River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-03

making false entries in the institution
books and of misapplication of its
I funds.
When called upon to pay for 90
cent breakfast in restaurant at OF
tumwa, Ia, an unidentified man drew
a revolver and was killed after waging
a running fight with the police.
Indiana will be one of the chief bat
fairgrounds of the fall campaign. Both
Republicans and Democrats are pan
ming for the hottest kind of a fight in
the Hoosier state.
Samuel B. Gully, II years old, for
mer member of the Central high
school football team, died at st. Louis
from injuries received in a game play
ed more than a year ago.
The Bayway Refining company's
plant at Elizabethport, N j., was de-
stroyed with a loss of 100000. Six
oil tanks blew up The burning oil
flowed into Staten Island sound and
for time endangered shipping.
Pref Mathew Andrews is dead at his
/ home in Abingdon, I'll. For years he
was superintendent of schools in Knox
county. He was nearly 20 years old.
The bottle blowing plant of the Ev-
ansvil1e, Ind, glass works burned, with
loss of $4,000. Insurance, 500, 000
For the murder of 80 women, Mes
fewi, cobbler of Marrakosh, was SEN
fenced by the Moorish courts to cruel
fixion. The butchers victims were
found buried under his shop and in his
garden.
A letter received by the American
board of foreign missions says the boy
colt against American goods in China
has been declared off.
Socialism, conlmercialism, suicide,
and divorce were denounced as four
greatest evils menacing society by Ro-
man Catholic afchbishops at imposing
ceremonies attending the jubilee of the
Baltimore (Md.) cathedral.
w. H. Dickey, superintendent Of the
Deming IN. NJ public schools, in a
duel shot and killed u. Francis Duff,
superintendent of the Tuna county
schools. Dickey was shot in the side,
| but is not believed to be fatally hurt
Safe blowers broke into the post Of
flee at LIE Long, ILL.,, and secured
nearly 500 after demolishing the safe.
| They are believed to be the same per-
sons who made an unsuccessful at
tempt at safe blowing at Rapatee.
Cen. Kuropatkin is in Moscow SUI
pervising the publication of his me-
moirs, voluminous history of the
F{I,- L.
tends his conduct of the campaign and
1 is bitter in his criticism of his superb
ors
Maj. c. b. Throop, of Belvidere,
| ILL.,, committed suicide by shooting
himself. Dependency was the cause.
He served in the Fourth Illinois cav
airy and was later attached to the per-
sonal staff of Gen. Grant.
| Mayor Tom Il. Johnson of Cleveland
has invented motor that in recent
tests developed a theoretical speed of
| 400 miles an hour. The mayor hopes
with his invention to give the world
a system of rapid transit that will rev.
olutionize all means of travel
Eric Muenter, associated instructor
in German in Harvard university and
| former professor of German in the Uni
yesity of Kansas, is wanted by the
| Cambridge, Mass, police on the charge
of numbering his wife, and subsequent
| ly having the body cremated to cover
traces of arsenical poisoning.
At Quinnisec, Mich, over an acre of
ground went down with great. roar,
carrying a number of buildings with it.
The ground fell 100 feet, and it was
found to be cave-in over the work
| ings of an abandoned mine.
| While eating dinner Henry E. Wads-
worth, for 81 years part owner and edi-
tor of the Laporte Qnd.) Argus, died
Friday of heart disease. He was born
March 3, 1889.
Vast crowds massed on the TrOca-
dero square in Paris to witness the I'M
yelling of the Franklin statue and ap-
plauded Alfred II. Smyth's declaration
that Franklin, as Carlyle said, was
''the father Of all yankees"
William A. Brewer, Jr., formerly
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was indicted by the
grand jury at New York for perjury.
Mrs. Theodore Sutro died at her
home in New York. She was one OF
the best known women in New York
literary and club life.
| All of the nine bills of the New York
special insurance investigating COM
mittee are now state laws. Gov. Hig-
gins signed the bill generally amending
the insurance law, after signing the So
called anti-perjury bill.
Anthracite operators in a letter to
President Mitchell stand by their orig
inal position and say the sliding scale
would cost the public $12,000,000 a
year.
A general tie-up of work on Chicago
buildings as result of ironWorkers'
strike is threatened.
Greeks showed intense feeling over
! the continued successes of the Amer
lean athletes in the Olympic games
At Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, ]. W. Murphy was
sentenced to 40 years in the penitentiary
for the murder of Ignatius Gillen, of
Youngstown, O., and Frank Miller, of
Cleveland, o. Cam Dodd, of Howell.
| Ind, accused of completely in the
crimes, was acquitted.
The trustees of the Catholic uni
versity, at their annual meeting in
/ Washington elected Archbishop Mess