River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-21


ly organized with a capital of $1,000
00O Daniel N. Morgan, former Unit
ed States treasurer, is president.
The Congregation of the Inquisition
renewed the order of excommunica-
ton against Archbishop Vilatte, head
of the French Apostolic Catholic
church.
Accusing Miss Dudez Dobson, his
17-year-old sweetheart, on the main
street of Pointe Ia Hache, La, Whit
ney Molieres young planter, asked
her to marry him and upon being re-
fused shot and killed the girl and him.
self.
Mrs Joseph Hamill of Hancock,
Mich, was beaten to death by her in
sane son.
Former Assistant Attorney General
of the United States ]. Hubley Ash
ton died at his residence in Washing
ton. He was considered an authority
on international law
Bryan, talking in Boston, asserted
that, but for the purchased and intim-
idated vote, he would have been elect
ed in 1896 by an Overwhelming ma
jority.
Venezuela announced that it would
be represented in The Hague confer
ence
A mob of so men at Monroe, La,
hanged two negroes who were in Jail
for robbing two Italians.
Dutch troops in the island of Cele-
bes captured an important rebel
stronghold after a stubborn fight.
Wages of 500 employees of the Dia-
mond Match company of Oswego N.
Y, will be increased ten per cent. on
April l.
Wall street was in a virtual panic,
the selling being very heavy and
stocks reaching a low level for the
year Secretary of the Treasury Cor
telyou relieved the situation by offer
ing to redeem the four per cent. bonds
that mature July 1.
President Roosevelt issued an exec
utive order directing that Japanese or
Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled,
who have received passports to go to
Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and to
come therefrom, be refused permits
sion to enter the continental territory
of the United States. In San Fran
cisco Japanese children were readmit-
ted to the schools.
Probably all the bodies of those
killed by the explosion on the French
battleship lena were recovered and
the number of dead was given as 103.
1t was found necessary to flood and
explode the remaining magazines on
the vessel.
During torpedo exercises off Brest
the French warship Fulminant was
torpedoed and was towed into port in
sinking condition.
Three of the men indicted by the
grand jury at Columbus, o., for accept
ing and giving brides in connection
with the Broad street paving pleaded
guilty and were fined.
BY unanimous vote the 500 strik-
ing union employees of the Louisville
Railway company decided to accept
the terms agreed upon by their exec
utive committee and the officers of
the company and returned to work.
ed Edward w. Gardner at billiards in
New York and won the national anna
teur championship at 14.2 balk line.
Despondent because she feared she
was losing her eyesight, Mrs. Mary
Ollinger, 81 years of age, committed
suicide in ST. Louis by pouring kero-
sene upon her clothing and igniting it.
Francis l.. Pratt, formerly of Cam
bridge, Mass, where he was friend
of the poets Longfellow and Lowell,
dropped dead at Pomona, Cal.
The threatened contest in the will
of count John A. Creighton, the phil
anthropist, was settled at Omaha by
the contesting relatives of Count
Creighton being given $4,000 by
those to whom requests were made.
Russian robbers looted an estate
near Yelisavetgrad and murdered
seven persons.
The supreme court at San Francisco
denied the writs of habeas corpus ap-
piled for by Mayor Schmitz and Abra-
ham Ruef on the ground of alleged il
legality of the grand jury.
Two trainmen were killed when
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passen-
ger train was ditched near James
town, o.
Jurors Williams and Connery at
Paris, ILL.,, lost SIS in fees which were
due them because they spent night
in drinking instead of celebrating
with the jury. Judge Thompson fined
them the SIS.
A jury in Green Bay. Wis, has fixed
the price of toes at $722 each. Will
liam Gussart, who lost three toes
while working for the Greenleaf
Stone company, was awarded $2,166.
Anthracite operators have agreed
to make the usual 50-cent reduction in
the price of prepared coal on April
1, when the new spring schedule will
go into effect.
The volcano on the island of Val
DEE, near Unalaska, was in eruption
and earthquake shocks were felt in
Unalaska.
Paraguay and Bolivia have ratified
the boundary treaty which was signed
in Buenos Ayres, Argentina, January
H.
The San Francisco board of educa-
ton adopted resolutions agreed upon
at the conference with President
Roosevelt at Washington, resembling