River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-01


fore the senate committee on inter-
oceanic canals, admitted drawing S12,.
OOO year from the Glover Leaf rail
road as well as $4,000 from the gov
eriment.
The Cuban senate unanimously pass
ed an appropriation of $4,000 for the
purchase of a wedding gift for Miss
Alice Roosevelt
true bill against Circuit Clerk
John A. Linn, charging embezzlement
as public official, has been voted by
the grand jury in Chicago.
Chicago police arrested a man whc
admits he has lived well for four
years by aid received from wealthy
people through begging letters.
Thomas Hanlon and Edward Morton,
two of the Wild Rose post office rob-
bers, pleaded guilty in Milwaukee,
Wis, before Judge Quarles in the
United States district court, and were
sentenced to five years imprisonment
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
An official ST. Petersburg announce
ment says the Russian rebellion is
ended, but trouble for several months
to come is expected from the Let's
The National Shoe Wholesalers as
ISOLATION in session at Boston declared
for the removal of the tariff from
hides.
President Roosevelt is Informed by
his special commissioner that the to-
tai debt of Santo Domingo is $40,-
269, 404 and that the greater part of
this has been the result of usury and
thievery.
Grover Cleveland again asks to be
relieved as trustee of the Ryan Equi-
clared his belief that he was being
used as a screen between the law and
wrong-doers.
Commissioner Folk, of Tennessee,
received a report of the campaign ex-
penses of life insurance companies do
ing business in the state and has or
dered restitution of the funds illegally
diverted.
Spain presented a plan to the Mo-
roccan conference for better taxation
returns in Morocco. An optimistic
feeling prevails.
The Standard Oil company has a
competitor in the Union Oil company,
which proposes to carry the California
product to New \ DIRK by piping across
Panama.
A. party of distinguished American
officers will attend the dedication of
monuments on Cuban battle fields.
Mrs. Margaret Bailey, widow Of a
confederate captain and a former
Washington society favorite, commit
ted suicide at the Sherman house in
Chicago on hearing of Gen. Wheeler's
death.
Fourteen lives were lost in an ex-
plosion in slope No. 4 of the Witte-
vile mine at Poteau, l. t. The ex-
plosion was caused by fire damp.
Criminal prosecution of officials of
the Standard Oil company may follow
revelations made at hearing in
Cleveland in the suit of the state Of
Missouri to GUST the corporation.
Castro strikes at France by expell-
ing all cOnsuls.
Judge Vinson Carter at Indianapolis
decided that the courts had no power
to GUST Secretary of State Storms and
that the only mode of procedure under
the state constitution was by legisla-
tive Impeachment trial.
Earthquake shocks were experienced
in the section between Gallup, N. M,
and Seligman, Ariz. AT Williams,
Ariz, buildings were moved from their
foundations, and at Flagstaff Chin
neys were thrown down.
Stephen Decatur, great-grandson of
Commodore Decatur. first class Unit
ed States navy academy, was dis
missed from the navy by Secretary
Bonaparte in conformity with the
sentence of the court-martial in his
case, on the charge of hazing.
Thomas B. Bryan, one of Chicago's
pioneer citizens, died of heart trouble
in Washington, D. G.
Philip Henrici, Sr., well known
through activity in educational and
civic affairs, in Chicago, and for many
years head of a restaurant combina-
ton bearing his name, is dead.
Gen. John S. Harris of Butte, Mont,
died of uraemic poisoning. He was
born in Vermont 81 years ago. Gen.
Harris served in the United States
senate as member from Louisiana
from 1869 to 1873.
Two children of Leonard Wagner
were burned to death while the par
ents were absent from their home in
Parkfalls, Wis.
Henry White, ambassador to Italy
and head of the American delegation
to the Moroccan conference, is making
the weight of the United States felt
in quiet endeavors to bring France
and Germany nearer together before
the disputed questions arise in the
conference.
A remarkable use of X-rays was
made by a New York physician in re-
moving and inspecting a patients
wounded kidney.
Mayor Dunno says 1000 additional
policemen are needed in Chicago.
George E. Anderson, of Springfield,
ILL.,, consul at Annoy, is to be promot-
ed to Seegers post as consul general
to Brazil.
H. G.. Barber, city treasurer and as
sistant cashier of the Peoples State
bank, was arrested at Abba, Ia, for an
alleged shortage of $4,000 in city