River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-25

A prairie fire has been rsgiEg ezst &C
Kimball Neb., and a number OF
ranches are reported to have been de-
vastated. Thousands of acres OF
range have been burned over.
President Roosevelt is asked through
a petition signed by scores of distin-
guished Europeans to try to bring
about a concert of powers to protect
| the Armenians.
William English Walling, Of Chica4
go, sociological student, has been
thrown into prison at st. Petersburg,
where he has been recently Investigate
ing the revolutionary and social move
ments.
The agriculture department issued an
appeal urging efforts to save quail from
extinction.
Prominent men in New York plan
a monument to Robert Fulton, invent
or of the steamboat.
The official report on the Prior bond
forgeries at Cleveland shows that they
will reach the sum of 81, 135, 900.
A federal report shows the United
States leads the world in railroad mile
age and in the growth of it's lines.
/ Liberal gains continue in British
general elections and the party already
has a majority of 20 over all other
parties in the house of commons.
The Keep commission, reporting on
the crop figures issued by the bureau
or statistics, severely criticised the bu-
reau's methods and says great inn
provement must be made or the serv-
ice discontinued.
An uncle of President Roosevelt
must account for 1927, 900 in building
association case.
The report of Marcus Braun, special
investigation Inspector, sent to the
house by Secretary Metcalf, exposes
immigration frauds of foreign coun-
tries.
The national committee called by
Perry Belmont to consider plans for
the publication of politics asks con-
gress to pass law regulating CAM
paign contributions.
Frank Kouba and Annie Kuzeck,
whose parents objected to their mar
rage were found dead in a Chicago no.
| Tel, DOLn having UGeu SHOl.
The national board of trade adopted
the compromise report of the inter-
state committee, which provides that
United States courts shall be given
| jurisdiction to pass on the reasonable
ness of railroad rates.
Germany is buying American meats
in anticipation of a new tariff on
March l.
Ex-senator D. B. Hill asks the New
York State Bar association to investi-
gate his retainer from the Equitable
Life Assurance society.
Seven persons, including an entire
New Hampshire family, were killed
and their bodies burned in farm
house. The suicide of the head of the
household leads to the theory that he
committed the murders.
Following the discovery of alleged
discrepancies amounting to $150,000 in
the accounts of the Tenant Shoe COM
pany, of st. Louis, officials of the con-
Germ resigned and travelling statesmen
were called in.
Joseph Chamberlain, the British
champion of protection, carried Birm-
| ingham, with it's seven seats in parlia-
ment, for the unionists, his strength
| in contrast to Balfours weakness maxi
ing him the logical leader of the oppo-
sition.
| Henry Wulf, former state treasurer
| of Illinois, and Justus w. Lobb, asso-
| ciated with Wulff in the Continental
Financing company, were each SEN
fenced in Chicago to two years lA1pris-
onment in the bridewell and a fine Of
! 500 for using the United States mails
to defraud and operating a scheme
similar to lottery.
Baron Won Richthofen, German Sec
rotary of foreign affairs, died in Ber-
| lin.
M. Fallieres, a republican and presl-
dent of the senate, was elected to sue
coed M. Loubet as president of France
on the first ballot by the national as
sembly.
Hugh S. Tuohy, the Oldest clerk in
the treasury department, is dead at his
home in Washington. He had been in
the treasury Al years.
p. r. Fahey & Co., stock and grain
brokers, announce that the firm will
go into liquidation and retire from
business owing to the speculations OF
a trusted employee which amounted to
! $4,000.
Monsignor Augustin Rayoux died at
st. Joseph's hospital, st. Paul. He was
81 years of age and located in st. Paul
when it was merely an Indian village
to begin his labors as a missionary for
the Roman Catholic church.
The New York state senate, by a
vote of "a to 1, rejected the resolution
of Senator Edgar T. Bracket, of Sara
toga, demanding the resignation OF
Chauncey M. Depew from the United
States senate.
Philadelphia, the city in which Ben
iamin Franklin spent most of his long
and useful life, fittingly commemorated
the two hundredth anniversary of the
birth of the great philosopher.
The estate of the late DR.. William
Rainey Harper is valued at $4,000 in
his will, filed in the probate court in
Chicago.
William Ramaker, living two miles
from Sheboygan, Wis, crushed his
wife's head with piece of wood while
| his children pleaded with him to spare
! hnr Tho woman was Instantly killed.