River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-03-22
Andrew Hamilton appeared unez


and traitors'' who, he said, knew and
as disburser of funds.
| Prof. A. II. Pattengill, one >of the
University of Michigan's veteran pro-
fessors and the faculty representative
of Michigan in all athletic matters for
a number of years, died suddenly in
Ann .Arbor, Mich, from heart disease.
David E. Sherrick, former auditor
of the state of Indiana, was found
guilty of embezzlement by jury at
Indianapolis. Mr.. Sherrick was tried
on indictments charging him with a
misuse of $4,000 belonging to the
state. The penalty is from one to
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
The announcement was followed by
motion for a new trial.
Western railroads are facing a Ia
Dor famine. They seek $4,000 work
ingmen at good wages.
There is a movement to refer the
mine dispute to Roosevelt commission
of 1902 in the hope of averting a
strike.
A mob attacked the Jail in Omaha,
Neb., to lynch eight murderers. The
prisoners were spirited away while
the crowd battered at the prison
doors.
A call was issued at Springfield,
Ohio for special grand jury to in
vestigate the recent race riots. 1t is
said more than 100 persons will be
accused.
Equal rights for Jews in Russia is
likely to be the outcome of the plot
of the bureaucracy to massacre them,
the car, who has been told of the
conspiracy, directing that action be
taken to grant freedom.
Mitchell's action in ousting Dolan
from the Pittsburg local S presidency,
was approved by the miners board.
Funeral services over the body OF
Susan B. Anthony were held in the
Central Presbyterian church at Ro-
chester n. Y.
Rev. William d. Shea, one of the
Oldest and best known ministers of the
Methodist church in the south, died at
his home in Atlanta, Ga, aged "
years.
The Illinois Republican state con-
vention will be held in Springfield,
Monday, May IA, to nominate candi-
dates for state treasurer, superintenG-
ent of public instruction and three
trustees of the University of Illinois.
Live stock, particularly sheep, have
been considerably weakened by the
y Il Wy
and serious losses are now looked for.
John Ingraham Dunn, who for years
had been financial editor of the New
York Press, died from typhoid fever
at his home in Ridgewood, N. j.
Hon. A. P. Murphy was renomi-
mated without opposition for congress
in the Sixteenth Missouri district by
the Republican convention at Leb-
anon, Mo.
Louis Nosser, racetrack man,
locked his wife in a bathroom in their
New York residence, and while she
was a prisoner there shot and killed
Miss Stella Reynolds, of New Orleans,
an actress, who was visiting at their
home, and then killed himself.
A strong organization to combat So
cialism has been formed in Eng
land.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew, abort
whose whereabouts there has been so
much speculation for several days, is
at his residence in New York city. No.
q West Fifty-fourth street. DR..
Mum, the Depew family physician,
said the senator had been only slight
ly indisposed.
Net earnings of the American To-
bacco company for 1905 were more
than $25,000,000, a large gain over the
preceding year, and the annual state
ment shows millions of dollars worth
of bonds redeemed.
Andrew Hamilton, in defending
suits against him, will accuse New
York Life officers of authorizing the
payments made by him.
A plot to murder Rev. Charles H.
Parkhurst said to have been Matched
by two New York police officers, was
barred to District Attorney Jerome by
two men, who say they were hired to
commit the crime.
1COAuOAC AkOOSCNCIC, III tt0ul
the delegates to a consular reform
convention, says that the pay and
condition of the consular service must
be made better if greater efficiency is
to be secured.
Vienna is excited by story that
King Edward is in a plot to dethrone
King Peter of Servia.
Battling Nelson easily bested Terry
McGovern in six rounds of fighting
in Philadelphia ring, the latter be-
ing almost in collapse at the finish.
Samuel Gompers and A. Furnseth,
discussing the Gilbert anti-injunction
bill, declared President Roosevelt la
boris foe.
Premier Witte has proof of plot
by members of the Russian bureauc-
racy for a massacre of Jews and multi
fication of the reforms granted to the
people, and declares the conspirators
must be defeated
BY the falling of derrick used in
the construction of an addition which
is being made to the Raleigh hotel in
Washington, d. c., two men were
killed and two other men were in
jured
Remarkable heroism was displayed
| by sailors in rescuing 20 of the crew
| of the steamer British King, which