River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
WEST AND SOUTH.

Inc venerable JurlSC, >. "A. hlnSmdH,
first chief justice of Kansas, died at To-
peka, Kan. He was one Of the most
prominent Kansas pioneers, and was a
native of Massachusetts,.
In a runaway at Cincinnati Bishop J.
M. Walden, retired, of the Methodist
church, and his wife were seriously in
jured. Mrs. Walden's arm was broken
and the bishop was badly bruised. Both
were taken to the hospital.
In wreck on the Southern railway
between Dogwood and Wilton, in Ala
bama, two men were killed.
For waylaying and criminally assault
ing Laura Knade, near Harper's Ferry,
several weeks ago, George Williams
(colored) was hanged at the state pris-
on in Moundsville, w. Va.
Fires in the forests areedoing great
damage in several sections of Califor-
MIA. In Alameda and Contra Costa coun-
ties thousands of acres of land have
been swept by flames and many houses
heve been destroyed, the loss reaching
100000.
1t is charged that forged bills of lad
ing to the amount of $500, 900 have been
issued from st. Joseph, Mo-, and we'll
known elevator man is accused by the
general solicitor of the Burlington road.
Chicagoans expect to make splendid
demonstration at the ST. Louis fair Chi
cago day, October 8, and the celebration
is likely to be continued week
The treasurer of Meigs county, Ohio,
was held up by two masked robbers,
who secured $4,000 and then locked the
official in a vault.
Held prisoner in Topeka, Kan, Rob-
ert Romano, a deported Colorado min
err, confessed completely in the plot
which resulted in the wrecking of the
Independence depot and the Vindicator
mine in Colorado and the loss of II lives.
He duplicates IL union men.
An aggregate of 9,994,510 admissions
have been recorded since the opening of
the Louisiana exposition
Alma Heck, of Crystal Falls, Wis,
and Charles Farrow, of Philadelphia,
were drowned at Green Bay, Wis, by
the overturning of boat.
The venerable jurist, Anthony Thorn
ton, organizer and first president of the
Illinois State Bar association, former
congressman and former judge of the
Illinois supreme court, died at his home
in Shelbyville, ILL.,, at the age of 80.
The Three I Baseball league season
has ended. The championship was won
by the Springfield club.
Progress is being made in the work
extending the Southern Indiana rail-
road to Chicago and the system will
reach that city by January, 1906.
Stockyards strikers in Chicago are
rapidly being given their old places in
the packing houses and many strike
breakers have abandoned their places
for new fields,
Hammond Burkholder and his brother
Leo were killed by lightning, which
struck a barn near Marshall, ILL.,, III
which they had taken shelter from a
storm.
In San Francisco the cruiser MiIwau-
kee was christened by Miss Janet
Mitchell, of Milwaukee.
Without announcement the Russian
converted cruiser Lena, mounting "a
guns, suddenly put into San Francisco,
demanding the courtesies of the port
in order to make repairs. Washington
is at a loss to understand why the Rus
sian warship is ordered to American
waters, and the Pacific coast squadron
will remain near San Francisco until the
cruiser departs.