River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-06-24


Great Britain has asked America not
to press her claim for participation
| in the Hankow-Szechuen railroad loan
of $27,500,000, which British, German
and French bankers stand ready to
take up.
The French budget for 1910 WIS in
troduced in the chamber of deputies
by Finance Minister Caillaux and
shows deficit of $21, 100000. Nine
million dollars of this is charged to
the budget Of 1911.
While guarding the royal yacht on
which the car and the German en-
peror were holding a conference, a
Russian torpedo boat fired upon a
British steamer and wounded the en-
gineer.
Charles f. Leininger was killed and
| two other men shot by an actor who
had been attacked by several persons
at Fairfield, ILL.,, because of his at
tentions to one of the young women of
the town.
Hearing of testimony in the case OF
Private Klein, of Chicago militia
company, who killed Earl Nelson, a
Kankakee boy with a bayonet, began
at Paxton. Ill.
Thomas ]. Mccoy, former banker
| and politician of Laporte, Ind, was
released from the state penitentiary
where he served three years for en-
bezzlement.
Levi Yoder, of Massilon, o., killed
himself rather than comply with the
provisions of his mothers will, which
required him to wear hooks and eyes
instead of buttons on his clothes.
Earl Moran, legless man. married
Mrs. Julia Davis, of Plaquemine, La,
at Waukegan, ILL.,
Gov. Harmon and staff reviewed the
parade of the Ohio G. A. r. veterans
on the closing day of their encamp.
ment at Newark.
Ralph de Palma broke the automo-
bile speed record for 25 miles, making
the distance in % minutes and 35
seconds at Readville, Mass.
George C. White, William Kilgan-
non, and the latter's wife, Elizabeth
Kilgannon, pleaded guilty in the
United States circuit court in New
York to indictments charging them
with smuggling.
In a fire in a five-story tenement
house in Cincinnati, the 100 panic
stricken occupants were saved by
daring rescues by firemen.
Fourteen hat manufacturing firms of
Connecticut were sued for $364,000
damages by the Amalgamated Hat
Manufacturers of New York, as re-
suit of the recent strike.
A cigar or cigarette carelessly
tossed away is supposed to have
caused fire that destroyed the audi
forum of the Monumental building in
which the Ohio Grand Army veterans
held their encampment in Newark.
The towns of Purdy and Monet in
Missouri were wrecked, and the sur
rounding country devastated by tor
nado. At least two were killed.
The high federal court of Venezuela
has given a decision declaring uncon-
stitutional Castro's DEGREES of Janu-
airy, 1907, which annulled the salt and
match monopoly concessions. The
decision restores to the Ethelburga
syndicate, limited, of London, all it's
rights.
John g. A. Leishman, the retiring
American ambassador to Turkey, has
left Constantinople for Rome.
Servants and former employees of
Mrs. Howard Gould told of seeing her
frequently intoxicated.
The Illinois supreme court declared
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constitutional.
Mother" Jones, who seeks a par
don for a man who violated the neu-
trality laws, made an appeal to Pres
ident Taft in the prisoners behalf.
A report by department of agricul-
ture experts says tuberculosis among
hogs in the United States is increas-
ing.
Senator Elkins declared his daugh-
ter, Miss Katherine, is going to Eu-
rope because of an affection of the
heart and not to meet the duke of
the Abruzzi as has been reported.
Damage estimated at 100000 in the
piano factory of Hardman, Peck &
Co., in New York, was caused by fire.
The Augustana Synod of America,
meeting at Red Wing, Mimi, decided
to hold its next conference in Rock
Island, Ill.
The submarine boats, Grayling, Bo-
nito and Snapper were launched at
Quincy, Mass.
Celebration Of the twentieth ami
versary Of statehood was held in
Aberdeen. S. D.
Farmers near Taitsville, Mo, after
two of their daughters had been shot
from ambush, carried rifles while they
worked in their fields,
An Erie passenger train was
wrecked at Waverly N. Y, and sew
eral passengers painfully injured.
Edward Arnold, two years old, was
playing in front of the house from
which deputy sheriffs were evicting
his parents in Far Rockaway, N. Y,
when he was killed by an ice wagon.
The German emperor and the
car of Russia met on royal yacht
and discussed world policy.
Wilbur and Orville Wright were
honored at big fete in their home
city, Dayton, O.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland testified that
the story sold nv Prou0btou propdor