River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30

| flares and consul genera: to Mexico,
has received word frovi Sir Chen Tung
Liang Cheng, Chinese minister to the
United States and Mexico, Of the re-
call Of the latter to Picking.
The San Francisco grand jury re-
| turned So indictments against Mayor
Schmitz, Abe Ruef and officials of the
street railway and other companies.
Pupils Of ST. Louis high school have
been ordered to keep their trousers
down and stop wearing loud socks.
Attorneys closed argument in the
preliminary fight to compel an &C
counting by trustees of Mrs. Eddy.
A plot to kill the German emperor
was foiled by the Berlin police.
Thirty-fve Russian anarchist students
were arrested.
An American named Laurie Reynald
was killed in the forest of st. German,
France, by being thrown from his
horse.
Eight persons we're killed and 40
wounded in an Austrian election riot
Police Captain Mclaughlin, of New
vorce case, resigned from the force.
John Burroughs defends President
Roosevelt from the criticisms of Rev.
! William J. Long, whom he terms an
upstart writer.
Senator Pettus says the senate is
acting without power in investigating
the Brownsville affair.
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Guatemala in sentencing 10 alleged
conspirators to death again arouses
Mexico.
The Mohonk conference on arbitra-
ton decided not to recommend inter-
national disarmament to The Hague
conference.
Famine kills 1000 in eastern Rus
STA, and 100000 in one province are
being fed at soup houses.
London socialists welcomed their
brethren from Russia. Englishmen are
urged not to loan money in Russia.
Chicago labor leaders plan great
demonstration July to publicly spurn
socialism and anarchy.
w. F. Walker, absconding treasurer
of a New Britain; Conn, savings bank,
was, it has been learned, passenger
on the steamship Doris on her last
voyage to the Orient He is reported
to have landed at Chinese port and
disappeared
Rev. Joseph Easter, Dunkard
preacher, was called out of his house
III Carroll county, Virginia, and shot
dead He would have been an impor
tant witness in pending cases of illegal
liquor selling
Bands of armed rebels tried to cap
ture Ambato and Latacunga, in Ecua-
dor but we're surprised and disarmed
by detachment of troops from Lata-
cunga. Revolutionary movements are
reported in almost all parts of the
country.
Philip Schwartz, known as the
Duke of Shantytown," who is under
Indictment at Cincinnati for murder in
the first degree for shooting Police
man Satters, paid $3.50 to the widow.
Mrs. Satters had sued for $4,000,
claiming that was the value Of her
husbands service to his family. The
$3.50 was compromise.
Bank Commissioner Smock was mott
fed of the failure of the State bank of
Manitou, Okla, capital $4,000.
The admiralty court at Hamburg
has decided that the wreck of the
Hamburg American line steamer Prin-
zessin Victoria Luce near Kingston,
Jamaica, December 16, was due to
Capt. Brunswigs mistake. The cap
tain committed suicide at the time of
the wreck.
King Carlos has conferred the title
of baron on A. Patterson, manager in
Portugal of the business of the
Standard Oil company, in recognition
of his personal effort to develop COM
mercial relations between Portugal
and the United States.
A great demonstration of the Ulster
unionists unanimously condemned Mr..
Birrell's Irish bill, which was charac-
terized as Settling nothing and unset
Ting everything"
Fearing loss to South Chicago of the
Illinois Steel mills, Senator Clark will
urge a measure which if adopted will
make an inducement to the corpora
ton to retain its plant as at present.
Delegates to the Mohonk interna-
tional arbitration conference discuss
ed plans for spreading the doctrine of
peace in the public schools and col
leges.
Illinois State Medical society ad-
journed at Rockford, electing w. l..
Baum, of Chicago, president.
Judge Gaynor, in an address at Kan
sas City, attacked big gifts, mention
ing $32,000,000 recently given by
Rockefeller.
City administration of New York
has moved against Consolidated Gas
company, declaring its franchises are
expired or worthless.
A conservative tariff revision was
advocated by manufacturers of st.
Louis. Mo-, and Indianapolis, Ind.
EX-Judge Hargis was acquitted of
the Cockrill murder in famous feud
case at Lexington. Ky.
Agrarians of douma are warned by
cars ministry that agitation for forci-
BILE taking of land must cease; govern
ment is ready TO assist peasants in
buying farms.
Fairbanks, Cannon and Knox are
making bids for delegates in the east,
and the presidential race, writes cor
respondent. resolves itself into Taft