River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-06-16

were voted by the special grand jury
investigating charges of alleged graft
ing in Chicago building project
Chicago Marshall Field III. has pur-
chased an estate on Long Island con-
sisting of three tracts totaling 1850
acres, according to reports printed
here.
Seymour, Ind-Three railroad en-
ployes were killed and two we're in
jured seriously today when two en-
gines, pulling Baltimore & Ohio
freight train overturned at Hedora, Ind.
i Prescott, Ariz.-Lieutenant Alexan-
der Pearson, flying in an army plane
from Williams, Ariz., crossed the Grind
Canyon several times and later few
into the gorge, according to word re-
ceived here.
Chicago--W William Hale Thompson
suffered his first reverse at the polls
since his election as mayor in 1915,
when coalition judicial ticket swept
Chicago carrying every Thompson cam
didate to defeat.
Salt Lake City-Solution of the dis
appearance OF Herbert Waterworth and
Frank Tyler, miners, in White Pine
Canyon, near here, last October, was
furnished when the melting SHOWS dis
closed the bodies.
Fort Wayne, Ind.-Clarence Smith.
cashier, was shot and seriously wound
ed and Miss Edna Werling, assistant
cashier, slightly injured when bandits
made an Intellectual effort to rob the
Preble State bank near here.
Indianapolis W. Galbraith, Jr.,
national commander of the American
Legion, was killed instantly and two
other men were injured when au auto
mobile in which they were riding went
over q 20-foot embankment here.
Chicago Attorneys for Peggy Hop.
kins Joyce, actress, who is suing her
millionaire husband and J. Stanley
Joyce for 100000 year alimony lost
their fight to obtain money from Joyce
to investigate HE conduct since his
marriage.
Boston-The house of delegates of
the American Medical association put
over for another year action on reso.
luton to reaffirm its attitude expressed
in 1917, that there is no scientific basis
for the use of alcohol as food and in
the treatment OF patients.
Northwest
Livingston, Mo.t-Trayel to the
Yellowstone National park will open
with rush June 20, the opening day.
officials of the park announced.
Dubuque, Iowa Rev. Herman
Schwab, aged So pastor of the I'm
manuel church, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with q razor. He
had been in i'll health.
Des Moines-Sheriff w. E. Robb, as
sisted by deputies, local police and pro-
| down on Is large retail drug stores in
Des Moines and seized liquor estimated
| to be worth 100000.
Des Moines-R M. West entered the
bedroom of his Is year old son, Myron,
and shot him dead with rifle while he
slept The father, age SO, was thought
temporarily insane. He had been suf
fering from lung trouble.
Helena-The new military hospital
at Fort Harrison, three miles from
here was formally opened today. The
hospital has accommodations for 1853
men, but officials said the capacity
would eventually be increased to 500
beds.
neapolis-Emerson e. Hunt, an.
tisaloon worker of Mitchell, S. D., was
named supervising federal prohibition
agent for the Northwest department
by Internal Revenue Commissioner
Blair, according to Washington dis
patches
| The Pas, Man.-Confirmat is Civ.
en- the report of an important and rich
gold strike at Elbow Lake, in the Atha.
puskow mineral area. Some prospec
| tors have returned here with accounts
Of discovery of remarkable vein 60
feet wide, wherein free gold is seen
scattered all about.
Foreign
London-King Peter, of Serbia, is
reported to be seriously i'll.
/ London-China is the first nation to
notify the League of Nations her ex
penditures for ornaments will be
limited.
Coblenz Two American soldiers
have died as result of wounds inflict.
ed by highwayman on the Weissen-
| thurm-Andernach road.
Geneva The Hungarian charge at
Berne made formal application to the
secretariat of the League of Nations
for the admission of Hungary to the
league.
Paris General Won Hoefer head of
the German defensive forces in upper
Silesia, has formally assured Allied Of
ficials his troops will retain their po-
sition and not advance.
Copenhagen-The police of Stock.
holm have discovered documents show