River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-10

inc YAKIMA FFOuuce cOlnpdty DuAu-
ings burned.
The body of Eijiro Nehano, the 90
year-old son of rich Toxic banker,
who disappeared at New York April %,
was found in a creek between Bergen
and Hudson counties, New Jersey. The
! police say he was murdered.
Mark Twain. who had planned to
spend the summer at Durham, N. H.,
has been compelled to postpone his
trip indefinitely, owing to an attack OF
bronchitis.
Nicholas Miller of Edelstein and
Rolla Donahue of Chillicothe, wrote
letters to Michael Carte, a wealthy
farmer residing near Speer, H., de-
handing money, threatening destruc-
ton of his property and the sacrifice
OF the lives Of himself and wife. They
were arrested.
Threatened with arrest as disturb
er if she insisted upon speaking from
the platform, Overseer Jane Dowie,
who, at the spirited midweek meeting
declared that she would mot be gagged
or muzzled by anyone" did not ap-
pear at the Voliva meeting in Shiloh
tabernacle, Zion City, as she insisted
she would do.
A fierce student riot occurred in
Champaign, ILL.,, in which the Walker
opera house was wrecked, the police
station battered with bricks and
stones, the chief of police overcome,
and the mayor narrowly escaped death
by the hub of a wagon wheel hurled
through a transom at the police sta.
ton.
the original proposition of operators
and return to work.
Henry G. Coll, former Milwaukee
bank cashier, was sentenced to ten
years in prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
Fifty physicians, supported by 500
police, descended on a section of Phila-
delphia and vaccinated 1000 citizens
to prevent smallpox epidemic.
The battleship Rhode Island, which
ran ON sand bar in Chesapeake bay,
was pulled off by four powerful tugs.
Congressman Longworth and wife,
with two friends, were arrested by
Cincinnati police for auto scorching.
Father Gapon is an exile in Switzer-
land, said Ivan I. Narodny, a Russian,
in Chicago address.
The receiver of the Traders Insur-
ance company of Chicago has decided
TO ask the court to name special mas
ter il chancery for the corporation and
to pay Frisco claims as far as the as
sets will allow.
Messages from British underwriters
received in San Francisco indicate
that they will stick to the letter of
their policies and contest every claim
for damages.
Accountants at Chicago examining
the books of the American Reserve
Bond company failed TO find a single
listed security upon which cash can
be realized at once.
The Chicago mail train, No. 18,
east-b bound, and the Chicago & ST..
Louis express, No. 81, west-bound, col
lided while running on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at full speed, Is, miles
from Altoona, Pa. Seven persons were
killed and 20 injured.
Seven indictments charging giving
and receiving rebates were returned
by the federal grand jury in New
York against the New York Central &
Hudson River railroad, the American
Sugar Refining company and individu-
al officers and subsidiary corporations.
Oren Root, Jr., nephew Of Elihu
Root, was elected first vice president
of the Metropolitan Street Railroad
company at New York, on which he be-
gan work as a motorman.
The new Russian government, pam
icky in the face of the assembling of
hostile parliament, declares Whites
downfall does not mean reaction,
and seeks to win the support of the lib
erals.
An ultimatum to the sultan of Tur-
key, ordering him to withdraw his
troops from Egypt within ten days,
was delivered by Great Britain, which
will make naval demon stration
against Turkey unless the demand is
complied with.
"Jocko" Briggs, of Chicago, now is
free of all charges, the four robbery
allegations remaining after his ac-
quittal in murder and robbery cases
having been dropped.
A small cyclone IL rods wide swept
through the western part of Plainfield,
Wis, blowing the roof off of Elmer
Strong's barn and carrying it 20 rods.
John Pischek, farmer near Fair
bury, ILL.,, so years old, owing to con-
tinued Ill health, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid.
w. l. Enriken, farmer, IS years of
age, living near Hartselle, Ala, killed
his wife and then committed suicide.
Blowing his nose nearly killed John
Plumley, of Tampico, Ill. He ruptured
an artery and nearly b1ed to death.
The main force of the labor move
ment as it affects the city and the
country appears to have spent itself,
although detached movements con-
tinue to agitate various trades, requir-
ing constant surveillance by the police
and the continued presence in Paris
of a considerable force of troops
At farmhouse four miles from Leb-
anon, n. H, Jesse Barden, Fl years of
age, was perhaps fatally shot. He ac-
cuses Ethel Sturtevant, IL years old.
Judge Bethea in the federal court at
Chicago granted an application for the
appointment of receiver for the
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