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

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| 1885.
Licensiado Cleto Gonzalez Viquez
formerly minister of finance, has been
elected president of the republic OF
Costa Rica.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Frederick w. Whittredge, of New
York, as special ambassador to repre-
sent the United States at the wedding
of the king of Spain.
The annual conference of the Ma
tional Municipal league will be held
at Atlantic City, April "a to q.
The Theodore Roosevelt, swift
lake passenger steamer, was success
fully launched at Toledo, o.
Senator Tillman announces he will
make his campaign for reelection on
the South Carolina dispensary prob
lem.
An aged Indianian says he was swim
died III Chicago out of $57, 900 through
land bond deal, and caused the ar
rest of two men, one 85 years old.
Mrs. Storer denies that she used a
letter from the president to aid Arch
bishop ireland. She did use letter by
Mr.. Roosevelt when he was governor
of New York.
Miners in drunken orgy in the
woods in Pennsylvania killed one man
and fatally injured two others.
Rich New York merchants are said
to be interested in plan for revolu-
ton in Venezuela, by which it is hoped
to overthrow Castro and open the
country to American capital.
John Alexander Dowie was deposed
as leader of Zion at dramatic meet
ing. He was branded as a fraud by
the chiefs of his church, and the in
surgents was joined by his wife and
son. Deputy Overseer Voliva, recent
ly placed in charge of the community,
was elevated to the. leadership by the
disaffected people.
Seventeen German soldiers were
killed in an engagement with Hotten-
totts in German Southwest Africa.
The government canal which will
furnish water power for building Salt
river dam at Roosevelt, Ariz., is ready
for opening.
Saloon keepers on the North side
of Chicago carried out their threat
to raise the price of beer by the can
and charged ten cents for pint, los
ing much trade.
Reckless automobilists killed a boy
and fatally hurt two women in New
York
Crop failures are things of the past
in the United States, according to Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson, who de-
clares that science has triumphed over
nature to such an extent that all va
riations of weather such as usually
are experienced can be set at naught.
Thirteen men, entombed in French
coal mine 20 days, living on hay and
putrid meat, escape.
Judgments were entered at Cincin-
natl, o., against former county treas
urers, charged with receiving "gratui-
ties from banks in which public funds
were deposited, amounting to $211, ia.
Pat Grove maze his debut as a pub
lie lecturer at Butte, Mont, advocating
prison reform and the adjustment of
contract labor in penal institutions.
Officials of wireless system claim
to have transmitted 572 words ACROSS
the Atlantic ocean, distance of 5000
miles.
Albert Johnson, colored, was exc
cuted at Waxahatchie, Tex, for the
murder of j. H. Taylor, a white man,
committed last July.
Announcement was made at Rich
mond, Ind, that ''the Friends Inter
national Christian Endeavor reunion
would be held at Wilmington, o., July
% to August /.
Troops were called out at Winnipeg,
Man, to awe mobs which threatened
violence as a result of a street railway
strike.
District Attorney Jerome in the
George w. Perkins habeas corpus pro-
ceedings declared the campaign gift
was illegal and immoral and consti-
tuted a crime.
The League of Writers of Russia is
sued an appeal to the country to avert
massacres of Jews, which it is charged
are plotted by officials for the Easter
tide.
Representative Byrd, of Mississippi,
introduced a bill placing meats on the
free list, believing that this would re-
duce the price to the consumer.
The Christian Herald sent another
check for $4,000 to the state depart
ment through the Red Cross for trans
initial to Japan for the relief of fam
inc sufferers. This makes the total re-
mittance from this source $125,000.
Isaac Winder, a negro, executed at
Towson, Nd, made desperate fight
for life on the gallows while crowd
of 1000 looked on.
Joseph A. Turney, note teller of the
National Bank of North America, was
arraigned in police court in New York
on the charge of stealing $4,000.
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
! & St Louis Chg Four railroad issued
general order to confiscate all coal in
transit on all its lines.
Justice Bowling, in the New York
supreme court, granted the application
made by District Attorney Jerome fol
a special grand jury to investigate in.
surance matters.
George Barney and George Isock
were burned to death while fighting q
fire at the Dodge colliery at Scranton
Pa.
The Iowa senate, by vote of AZ to