River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-17

The ceremony Of the beatifcation Of
jules Billiart, the French founder OF
fhc Congregation of Our Lady, who
assisted the wounded in the battle OF
Waterloo, took place in st. Peters,
Rome The congregation has a house
In Philadelphia.
Work has been generally resumed at
practically all of the anthracite col
ljerines. All of the imported men have
been shipped away and almost all evil
dence Of their occupancy Of the collier
les has been removed.
A handsome monument erected by
the survivors of his regiment and his
friends In civic life, was dedicated to
the memory of the late Brevet Major
General Charles H. T. Coils In the
National cemetery at Gettysburg.
The porte's reply to the British note
promised to restore the status quo ante
on the Sinai peninsula and the delint-
tation of the frontier by Turkish and
Egyptian officials now on the spot.
Rosie Davis and Kate Walter, both
Clark's Landing, N. j., on the Mullica
river, by the upsetting of a sail boat
in which they were passengers.
In a report on trade of the United
States with South American countries,
the department of commerce and labor
says that the total trade in 1905 was
1907 100000. The total imports from
ali South America in 1905 were $3.50,
100000 in value and the exports to all
South America were valued at $57, 000,-
600.
The fiftieth anniversary of the es-
adjustment of the Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal
church in British India was celebrated
in Carnegie hall, New York, under the
auspices OF the Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary society.
Conditions n the iron and steel in
dustry have been greatly improved by
three settlements of labor controver-
sizes that handicapped progress to some
extent.
Failures for the week were 209 in the
United States, against 1877 the previous
week, and IL in Carada, compared with
81 year ago.
The gunboat Marblehead sailed from
San Francisco on cruise to the south
ward as far as Pichilinque, Mexico, and
perhaps farther, and lasting through
the coming summer.
Acting Secretary of the Navy New
berry is dealing with severity with
courts martial that fall short of their
duty in the exhibition of undue leni
ency toward culprits.
Mrs. Ruth Cantell, wife of Overseer
Harry Eugene Cantell, died at Zion
City in childbirth. No medical serv-
ices were given the suffering woman,
who expired in agony, surrounded by
praying elders.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is
taken the direction of Pompeii and Of
tajano, while some ashes have fallen
at Somma.
The United States government Sc
cured an unconditional surrender in
the United States circuit court, before
Judge Sanborn, at st. Paul, in the suit
which the attorney general began De-
pcember 81, 1904, to dissolve combi-
nation between the General Paper
company and % other defendants on
the ground that an agreement had been
entered into by the defendants in re-
straint of interstate commerce.
Several hundred University of Mis-
Sch =
show men from Cole Brothers circus
at Columbia, Mo-, Thursday, and as a
result Maynard McDole, a freshman
from Craig, Mo-. was shot in the head
and is in a critical condition and sew
eral others are slightly hurt.
Ignatius Batory, Hungarian pa
triot and contemporary and friend of
Louis Kossuth, died at Gainesville,
Md, of the infirmities of age. He was
born in 1918.
The extradition bill, covering the
convention between the Balfour gov
eminent and the United States for the
inclusion of bribery among extradit
able crimes, passed it's second reading
in the house of lords.
Courtiers and spectators, other than
members of the national parliament,
led the cheering, when the car deliv
cred his speech, but the members were
ominously SILENT expressing neither
approval nor disapproval. What
ranked most was the failure of the
emperor to mention amnesty.
Right Rev. James H. Blenk. bishop
of Porto Rico, has been appointed
archbishop of New Orleans, to fill the
vacancy created by the death Of Arch
bishop Chapelle.
Vice President Fairbanks was "a
years old May II. He spent his time
presiding over the senate in one of
the busiest days of the session. He re-
ceived many messages from friends
throughout the country.
A boiler at Brown Brothers tile
factory, Charlottesville, Ia, exploded,
two workmen were killed and the
plant was wrecked.
Charges of bribery and corruption
made against James S. Gibson, county
attorney at Kansas City, Kan, have
been withdrawn. The evidence is in
sufficient.
j. L. Yarnell, aged so years, shot
his wife, who is 70 years old, and af-
terward killed himself. The woman's
condition is critical. The shooting oc
Cured at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. Joseph X. Winn. at Ardmore, a