River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-17

During the voyage OF the steamer
Taukla from India to Suya, Eli
islands, 12z coolies were taken sick
with cholera and 81 died.
Officers Of Wesleyan college, Mount
Pleasant, Ia. have been notified that
Andrew Carnegie will give $4,000 on
condition that $4,000 be raised.
Counsel for Mrs. Duke filed an APP
peal at Trenton, N. j., carrying to
the court of errors and appeals the d.
vorce granted to ner husband, james
B. Duke.
A Lake Erie freight engine struck
and instantly killed Herbert, the II
year-old son of Brad o. Bryant, OF Al
exandria, Ind. The boy was trying
to catch ride.
Three hundred attended the opening
OF the Southern Illinois Odd Fellows
Reunion association at Carbonate,
ILL.,, at which Grand Master William
r. Humphrey spoke.
BY an explosion in rolling mill
Of the Dupont Powder works at VIII
mington, DEL, William McCrea was
instantly killed and James Camac was
so badly hurt that his death is ex-
pected.
At the request of Acting Secretary
Newberry, under the direction of the
president, Rear Admiral Converse.
chief of the bureau Of navigation, who
will go on the retired list May 10
has consented to remain in that office
Adjt Gen. Scott has issued an order
accepting the resignation of Gen
James B. Smith as brigadier general
commanding the Fourth brigade, ILL
nois national guard. Col. Edward Z.
Young succeeds him.
State Bank Examiner Peter G..
Cameron, who took charge of the Co.
lumbia Savings and Trust bank at
Pittsburg, said that there was nc
shortage or defalcation and that the
depositors would probably be paid
In full
The Rev. Henry Sewell, for So con-
secutive years Methodist preacher,
died at Evansville, Wis. He was 73
years old.
jeremiah Murphy, aged SO years,
wealthy st. Louis pork packer, died at
his home from complication of dis
eases. Mr. Murphy is survived by
widow and five sons.
The bank of Thornton, Iowa, owned
by j. D. Barlow and G. L. Ehlers,
made an assignment for the benefit OF
it's creditors.
While seeking free ride, Herbert
Bryant, 12-year-old son of Brad q.
Bryant, of Alexandria, Ind, yas in
stantly killed.
w. J. Bryan in a letter to Col Nose
Wetmore, of st. Louis, states he will
do nothing to secure another nomina-
ton and will not be a candidate I'M
less circumstances demand it.
D. H. Houston, inventor of the ko-
dak, died at Fargo, N. D. Besides in
venting the original of the modern
kodaks, he bred to a high standard
what is known as blue stew wheat,
winning prizes at Paris, st. Louis,
Portland and other expositions.
Revolutionary movements or cleo
ton troubles in Panama, which in
any way interfere with work on the
canal zone justify the interference of
the United States in support of the
Panama government. Such is the
tenor of the instructions sent to Gov.
Magoon by Secretary Taft.
w. H. Sylvester, president of the
First National bank, of Montezuma,
Ind, was shot and killed in his home
by his brother, whose mind is believed
to be affected.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the southern confederacy,
is dangerously i'll of the grippe in New
York. AS Mrs. Davis is nearly 80 years
old, it is feared that the attack may
be fatal
Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey has been
found guilty of heresy by the Episco-
pal ecclesiastical court before which he
has been on trial for his opinions con-
corning the virgin birth and resurrec-
tion of Christ and the nature of the
Trinity.
Charged with having embezZled
more than 100000, Edwin S. Green
field, head clerk of the banking and
Son, of Philadelphia, has made a full
confession and is doing everything
possible to assist the firm in straight
ening out its tangled books.
The yacht Nahma, with Mrs. Robert
Goelet on. board, in entering the har-
hor at Venice, collided with an Italian
war ship and both vessels were dam
aged.
R. M. Smoot, who was in the plot to
kidnap President Abraham Lincoln
and who sold to John Surratt the
boat with which it was intended to
convey Lincoln across the Potomac,
died at Fort Smith, Ark, aged 70
years.
Shortly before the time for the CO.
lumbia Savings and Trust company, of
Pittsburg, to open its doors for bust
ness Wednesday word was received
from the state commissioner of bank
ing, ordering the bank closed. The
order was at once obeyed.
Victor L. Gangelin, for many years
city editor of the Milwaukee Herald
and one of the well-known German
newspaper men of Wisconsin, died at
his home in Milwaukee.
In the first American women's chess
congress, at New York, Mrs. Charles
P. Frey, of New York. won the cham
pionship, while Mrs. Frank w. Lynn,
of Chicago, was placed second, and
Mrs. NJ. Wilkinson-R ebert Shaw, of