River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-02

suit to recover $55. 900.
The life insurance inquisitors in New
York find it necessary to extend the
investigation to take in some of the fire
companies and those issuing industrial
Insurance and policies on the lives OF
children.
Gen. Dragomiroff, the Russian hero
IL the war with Turkey, is dead.
After numbering his wife and their
two children, and sleeping beside their
bodies all night at Richmond, Va.
William G. Coker went at sunrise to
the home of his neighbor, r. S. Ores
sett, and killed him. He then commit
ted suicide.
Charles Nickel, mayor of Chenoa,
ILL.,, and bank president, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, William
La Due, who then killed H. d. Jones,
who sought to disarm him, barricaded
himself in the bank vault and wounded
two others. He successfully defied
capture for six hours, but finally sur
rendered. Family troubles caused his
action.
Former President Cleveland eulo-
gized ]. Sterling Morton at the unveil-
ing of a statue at Nebraska City, Neb.
Proceedings to GUST the Mutual and
New York Life companies from Ohio
were begun at Akron.
Two men were killed and others are
buried under the wreckage caused by a
head-on collision on the Shenandoah
o
road near Mace, Va.
Three persons were seriously in
jured, one of whom has since died, and
dozen others had a narrow escape
from the flames in fire that destroyed
the priests house at Nazareth orphan
age, a Catholic boys institution near
Raleigh, N. G..
King Victor Emanuel laid the corner
stone of the new harbor works at Ge-
noa, Italy. AS his majesty, by aid OF
an electrical device, lowered the stone,
which weighed IL tons, into the sea
there was a scene of great enthusiasm.
The evacuation of Manchuria by the
japanese is being actively carried on,
and troops are arriving daily at vari-
Gus parts.
The Chicago post office has moved
into the new federal building.
Secretary Hitchcock is hot on the
trail of land grabbers throughout the
country.
Booker T. Washington declares
President Roosevelt's southern trip has
relieved the race issue.
Mrs. Margaret Todd, so years old, a
wealthy New York woman, disappeared
and was found mangled by a train in
Philadelphia.
Rival interstate commerce law con-
ventions in Chicago adopted resolutions
on the question of railway rate regula-
ton and provided for lobbies to attend
before congress in behalf of their views.
Minister Barrett says Europeans are
capturing South American markets.
New York city plans to increase it's
water supply by tapping the Catskiil
mountains with an aqueduct lao miles
long at an expense of $161 100000.
Seventeen inmates of an orphans
home at Burlington, VT, were poisoned
mysteriously, three dying. The state
board of health physicians are unable
to find any explanation for the trag-
edy.
Burglars, thought to have been IL in
number, dynamited the vault in the new
national bank at HagerstOwn, Ind, and
obtained several hundred dollars be-
fore an operator in the telephone ex-
change gave the alarm, summoning citi
zens, who drove the robbers away after
an exchange of shots.
The court of appeals at Albany, N. Y,
denied the motion for reargument of
the appeal of Albert 7. Patrick from
conviction of murder in the first degree
and sentence of death for the killing in
1900 of W. M. Rice an aged millionaire
of New York city.
Five women were badly burned, two of
them probably fatally in fire which
destroyed the hardware factory of M.
Gould Sons & Co. at Newark, n. J. Loss,
100000.
AS the result of a shotgun duel at Oil
ver's scation, Ind. Ephraim Ramsey, a
farmer, was shot and instantly killed by
Thomas Ridley, his nephew. The shoot
ing is the elimination of years of do
nestle strife.
Six armed men entered the branch
of the Moscow international Trade bank
at Libau, Russia, and robbed it of ST.
900. Five of the men were shortly after
ward captured and $4,000 recovered.
The sixth man and $500, escaped.
Adolph PERFORMER, president of the
Equitable Real Estate and Loan society,
Chicago, to escape arrest, wrested him.
self from the grasp of detective.
plunged from window of his Office on
the fifth floor and was dashed to death.
Mrs. Frances Klaczynsl1i was burned
to death after an explosion of kerosene
oil used in starting fire in her home in
Chicago.
Edward Lamb (white), who shot and
killed Christopher d. Kennedy, also
white, two years ago, was hanged at the
county Jail at Braidentown, Fla.
In the house in which President
Roosevelt was born, at No. % East
Twentieth street, New York, the forty
seventh anniversary of the presidents
birth was celebrated at banquet at
tended by hundred members of the
Roosevelt Home club.
Charles A. Flammer announced his
resignation as republican candidate for
district attorney of New York, and ap-
pealed to the members of the party to
support the candidacy of William Tray