River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-04-11

The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned another indictment against
John r. Walsh, former bank presl-
dent, with IT'S counts charging misap-
pIication of funds.
General managers and trainmen OF
western railroads reached an agree
ment, through the mediation of Com
missioners Knapp and Neill, and the
threatened strike was averted
Former Land Commissioner Binger
Hermann went on the stand and.
while he admitted destroying his
books, he maintained the act was due
to no dishonest motive.
A serious clash occurred during the
strike at the local yards of the Ameri-
can Shipbuilding company during
which a striking riveter, Punk" Con-
ners, was shot by one of the company
detectives.
Mrs Francis Butler, real" daugh-
ter of the American revolution, died
at birmingham, Me-, at the age of "a.
Her daughter is the wife of G. f.
Thwing, president of Western Reserve
university.
An explosion of gas occurred in No.
4 colliery of the International Coal &
Coke company at Coleman, Canada,
and afterdamp caused the death of
three men,
L. J. Marks, prominent citizen of
Chicago, died suddenly at the Hotel
Manhattan, New York. Apoplexy was
given as the cause of death 1t was
stated that Mr.. Marks, with his wife
and son, was on his way to Bermuda.
Constantine, arrested in New York
for the murder of Mrs. Gentry in Chi
cago, declared the woman committed
suicide.
Thirty years in prison was the SEN
tence imposed in New York upon
Folke Engel Brandt, who had pleaded
guilty to burglary in the first degree
in entering the house OF his former
employer, Mortimer L. Schiff, the
| banker.
| Representative and Mrs Nicholas
Longworth expect to spend month
in Alaska the coming summer. They
will leave their home in Cincinnati
about July /.
| Benjamin Thaw, half brother of
Harry K. Thaw, has donated $4,000
to the fund for the proposed new
building for the Western university
of Pennsylvania
Large bodies of troops, including
Dragons and Cossacks, are pouring
into st. Petersburg, as they did pre-
vious TO the dissolution of the first
parliament.
| M. A. Lang. an uncle of Charles
Schwab, was fatally crushed between
cars in the Duquesne steel mills at
Pittsburg.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Redfield State bank at Redfield,
near Fort Scott, Kan, but got little
money.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested for
writing Black Hand letters to prom
| inent families in Havana, Cuba.
The Columbus CO.. Railway and
Light company voluntarily raised the
pay of, its conductors and motormen.
The Mississippi river is flooding the
lowlands about La Crosse, Wis
Myer L. Wilson, aged %, son Of II.
| L. III.
killed himself with a revolver as he
stood on the corner of Eleventh and
Walnut streets, Kansas City.
Emile Grigsby, whom the late
Charles T. Yerkes took from the stage
and made his ward, has settled her
claims against his estate 1t is re-
| ported that she will sail for Europe
worth more than a million dollars
| Thirty firemen, among them Chief
Croker and Deputy Chief Guerin, were
| injured by falling debris, and damage
estimated at $4,000 was caused by
fire in the fve-story building at 159
Maiden lane, New York.
AS a result of the examination Of
the books and accounts of Ferdinand
H. Dudenhefer, state tax collector, by
State Auditor Paul Capdevielle of
Louisiana, it was announced that there
was a shortage of over $4,000.
DR.. and Mrs. Lloyd Garee, who had
been married but one day, were
burned to death in hotel at Sutton,
w. Va.
Bartholomew G. Cavagna. former
teller in the First National bank of
Cincinnati, was indicted by the feder-
al grand jury for the embezzlement of
$4,000, was Immediately arraigned,
pleaded guilty and was given six
years sentence in the Ohio peniten-
tiary. Only three minutes were taken.
Richard H. Lyon, associate editor
of the South Bend Qnd.) Tribune,
with which paper he was connected
for 33 years, died after long illness.
He was 60 years of age.
One person, an Italian, was killed
in hotel fire in San Francisco, and
16 persons were hurt.
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
Hongkong. His home was in st.
Louis.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy issued
personal note saying that she had put
her estate into the hands of trustees
so that she might have more peace
and time for spiritual thought.
Contracts for three years we're
signed by the representatives of the
st. Louis breweries and the striking
employees, and the strike was officially
declared terminated.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Pennsylvania railroad express train
near Tacony, suburb of Philadel.