River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-04

ure to keep their equipment in prop
er condition. The largest number of
| violations attributed to any road is
| 81, against the Delaware & Hudson
! company. The total number of viola
| tons is 181.
| The net decrease in the pension roll
| Of the United States for the fiscal year
ended June 80, last, amounted to H.
! 40. the largest decrease ever known
in the history of the country. These
| facts are brought out in annual report
| of Commissioner of Pensions Warner,
which has just been completed. In
| the report the commissioner expresses
the opinion that there will be a still
more marked decrease during the
present year.
Bishop Charles d. Williams, of the
Episcopal diocese of Michigan, in an
address to Y. M. G. A. members at
| Detroit on 1.-THE Bible and the Word
of God" declared that the Bible was
not the word of God, and that the
| teachings to the contrary are the
most prolific source Of unbelief the
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The authorities appear to have sud
denly reversed their attitude toward
| the union of the Russian people. The
project Sunday withdrew his permits
sion for meetings of the union.
Seven carloads of supplies for the
| troops sent to Cuba by the United
| States were shipped from the Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, quartermaster's depot.
Seven high school sorority girls
were injured, one of them probably
fatally, in runaway accident at
Ypsilanti, Mich, while students were
being initiated.
Middleport bank, a private institu-
ton at Middleport, o., is closed and it
is believed nearly all the $4,000 of
deposits is lost Aged depositor made
an attempt to kill the vice president
Of the bank.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana,
had a rib broken in an automobile ac-
cident at Marseilles, France. At last
accounts the patient was slowly re-
covering.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York,
gave out statement in which he
said he would not vote for Hearst for
governor.
Fire starting from All explosion Of
oil i'll the building of the Pittsburg
Plate Glass company at Cleveland, o.,
destroyed the six-story structure.
Three firemen were hurt by falling
walls. Loss, 100000.
Robert NJ. Snyder, OF Kansas City,
and ex-Councilman Frederick G. Ut
| hoff, Of Denver, were indicted in st.
Louis, the former for bribery and the
latter for perjury In connection with
the passage of the Central Traction
| franchise bill in 1898.
Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, received a
letter from John O'Neil, of Fort Col
| Inns, Colo, in which O'Neil admitted
he murdered J. S. Collins at Topeka
six years ago, for which crime John
Collins, son of the slain man, is serv-
ing a life term.
Brooding over the failure of Bishop
| Shaffer of Chicago, to assign him an
appointment, Rev. d. A. Basfield, for
mer pastor of the African Methodist
Episcopal church at CentraIia, Ill. be-
came insane.
! Rather than pay taxes on the prop
| erty the Boston e. Maine Railroad
company began PREPARATIONS to des-
troy the dam in the Deertield river,
near North Adams, Mass, with dyna-
mite.
President Castro of Venezuela is a
very sick man and his friends fear he
will not recover.
Scores of people have been killed,
many wounded and hundreds of
houses demolished by cyclone which
devastated the south of Spain at San
tomera Two hundred houses fell.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was arrest
ed after policeman was beaten by
Harvard boys, but was released later.
Excessive speed, causing the engine
to overturn, brought on the Salisbury,
England, railway disaster of July 1
last, in which upward of a score of
Americans on their way from Ply
mouth to London lost their lives, ac-
cording to q report made by the board
of trade inspectors.
Announcement was made at Apple
ton, Wis, that Miss Elsie Plants and
Irwin W. Church will receive Carnegie
hero medals for saving the lives of
three Lawrence girls who broke
through the ice in the winter Of 1904-5.
The convention of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men at Milwaukee, after installing the
newly elected officers and choosing
Columbus, o., as the next meeting
place, adjourned.
William r. Hearst practically repu-
dates the Buffalo platform and de-
clares he will run on his own princi-
pies, which were made clear before
he received either nomination for gov
ernor.
A proclamation was issued by Gov.
Deneen, of Illinois, calling a special
election for November 6, 1906, for con-
gressmen in the Thirteenth district
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Robert r. Hit.
An explosion of natural gas at
Cherryvale, Kan, demolished the Ed
gar zinc smelter, killing two workmen
and injuring four others, two of whom
will die
James Brown, & wealthy retired
farmer of Rock Falls, ILL.,, was killed
20 miles south of Wallula, Wash, by
Fou;,r r>x,a,- n ol;fF 1n0 foot bioI, prOu-u