River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-17

Samuel Stenman, q miner employed
at the Montreal mine, was shot and
killed near his home at Hurley, Wis.
The murderer escaped.
Consul General Rodgers, at Shang-
hal, cabled the department of state
that the Chinese chamber of commerce
at that place is powerless to stop the
boycott against Americans and Ameri-
can products.
Aaron Osborn and Dan Fisher, well
diggers, were killed by choke damp or
carbon monoxide gas while entering
a well to make repairs five miles from
Bedding, Mich.
Joseph and Edward Flurh, brothers,
aged IA and 16, were killed at Corydon,
Ind, while playing in sandbank exca-
walton, which collapsed.
George Johnson and William James
were killed by lightning near Cushing,
Okla The men were standing under
tree which the lightning struck.
Ellie Morgan shot and killed Robert
Moore at Woodlawn, ILL.,, in quarrel
about Moore's daughter. Morgan sur
rendered.
While jealously insane, Carl Boeck,
of Portage, Wis, aged % years, killed
his wife, aged 10 years, by cutting her
throat and stabbing her in the back.
He then tried to take his own life.
Accused of stealing three watches
by Jeweler Mathew Manner and Nicho-
las Kitten, officer Oscar Benson, of the
Cmcago police force, killed the first
named, wounded the second and then
committed suicide.
President Roosevelt was given
magnificent reception at Wilkesbarre,
Pa. by crowds of miners and temper
ance workers who had gathered to hear
him speak.
Rear Admiral, Charles E. Clark, one
of the naval heroes of the Spanish
war, reached the age limit of 81 years
and was transferred to the retired list
of the navy.
Dr. Kellogg, the noted Battle Creek,
Mich, specialist, and a close friend of
President Harper OF the Chicago uni
versity, after a consultation, advised
DR.. Harper to lay down the duties of
president and devote all his time and
energy to battling with the cancer that
threatens his life.
A report given out at Cleveland, O.,
declares DR.. w. r. Harper, president
of the Chicago university, is in the best
of health and that he has no intention
of resigning his position.
Warrants were sworn out at Denver,
G1sa
clerk of the Western bank, charging
them with violating Section 222 Of the
Colorado statute by receiving deposits
when they knew the Western bank was
insoIvent.
Capt. Jerome B. Osier, nearly 105
years old and resident of Chicago
since 1888, is dead.
The Western bank, state institution
at Denver, Col, with deposits of about
81 900 900, made an assignment because
a run had been feared.
John Walters and his two sons we're
drowned in Hickory creek, near McCune,
Kan, while trying to ford the creek with
a load of hay. Recent heavy rains had
caused the stream to rise.
The dreaded cattle plague known as
blackleg, form of murrain, has broken
out in Brookfield, Mass.
Socialists at Riga, Russia, compelled
10000 workmen to strike by threat Of
death.
VTu Ting Fang, in an interview at
the boycott against America, but conn
plains bitterly of treatment accorded
Chinese.
African tribesmen burned many Fort
uguese villages and massacred the white
settlers by wholesale.
Phillip Loew, 70 years old, committed
suicide in a Chicago hotel, leaving a
note reproaching his children.
Rev. Lewis Albright, of Della
ware, O., widely known in Ohio, hav-
ing been presiding elder of the North
Ohio Methodist conference, a trustee of
Ada university and of Ohio Wesleyan
university, is dead.
The Interstate Sheriffs' association,
in session at st. Paul, Mimi, chose Of
ficers and selected Des Moines, Ia, as
the place for the next annual conven-
ton
Chicago's big teamsters' strike, for
which Shea, in his speech before the
teamsters national convention at
Philadelphia, accepted responsibility,
cost $110,620. according to the union
finance committees report.
The street car strike in Saginaw,
Mich, on since June 4, has been Off
cially declared off, The management
of the railway will take the striking
employees back on individual applica-
ton.
A project for a representative nation
al assembly of Russians. to be elected by
the people and to have large powers. is
approved formally by Emperor Nicholas,
and manifesto proclaiming the deci-
sion will be issued.
The weather bureaus weekly bulletin
on crop conditions shows winter wheat
about all threshed corn in excellent con-
dition, good crop of oats harvested and
cotton improving in many states. Rust
is prevalent in spring wheat in the north
west
Terrific wind and electrical storms
in several sections of Wisconsin caused
much damage to growing crops and
property.
Orrin W. Potter, steel trust million
aire of Chicago, wei Mrs. Bell, a for
mer hairdresser of New York city, and
sailed for Europe.
Gov. Robert M. La Toilette. of Wis