River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-04-22

| Armenfans and Christians by Moslems
at Adana, Asiatic Turkey, were re-
ceived. One report said 400 were
| slain.
Democratic senators held confer
ence and decided not to delay the pas
sage of the tariff bill.
Indictments charging the Cudahy
Packing Company with violating the
| oleomargarine laws were returned by
the federal grand jury at Topeka, Kan.
| A sensation was created in Tokyo
when nine members of the Japanese
diet were arrested on charges of &C.
cepting brides.
Joan of Arc, the heroine of France,
was beatifed in St Peters, Rome, in
the presence of many Catholic dig
nitaries.
At banquet in Chicago, alumni of
the University of Michigan honored
| DR.. James B. Angel, the retiring pres.
ident.
The Altoona County Savings bank at
| Altoona, Mich, was robbed by burglars
who blew open the safe and stole
| $4,000.
Cigarette" Baker, who fed from
Indiana when charged with attempt
ing to bride member of the legisla-
ture, returned to Indianapolis and sur
rendered to the sheriff.
Mrs. Marie Bartels of Chicago was
beaten and almost killed by thieves
who looted her apartments in Paris.
Adolphus Busch, president of the
Annheuser Busch Brewing Company
of st. Louis, limited that the company
would move to Illinois if Missouri
votes on statewide prohibition.
Fire in the stockroom of McCurdy
Brothers department store, in Phila-
delphia, caused loss estimated at
$150,000.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray has designated Muskogee, Okla,
as a reserve city, under the national
banking law.
Attorney General Wickersham said
he had not decided whether he can
take action against James A. Patten
and other brokers who have cornered
wheat.
By issuing invitations to tea, Mrs.
James S. Sherman, wife of che vice
president, stirred up the row in the
Daughters of the American Revolution
over the election of a president gen.
eral.
Two men were killed when a nitro
glycerin factory at Gordon, ILL.,, was
blown up. The roar was heard rs
miles away.
roport roooivod in H0pctonfinOn1p
said 5000 Turks, to avenge the MUIR
der of two Moslems, had massacred
many Armenians at Mersina, Asia
Minor.
Former President Roosevelt and his
party arrived at Alden, Arabia, and
went ashore while the Admiral was in
port.
turned white wings" and helped to
clean the streets of floating paper and
debris.
The trial of Joseph B. Kline, mem
Der of a Chicago militia company,
charged with killing Earl Nelson at
Kankakee last summer, was begun at
Paxton, Ill.
bank at Woodlawn, ILL.,, and stole
81, 900
Gov. Carroll signed the bill which
will prohibit Salome dances and i'm
moral shows in Iowa.
Richard C. Hughes, president of
Ripon college at Ripon, Wis, has re-
signed to become farmer.
James Shepard Cabanne, seven
years old, was kidnapped from the
home of his grandmother in st. Louis.
John Barrett, director of the Inter
national Bureau of American Repub-
lies, gave banquet in Washington in
honor of Secretary Knox, chairman,
and other members of the governing
board of the organization.
The Billings bill giving Illinois wom-
en- the right to vote was reported out
of committee with recommendation
that it be passed by the senate, after
several hundred suffragists had
stormed the capitol.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler, successfully defended his
title against Yusiff Mahmout, Turk,
whom he defeated in two straight
falls.
Margaret Clark, supposed to have
been from Brooklyn, and Annie Miller,
whose residence has not been learned,
committed suicide on the liner Lucania
at sea-
The steamer Virginia was wrecked
and sank in the Ohio river at Wells
vile, O., the crew saving the lives of
so panic-stricken passengers.
Harry A. Axtell, former city treasur-
er of Bloomington, Ind, was convicted
of embezzlement.
A report from Mombasa, Africa, said
smallpox has broken out in the district
which former President Theodore
Roosevelt intends to visit.
Gov. Johnson signed the bill which
prohibits the sale or giving away of
cigarettes in Minnesota.
Turkish troops revolted in CONSTANT
nople, stormed parliament and killed
IL persons.
Election of United States senators
by the people is not favored by the
general assembly of Connecticut as it
rejected a bill to that effect by sus.
tanning an unfavorable report.
The police of Danville, Ill.,, arrested
David Reynolds. whom they charged
with plotting to blow up his grandpar-