River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-02-14

| two-cent rate bill.
Col. w. Warder, poet, novelist and
builder of the Kansas City Auditori-
UNI, is dead.
Congressman-elect George X. Fav-
rot was indicted at Baton Rouge, La,
for the murder of DR.. Harry Aldrich.
Smiley N. Chambers, who was fed
eral district attorney for Indiana dur
| ing President Harrison's administers
ton, died in Indianapolis.
James Stillman, president of the
National City bank, New York, is Sc
riously i'll in Paris.
Three Cinnamon we're convicted in
Philadelphia of numbering another
oriental.
Rear Admiral William w. Mead was
retired on account of age.
Fred G. Gilman, the Goodland Qnd.)
banker who was arrested for embez-
element, was sentenced to the Indiana
state prison for a term of one to three
years.
John d. Rockefeller announced .
gift of $32,000,000 in income-bearing
securities to the general education
board. He had previously given the
board $11,000,O00.
Three men were killed and four
badly injured when the Great West
ern Omaha fast mail jumped the
track at German Valley, Ill.
Pittsburg citizens were forced to- so
to bed to keep warm, the temperature
being very low and the natural gas
supply short
BY a party vote of 20 to IL the
Jim Crow bill was passed in the
Missouri senate.
Edinburg, N. D., appealed to the in
terstate commerce commission. say
ing it was in urgent need of fuel and
food supplies and had had no mail
trains in three weeks.
Thomas Lowry, president of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Ste. Marie
railroad, donated $4,000 to the Lom-
bard Universalist college at Gales
burg, ILL., This completed an endow-
ment fund of 100000.
The house committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia made a favorable
report on the Murphy bill which
makes it unlawful to either give or
receive tips in any hotel or eating
house in the District of Columbia.
Troops and gendarmes participated
in the expulsion of the students from
a seminary at Nice, France.
j. W. Simpson, the dentist of Riv-
erhead, L. l., was acquitted of the
murder of his father-in-law.
Six Japanese were drowned at Sac
ramento, CAL, when a gasoline launch
struck the draw of the railroad bridge
across the Sacramento river and cgD-
sized.
In high quarters in Stockholm the
statement is made that King Oscar in
tends to abdicate in favor of Crown
Prince Gustaf June 6.
Eight employees of the Insurance
Stove, Range & Foundry company,
Covington and Cincinnati, were terri
bly, burned by a shower of molten
iron, following a gas explosion.
John M. Egan, president of the
Union Depot company of Kansas City,
has resigned his position, to which
salary of $4,000 was attached, and
has accepted a position with a South
American railroad company.
Fifteen woodcutters were over
whelmed by an avalanche in the Mus
eel district of the Pennsylvania noun
tains, Roumania. All the men were
dead when they we're dug out of the
snow.
~. In Tor
ris died at his home in Bridgewater,
Mass, aged SO years. He was known
as the father of the new navy"
Rt. Hon. George ]. Goshen wis
count Goshen), former chancellor OF
the exchequer, died in England.
Preston H. Leslie died at his home
in Helena, Mont, aged SO years He
had been governor of Kentucky and OF
the territory of Montana.
An unknown three-maSted schooner
was lost with all hands on the Dia-
mond shoals off Cape Hatteras.
1t was reported that John F. Stew
ems, chief engineer of the Panama
canal, threatened to resign if the gov
eminent decides to build the canal by
contract.
The London Pilgrims gave fare
well banquet to James Bryce, new am
bassador of Great Britain to the Unit
ed States.
Senator Richard w. Morgan was ex-
PEELED from the Colorado senate for ac-
cepting bride.
France conferred on Edward P. AL
lis, Jr., of Milwaukee, the knighthoOd
of the Legion of Honor for his re-
searches in science.
Frank P. Nantz, of the firm of
Lane & Nantz, Minneapolis lawyers,
has been appointed collector of rev.
enue of Porto Rico, with headquarters
at San Juan, at salary of $4,000 per
year.
The Gloucester schooner Gleason
rammed a liner on the Newfoundland
banks, smashing her own bow, and
her crew of Is was rescued by the
steamer.
Prof. William c. Pickett, one of the
best known medical authorities in
the United States on nervous dis
eases and a member of the faculty of
the Medico-C hirurgical college of
Philadelphia, is dead.
In a sensational speech before a
state senate committee at Lincoln,
Neb., Senator Patrick (fusionist), of
Sarpy county, accused the brewery