River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
Six men were burned by an explo-

Acting unQor authority Ol LIE SeCIS-
tary of the interior, the director Of the
geological survey ordered the confsca-
ton of the whole of the contractor
outfit for work on the Corbett tunnel
on the irrigation project in northern
Wyoming.
Grain rates for the state of Wiscon-
sin will be reduced practically one
cent per bushel by an opinion OF the
railway commissioners. This is the
most important decision that has ever
been rendered by the Wisconsin COM
mission. The order will affect all OF
the railroads operating in the state OF
Wisconsin.
1t was reported at st. Petersburg
that 700 persons have been killed or
wounded during renewed fighting be-
tween Tartars and Armenians in the
Shusha district of Caucasia.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, was visited by ter
rife rainstorm, causing several thou
sand dollars damage by the washing
of streets. In one place 200 feet on
Washington street was washed way
for a depth of 80 feet and width OF
20 feet. The business streets were
flooded.
Republicans in convention at Ma
con, Mo-, nominated DR.. Edward B..
Clements for congress in the First dis
trict.
Republicans of the First Nebraska
district nominated Ernest M. Pol
lard for congress by reclamation.
Jere M. Hunt, city passenger agent
of the Chicago & Alton railroad, died
at st. Louis from kidney trouble, af-
ter less than a days illness.
w. F. Arthur & Co., cotton firm
of Texarkana, Tex, went into involun-
tary bankruptcy on a petition of east
ern creditors. The liabilities are
$137 900; assets nominal.
Capt. Truebridge, of the steamship
Northwestern, brings from the north
a photograph taken by an officer of
the revenue cutter Perry of the newly
formed island lying so miles west OF
Dutch Harbor, directly between the
Bogoslof islands.
The Roosevelt Home club, which
was organized to acquire possession
of the Roosevelt homestead where the
president was born and to maintain
it as landmark in the city of New
York, has decided that it is not in a
position to fulfill its mission.
Emperor William has conferred the
Order of William upon Frau Krupp,
the widow of the gunmaker.
The so-called Boykin anti-bucket-
shop bill, adopted by the house of rep
resentatives passed the Georgia SEN
ate by the decisive vote of 38 to 3.
Speaker Cannon, of Illinois, and his
daughter, Miss Cannon, will visit Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh at their
Wolhurst country home, Littleton,
Col, between the first and middle of
October, to remain a week or longer.
e. r. Balzer, vice president, and C..
F. Anderson, secretary of the defunct
J. P. Baden Produce company, of Win
field, Kan, were arrested on charge
of forgery. Anderson also is charged
with perjury.
Paul Morton was cleared of the
stigma of rebating in connection with
the Santa Fe railroad by the inter-
state commerce commission in a state
ment issued regarding the conviction
Of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company.
The United States has again entered
the silver market and for the first
time in 13 years is a bidder for silver
for coinage purposes.
Prince Troubetskoy, aid-de-camp to
the emperor, visited the fortress at
Cronstadt and distributed medals to
the troops who participated in the
suppression of the revolt.
The sentences passed upon the Sc
vastopol mutineers probably will be
mitigated. On the recommendation of
Admiral Skrydloff, Minister of Marine
Birileff, instead of confirming the. SEN
fences, has ordered complete rehear-
ing of the cases at the end of two
months.
Copenhagen newspapers are enthusi-
astic over the American suffragists,
especially dwelling on the oratorical
powers of Rev. Anna E. Shaw and Ida
Hustled Harper, and the presidential
ability of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
They print portraits of all the Ameri-
cans.
Prof. Henry d. Smith, general Sec
rotary of Beloit college, died at Will
liamsburg, Wis, as a result, of his ef-
forts to save the life of Miss Ruth
Macumber, who was drowned near
Lake Geneva.
The Illinois state board of agricul-
ture issued a bulletin stating that re-
ports show the yield of winter wheat
in Illinois this year is 27,365,5 52 bush
els, an average of 20 bushels per acre,
an increase of 4,906.232 bushels over
1905.
Mrs. Ella Smith, wife of former Post
master General Charles Emory Smith,
died at Block Island, r. I. Mrs Smith
had been ill but short time.
John MacVicar, of Des Moines, Sec
rotary of the American League of Mu-
inequalities, has announced the pro-
gramme for the annual meeting in
Chicago September &c, q and 2S.
Thomas Newcomb, for over 20 years
appointment clerk in the Office of the
governor, died at Albany, n. Y. In
early life he was prominent in news
paper circles in San Francisco.
State Senator George Malby, of Og-
densburg, was nominated to succeed
Congressman Flack, of Malone, at the
Twenty-sixth New York congressional