River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-01


won fame as dashing confederate
cavalry leader during the war of the
rebellion, but fought on the side of
the union in the clash with Spain,
died of pneumonia at the home of his
sister in Brooklyn.
The funeral of Brig. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler was held in New York, the
body being wrapped in the Stars and
Stripes and the stars and Bars. The
remains were taken to Washington.
Claim is made that Dowie recently
made his will giving all except 21s
per cent of an estate valued at $1S,-
100000 to 100000 to Zion City.
Joseph N. Field. only surviving
brother of the late Marshal Field, ar
rived in Chicago after a hurried trip
from England.
The New York state capitol build
ing, which has cost s25,000,G00 and
had been under construction for 43
years, not being finished, is decaying,
and part of it is closed because of
danger.
Miss Grigsby is to sue the estate of
Charles T. Yerkes for 100000,
claiming to have documents to prove
that he intended trust fund for her.
Direct exports to Russia for 1905,
according to the bureau of statistics
CT the department of commerce and
labor, amounted to $17000,000 and i'm
ports from Russia were 81 100000.
Mayor Bookwalter, of Indianapolis,
says he was offered bribe Of $4,000
by a Kentucky lawyer for permission
to kidnap w. S. Taylor, former gov
e"nor of that state, who was wanted
For alleged completely in the murder
Of William Goebel.
King Alfonso of Spain and Princess
Ena of Battenberg will wed in April.
His victims mothers plea averted
the lynching of Georgia negro who
assaulted a child.
English unionists show disposition
TO continue Balfour as leader if he will
pledge himself to tariff reform.
Representatives of various civic
bodies, clubs and citizens organiza-
lions formed the anti-crime league to
all in checking the reign of crime in
Chicago.
All New York elevated, surface and
subway railroads are to be united in
huge monopoly, with capital of
1926, 100000.
The sultan of Morocco is declared
TO be organizing the Soudan to wage
war against France.
An unprecedented cold snap accom-
panied by blizzard caused great suf-
fering in Mexico and IL persons died.
A South Dakota pastor was con-
victed by federal jury at Omaha of
conspiracy to defraud the United
States out of 10000 acres of land.
A sufferer from locomotor ataxia
committed suicide in New York and
asks that his body be cut up to learn
il there is cure for the disease.
Peru has forged to the front under
a peaceful government, revealing new
riches that are to be developed rapidly
by means of a railway system now be-
ing provided.
President Roosevelt ordered that
correspondence showing attorneys for
indicted packers attempted to influ-
ence public opinion by bribing news
paper reporters, be published.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, warns the mine owners
no permanent peace can prevail until
a. fair wage scale is agreed upon.
Norman Hapgood, editor of Golfers
Weekly, was acquitted of criminal libel
in the sensational Town Topics case.
James Names was arrested in New
York. The police claim he is one Of
six men who robbed the Bank of Liv-
e1pool of 100000 in 1901.
During the months of July, August
and September last 1853 were killed
and 1886 injured among passengers
and employees of steam railroads in the
United States.
Marshall Fields will, filed for pro-
bate in Chicago, disposes of an estate
estimated at $100,000,000, leaving prac-
tically the entire fortune tied up in
trust funds. His two grandsons are
to get the largest part Of the estate.
Among the larger special requests
we're: Widow, $1,O00,O0O and resi-
dence; daughter, $6,O00,OOO; museum,
$S,000,000.
Arthur B. Jones, named as one of
the executors of the will of the late
Marshall Field, will, it is said, be the
virtual head of the great Try goods
house.
Only 81 persons out of 154 on the
steamer Valencia, wrecked on the
west coast of Vancouver island, are
known to be alive, and it is thought
that all the others have persisted, so
or more being known to have drowned
when the vessel struck the rocks.
Sir Henry Irving's will, admitted to
probate in London, England, divid IS
the actors estate between his two sons
and a woman journalist.
Russian soldiers at Vladivos ok have
again mutinied, and the uprising is
more serious than the former one, as
the disaffected troops are well armed.
The grain mill and elevator of Close
Bros. was burned at Schenectady, N. Y,
entailing a loss of about $4,000.
The invitations which the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt have sent out for
the marriage of Miss Roosevelt to Mr..
Longworth are limited to the immedi-
ate family connections, a small Of
fetal list and intimate personal
friends of Miss Roosevelt and Mr.
Tooouo,.th