River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-01-27

collection and the mother or each
baby was given $3.50.
st. Louis-Albert Ellis, charged with
first degree murder for the death OF
his sweetheart, Edna Ellis, was found
guilty by a jury and his punishment
fixed at life Imprisonment.
New York-South Carolina cotton
growers have offered S250,000 worth of
their product to the Near East relief,
urging western farmers to contribute
the same amount in grains.
Chicago-Twenty thousand men in
the operating department of the Pull
man company have accepted a nine
hour day under protest, pending bear
ings before the railway labor board.
Chicago-Three men, posing as Do
licemen, stopped an automobile driven
by Mrs. Sigmund G.. Livingston and
robbed her of jewelry which she valu-
ed at $4,000. Mrs. Livingston was re
turning from reception.
Chicago. Odgen Armour was
again chosen president of the Armour
company at the annual election, which
was for the first time attended by per-
sons outside of the Armour family.
More than $50 stockholders were pres
ent.
New York-Boria Bakhmeteff, Rus.
sian ambassador to the United States
during the Kerensky regime, sailed for
Paris for conference called there by
the former premier and his associates
to consider reviving the Kerensky
government
New Orleans-W traffic be.
tween Pittsburgh and New Orleans
will be inaugurated with the arrival
here Feb. of the river steamer Queen
City. Regular schedules between the
two cities are to be maintained in the
future.
Northwest
Pacific Junction, Iowa-Pinned be.
meath their automobile for two hours,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Cairns, and their
two daughters, were found frozen In.
to state of semi-unconsciousne
Des Moines, Iowa-Fifteen cars Of
Iowa corn will leave for the seacoast
this week, for shipment to Constantin-
ople, for food relief purposes. 1t will
be the first shipment under the plan. to
send food instead of money.
Butte, Mont-A warrant issued here
charges A. C. Collins, former manager
of branch of the Dundee Wooden
mills, with larceny. alleging he had
appropriated funds to the amount Of
$2,672.42. Collins left for Salt Lake
City before the shortage was discover.
ed. it is charged.
Helena, Mont-Judge George M.
Bourquin of the United States district
| court sentenced Miss Ruth Kane, for
mer assistant postmaster at East Hell.
| ena, to term of Is months in federal
| prison and fine of $5,909.S5. She
pleaded guilty to embezzlement of fed
eral funds.
Foreign
Mexico City--Samuel Gompers was
reelected president of the Pan-Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
London-Adolf Won Hildebrand, the
| German sculptor, is dead at Munich
says wireless dispatch from Berlin.
Copenhagen-Nikolai Lenin, Bolshe'
wiki premier of Russia, is i'll, and has
been ordered to take long rest, says
special dispatch.
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua-The
crew of the NC-6 and their machine
were found safe in a cove about Is
miles north of San Juan del Sur
Perth of Spain, Trinidad-A motion
picture theater for Trinidad's leper
colony has been opened. An orchestra
of girl lepers furnishing the music.
Tokio-The Japanese crown prince
land next March. according TO state
ments printed in newspapers CT this
city.
London-A serious outbreak, involv-
ing the looting of country markets, has
occurred in the Muzuferpur district,
British India, at was officially an.
nounced.
Copenhagen--A special delegation
from Soviet Russia has arrived in
Helsingfors to negotiate with the Fin
nish government The delegation com.
prises eight persons.
Balboa, Panama-The Atlantic deet
has passed through the Panama c&aal
and joined the Pacific fleet. The CON-
bined fleets will leave Saturday for
Callao and Valparaiso.
Stockholm-The 400th anniversary
of the throwing off of the Danish vol a
was celebrated throughout the coun-
try by universities schools, garrisons
and national societies.
Vladivostok-A Ialiitary funeral for
Lieutenant Warran H. Angdon, U. S.
N, was conducted, attended by Rus.
sian and foreign military officials in.
Guiding General OF, the Japanese mill.
tary commander. and civilian authori
ties.
Copenhagen-The Berlingske It'd
ende Saturday printed a dispatch
from Helsingfors which says that $50
have been arrested and thrown in Jail
at Moscow in connection with the re-