River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-04-13

In sight of scores of pedestrians two
armed men broke a show window Of the
jewelry store of Turner Bros, No. 831
West Madison street, Chicago, seized di-
almonds worth $4,000 and fled in wagon
with confederate, after locking the
door from the outside.
Peter Nelson, engineer for the Beloit
(Wis.) Electric company was killed
while at his work in the engine room.
farmer, burned to death in bed near Mar
shalltown,. Ia The house caught fire
while the parents were at the barn.
The livery stables of L. G. Daniels and
S. L. Dill, Jr., the Gaskell Hardware
company's store and John c. Green's
plumbing establishment at Newbern, N.
c., were burned, causing loss of $27,-
900. Fifteen horses persisted.
Rev. H. P. Haylett, a weil-known
Methodist divine, died. at Racine, Wis,
after several months illness, aged GO
years. Rev. Haylett had served in Wau-
kesha, Racine and Milwaukee.
Parker Atkins shot and instantly
killed his stepfather, Albert Rea, at
Zeigler, ILL., The trouble arose over a.
board bill.
The supreme court of Nebraska has
decided that Frank Barker, who killed
his brother and his brothers wife, shall
not have new trial, and that he must
hang June 16. The double murder was
committed near Red Cloud, Neb.
Elias Powell (colored) was hanged
at Texarkana, Ark, for the murder of
J. G. Gardner. white farmer, five years
ago.
Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston has re-
lieved Gen. Francis Moore of the COM
mand of the department of California
and the division of the Pacific.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
been made the first honorary member
of the American chamber of commerce,
recently organized in Naples, Italy.
Three children and an aged woman
were killed and half score of tenants
in a tenement house in New York were
made unconscious by gas escaping from
stove.
James Moore and James Roach, who
robbed the post Office at Reinback, Ia,
last December, were sentenced to five
years in prison.
Judge Ira NJ. Moore died at Quincy,
H., aged II years. He was a member
of the Illinois general assembly for six
years, and was author OF Moore's digest
of Illinois and a number of other legal
works
Paul Kalceva, hotel cook, died at a
hospital in st. Louis, Mo-, from the eff
fects of being struck on the head with
q roast of meat in quarrel with Mich
olas Papenjick, another cook, on
March 25.
Engineer Wared, of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, drove his en-
CINE from Clinton to Boone, distance
of 202 miles, in 189 minutes.
The Mckinley antitrust bill passed
the Illinois house and now goes to the
senate.
Cassius Brown (colored), was con-
victed at st. Joseph, Mo-, of the murder
of Mrs. Nancy Gray in that county No
vember Is last, Brown bound and
gagged Mrs. Gay and cut her throat.
A headless and legless body, still
warm, was found in the streets of San
Francisco and an Italian feud is blamed.
Directors of the Equitable Life AS
surance society at a meeting in New
York agreed to the plan for the mutual
ization of the society within two years.
The gross value of the estate of An
drew H. Green, "the father of Greater
New York" who was shot and killed by
a negro named Wilson on November ID,
1903, has been placed by the appraisers
at $1,576,329.
Alexander E. Granville Gordon was
sentenced to one year in the Saltwater
(Minn) prison by Judge Page Morris,
of the United States circuit court at
Minneapolis, MINI. He was charged
with sending a threatening letter to
President Roosevelt.
The grasp of the Armour car lines on
the Michigan fruit trade is broken, the
Michigan Central railroad deciding to
put it's own refrigerator cars into the
field.
Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi, says
the need of that state is for white men
of thrift, who will build homes there.
An explosion and fire wrecked the
Art bedstead plant in Chicago. The loss
is more than 100000.
The programme of the Russian social
revolution demands democratic repub-
- of
church and state, freedom of conscience,
abolition of the army.
King Edward and President Loubet
held a secret conference at Paris. This
is construed as a warning to the kaiser
that England and France will resist Ger
man designs in Morocco.
The earthquake in India killed so per
cent of one towns inhabitants.
President Roosevelt, in his speech at
Austin, Tex, defined his position on
rate legislation, declaring that he be-
lieves in fair treatment for the railroads
as we'll as for the people.
The unusually long dry season in
Panama has caused scarcity of water,
which is now being sold there at four
cents gallon.
Ira Stewart, convicted at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, four years ago of numbering
his son-in-law, Fred Miller, has been
granted a new trial by the Wisconsin
supreme court.
w. H. Delius, Chief Justice Fuller's
son-in-law, killed himself in Chicago
while respondent.
Peter Hardy, aged &c years, was killed
by President Rooseyelt's special train at