River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS.


The government rejected the Pan
anna canal bid of Oliver C Bangs, but
told Mr.. Oliver that he would be
given the contract If he would associ-
ate himself with another satisfactory
contractor
Attorney General Young, of Mime
sofa, made another attack on the
Great Northern railway by beginning
quo warranto proceedings to compel
the ST. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railroad company to show cause why
its charter should not be forfeited.
This company is. really the parent of
the Great Northern Railway company,
and the Great Northern was joined in
this issue, as it is the owner Of the
Manitoba company's stock.
The German government won def
mite victory in the general election for
a new reichstag. The liberal, radical
and conservative parties, supporting
Prince Won Buelow's colonial policy,
won at least 20 seats and the socialists
lost II or Is seats.
DIR. Augustus ". L. Brokaw, aged
Al, one of the most prominent sur
geons in ST. Louis and having national
repute, died from ptomaine poison
ing.
Editor James H. Mccartney, of the
Hillsdale Qll) Post, and Frank A.
Walker, of the same place, were ar
rested by United States officers for
classifying rural free delivery examina-
ton papers.
People living near Sandford, Ind,
asserted that a meteor caused the ex-
plosion of the powder car at that town
that wrecked train and killed many
people.
Peter Schlef, of Detroit, shot and
killed his wife as she lay asleep in bed
and then fired a bullet into his own
breast.
The Montana senate defeated anti
pass and anti-gambling bills.
f. A. Sterling, formerly assistant
forester in the department of agricul-
ture at Washington, was appointed
forester of the Pennsylvania railroad.
A commission appointed by the Gu
ban government has turned in a re-
port to the effect that Dr. Matias
Duque probably has discovered cure
for leprosy.
Senator Platt's wife sued two Wash
ington papers for 100000 libel.
Admiral Beranger, former Spanish
minister of marine, died suddenly.
Advices received at Antwerp say
yanga in the Kongo Free State and
additional troops have been asked for.
Two hundred men forced the ring
ing down of the curtain at Victoria
theater, New York, when the Russell
brothers put on an act ridiculing the
Irish race.
Several cargoes of coal are on the
way from Japan to Tacoma, Wash, to
relieve the fuel famine in the far west.
The Colorado senate ordered an in
vestigation of Senator Morgan's charge
that he was bribed two years ago by a
railway.
The Arkansas house of representa-
tives refused to indorse President
Roosevelt's action in the Brownsville
affair
Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas suf-
fered physical collapse and will be
confined to his home for several
weeks.
The Wabash river levee at Terre
Haute broke and the suburb of Taylor
vile was flooded, hundreds of people
being driven from their homes.
Indianapolis was selected as the
next meeting place of the convention
of the United Mine Workers in Janu-
airy, 1908. Thomas Burke, of Illinois,
and Patrick Gilday. of Pennsylvania,
were elected delegates to the interna-
tional congress, which will be held
next summer in Salzburg, Austria.
Republican legislators of New Jer-
sey renominated Senator Dryden, and
in Iowa Senator Dolliver was renomi-
mated.
Rev. W. P. McClaufin of Minneapo-
lis, was elected general Superintend-
ent of the Universalist church, the
highest position in the denomination.