River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-07-26
SUMMARY Of A
WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the BriefesS Manner
Possible.

sibly the last act in the great drama
of the Russian revolution. The people
and the government now stand face
TO face, and upon the army depends
the immediate issue. Even should
the government succeed in restraining
an outbreak Of the people the victory
probably will only be temporary and
simply confine the steam for the final
explosion.
Russell Sage died suddenly at his
country home, "Cedercroft," at Law
renee, L. /. The immediate cause of
death was heart failure, resulting
from a complication of diseases incl
dent to old age. The veteran finan-
cier would have celebrated his nine
tieth birthday on August 4.
Just before a ball game between a
local team and Plymouth, Wis, nine
at Manitowoc, Wis, a fierce electrical
storm swept over the city and bolt
of lightning hit the grandstand, where
the spectators and players had sought
shelter. Five persons were killed out
right and a score or two injured by
the shock.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor made good
It's declaration of several months ago
to enter the field of politics in the in
terest of trade union movement and
to exhort all members and friends of
organized labor to work for the cleo
ton to political office of men known
to be favorable to labor's cause.
The insurance companies doing
business in New York issued 1886
fewer policies in 1905 than in 1904,
the amount Of insurance written last
year showing a decrease of $151, 724,-
S54.
The value of canned meats export
ed from the United States in June,
1906, was $461, 100, against $797, 127
IN June, 1905, and in the fiscal year
1905, $9,233,410, against $9,577, 045 in
1905. The figures for the fiscal year
1906 include canned beef, $6,430,446;
canned pork, $1,215,857, and other
canned meats, 1887, 107.
The labor situation in the anthra-
cite region is one of profound peace.
In all the active collieries mining is
progressing satisfactorily.
The United States geological sur
yey states that the total output of
zinc during 1905 amounted to 203, S49
short tons, an increase of 17,147 short
tons over 1904.
No statement will be made by Mrs.
G. ]. Holman, mother of Mrs. Harry
X. Thaw, relative to the letters found
in the effects of Architect Stanford
White and alleged to have been writ
ten by Mrs. Holman to White before
the marriage of her daughter to
young Thaw.
Military investigation and a grand
jury inquiry have been ordered into
the mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of nine wagon loads of Ii
quors dispatched from the Moulder
depot warehouse to the Jefferson
Park hospital storeroom at San Fran
cisco.
Charles ID. Schmidt, an assistant
bookkeeper for the Helena (Mont.)
Water Works company, shot and
killed his wife and tried to kill him
self. 1t is said that Schmidt discov-
cred letter duplicating his wife
with man at Fort Assinniboine.
Unless his present plans are
changed John d. Rockefeller is going
to Cleveland, to spend the latter part
of the summer
With the heel of his heavy shoe. AL
bert Rierson, 90 years old, a patient
at the Racine county insane asylum,
beat out the life of John Ladrach.
aged 6S years, another patient.
The overturning of boat resulted
in the drowning of two persons in the
Sioux river, near Riverside park,
Sioux City, Iowa. The dead are: Carl
K. Carrick, aged 81; Joseph Berries,
aged 25.
Representative James S. Sherman
and his associates on the Republican
national congressional committee have
decided to appeal to Republicans to
contribute one dollar each to its cam
paign fund.
Miss Eva Osborn, Chicago young
woman, was drowned while bathing at
Duck Lake, a summer resort near Mus
kegon, Mich.
According to advices received by
the bureau of manufactures, the Jap
anese government has undertaken one
of the greatest experiments in the
worlds history which indicates a clear
purpose to protect. supervise, develop
and nationalize all Japanese indus
tries.
At Lancaster, Mass, Lancaster Inn
was burned; loss 5000.
Two men were instantly killed and
a third is believed to have been fatal
~ injured as result of the derail-
ment of switch engine in the Hous-
ton & Texas Central railway yards in
Houston. Tex.
The British cabinet has decided to
rescind its action cutting down the
naval estimates and to build two bat
tleships of the Dreadnought class.
Congressman Frank B. Keeper, of
Kingston, was renominated for con-
gress by the Republicans of the Third
Missouri district
One man was killed and four seri-
ously injured by log roll in Bige-
lows lumber camp near Alpena, Mich.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Young Peoples Union of the Indiana
district of the German Evangelical
synod of North America, convened at
Mount Vernon. Ind.