River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-03-08


1t is announced that the president
will not be able to go to Atlanta the
last of this month to attend the
Wheeler memorial services.
President Roosevelt authorizes de-
NAL of the report that he has invited
John Mitchell and Frank l.. Robbins
to confer with him on way to avert
coal strike.
A bandit who robbed the Russian
bank at Helsingfors, Finland, was
captured after desperate resistance
in which he killed four officers. =
Constable Joseph Slais was shot and
killed by Mrs. Lawrence Baker, in
Chicago, when he called at her house
with an assistant to levy on an execu-
ton.
A Chicago woman who withdrew
$4,000 from a bank on hearing rumors
about possible failure, was robbed
of the whole amount as she kept it at
home.
A short ice crop is quoted by the
head of the ice trust at New York as
an excuse for advancing the price of
ice to consumers.
Ohio railway lines are preparing TO
fight the two-cent fare law, which goes
into effect March TO-
The Southern Bank & Turst COM
pany failed at Fort Smith, Ark, owing
depositors $4,000. 1t had $94.30 on
hand
!. John F. Wallace, former chief en-
gineer Of the Panama canal, will build
electric railways for Westinghouse at
salary of $4,000 a year.
President Roosevelt has notified
troops in the United States to be
ready for service in China. The anti
foreign crusade is more threatening.
Harry Tenny, the prize fighter, died
as result of the injuries received in
his fight for the bantam-weight cham
pionship with frankie Neil in San
Francisco.
Mrs. j. T. Brock, wife OF a farmer, in
the district court at Independence.
Kan, was awarded $4,000 damages for
injuries received in a runaway caused
by an automobile driven by George
Francis, one of the wealthiest men in
Kansas.
DR.. William Hill died in Blooming
ton, ILL.,, aged II years. DR.. Hill was
present in a professional capacity at
the birth of William ]. Bryan.
The Chicago city council finance
committee voted for an addition OF
1000 patrolmen to the city police force
and appropriated $472,000 for their SAL
aries to the end of the year.
A prairie fire swept 30 square miles
of the richest farm lands in Rice coun-
ty, Kan, resulting in damage estimat-
ed at $4,000
Bandits used nitroglycerin to blow
open the post Office safe at Grant Park.
ILL.,, securing nearly $500 in cash and
stamps.
The funeral of former Speaker David
B. Henderson was held in Dubuque, Ia.
A remarkable tribute was paid to his
memory. Business was suspended
during the hours of his funeral.
Dr. Alfonso Moreira Penna, vice
president of the Brazilian republic, has
been elected president.
Thirty men were drowned by the
Norwegian steamer Thor.
The United States Steel corporation
has leased James ]. Hills ore mines
on Mesaba range, Involving possibly
SLIPS, 100000.
Congressman Charles B. Lands was
renominated for the sixth time by the
Republicans of the Ninth Indiana con-
gressional district. The nomination
was by reclamation.
Seven Baltimore & Ohio railroad en-.
gineers and conductors were fined four
dollars and costs each for violating the
Sunday law by running trains through
UniontOwn, Pa.
Wesleyan university at MiddletOwn.
Conn, sustained a severe loss by fire
rooms, was practically destroyed. Loss,
$4,000.
A mob at Springfield, O., bent on
lynching negro assailants of a white
man, burned dwellings of blacks,
wrecked a saloon and injured two Off
GERS. The calling out of troops was
necessary.
DIN ulOI0 HOUSES were SET dllI0 III
the race rioting at Springfield, o.,
eight companies of militia being I'M
able to put down the mob bent on driv-
ing all negroes out.
The bituminous coal operators, said
to differ on the wage scale, will hold
conference at Indianapolis March 49,.
French delegates at the Moroccan
conference await the next move of Ger
many, which, it is believed, may ap-
peal to a neutral arbiter to decide the
questions at issue.
News of the breaking of the terri
bic drought which for years has para
lyzed the industries of Australia is
brought by the steamship Ventura,
which has just arrived in San Fran
cisco.
China has taken steps to punish par
Elephants in the massacre of Jesuit
missionaries and British subjects, and
declares its willingness to make repa-
ration:
New business of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, owing to the insur-
ance scandals, shows q falling off of
$S1 100000 in 1905, as compared with
the previous year, while the value of
policies surrendered has tripled.
George Kingsbury, grand scribe of
the grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons
of Michigan, died at his home in Cas-
sopolis. Mich, from consumption.