River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-02

parliamentary group of toll we're be-
| ing held, and seized all the papers OF
| the committee.
!. The Carnegie fund for the pension
ing of aged college professors has
been increased to $15,000,00O and the
conditions of the fund have been
altered to allow of the pensioning OF
widows of professors who would be
eligible to the privileges.
Plans for the reception to William
Jennings Bryan on his arrival from
trip around the world are completed.
In letter to Alexander Troup, treas
urer of the committee of arrangements,
Mr.. Bryan favors popular subscrip-
ton of one dollar each to pay the ex-
penses of the reception. He urges
that no subscriptions over $50 be re-
ceived and insists that no funds from
questionable sources be accepted.
The New York Press says: will
liam r. Hearst will be nominated for
governor in Carnegie hall on Tuesday,
September II, or on the following day.
At the close of the convention the
nomination will be rendered to Mr..
Hearst at mass meeting in Madison
Square garden.
The Milwaukee road will make
rate of eight cents on wheat and flour
from Omaha and Kansas City to Chi
cago, to run from July 80 to August
49,
A daring robbery was perpetrated
on the Vistula railway, in the out
skirts of Warsaw. Revolutionaries
stopped a passenger train by pulling
the emergency brake. The gendarme
in charge was killed and the engine
driver forced to proceed to spot
where the line passes through wood.
At signal 80 armed men appeared,
broke open the boxes, distracted ST.
500 and decamped.
A terrific wind and rainstorm struck
st. Louis and vicinity. Lightning
started seven fires in different parts
of the city. A negro was blown from
his wagon under a passing fire engine
and killed
Charles H. Whitaker, ST., editor Of
the Clinton Qa.) Democrat, for so
years a newspaper man in Missouri
and Illinois, died, aged 20 years He
was a member of the Illinois state
legislature in 1877.
George w. Bartch, chief justice of
the supreme court of Utah, rendered
his resignation to Gov. Cutler, to take
effect October l. Justice Bartch de-
sires to resume the practice of law.
Albert M. Crone, charged With a
murderous assault on Bertha Bowlin
and her escort, Frank Kern, on the
Kersey Coates drive, at Kansas City,
resulting in the girls death, was held
for murder in the first degree.
After securing every state in the
union for almost seven months the
police believe they at last have appre-
hended Frank J. Constantine, who
murdered Mrs. Arthur w. Gentry,
bride of six months, in her apart
ments, at Chicago, on the morning of
January last. The suspect is in Jail
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Maj. Dreyfus was the victim of a
cowardly attack in the Military club
where all the officers were assembled
to give a reception to the Thirteenth
regiment artillery, to which Dreyfus
A report was received from the
commanding officer of the cruiser Co
lumbia at Boston saying that the sick
men brought from the isthmus were
all well or nearly so.
The navy department has called
upon Lieut.. I'll. Dunn for an explana-
ton of newspaper paragraph pub
lished concerning his conduct while
temporarily in command of the re-
ceiving ship independence at Mare
Island.
A daughter was born to Mrs Stella
Brennan in the state prison at Still
water, Mimi. Mrs. Brennan is serv-
ing life sentence for the murder Of
her stepcEildren in Minneapolis about
year ago.
A maddened three-year-old Durham
bull, named Mike" seriously injured
Chris Solterman, a butcher, at Wor
den, Ill, kept Gus Albright up tree
for several hours, killed horse and
by besieging tactics kept the family
of Louis Blume imprisoned at home.
Finally the bovine mike" was shot
dead.
The mistake of Alonzo Kimberlin,
bell boy at the Terminal hotel in
Union station, st. Louis, in giving
suit case containing $150,000 in cash
and negotiable securities to the wrong
man, caused William Bender, Jr., of
MankatO, Mimi, Is hours Of anxiety
which ended when the suit case was
returned intact.
Declaring his nomination for trus-
tee of the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany on the administration ticket was
but sop thrown to the policyholders,
who had right to elect the whole
board, Col. A. M. Shook, of Nashville,
Tenn, went to New York to consult
counsel as to what should be his atti-
tude in the matter.
John Dietz, the Wisconsin lumber
man, who has held Cameron dam like
fort for two years, has fought and
won his fifth battle with the authori-
ties. This time, after a fierce fight,
which it is believed will cost two lives,
he routed sheriff and a detachment
OF soldiers sent by the governor to
capture him. One of Dietz's sons is
believed to have been killed, but the
old lumberman still holds his camp.
Every dollar of Russell Sages great
fortune is left to Mrs. Sage by will
made in 1901 except an insignificant