River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-07
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Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the PerusaI of the
Busy Man.

again. The need Of currency to move
the cotton crop developed in the soutn
and committee from New Orleans
conferred with Secretary Cortelyou.
The California Safe Deposit & Trust
companys bank in San Francisco
closed but was believed to be solvent.
Bankers in the state of Washington
ignored the holiday proclaimed by the
governor
Indications that the available sup
ply of cash would be materially IN
creased within a short time, both by
imports of gold and the increase o.
the bank note circulation, and thaC
the movement Of cotton and gram
crops would be facilitated in every
way possible with the result OF IN
creasing our credits abroad, were the
salient features of the financial sltua-
ton.
Relief from monetary stringency
can only be secured by a system OF
credit currency which shall meet the
requirements of trade and be re-
deemable in gold, according to Con
gresham Charles Fowler of New Jer-
sey, chairman of the banking and
currency committee of the house.
AS a result of the murder Of Tom
THOMPSON, assistant chief Of police at
Talladega, Ala, Fred Singleton,
negro. was riddled with bullets by
posse.
lone highwayman armed with
knife entered five hotels in Prescott,
Ariz., fatally wounded one of the
guests who offered resistance, and
made his escape after robbing score
of people.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Grand Rapids (Mich) Clock and Man
tel company The loss is $4,000.
Joseph Walker, a United States Sc
cret service man, was shot and in
stantly killed by an employe OF the
Hesperus mine, located several miles
west of Durango, Col.
Rattle Ruffano and his wife An
tonette were murdered in Garfield, n.
j., by unknown persons.
Rev Daniel r. Lucas, national fig
ure in religious and G. A. r. circles,
died suddenly at his home in Indianap-
oils.
Homer H. Green, president of the
Bloomington Business Mems associa-
ton, and one of the best-known resi-
dents Of that city, died suddenly. He
was past grand commander of the
Knights Templar of Illinois.
Capt Edward j. Lewis, aged 49, died
at Bloomington, Ill. He was pioneer
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postmaster at Normal, ILL.,, for eight
years, and commanded a company in
the Thirty-third regiment, Illinois vol
unteers, during the civil war.
Albert Trostel, among the best
known tanners of the United States,
died in Milwaukee.
Three trainmen were killed in
collision between two freights on the
Baltimore & Ohio road on the Gran
berry grade in West Virginia One
man was killed and two others were
injured by the wrecking of the Quaker
City flyer on the Jersey Central rail
road about half a mile north of Pitt
ston, Pa. Three men were killed
and nine severely injured in a col
a freight on the Queen & Crescent
near Morganville, Ga. An Alabama
Great Southern passenger train
crashed into a freight, two men being
killed and seven hurt.
Lieut.. Gov. Jared Y. Sanders, of
Louisiana, having refused to fight
duel with him, Donelson Cafferey of
that state, son of the late Senator
Cafferey, covered the billboards Of
New Orleans with huge posters in
which he calls Sanders "a common
liar and poltroon."
Jefferson Polk, president of the
Des Moines street railway, an in
terurban magnate and multi-million-
aire, died at his home in Des Moines.
John Sweeney, a married man, 35
years old, narrowly escaped being
lynched by mob at Marietta, o., for
an assault on Anna Koon, 14-year-
old girl.
Isaac Surratt, whose mother was
executed for completely in the assas-
sination of Abraham Lincoln, died in
Baltimore, aged &c years.
Hugh B. Ely, superintendent of the
insurance department of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad company 25 years, died
at his home in Beverly, n. ].
John d. Rockefeller is reported to
have cornered all available laborers
in the Tarrytown district to work on
his new home on Pocantico hill.
Elmer H. Dearth, former Minneap-
oils insurance commissioner, who was
indicted by the grand jury on a charge
of accepting bride from W. F. Bech-
tel, former president of a Minneapolis
life insurance company, was acquitted
of the charge in the district court at
Minneapolis.
Raymond Hitchcock, indicted in
New York for alleged misconduct with
three little girls, disappeared and the
district attorneys men say that he
either has fed to Europe or has COM
mitted suicide. His wife, known on
the stage as Flora Zabelle, says she
thinks he has been murdered.
The pope communicated Father
Tyrell and other critics of his en-
cyclical on modernism.
Nearly 5000 Chinese arrived at the
port of Salina Cruise, Mex, on their
way to the United States, where they
are under the impression they will be