River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-07-19

son of James Turish, of Stevens
Point, Wis.
William Van Fps, pioneer mer-
chant of Sioux Falls and one of the
most prominent business men in South
Dakota, is dead. Mr.. Van Fps at one
time was rated as the wealthiest man.
in Dakota.
President Hintz, of the Boone Base
ball association, wired President Peck
ham, of the Iowa State league OF.
Boones withdrawal from the league.
Financial trouble is the cause.
Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska. an
nounced he would begin quo warranto
proceedings in the supreme. court to
GUST DR.. ]. M. Alden, superintendent
of the hospital for the insane at Nor
folk, and his assistant, DR.. Nicholson.
Between 400 and 500 patients and
many of the physicians of the North
Texas insane asylum are i'll, suffering
with an attack of what shows many OF
the symptoms of cholera morbus.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
American Cigar Box company at John
son City, Tenn, causing loss of
$4,000 and throwing 125 men out of
work.
The Cleveland Electric railway dis
charged about 100 of it's $500 motor
men and conductors, following the or
ganization here of local of the Anal
gamated Street Railway Employees OF
America.
News was received at Zion City that
the Australian branch of the church
has repudiated Zion, and henceforth
will be independent.
President Pardo, of Peru, has re-
fused to accept the resignation of Min
in order that the latter might be free
to fight duel with Senior Ulloa, a
journalist.
The net value of the estate left by
the late John A. Mccall, former presi.
dent of the New York Life Insurance
company, was $40,S35, according to the
report of the appraisers.
Hundreds of Jews left Poltava, Rus
STA, fearing an anti-Jewish outbreak,
but the spirit shops were closed and
the authorities have promised to pre-
vent any disturbances.
Esther Mitchell shot and killed
her brother, George Mitchell, in the
waiting room of the Union station at
Seattle. The shot was fired just as
Mitchell rose to take the evening
train for Oregon. The brother, who
was recently acquitted of killing
Franz Edmund Creffield, the leader
of the Holy Rollers, dropped in his
tracks.
The proprietors of eight Jewish
factories at Bialystok are winding up
their affairs with the intention of re-
moving to Palestine and setting up in
business there.
Henry Clay Evans, of Hamilton
county, Tenn, former commissioner
of pensions and recently American
consul-general in London was nomi.
you took the train for Clarenceville.
can state convention.
Frank Curry, noted strike break
er, known throughout the United
States among labor men, was fined
$50 in police court at ST. Louis for
abusing his wife and $40 for using
obscene language in the presence OF
a neighbor.
The Association Of Rhenish and
Westphalian Grain Importers has sent
circular to the various German and
foreign chambers of commerce and
produce exchanges regarding the al
legged incorrect classification of Amer
lean grain.
Indications that American farmers
this year will harvest the largest
grain crops in the history of the coun-
try are given in the government re-
port on condition as of July /. Not
only is the prospect for bountiful
harvest most bright, but market quo
tations show that the farmer will get
fair price for his grain, while re-
ports from Europe are that the wheat
crop will be 15O,000,000 bushels short
of that of 1905, indicating that the ex-
port demand will be large and that
America will have to fill good share
of it.
Harry K Thaw protests against be-
ing regarded as insane and declares
his counsel assure him that no such
course as the appointment of a COM
mission to inquire into his mental
condition is contemplated.
The parole system was attacked by
Lieut. Gov. Sherman in an address de-
livered before the Illinois States At
| torneys association at it's annual con-
vention in Springfield. He said that
Of all the criminals paroled most of
them had returned to their bad life.
At the Sanitary Inspectors confer
ence al Bristol, Eng, delegate said
if the British public only knew a
quarter of what was going on in the
slaughter houses of the country the
Chicago scare would become insight
| ficant by comparison.
The steamer Quincy of the Diamond
10 line, burned near Trempeauleau,
Wis, with 200 people aboard. The boat
ran into the bank and turned half
over, when the fire started. One babe
was drowned.
The Continental Limited. No. 1, on
the Wabash railroad had a remarkable
escape from disastrous wreck. When
speeding at the rate of so miles an hour
it crashed into some track cOnStruc-
| ton work near Cass station, Indiana.
Secretary Wilson of the department
| of agriculture concluded his work in
| Chicago by issuing a statement i'll
which ne denied meat packers the
/ uSe Of the limited States government