River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-12

COASICOo CL 1blO 0C JahiCAO 10 cAlOhoSO
in Washington by the injection of the
Calvo or Drago doctrine that collec-
ton of debts by war ships on the part
of European nations should be de-
clared against.
To choose a good wife look at her
tongue and into the garbage can is the
advice of a Cleveland evangelist
The Mormon church ousted two
apostles who took plural wives re-
Gently.
Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, of Pitts
burg, Pa, declared her millionaire hus-
band laid plot to ruin her good
name.
At a meeting in a New York church
the assembly made an appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt to intercede to prevent
atrocities in Congo Free State.
Labor unions and reform bodies
have launched a new political party,
the Chicago Progressive Alliance, to
fight graft and bossism.
The eruption of Vesuvius threatens
to bury Pompeii again. More towns
are in danger of destruction. The panic
has spread to Naples.
Reports from the Pacific islands
swept by the recent hurricane tell OF
death of $50 persons and destruction
Of $1,500,O00 in property.
Russian liberals have elected 178
members of the new national parlia-
ment.
The Kansas supreme court at To-
peka ruled that the Kansas City live
stock exchange is an illegal trust and
that all mortgages made through its
members have no standing under the
law.
Gov. Hanly, of Indiana, in denying
petitions for the pardon of Sherrick,
again severely scored the convicted
auditor Of state.
The city of Philadelphia has brought
suit for 100000 against the deposed
graft ring for steals in contracts.
Fourteen Russian soldiers have been
butchered for refusing to fire at the
execution of the leader of the Sevasto-
pol mutiny.
Kingdom Gould, heir of George Gould,
was operated upon for appendicitis in
the New York home of his parents.
On suit brought against the
Thompson estate of st. Louis, III. Clay
Pierce seeks to control Tennessee rail
road property worth nearly $13,0O0,000.
A clerk in the New York registrars
office confessed to certifying to 5000
bogus names on Hearst's nomination
papers.
Sixty thousand people face death in
streams of lava from Mount Vesuvius.
Andrew C. Fields, the yellow dog of
the Mutual Life Insurance company,
denounces officials and promises to tell
all he knows, regardless of whom 1t af-
fectS.
A compromise in the Heyl-Schandein
case in Milwaukee, involving nearly
S7,OOO,0O0, has been made in order to
avoid accusations against Mrs. Schan-
dien, now dead.
A dispatch from Dar-Es- Salaam re-
ports a victory of Capt. Won Haase
over Wa.agoro natives in German
East Africa The natives lost 205
killed.
All the partners in the Ties, Smith &
Co. bank of Pekin, ILL.,, except Luppe
Luppen, were arrested on warrant
sworn out by August Kranich, a de-
positor, charging them with embezzle-
ment in having received deposits when
they knew that the bank was insolv
ent.
The Hungarian crisis is settled. The
parliamentary government will be re-
established. Commercial union with
Austria until 1917 is assured.
The lid has been shut on gambling
houses at Hot Springs, Ark, for the first
time in IL years. The new prosecuting
attorney has notified saloons that they
must close at midnight Saturday and
remain closed during Sunday.
The resignarlon OF Lyman ]. Gage,
former secretary of the treasury, as
president of the United States Trust
company, has been formally accepted
by the board of trustees of the trust
company.
Americans have been Swindled out of
millions of dollars by INSCRIPTIONS
promoters who sell stock in rubber
plantation companies and similar en-
terprises IN Mexico.
Rev. John Dempsey, pastor of st.
Bernard's Roman Catholic church OF
Charlottesville, Ind, fell dead on the
steps of the altar while saying mass at
the funeral of parishioner.
Four of the six wards in Kansas
City, Kan, having declared in the cleo
ton against Mayor w. w. Roses poll
cy of licensing liquor joints, the mayor
sent his resignation to the city coun-
ell.
Fourteen out of IL single mills of
Ballard, Wash, the greatest single
manufacturing city in the world, are
idle, the few remaining plants run
ming being expected to close as result
of a general strike against the mills in
that city.
The American cruiser Brooklyn is
invited to be present at a forthcoming
celebration in Marseilles.