River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-23


express wagon at Prairie avenue and
Twenty-third street, Chicago.
Students of the Morgan Park, ILL.,,
academy satirize John d. Rockefeller
in retaliation for schools discontinue
ance because of the withdrawal OF
his support.
James Carter, returning to Brook
Ign after Is years in prison, found his
fancee, who had waited for him so
long, about to wed another, tore up
| her wedding dress and wrecked her
house.
Orrin w. Potter, old resident of Chi
cago, died at his home in Lake Shore
drive after brief illness.
Chicago Norwegians celebrated the
ninety-third anniversary of the indie
pendence of their native land.
Mrs. Mary Yerkes-Mizner, widow of
| Charles T. Yerkes, was granted an
interlocutory decree of divorce from
her young California husband.
Abraham Ruef told the San Fran.
cisco grand jury the story of the
Parkside trolley franchise, for which,
it is said, brides aggregating 100000
were promised
Frustrated by the storm of criticism
aimed at her husband because he per-
formed the Corey-Gilman wedding
ceremony, Mrs. John l.. Clark, of
Brooklyn, took to her bed, and her
husband disappeared.
Gen. Kuroki was the guest of honor
at a notable banquet in New York at
which Admiral Dewey presided and
Secretary Straus spoke.
A new movement for Sunday OBJ
servance is started by the Presby-
terrain general assembly at Columbus,
Ohio.
State Chairman Brown declared that
the sentiment for Taft in Ohio is so
strong that opposition by Foraker and
Dick will result in demand for popular
convention.
Frisco's street railway magnate de-
MED 100000 bribe; said Abe Ruef's
story was part of conspiracy by rivals.
Counsel filed afidavits in Eddy suit
preparatory to equity hearing.
j. Edward Addicks has been or
dered by court to pay up $89O,OOO he
got in Bay State gas deal.
The douma is eager to aid popular
education and factions harmonized in
debate on the subject.
Cossacks killed 81 innocent men at
LODI in connection with robbery
Mrs Potter Palmer declined an
offer of marriage from the king of
Servia, according to Paris reports.
A new plot is thought to exist
among Russian officials to depose the
car
President Roosevelt left Washing
ton for a short vacation at his Wife's
country home near Pine Knot, Va.
A plan for union of all Reformed
Presbyterian churches in the United
States was approved by general as
sembly meeting at, Columbus, o.
Gov. Hughes, of New York, was
elected president of the new Baptist
central organization.
The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock
at Madison, Wis, was finally broken
by the nomination of the Republican
Stephenson, of Marinette.
A violent eruption of the Strom-
boil volcano occurred May 16. 1t was
preceded by tremendous defamation
and followed by continuous eXplo-
sions, which, however, were less VIC
lent The residents Whereabouts are
greatly alarmed.
Frank A. Bretherton, aged 40, a
salesman employed by the Edgar
Packing company, of Des Moines, Ia,
committed suicide in the station of
the Pennsylvania railroad in Philadel-
phia by shooting himself in the tenn
| pie. The reason for his action was
that his business kept him away from
his wife so much.
A verdict was returned at Cincin-
natl against Col. c. J. Bronson, of Lex
| ington, KY, in a suit to recover $780,
600 lost in dealings in stocks through
Morehead e Co., local brokers. Bron-
son claimed that the method of dealing
was in fact, gambling and was there
fore illegal and he sued to recover.
William F. Riley, of the Chicago &
Northwestern road, headquarters in
| Chicago, was unanimously elected
! president of the Railroad Association
of Special Agents and Police of the
United States and Canada at the clos
| ing session of the convention.
The federal grand jury at Denver
has returned indictments against II
men charged with land frauds. Judge
r. E. Lewis ordered warrants issued
| for their arrest. Most of the warrants
must be served out of town, and until
the arrests are made, no names will
| be given for publication. Bail was set
at $4,000 in each instance.
Sims NJ. Gilmore, farmer, who
was shot at Jonesville, S. c., by his
neighbor, James w. Callahan, follow
ing a quarrel, died.
The Rev. John Lewis Clark, pastor
of Bushwick Avenue Congregational
church, New York, admitted to the
| trustees and deacons of his church
that he had committed wrong in
| marrying William Ellis Corey and
Mabelle Gilman and begged forgive
ness of his church He said he has
returned Corey's fee. which is stated
| to have been $1,000. The trustees
| consented to forgive the minister
The sheriff destroyed $4,000 worth
| of liquor in the street at Independ'
ence, Kan. The liquor was seized some
time ago from saloons in the county