River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-05

Charles IhOrnell died at Baldwin,
Mich, and brother of the dead boy
and Frank Roy may die as the result
of eating Wild parsnips.
A Nickel Plate passenger train left
the track near South Whitley, Ind,
and turned over in the ditch, injuring
% persons, one fatally.
Direct information from the trade
ports and centers of China is to The
effect that the boycott against goods
shipped from the United States is rap
idly dying out and that there is
prospect of an early and full resump-
ton of business.
Wisconsin has decided to bring suit
against the Standard Oil company I'M
der the state antitrust laws.
Unable to remove the snowslides
from it's track, the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad set 200 men at work
near Durango, COL, to tunnel through
the huge masses of snow and thus
open the line.
Attorney General Charles w. Miller
of Indiana has filed suit for $4,000 in
Boone county against Americas G.
Daley, former auditor, to recover fees
alleged to have been collected illegally
from the state.
Mrs Roosevelt left Washington with
the younger children for Fernandina,
Fla, where they will embark on the
Mayfiower for cruise in Cuban wa
tiers.
The New York assembly, by decis-
i've vote, ordered that the committee on
elections and privileges has power to
order the ballot boxes used in the last
New York city election opened.
The trial of the beef packing corpor
atoms is fixed for September 10 in Chi
cago.
The first actual election of members
of Russias parliament resulted in the
choice of II conservatives.
Mrs Mary c. Wallace, of Denver,
Col, was fatally injured in the public
elevator in the senate wing of the cap
'itol at Washington by attempting to
leave the car while it was in motion,
and she died later.
Conservative estimates place the
number of seals already taken during
the season at $50, 000-the largest catch
off the past 40 years. 1t is believed
that the 100000 mark will have been
passed before the fishing season ends
the latter part of April.
The Ohio senate passed a bill per-
hitting amateur baseball playing on
Sunday. There were only five votes
against the bill.
Maj. J. ". Hawkes., former commits
sioner of immigration of Louisiana,
was run over by street car and
killed in New Orleans.
The Ohio senate by unanimous vote
passed the house bill creating a state
railroad commission and providing for
the regulation of freight rates.
A bank examiner closed the bank of
North Freedom, Wis No cause was
given for closing the institution. The
deposits are 100000 and the capital is
$4,000, and it is said that there is
plenty of money to pay creditors.
George w. Perkins, partner of j. P.
Morgan, was arrested on the charge of
grand larceny in connection with a gift
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ance company to the Republican cam
paign fund, and is paroled in custody
of his lawyer pending argument on
nabeas corpus in the supreme court.
Mystery surrounds the murders of
six Italian laborers found hacked to
pieces in Minneapolis.
Eight men, two boys and a woman
connection with the six bloody muir
ders in Minneapolis the first part OF the
week.
William WEIGH, said to be the old
est surviving member of the union
army in the civil war and the oldest
member of the Masonic order in Amer
lea, celebrated his one hundred and
sixth birthday at Lempster. N. H.
Thomas E. Barrett, sheriff of Cook
county, ILL.,, died in Chicago. Death
was caused by the cancer of the throat
from which he had suffered for months.
Reargument of the case of William
Randolph Hearst of New York against
the anthracite coal carrying roads was
begun in Washington before the inter-
state commerce commission.
Former Consul Generals Goodnow,
McWade and Williams were arraigned
on serious charges in the inspection re-
port of Assistant Secretary of State
Peirce, submitted to the house.
David Burnhans, coachman for Cor
nelius N. Bliss, the banker and treas
urer of the Republican national COM
mittee, shot Thomas Hegarty, his as
sistant and groom to Mr.. Bliss, twice,
in New York, and then killed himself.
Hegerty, wno was removed to hos
pital died later.
Congressman Frederick Lands was
renominated by reclamation by the
Republicans of the Eleventh Indiana
district
Charles e. Baines, mayor Of Milford,
H., who, with Gilbert Vennum, pol
itician, was indicted by a grand jury
two months ago on charge of enticing
Myrtle Taylor, aged Is years, and Es-
sic Childs, aged Is years, was acquit-
ted.
Veterans of the civil war from the
north and south met in Atlanta to form
a new fraternal organization.
Petitions of ex-Gov. Richard Yates
and Senator Shelby M. Cullom for
election to the United States senate
were filed at Springfield, I'll. The
Yates list has $4,000 names and the
Cullom 121, sol.
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