River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30

at the highest mark they have ever
reached, the total being s707, 900.
Hearing of the plea of the three
trustees of the estate of Mrs. Eddy to
be substituted for the next friends"
as plaintiffs in the suit over her prop
erty was begun in Concord, n. H.
Presbyterian general assembly urg-
ed the churches to lead the way for
further reforms in marriage and di-
vorce. A speaker said the marriage
of William E. Corey has aroused pub
lie sentiment to g demand for better
conditions.
big" Hawley, who is suing Howard
Gould for $250,000 declares that the
millionaire offered his wife $1,000,000
to get an absolute divorce.
Jewel thefts of J. Edward Boeck,
disappeared from New York, May 10,
approximate $1,000,000.
Mrs. William Mckinley, widow of
the late president, was stricken with
paralysis at her home in Canton, o.,
and her physicians hold out no hope
for her recovery.
Railroad Gazette in New York de-
corporation, actuated by greed for
profits, deliberately turns out imper-
feet rails, which break and cost many
human lives.
The will of Orrin w. Potter, filed for
probate at Chicago, discloses that the
estate is worth $75O,00O, instead of
several millions.
Third explosion of ammonia in the
Armour plant at Chicago killed five
and stif1ed II others, bringing the to-
tai fatalities for the three accidents
to 20.
The home at Mount Pleasant, Ia,
of the late James Harlan, once Unit
ed States senator, has been presented
to Iowa Wesleyan university at Mount
Pleasant, by Mrs. Robert Lincoln, OF
Chicago daughter of Senator Harlan.
The drought in northern Nebraska
and southern South Dakota was
broken May %.
Rain in measurable quantities fell
at Sioux City for the first time this
spring and was going throughout
northwestern Iowa, the Dakotas at the
same time reporting scattering show
ers.
The commissioner of the general
lind office has ordered an examiner
of surveys to go upon the Yakima res
ervation and proceed with the inspec-
ton of such surveys as are ready for
examination.
The fifth international Sunday
school convention ended at Rome,
Italy, after a speech by the Rev. B. B.
Tyler, of Minnesota.
Presbyterian general assembly at
Columbus, o.. settled the temperance
controversy by indorsing the Anti-Sa-
loon league and forbidding committee
on temperance to engage in political
work.
The Red Cross has formally an
nounced that it will no longer receive
contributions of money or provisions
for the relief of the Chinese famine
sufferers, the famine having been
broken by the ripening of the new
crops.
Train wreckers at West Glendale,
Cal, pulled rails from under the
Southern Pacific coast line flyer, kill
ing two men and injuring % other
persons.
Sleeper of Chesapeake & Ohio flyer
was derailed in Kentucky. One killed,
20 injured.
Nicholas Murray Butler urged that
the question Of disarmament be avoid
ed at the Lake Mohonk conference on
international arbitration and suggest
ed instead that the restriction of fur
Their growth of great armies be advo-
Gated
Secretary Straus, in speech before
Manufacturers association, urged
larger share for labor in prosperity
and drastic publicity" for corpora
lions.
Chicago & Alton train was mar
rowly saved by the station agent at
Lemont from going through a bridge
wrecked by the food.
The National Manufacturers asso-
citation passed resolution favoring
tariff revision and more reciprocity
treaties.
Secretary Cortelyou, in addressing
postoffice officials. said he placed fit
ness and merit above party service as
a recommendation for office.
President w. E. Corey, asked to va
cate his job with the steel trust,
dumped his stock in order to depress
the market.
T. P. O'Connor, in an address to the
United Irish League of Great Britain,
declared that the defeat of the Irish
bill will result in renewed efforts for
the cause.
Evansville street car strikers lost
their fight, the company being able to
run all it's cars.
Deposed school trustees of Chicago
gained partial victory when Presi-
dent Ritter declared a quorum present
at a board meeting. Executive then
sends in his resignation.
Railroad officials presented argu-
ments before Gov. Deneen urging the
repeal of the two-cent fare bill.
One man was killed, seven fatally in
jured and 10 others received minor
hurts and bruises in a wreck on the
Panhandle railroad at Holidays
Cove, w. Va, near Steubenville, o.
A negro and his mother were
lynched and three other persons killed
and seven injured in fight in Georgia
on account of the ATTEMPT of a negro,