River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-08-28
Domestic

Libel proceedings were started at
st. Paul. Mimi, by the government in
the United States district court against
Armour & Co. for the seizure of 1885,
30 pounds of frozen poultry.
Seven of the Mexican bandits who
robbed sailors from the United States
cruiser Cheyenne off Tampico last
month have been apprehended and put
to death by the Carranza authorities,
according to Galveston dispatch.
What officers believe to be the Iarg-
est moonshine still In Ohio was put
out of commission when Cleveland de-
tectiyes and federal authorities raided
house In a wood near Fullertown.
Traditions and professional ethics
are wanted by the auctioneers of Iowa,
who opened a two-day conference at
Mason City. Licensing of auctioneers
and legislation to control them were
also discussed.
A Washington dispatch says the
American passenger liners Finland,
Kroonland and Louisville Est. Louis)
will be released from government SER
vice as soon as surveys for repairs
have been made. All have been trans
ports.
Walter Elliott, negro, who is al
legged to have assaulted a farmers
wife, was shot to death two miles from
Louisburg, N. G. The mob took the
negro from Sheriff Kearney while on
his way to jail.
With Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife
of the secretary of the navy, pressing
the button that flooded the structure,
the great Pearl Harbor dry dock at
Honolulu was dedicated by Secretary
Daniels.
Six persons, all members Of train
crews. We're almost instantly killed and
l6 passengers injured when Pere Mar
quette freight train No. 355, north
bound, plowed head-on into south
bound Traverse City Grand Rapids
passenger train No. at Grawn, Mich.
Andrew Carnegie died worth $780,
100000. His will Is to be offered at
New York for probate. Mr.. Carnegie
stipulated that the Home Trust COM
pany of Hoboken act as executor.
One hundred tanks of the one-man
type and 5000 rifles have been shipped
from the army reserve depot at Co.
lumbus, O., to forts on or near the
Mexican border within the last week.
The Third Avenue Railway company,
operating IA surface lines in New York
city and Westchester county, an
nounced it Voluntarily had granted
20 per cent increase to it's employees.
Street cars have resumed operation
in Des Moines, la. Announcement was
made after the striking motormen and
conductors had considered plans sug-
gested at meeting of citizens COM
mittee.
One hundred and eighteen Russians,
alleged bOlshevists, are held In the
county Jail at Youngstown, O., as the
result of raid by federal officials
on a meeting in East Youngstown.
One man was killed. eight others
We're shot, one probably fatally, and
scores were more or less injured In
riots Of striking workers from the Cud-
ahy Packing plant at Milwaukee.
One man has been rescued alive and
about Is men are believed to be dead
in the Oakview mine of the Oakdale
Coal company near Laveta, Colo,
which was wrecked by an explosion.
A sentence Of life Imprisonment In
the state penitentiary was imposed on
Mrs. Minnie Ryan. forty-three years
old. in circuit court at st. Louis. ON
charge Of first degree murder.
Lieut.. III. G. Peterson, one Of the
two American aviators held by Mex
lean bandits for $4,000 ransom, cross
ed the border to the American side
at 1:15 In the morning. The ransom
money was taken across the border to
the band rendezvous by Captain Mat
lack of the Eighth cavalry. Shortly
after Lieutenant Peterson crossed the
border Captain Matlack returned
bringing with him Lieutenant Davis.
Two stills, one of which was warm
from recent operations. were raided in
the basement Of the new 81 1000, 900
post office now being built at Birming-
ham, Ala.
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