River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-06-17


Rear Admiral John ]. Hunker, re-
tired, is seriously i'll at his home in
Pasadena, CAL He was for many
years in command of the naval col
lege at Newport, r. I.
A. H. Todd, wholesale fruit dealer
of Des Moines, Ia, was shot and Sc
verely wounded by a peddler in a
quarrel over an account. Moses Ras-
chic, who shot him, killed himself by
taking poison.
Nine mallard ducks have been
Matched in New York city and in a
few days the birds will be ready to
swim. The eggs were brought from
England in an attempt to prove that
wild ducks may be propagated by far
mers.
Joaquin Sorollay Bastiday, Spanish
artist, sailed for France with 100000
of American money. Just five months
ago he arrived in New York with 346
of his own paintings and European
reputation.
The Carnegie Foundation has
awarded an annual pension of 1866 to
Il
vania university, who retires at the
age of So.
Announcement was made that Will
liam J. Bryan will be candidate for
United States senator from Nebraska.
Mrs. Howard Gould began her testi-
mony at the trial of her suit for sep
aration from her husband.
FTl
revolver with which DR.. John t. Blink
ley was killed was purchased in New
York and have dropped the theory of
suicide.
William E. Corey, president of the
steel trust, and Mrs. Corey were
bruised and companion fatally in
jured when they were thrown from an
automobile in France.
The Iowa State Manufacturers as
ISOLATION adopted resolutions Indoors
ing the course of Senators Dolliver
and Cummins in the tariff fight.
William Benker killed himself by
jumping from a hospital window at
Mason City, Ia, after he had cut his
throat.
Chicago trade expansionists who
visited Tacoma, Wash, learned in that
city that Mount Rainier has another
name. In that city it is Mount Ia
coma.
Youngstown, O., with $4,000 inhab-
itants, and the rest of Mahoning coun-
ty, voted to retain saloons. The vote
was wet" 1882; dry" 9,263
The Chinese foreign Office has for
hidden missionaries to proceed among
the people in frontier provinces, be-
cause of their crude civilization and
the fear of trouble.
A bag containing registered mail
was stolen from an Illinois Central
train at Champaign, Ill.
L. Gaban, Cuban banker, has
reached New York on his way to Eu-
rope and is travelling in a style sug-
gestive of an Indian prince. The party
includes his wife, three daughters, one
son, four friends and two domestics.
They took 20 rooms at a New York
hotel.
The Burley Society of Tobacco
Growers, meeting in Winchester, KY,
granted $4,000 back salary and $751;
600 bonus to President Clarence Lebus.
The federal court at Denver ruled
that it is fraudulent use of the mails
for person, in the interest of strik-
ers, to communicate by letter with
strike-breakers, offering them posi-
tions in other towns when such posi-
tions do not exist.
A report of a $1,300000,000 railroad
merger, credited to James ]. Hill, was
denied in ST. Paul by Louis w. Hill,
president of the Great Northern.
The twelfth annual convention of
the Federation of American ZiOnists
met in New York, chiefly to discuss
the movement for the restoration of
| Palestine to the Jews.
The Minnesota Bankers association
opened it's yearly meeting at Lake
man, Jr, of Minneapolis being in the
| chair
| William F. McDermott of Chicago
has started action in court at Mercer,
Pa, to have Mrs. Helen Boyle, his sis
ter, who is serving sentence of 20
years for kidnapping Willie Whitla, set
| free.
Charles Brown, aged SIX, and Ed
ward Poe, a farmer, were killed by
lightning near Anderson, Mo.
! Floods are beginning in the Gun
nison and Grand rivers in Colorado.
The pumping plant at Grand Junction
is menaced and hundreds of men are
guarding railroad tracks and other
property.
Damage to railroad property near
Rapid City, S. D., as the result of a
cloudburst, is estimated at $4,000. A
Northwestern passenger train was
piloted into Rapid City by handcar
after many hours delay.
The auxiliary yacht Carnegie, built
for the Carnegie institution for ocean
surveys to correct compass data and
in whose construction no magnetic
metal is used, was launched al
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Charles Miller, who worked as a
waiter in the old Aston house in New
York at s34 a month, has resigned
and is going for a trip to Europe
He has accumulated a fortune OF
100000.
An earthquake destroyed Korinichi