River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-31

| At Rosedale, Kan, crowd attempt
ed to lynch Munroe Talyers, a negro,
who had been found under the bed OF
white woman. Before he strangled
the negro was cut down by the police.
| Numerous points in Missouri, Kan
sas and Indian territory report a
soaking rain, breaking drought OF
| from three to six weeks and doing in
calculable benefit to crops.
| Frank Gotch defeated Tom jenkins
for the championship of America at
catch-as-catch-can wrestling at Kan
sas City. Gotch won the first and
third falls.
In a wreck of a work train on the
Wanawha & West Virginia railroad,
Fireman Elmer James was scalded to
death and Engineer B. L. Bickle fatal
ly injured. Lewis Wolhouse, Charles
Dickers and IA others were injured.
| The association of French Policy
holders of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance company has decided to partici-
pate in the International conference to
| be held at Vienna.
Arthur Davis, who killed H..zel Reed
| at Springfield, o., was caught at
Clarksburg, Ross county. He admitted
his guilt and said jealousy was the
motive.
George Younger, negro, VINO shot
and killed John Rector, of Columbus,
Miss, while the latter, as a member Of
a posse, was endeavoring to effect the
negro's arrest, was taken from the
| jail by mob and lynched.
Alonzo Parks, carrier on rural mail
route No. 1, out of Buena Vista, Tenn,
was found unconscious and dying by
the roadside, shot in the head The
mail sack had been rified.
Albert de Luce, the French cham
pion at Bordeaux, defeated Jay Gould,
of Lakewood, N. J., at tennis, So
Miss May Sutton, af Pasadena, Cal,
sailed from New York on the Oceania
to defend her holdings of the English
national lawn tennis championship.
1t is estimated that 1000 veterans
| were In the parade at Galesburg, ILL.,,
which was the feature of the G. A. r.
encampment, department of Illinois.
The national convention of the Unit
ed Brethren Womens Missionary
board held memorial service at Ms
Kinley's tomb. An immense bouquet
of carnations was deposited on the
late presidents casket.
The Anglo-Cuban treaty shorn of fea-
lures objected to by the United States
was reported to the senate at Havana.
The convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Railway Claim Agents ad-
| journed to meet in Norfolk, Va, next
year.
| A verdict of suicide was rendered by
| the jury in the inquest into the death
by pistol shot wound of Charles l..
.Spier at his home at ST. George,
Staten Island, on the morning of Mon
day, May Z.
| H. f. B. Lynch, Liberal, moved in
the house of commons that parliament
consider that further reforms in Mace
donia are urgently required in the in
! terest alike of the Christian and the
Mohammedan population.
The car refused the douma's de-
mand for full. amnesty for political
crimes. He refused to pardon bomb
throwers and assassins.
The appointment of Komura as Jap
anese ambassador at London is de-
clared a snub to England.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dra-
matist and poet, died at Christiania,
aged 78.
The local contest at Decatur, ILL.,, in
l - Of h0
Cumberland Presbyterian church with
the Presbyterian church, has been &C.
cided in favor of the unionists.
Judge Smith Mcpherson, of Iowa,
sitting in place of Judge John F. Phil
lips, at Kansas City, overruled the de-
murrer of the Burlington railway in
dictments against that company, and it
must go to trial.
Archbishop Messmer startled the
Wisconsin Antisaloon league by the
statement that intoxicants, used mod.
erately, are no worse than ice cream.
The first legal victory in the fight
between the warning factions of Zion
went to adherents of Dowie. Judge
Lands declared ais investigators
found no evidence Of misrepresentation
of funds, that the assets exceed all
| liabilities, and that no receiver win be
appointed.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Des Moines knocked out all author
| ity for the book of forms and services.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Illinois Congress of Mothers convened
at Springfield. Gov Deneen deliver ed
the address of welcome.
A resolution was adopted by the an
nual conference Of the Structural
Building Trades Alliance of America,
! asking the local unions to urge their
| members against the use of alcoholic
liquors.
At the semiannual meeting of the
executive committee of the National
Life Underwriters association at New
York, it was decided that the next
annual convention shall be held in st.
Louis on October %, "a and 25.
Alarmed over the prospect of diff
ferential passenger rate war, members
of the Trunk Line association and the
Central Traffic association held a
meeting in New York at which the en-
tire dispute was finally adjusted.
Excitement over having caught big
fish was the cause of Barney and
Henry Lehman, is and IS years old,
at st. Cloud, Mimi, losing their lives