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

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the entire estate is divided among the
testators four sons and three daughters.
| After damp, due to an explosion OF
blasting powder set off by persons as yet
| unknown, caused the death of 43 miners
at Joseph Letters coal mine at Zeigler,
ILL.,. according to the verdict of a coro-
ner's jury.
For her heroism in saving the life or
a companion skater from drowning last
winter. Miss Lavina Steele, of Des
Moines, Ia, recently appointed assist
ant state librarian, is in receipt of a
Carnegie medal for her brave rescue.
George Goodall, SO years old, and an
| intimate friend of President Lincoln, is
dead in Washington. He rendered valu-
able service during the war as personal
scout for President Lincoln in the coun-
try surrounding Washington.
Secretary Shaw has announced that
| he will make call on national bank de-
posts for about $27, 100000 in two in
stallments, the first falling due on May
| 10 andNthe second on July l, 1905.
George Coffey, who fatally stabbed his
cousin, George st. Pierre, at Sioux City,
Ia, few weeks ago, has been acquitted
of murder Self defense was the sue
cessful plea.
| Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister of the
late President U. S. Grant, and widow OF
Dr. Michael ]. c. amer, was found dead
| in bed at the home OF her sister, Mrs.
Virginia Grant Corbin, in East Orange,
NJ.
The cruiser Brooklyn, which went to
Haytien waters upon rumors of gath
ering of reyolutionists, has been ordered
away.
| Fire at Akron, Ia, burned out six bust
ness firms. The loss is $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
| 1t is now known that Mrs. Jane
Lathrop Stanford left an estate valued
at 100000. According to Mrs. STAN
ford's will, $3,125,000 is to go for legacies
and requests. The rest goes to Stamford
university.
| Mrs Cassie L. Chadwick was granted
| a stay of execution by the United States
circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati.
The Illinois senate adopted joint res
ment of the general assembly on April %.
W. K. Vanderbilt has ordered pri-
vate car built to cost not less than $780,
600.
A congress of Russian doctors in Mos
cow adopted resolutions declaring that
radical political reforms must come or
the nation will suffer an epidemic of
cholera.
The New York assembly passed the
bills providing for taxing stock trans
| fers and mortgages.
Hartman is said to be planning a
merger of the Equitable, New York Life,
| Mutual Life and Prudential, with an an
nual cash income of $3.50, 900.
The German ambassador advises the
Washington government that his nation
demands the 'open door" in Morocco,
and will not permit France to enter into
control of the African country.
Mat Kujawa, farmer of Belmont,
Wis, was run over and killed by Wis
consin Central train.
Henry Flock, of Wabash, Ind, while
laboring under temporary alteration,
shot himself to death.
| The Fox River Valley Manufacturers
association plans a northern Illinois
good roads convention in Aurora May 8.
The personnel of the new isthmian
canal commission is as follows: Theo-
dore P. Shonts, chairman; Charles e.
Magoon, governor of canal zone; John
F. Wallace, chief engineer; Rear Ad-
NJ YN Dp;n
Gen. Peter c.. Hams, U. S. A.. retired;
Col. Oswald M. Ernst, corps engineers,
U. S. A.; Benjamin H. Harrod.
Lestern Henry, an Indian, said to be a
graduate of the Carlisle schol, ran amuck
with shotgun at Little Valley, near
Cory. Pa, killing one Indian and
wounding half dozen others before his
| arrest.
| e. D. Conger, former proprietor of the
Grand Rapids Herald, appeared in the
circuit court at Grand Rapids, Mich, for
his second trial on the charge of conspir-
acy in connection with the celebrated
| Lake Michigan water scandal.
| Seven Princeton, Ind, industries were
tied up as result of the demand made
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for an advance of 25 cents per day for
unskilled workmen.
In terrific explosion that blew to
| pieces one of the brick buildings of the
Union Metallic Cartridge company at
Bridgeport, Conn, three men were in
stantly killed.
| Anna Valentino, who was convicted
| of the murder of Rosa Salza, at Lodi, N.
j., year ago, and whose attorneys have
| been making every effort to save from
| the gallows, was resentenoed to be
| hanged on Friday, May II.
| The executive board of district No. IL,
| United Mine Workers of America. voted
to donate $4,000 for the relief of widows
and children of miners killed in the ex-
plosion at Princeton, Ind, March %
The four-year-old son of Frank Maui
pin was burned to death in a fire which
destroyed a carpenter shop at Atlanta,
! III. The father was fatally burned try
ing to rescue his son from the flames.
The motion for a new trial for
! Charles L. Tucker, convicted of the
murder OF Mabel Page, was denied in
decision by Judges Edgar J. Sher-
man and Henry N. Sheldon, at Cam
bridge, Mass.
Republicans carried the majority of
! the elections in Illinois townships and
cities.
| A husband and wife of Aledo, Ill, have
been indicted by Mercer county grand
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