River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-18

ETY., the Wiener Maennergesang Yer
Elm, has informed Mr.. Francis the
American ambassador that it prob
ably will accept the invitation of the
mayor of Indianapolis to participate
in the North American Saengerbund
in June, 1907.
Sir Richard Tangye, head of the en-
cheering firm of Tangye, is dead at
London. He was born in 1888.
The Chicago American league club
won the worlds championship con-
test by defeating the Nationals in
the sixth game of the post-season
series by a score of to 8.
Gov Aleman, of Santa Clara prov
ince, has issued an appeal to the vari-
Gus mayors in his department to es-
tablish order and exercise patriotic
activity in order to maintain the ex-
istence Of the republic.
Gen. Wood says there is a large
number of officers in the service who
entered during the war with Spain
and afterward, and are not Of type
desired in time of peace Also there
are many field officers too old for
| their positions.
Although the sultan of Turkey at
tends the Selamlik and grants audi
ences, his malady is incurable and
will perhaps soon have fatal ter
mination. The shah of Persia is also
said to be seriously ILL.,
Statistics of Russian drumhead
courts-martial show there were 1872
executions during the first month of
their existence and that the daily
average Of executions is now higher.
The audience with the sultan of
the American ambassador, John G. A.
Leishman, lasted As minutes.
Joaquin d. Cassasus, Mexican am
bassador to the United States, has
formally rendered his resignation to
President Diaz.
The new Madison Square Presby-
terian church at New York, of which
Rev. Dr. Charles A. Parkhurst is the
pastor, was dedicated with impressive
ceremony.
Two more have been added to the
list of dead as a result of the eXplOs-
pumping boat Slackwater at lock No.
on the Ohio river at Legionville,
Beaver county, Pa, increasing the
number to five deaths.
The League of Octoberists has been
adopted by Premier Stolypin as the
governmental party, and to it all the
strength of the administration will be
turned in the coming elections.
Manuel Silveira's vanity caused his
fall, said one of the attaches of the
Silveira bank at Havana. The chief
victims of his defalcations are the
men to whom he owed everything.
Juan M. Ceballos, senior member of
the firm of Ceballos & Co., New York,
and Manager Jose Beola, representa-
tive of the firm, are the men who took
him from a clerkship and caused his
rise. On these the failure caused by
his sea trip falls heaviest.
Desert tribes have attacked Euro
peans, Jews and Mussulmans at Nor
Deco city Unfortunately. The popu-
lation retaliated and succeeded in
wounding 80 of the tribeSmen.
John Haverty,, said to be the oldest
engineer on the Chicago Junction
railway, and his fireman, Emil Busard,
both of Hammond, Ind, were killed
near Blue Island, just over the ILL
nois line A broken rail caused the
overturning of the engine and several
cars.
DR.. r. H. Pierce, a prominent dent
list of Duluth Mimi, while hunting in
company with his wife, his brother
and several friends was drowned in
Rice lake.
The Newfoundland cabinet decided
to resist to the fullest possible legal
extent the enforcement of the modus
vivendi.
DR.. Eugene Van Ness committed
suicide by swallowing poison at his
laboratory at New York, while his
wife and stepdaughter endeavored to
snatch the bottle containing the poi
son from the physicians hands.
Miss Bertha Krupp, who married
Lieut.. Gustav Won Behlen Und Kali
bach, has possessions valued some
where beyond a hundred millions of
dollars, and a position in Germany
that is more than that of the richest
subject.
Philippe d. Hammel, former secre-
tary and treasurer of system division
No. of the Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers, was found guilty in the
court of kings bench at Montreal OF
embezzling $4,000 of the funds of the
order.
Will Thomas, a fisherman, was as
sassinated in the northern part OF
Cairo, ILL., The killing is said to have
| been caused by a quarrel between
| Thomas and John Lewis.
The individual championship of the
/ New England intercollegiate Golf as
sociation was won by E. Stanton, of
Dartmouth, who defeated F. E. Up
ton, of Bowdoin, in a 36-hole contest 3
up and 1 to play.
After the Selamlik the sultan grant
ed private audiences to several mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, includ-
ing the American ambassador John
| G. A. Leishman
The Farmers National congress at
Rock Island, H., adopted resolution
demanding the passage of law pro-
hibiting dealings in futures and puts
and calls, and denying the use of
mails and telegraph wires for quota