Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-10-25
GOVERNMENT ACTS
TO FREE WALL|NGS.
AMERICAN EMBASSY PROBES AR
REST OF AMERICANS BY PO-
LICE OF CAR.
CUSTODY CAUSE Is HIDDEN.
Chicagoan and Wife Are Socialists and
Are Taken with Number OF
Finn Revolutionists.

|. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 21.-The
machinery of the American embassy was
set in motion today to secure the re-
lease of William English Walling OF
Indianapolis, his wife, Anna, and his
sister-in-law, Miss Rose Strunsky, who
were arrested at the Hotel De France
here last night because of their assocla-
ton with members of the Finnish pro-
gressive party, four of whom, including
the wife of Prof. Malmburg OF Helslng-
fors university, were taken into custody
at the same time.
May Be Released at Once.
Attaches of the embassy visited the
prefecture of police and the headquarters
of the secret police in endeavors to learn
the nature of the charges against the
American prisoners and to see whether
they were comfortably treated. The
Wallings probably will be released on
condition of their leaving Russia, but the
examination of the books, manuscripts,
and other documents seized by the police
when the Wallings were taken into Gus
tody, may delay the release OF the prls-
oners for a few days.
The police accuse Mr.. Walling with
furnishing financial aid to the revolu-
tionary movement, but that is not the
charge on which he and the other mem
bers of the party were arrested last
night.
Root Is Quick to Act.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 21.-Sec-
rotary Root today cabled Mr.. Schuyler,
charge at the American embassy at St
Petersburg regarding the case of William
English Walling, the American who was
arrested there yesterday with members
of his family for association with the
Finnish progressive party. The secre..
tary's message was q short statement OF
the appeal upon which the American EN-
bassy was expected to act for the relief
of the persons arrested so far as seemed
proper, and was prompted by telegram
dated Indianapolis, from William &.
English, an uncle of Mr.. Walling. The
telegram contained a brief summary Of
the facts concerning the arrest as sent
out in the press dispatches.
Walling's Career in Illinois.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 21.-William
hngish Walling; who is 80 years OLD Is
Drexel boulevard, and brother of Will
loughby G.. Walling, secretary of the
Western Trust and Savings bank Of this
city. He is a grandson of the late Viii
liam English of Indianapolis. Both he
and his wife, whose maiden name was
Anna Strunsky, are widely known, prin-
cipally through their literary work in
connection with Russian revolution.
Mr.. Walling was arrested in the Rus
sian capital in January, 1906, because OF
his alleged interest in the revolutionary
movement, but was released soon after
wards.
He was graduated from the University
of Chicago in 1897 and was elected to
the honorary fraternity of the Phi Beta
Kappa. He also was a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He
was state factory inspector under Gov.
Tanner. He is known as an ardent
Socialist and is considered an authority
on economic questions.
Wife Also Socialist.
His wife is a Jewess of striking beau
ty. She became known to fame several
London in '"The Kempton Mace Let
ters." She was born in Russia. Mrs.
Walling's education was received in this
country, but her sympathies ever turned
back to the oppression of her race i'll
Russia. She studied sociological and
veloping decidedly Socialistic turn of
mind. While in that city she lived at
Whittier hall, the Columbia university
dormitory for women.
1t was while she was in st. Petersburg
on a journalistic errand connected with
ago that she met Mr.. Walling, who was
travelling in Europe to study the immi-
grafton problems.
Although they never had met in Ameri-
ca they became acquainted as fellow
workers in the Russian capital. Their
common aims and sympathies soon
ripened into love and in June, 1906, their
enga cement was announced. Their mar
riage in Paris soon followed.
In December following their marriage
Mr.. and Mrs. Walling returned to Amer
lea and paid his parents here visit
Later they returned to Europe to pursue
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