River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-25

| overcome the maiady. Inc remains
will be inferred in Chicago. His
wealth is estimated at $150000,000. j.
N. Field, a brother, of Manchester.
England, Is named as his successor at
] the head Of his great business.
Viola Allen, the actress, is the wife
of Peter Duryea, millionaire horseman,
the wedding ceremony having been per-
formed in Louisville last August and
kept a close secret for five months.
William Herman, German coal
miner, aged q years, was killed at
Lincoln, ILL.,, by Police Officer William
Ayres while resisting arrest.
Franks Of dental students at Pitts
burg tied up traffic, blocked streets and
called out police reserves twice to sup
press disorders.
Joe Cans knocked out Mike (Twin)
Sullivan in the fifteenth round of a
boxing bout at San Francisco.
John Willis Baer, for many years
secretary of the Presbyterian board OF
home missions, announces that he has
accepted the presidency of Occidental
college at Los Angeles, Cal.
Emmett e. Neal, shot-frer, died
at Benton, ILL.,, of injuries suffered
when an explosion in the Benton Coal
company's mine caused considerable
damage.
The revolutionaries have entered
Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Vice
President Banquerizo Moreno has as
sumed executive power and will ap-
point new cabinet.
One person was killed and q dozen
| injured when a car on the elevated
railroad in Brooklyn fell to the street.
Rev. L. G. Atkinson, D. D., president
of Cannon Methodist Episcopal theo-
logical seminary, died in Atlanta, Ga,
aged 67 years.
B. B. Kieran, who held the worlds
swimming championship, is dead in
Australia.
Ensign Wade, U. S. N, has been ac-
quilted on all the charges in connec-
ton with the Bennington disaster, and
has been restored to duty.
Members of the Iowa senate unani-
mously placed themselves on record as
opposed to the legal execution of Mrs.
Tolla, the New Jersey woman con-
denim to die for the murder of Joseph
Sontarea, by signing petition for her
full and complete pardon.
The Schlusselburg state prison in
the Russian fortress of that name, IA
nous as the place of incarceration for
SO many political prisoners, has been
closed. The prison was practically emp
tied on the occasion of the publication
of the amnesty decree last fall.
M. Marlborough, the charge DAT
flares of Venezuela at Paris, has re-
ceived the official announcement OF his
expulsion from French territory.
Eighteen men are believed to have
been killed in a terrific explosion in
one of the mines of the Detroit & Kan
awha Coal company, at Detroit, W. Va.
The Union Pacific ice dam at Evans
ton, Wyo., burst, flooding a portion of
the city and causing damage estimated
at 100000.
kid" Goog, a prize fighter, was
killed by blow above the heart in the
second round of three-round bout in
place known as George McFadden's
club in Third avenue, New York city.
The man with whom he was fighting
escaped.
Attorney General Wade III. Ellis filed
in the circuit court at Bellefontaine,
O., petition to GUST all the constitu-
ent companies doing business in Ohio
from their charters, for alleged I'M
lawful combination in restraint of
trade.
George Ford, who, while insane,
killed his wife and three babies with a
| Ratchet and then set fire to his house
near Vevay, Ind, several months ago,
hanged himself in the Central Indiana
hospital for the insane, at Indianap-
oils.
Col. George w. Robbins, colonel dur
ing the civil war of the Eighth Wis
consin Live Eagle regiment, died
suddenly at his Avon, Mass, home.
He was 81 years of age.
The jury at Rockwell City, Ia, in
the case Of Mrs. Josiah Pratt charged
with numbering her husband, disa-
greed, and was discharged. The jury
stood 10 to for acquittal.
Fire at Quincy, ILL.,, destroyed the
huge plant Of the j. H. Schoo Saddlery
company and the city hall. The loss
is 100000.
Ivan Palencsuk, who is 103 years
old, was released from prison at
Agram, Hungary, after so years. con-
fnement. He protested tearfully
against his release, but in vain, and he
Immediately committed another crime
in order to be reimprisoned.
Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi,
thrashed a negro convict employed in
his mansion. The legislature will in
vestigate.
The Suez Canal company has begun
widening the canal to enable the float
ing drydock Dewey, now on its way
from the United States to Manila, to
pass.
G. S. McReynolds & Co., grain deal
ers on the Chicago board of trade,
failed with liabilities estimated at
$500, 900.
| The Chinese government is firm in
its determination not to sign the An
glo-Thibetan treaty, hoping eventually
to regain control of Thibet.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church in the United States has
appointed January 25 as the day of
prayer for schools and colleges