River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-06-03

on the BLACK sea lOI pIOloCCloi "
American life and property" was
adopted by the senate.
shington-Bearing the bodies OF
153 officers and enlisted men of the
navy and marine corps, the u. S. S.
Nereus is expected to arrive at New
York in few days. Services on the
pier will inclrde Secretary Daniels as
the principal speaker. The Nereus
is bearing the first bodies of American
sailors to be removed from France.
On board also are Is bodies of Off
GERS and men who died while on duty
in Mediterranean and Adriatic wa
tiers.
Foreign
ttawa-Eliminatio of war import
duties and substitution of luxury taxes
are provided in proposals submitted to
parliament by the finance minister.
London-The governments Irish
home rule bill was changed to provide
for two senates for northern and
southern Ireland in the proposed Irish
parliament.
1 oil ID Oii6dQlCl GCICldl OuAAlOA,
commander of the French fortress Of
| Maubeuge at the beginning of the war,
! and six of his subordinates, corrtmar-
tailed for surendering the fortress to
the Germans in September, 1914, were
i acquitted yesterday.
i Geneva-Former Emperor Charles
of Austria, from his haven at Pran-
gins, and Count Leopold Won Berch-
told, former Austrian foreign minis
ter, from Lausanne, deny reports hav-
ing their origin in Italian circles, that
a new plot is afoot to restore the
, Hapsburg dynasty.
Domestic
Chicago-District Attorney G. F.
, Clyne announced today he would pros
ecute dealers who forced customers to
buy other articles to obtain sugar.
New York-Opening of commercial
wireless service between Scandinavian
countries and the United States was
, announced here by the Radio corpora
ton of America.
Chicago-Mrs Helen Griffin Baste-
do, who remarked the day after her
husbands death, and her three chill
dren are made the sole benefciaries
of the $2.25000O estate of George f.
Griffin, according to the will filed.
Baton ge-Recommendation that
the Louisiana legislature refuse to
ratify the federal woman suffrage
amendment was made by Governor
Pleasant in transmitting to the legis-
lature the congressional resolution Of
ratification.
wichita, Kan.-Four carloads of SUI
gar, alleged to have been held for spe-
culation, were seized at Wellington
and Emporia, Kan, by deputy United
States marshal, upon Instructions
from Fred Robertson, United States
district attorney for Kansas.
New York-Headed by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, 30 delegates, alter
mates and visitors sailed yesterday
from New York to attend the eighth
congress of the international Woman
Suffrage alliance at Geneva, Switzer-
land, June to II.
New York-Details for continuing
the interchurch world movement pro.
gram until May Is, 1921, were COM
pleted here yesterday by the general
committee and representatives OF tho
cooperating organization. The bud
get presented by John ID. Rockefeller,
Jr., provides for expenditures of 3d.
100000 until that time.
New York Saloons in tbs city are
running full blast, providing lawbreak-
ers with abundant liquors of the very
worst kind because of lax enforcement
of the prohibition law" Judge Charles
c. Mott declared in general sessions
court, imposing sentence of seven to
IA years on Frank Murray, who plead
ed guilty to first degree manslaugh-
ter.
/ New York-Aliens are now arriv-
ing at the port of New York at a
rate three times greater than they
are leaving, according to statistics
made public at the Ellis islands Inn
migration station. Last weeks arriv-
ais numbered 1854, while departures
were only 4,310. The steerage accom-
modations of all incoming transatlan-
tic vessels were said to be taxed to
capacity.
Chicago Following U. S. District At
torney Clyne's action in ordering seiz-
ures of boarded sugar and asking for
indictments against profteers and
hoarders, sugar took drop. Between
i 10000 and 100000 pounds were
thrown on the market at from IL to
81 cents to wholesalers.
New York-The trade of the United
States with Mexico, it appears, will
touch the $S0O,OO0,0OO mark for the fis-
cal year 1920, which ends next month.
Our trade with Mexico, even during
the disturbed period since the resigna
tion of President Diaz in 1911. has
shown remarkable gains.