River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03
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Information Gathered from All Quar-
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Man.

has been investigating the affairs or
the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, returned indictments charging
forgery in the third degree against
George w. Perkins, former vice presi-
dent of the New York Life and
member of the firm of p. Morgan
& Co., and Charles S. Fairchild, for
mer secretary of the treasury, presi-
dent of the New York Security &
Trust company (now out of existence)
and a member of the finance commit
tee of the insurance company.
Alexander j. Cassatt, president OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
and one of the leading financiers OF
America, died suddenly in his resi-
dence in Philadelphia of heart disease
Gen. Litvinoff, governor Of the prov
ince of Akmolinsk, Asiatic Russia,
was assassinated in the streets by two
unknown men.
Raisuli has refused to resign his
governorship Of Tangier, has sent his
harem to the mountains under the
protection Of detachment of Kabyles,
and is preparing to meet the forces
OF War Minister Gabbas at Zinat.
The Spanish fishing steamer Pri-
nero foundered in a storm and all OF
its crew were lost with the exception
of one.
Sixteen persons we're killed and
more than 80 injured in a railway
collision near Arbroath, Scotland,
Wintry weather almost unprecedent-
ed for severity has caused many
deaths and great suffering in Great
Britain and throughout central Eu-
rope.
A verdict declaring invalid the will
of Father Thomas Macklin, Catholic
priest who left an estate worth $780,
600, was set aside by Judge Gest at
Rock Island, ILL.,, on the ground that
the verdict was not in accordance with
the evidence.
Simon A. Sherman, aged SO years,
died at Stevens Point, Wis. He was
known throughout the state as his.
torian of Fox river valley and as a
pioneer lumberman.
Business men of Sonora, Mex, re-
Gently arriving at Phoenix, Ariz., say
that within the last two months 16
Americans have been killed by Yaqui
Indians at one point or another in
Mexico.
Two men were killed and third
SO badly injured that he has since
died, by the explosion of dynamite
which was being thawed at Muskoday
so miles east of Fargo, N. ID.
Secretary Shaw has rejected the
offer of big commercial combination
to become it's treasurer with head
quarters in New York at salary of
100000 a year under a five years
contract.
w. S. Keyes, vice president of the
Humboldt Savings bank, and pion-
eer business man of San Francisco,
was found dead.
A negro wearing a United States
army uniform shot a Chinese laundry
man at El Reno, Okla, and escaped.
Mrs. Russell Sage, widow of the
financier, gave out a statement in
which she declared that it is not her
mention to distribute Immediately
the money left to her by her husband
and much less does she intend to dis
tribute it everywhere and to every
body
Five merchants of Alton, H., were
fined five dollars each for violating
the child labor law.
minister, was murdered at Troy, Tenn.
Emperor William has bestowed on
Hugo Muensterberg, professor of phys
iology at Harvard university, the
crown order of the second class.
Bishop A Coke Smith, of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. south, died at
Asheville, n. G.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand and
family left Washington, Secretaries
Root, Taft and Metcalf, Justice Moody
and more than hundred members of
the diplomatic corps being at the sta
ton to bid them farewell.
The Modern Language Association
of America, in session at Yale univer-
sity, Endorsed simplified spelling.
Col W. D. Mann, editor of Town
Topics, was acquitted by New York
jury of the charge of perjury.
Mrs James G. Blaine, Jr.. formerly
Miss Martha Hichborn, who secured
a divorce in South Dakota several
days ago, announced that she would
soon be married to Paul S. Pearsall,
of New York, lieutenant in the regi-
ment of rough riders during the war
with Spain.
Neil Florence, an actor 45 years old,
was found dead in his room at New
York boarding house The apartment
was filed with Illuminating gas which
was escaping from two open jets.
e. L. Larrimore of Atlanta, Ca, ac-
cidentally shot and killed his niece,
Miss Tymena r. Freeman.
In a head-on-collision at Brookyille,
Ind, between two Big Four freight
trains. Fireman Frank Morris of Nun
Gle, Ind, and Bert Day, a farmer of
Cedar Grove, Ind, who was riding on
one of the engines, were killed, and H.
Beesley, another farmer, was fatally
injured.
A petition has been presented to the
Belgian parliament asking that every
motor vehicle in the country be
burned in one great bonfire before
1908, and the resultant scrap metal
sold for the benefit of those who have
been MANNED or crushed BY automo-