ginning about October 1. Scott c.
Bone will be at the head of the en-
terprise.
The killing of Dr. Graham, of Hold
er, I. T., who was shot dead about a
month ago by Ben Steward, was
avenged when unknown persons shot
Steward from ambush, killing him in
stantly.
Secretary of War Taft has declined
to grant the application for clemency
made by Sidney S. Burbank, late first
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