River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-20

Ten years Imprisonment and a fine
| Of $1,000 was the sentence imposed
| in the federal court at Denver by
| Judge Robert e Lewis on DR.. James
d. Eggleston, son CT President Eggles-
ton, of the Pacific Express company,
who was convicted Of counterfeIting
and making Photographic negatives of
SO bill
Jesse Clyde Rumsey, the Chicago
boy who robbed the Alton-Burlington
train on November % and the Rock
Island limited on November s, both
near Glasgow, Mo-, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary
The Cummings Commission COM
pany, one of the largest and best
known brokerage houses in st. Paul
and Minneapolis, suspended business.
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of
New York, who few days ago was
elected SECRETARY of the Smithsonian
Institution by the board of regents,
has informed the regents that he will
be unable TO accept the Office.
Former United States Senator Ar
thur Brown, of Utah, who was shot in
his apartments at the Hotel Raleigh,
Washington, by Mrs. Anna M. Brad
ley, of Salt Lake City, died at the
Emergency hospital.
President Roosevelt was criticised
in caustic terms by Senator Rayner,
of Maryland, for his threat to use
force to open San Francisco schools
to the Japanese.
The clergy of Paris issued special
appeals to their parishioners to be
present at the churches at the first
mass celebrated outside the pale of
the law. The government purposes to
| proceed gently.
The divorce case brought by Au-
gustus Hartje, millionaire paper man
ufacturer, of Pittsburg, was decided
in favor of Mrs. Hartje. The children
remain with their mother. Hartje
must pay all the court costs.
1t is reported in Honolulu, and de-
| MED in Washington, that two regi-
ments of Japanese, completely off,
| cered, are in Honolulu disguised as
laborers.
The vegetable canning factory of
| ]. p. Polk & Co. at Greenwood, Ind,
burned down, the loss being 100000.
Former Postmaster Gilbert Meeks,
| of Nichols, Ca, was sentenced to one
year Imprisonment and to pay fine
of $2,068 for embezzlement.
The jury in the case of S. =. How
| ell, president of the Omaha Coal Ex-
change, charged in company with the
| 70 other members with maintaining
trust, in violation of the state law,
returned a verdict of guilty.
The Farmers and Drovers' Nation
| al bank, of Waynesburg, Pa, was
closed by direction of the comptroller
| of the currency, and National Bank
Examiner John B. Cunningham has
been appointed receiver. The assets
and liabilities are $2,367,474.
Six armed men held up the Interna-
tional bank at Petersburg, Russia,
and escaped with $14.500.
Representative of the orthodox and
reformed Hebrew congregations of
New York joined in a protest before
the committee on elementary schools
against the observance of Christmas
festivities in the public schools.
Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, former
viceroy of India, will not be the next
British ambassador to America, ac-
cording to statement made by Lady
| Curzons brother-in-law, the Earl Of
/ G5umUIh.
Samuel Dodd, president of the IN
ternational Silver company, whose
| principal Office is in Meriden, Conn,
died very suddenly at his home of
valvular disease of the heart.
One hundred and twenty additional
American teachers are wanted in the
! Philippines for the next school year,
according to cablegram received
| from Manila by the bureau of insular
| affairs.
Christmas boxes and parcels for the
| enlisted men of the navy serving in
| Cuban waters will be delivered with
out cost if they are addressed in
charge of the depot quartermaster,
Newport News, Va.
Inc lnIanLa Maria Teresa, sister OF
| King Alfonso, of Spain, and who was
| married January IL to Prince Ferdi-
nand of Bavaria, gave birth to son.
DR.. Royner S. Paddington, pastor
| of the Herkimer street Methodist
church, Brooklyn, died of heart fail
ure, aged 20 years For % years he
was a member of the Detroit M. E.
conference.
Fourteen merchants and business
men, of East ST. Louis, entered pleas
| of guilty to charges of violating the
Illinois child labor laws, and were
| fined.
y bat" Masterson and two editors
of the New York Telegraph were ar
rested on charges of criminal con-
tempt of court because of the reports
of the Gillette trial printed in that
paper.
Joseph S. Kearns, who was captured
after robbing Great Bend, Kan,
bank in broad daylight, confessed to
having robbed the Midland National
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