River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29

the small manufacturer and the re-
taller, and heartlessly drives him
into bankruptcy"
Information has come from Rome
that Pope Plus x. has bestowed the
title of countess on Mrs. Thomas F.
Ryan, wife of the well-known finan-
cier, in recognition of her charities
and benefactions to the church.
Advices from Macon, Ca, state that
John F. Gaynor, the Syracuse con-
tractor, who was convicted of COM
plicity in the Savannah frauds, is
critically i'll.
The forest fires which broke out
August IL in the neighborhood of the
forts at Toulon, France, have again
become menacing. A large force OF
colonial infantry is engaged in Tight
| ing the flames.
Announcement was made that the
heads of the Interborough Metropoli-
tan company, the traction combina-
| ton in New York, have refused to
open their books to the public-service
commission.
| Evander McIver, a wealthy con-
tractor of Chicago, was found dead
| in basement, and is believed to have
been murdered.
| Fred Kersters, aged II, was burned
| to death in a fire that destroyed his
home at La Crosse, Wis.
Robert E. Bundy has begun a quo
warranto action in the circuit court or
| Pepin county, Wisconsin, to remove
4 ch the
| from Office on the ground that Sheriff
| Taylor was a deserter from the
United States military service on two
occasions, once in 1852 and again in
| 1863
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer,
has leased 100000 acres of grazing
land in the Standing Rock reserva-
ton, South Dakota, comprising one of
| the finest cattle tracts in the north
west.
| A receiver was appointed for the
big wholesale grocery firm of E. G.
Hazard & Co., of New York, with Ii
abilities placed at 100000.
Della Fox, the coincidence, is seri-
ously i'll at the Hotel Lincoln in Pitts
burg of appendicitis and peritonltis.
All her engagements have been can
| ceIed.
| Central Illinois distillers paid into
the collectors Office at Peoria during
the fiscal year ended July 1 more than
| S35 900, 900, an average daily collec-
ton of 100000.
Sensational disclosures, involving
| padding of accounts to the extent of
| hundreds of thousands of dollars by
the Interborough company, headed by
| August Belmont, were made by the
| New York public service commission.
! The Nebraska railway commission
rescinded it's action advancing the
minimum charge on small shipments
on the Burlington from 25 cents to 80
! cents
William H. Edwards, aged so, of
Utica, NJ Y, who was lost in the
Adirondack woods Aug. II, was found
in a pitiful plight. He had been living
on berries and roots.
Corporal James A. McLain, Jr., an
army recruiting officer, committed
suicide at a hotel at Rutland, VT, by
drinking carbolic acid.
Moors made an advance on the
| French camp under cover of fog,
| but the fog lifted and the fanatics
were driven back with heavy losses.
William W. Prosser, 1921 West
Belle street, st. Louis, city passenger
agent of the Clover Leaf route, died at
La Porte, Ind, while visiting rela-
| tives.
The empress of Germany fell and
sprained her ankle and injured a vein
in her left leg.
Frau Frances Won Bredow, daughter
of Senator Francis G. Newlands, of
Nevada, and wife of Lieut.. Leopold
Won Bredow of the Cuirassiers of the
| Guard, died in Berlin.
| James M. Shumaker, former super
intendent of public buildings and
grounds at Harrisburg, Pa, and impli-
Gated by the report of the capitol in
vestigation commission, has declared
| that he will make full confession of
all he knows in connection with the
capitol graft scandal. He says the
manipulation of funds was engineered
by high official of the state at Har-
risburg to cover up shortage of the
| state treasury.
For two hours a mob of patients at
the state hospital for the criminal in
sane in Dannemora, N. Y, stood off
/ their guards while others made des-
perate attempt to force an exit from
the building. Not until one of the mad
men had been shot and killed, and
the guards reinforced by less violent
inmates and villagers was the out
break suppressed.
Drivers and stablemen employed at
the wholesale beef packing houses of
New York went on strike. They de-
mand uniform working week of 60
hours and an increase in wages.
| A. d. Berg, of the Second Washing
ton regiment, won the presidents
match at Camp Perry, O., and thereby
also won the individual rifle shooting
championship of America.
Attorney General Bonaparte has de-
cided that natives of British India are
ineligible to citizenship, not being
white
Mrs. Frances Horner, aged 67 years,
wife of Edward Horner, a farmer on
the Browning road. near Merchant
vile, N. j., and Mrs. Victoria Napoli,