River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21

missouri, cOmm1LLeQ SUICIDE at the
Midland hotel in Kansas City, leaving
no message to explain his action.
There was no evidence that the af-
fairs of the Bank of Albany were in
volved in the tragedy.
Charles Tracy Barney, the deposed
president of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company of New York, and until re-
Gently a power in the financial world,
shot and killed himself. The deed was
attributed to dependency over the
loss of his large fortune and high
business standing.
Bankers and merchants in session
at Sioux City, Ia, adopted system of
grain checks which it was agreed
should be accepted as currency. The
Merchants National bank of Portland,
Ore; the California bank of Oakland,
CAL; the Farmers and Merchants
bank of Sapulpa, /. T., and the Ravens
wood Exchange bank in a Chicago
suburb suspended. The Royal Motor
Car company of Cleveland. o., and the
Gary wholesale grocery house OF
Selma, Ala, went into the hands OF
receivers.
Secretary Cortelyou made the an
nouncement that as means OF al
fording relief to the financial situation
the treasury would issue $50,000,000 of
Panama bonds, and $100,000,000 GER
tificates Of Indebtedness, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary. The
certificates will run for one year and
will bear three per cent. interest.
Prince Charles of Bourbon was mar
ried to Princess Louise of France at
Wood Norton, England, in the pres
ence of about 40 members of royal
families.
Charles H. Seitz. formerly general
manager of the Michigan Telephone
company at Detroit, died in Chicago
from pneumonia.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, the Milwau-
kee woman burglar, was sentenced to
the Joliet penitentiary for an in
determinate period of from one to
twenty years by Judge Brentano OF
Chicago on her plea of guilty to the
charge of burglary.
Louis H. Krehl, a young civil en-
gineer on the Rock Island railroad,
shot himself in the head at Topeka,
Kan.
The $22, 900 worth of pay checks for
the miners of the Carbon Coal & Coke
company, which were lost from the
stage that runs between Longsdale
and Cokedale, Col, were found by
boys and returned to the company.
]. Balm, a stock broker of Ham
burg and a brother of Albert Balm,
director general of the Hamburg-Amer-
lean Steamship line, committed sui
eide.
Alexander Fries, head of the firm
of Alexander Fries e Bro, New York
and Cincinnati, and one of the most
eminent chemists of the country, died
in Cincinnati.
Harry Waters and his son Walter
were struck by the fast mail train on
the Vandalia and instantly killed at
the village of Almeda, Ind.
The safe in the post office at Seneca,
S. c., was blown open and $500 In
stamps and 5000 in currency taken.
The Endorsement of William H. Taft
for the presidency, and demand for
home rule were the salient features
of the platform reported to the Alas
kan Republican convention.
William Wilcox, former superin-
tendent of the municipal lighting plant
of Columbus, O., was found guilty by
jury on the charge of defrauding the
city out of $1,170.
A fatal wreck occurred on the Mis-
souri, River G Northwestern railroad
between Mystic, S. D., and Rapid City.
An extra engine and three cars, one
filled with passengers, plunged into
Rapid creek, where a bridge had
burned. Fireman Martin was pinned
under the engine and died.
The fiscal year for the state of
Ohio closed with a cash balance in
the treasury of $5.0S1, S5095, an in
crease of $685. SIT compared with the
previous year, which was a record
breaker for revenues.
While running at the rate of so
miles an hour, westbound train No. Is
on the Wabash road jumped the track
near Dillon, Laporte county, Ind. Four
passengers and three trainmen were
seriously injured and scores of pas
sengers slightly hurt.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi was
prevailed upon to take ride in Bald
wins airship at Jackson, Miss. Ten
feet above the ground was the limit
and the trip was very short.
John G. Jeans, a day laborer of
Ludington, Mich, has been bequeathed
$1,000,000 by his aunt, Anna T. Jeans
of Philadelphia.
William E. Shiebler, the telegraph
operator who received the first mes
sage over the Atlantic cable. sent to
President Buchanan by Queen Vic
toria, died in Brooklyn.
One man was blown to pieces and
property loss of $4,000 resulted when
two tons of powder in the grinding
and storage room of the plant of the
Pittsburg Fulminite company, near
Zelienople, Pa, exploded.
Eight persons, nearly all trainmen.
were killed in a Canadian Pacific
wreck at Chalk river, near the Cana
dian Sault.
The board of trustees of the Cath
Ollie University of America at a meet.
ing in Washington placed the seal
of disapproval on so-called modern.