River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-06

luSLlLuLIOnS MILLIONS ana 'cIlH1udl
prosecutions are possible. The bank
is the depository for more than 1,000,
900 of the funds of the Presbyterian
church, $380,00O in tax receipts of the
city of Philadelphia, and $175,OO0 OF
cash of the state of Pennsylvania.
John H. Converse, a director of the
Real Estate Trust company of Phila-
delphia and one of the foremost Pres
byterian laymen in the country, upon
whose petition the receiver was ap-
pointed, said he was satisfied that the
securities of the various Presbyterian
church boards are safe.
Receiver George H. Earle, Jr., of the
Real Estate Trust company, of Phila-
delphia, is directing his efforts to-
wards ascertaining If other officials
or employees of the bank had guilty
knowledge of President Nipples trans
actions.
The Warsaw police, assisted by
troops, organized a general battue
with strong patrols and searched
street railway cars, cabs and passers-
by. Hundreds of persons were arrested.
Shippers of the country are taking
advantage of the new railroad freight
rate law to secure relief from the in
terstate commerce commission for
what they regard as unreasonable or
unjust conditions imposed upon them
by the railroad companies.
Edward Rosewater, proprietor of the
Omaha Bee, and prominently identified
with the political, financial and bust
ness affairs of Omaha and the state
of Nebraska for 40 years, was found
dead in district courtroom No. 6, on
the third floor of the Bee building.
Mr. Rosewater died of heart disease.
Hubert Van Wagner Myer, for IL
years clerk of the borough of Madison,
N. j., is locked up as an alleged de-
faulter in the county Jail at Norris
town.
With big symphony orchestra on
the stage booming Wagnerian crashes
and a double quarette of young law
yers supplemented by a piano in the
other end of the Minneapolis Auditori-
UNI, singing college songs and other
popular airs, staid lawyers and dig
nified judges laid aside their dignity
and had a good time and thus came to
an end the twenty-ninth annual meet
ing of the American Bar association.
George w. Pack, one of the pioneers
in the lumber trade of the northwest
and formerly resident of Cleveland,
died at his summer home at South
ampton, l.. I.
The Oil City boiler works has ap-
pealed from the decision of Acting
Secretary Newberry in regard to the
installation of boilers for the New
York and Massachusetts and the mat
ter will be decided by Secretary Bona
parte.
Owing to health considerations Wis
count Hayashi, foreign minister, for
merly ambassador to Great Britain,
has been granted leave of absence
Premier Saionji in the meantime will
act as foreign minister.
In accordance with instructions is
sued by Federal Judge ]. G. Morrow,
the insurance cases in the United
States circuit court are to be tried by
juries drawn from outside of San Fran
cisco.
| A mob of peasants pillaged the Co
linsky estate, pear Mistislavl, Russia,
killed two of the guards and severely
wounded a sergeant of police.
Snow and hail fell at Cripple Creek.
Colo, accompanied by vivid flashes of
lightning. At noon the darkness was
so dense that it became necessary to
turn on lights in offices and houses.
A bomb was thrown under the car
riage of Director Polier, of the Belgo-
Russian factory at Kearkov Polier
was seriously wounded.
An attempt to arrest two agitators
in the village of Ivanovka, Russia, re-
suited in collision between the police
and a peasant mob The police used
their rifles.
The board of directors of the Euuit-
able Life Assurance society accepted
the resignation of George J. Gould and
Judge d. Cady Herrick as members
of the board.
The first train over the new short
route to Ireland by way of Fishguard
Ca seaport of Wales) and Rooslare
(near Wexford, Ireland) left Padding
ton station, London.
Col. Francis Foster, chief of Kansas
City's first volunteer fire department,
postmaster under Lincoln, Johnson
and Grant, veteran of the civil war
and the oldest past Mason in Kansas
| City, died, aged 80.
The Kansas state board of railway
and warehouse commissioners held
that the demurrage law is legal and
that railways must pay one dollar for
every day that empty cars are not for
warded after an order to do so has
gone out.
Samuel Boon, negro, stabbed him.
self in the dock at the Harrisburg, Pa,
police station and died on the way to
the hospital. Boon took his life be-
cause his wife refused to furnish bail
for his release.
The government of Costa Rica is
making elaborate arrangements for
the entertainment of the delegates
from Salvador, Guatemala and Hon.
duras, who are to meet on September
/ Is at San Jose, Costa RIGA.
| Dewitt Adams, aged 81 years, and
Miss Carroll Jones, aged II, while
returning from church near Fredonia,
Kan, were drowned in attempting to
! ford the Fall river.