River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-14

uOunclng CATHOLICISM.
| William McWilliams, who pleaded
guilty to the murder of his wife and
five children week ago, was sem
| fenced to death at Independence Ia.
Slain by her son, J. Wenzel Kunz.
with a f1atiron, Mrs. Mary Kunz, aged
| 20, was found dead in her home in
Manitowoc, Wis, blood despatched and
fearfully mutilated. Young KGnz con-
fessed several hours later. He is
thought to be insane.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran
was elected grand sachem of Tammany
Hall.
An explosion at the plant of the
Washington Gas Light company, in
Southeast Washington, d. c., resulted
| in damages to the extent of $150,000.
Without a tremor and without
word, Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers
marched to her death on the gallows
at the state prison at Windsor, Vt,
and paid the penalty of numbering her
husband, Marcus Rogers, at Benning-
ton, on August 13, 1902.
| Engineer John Mullen, Fireman
Samson and Brakeman William Taylor
were killed near Roxabel, O., in a rear
end freight collision on the Baltimore
e Ohio Southwestern railway.
All the horses belonging to Buffalo
Bills" wild west show were killed at
Marseilles, France, in order to pre-
vent the spread of CHAMBERS.
A resolution urging investigation OF
insurance companies and public serv-
ice corporations caused a sensation in
the Wisconsin legislature.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, took the first step to obtain in
formation to be used in bringing to
justice life insurance officials who have
been guilty of criminal acts.
Controller of the Currency Ridgely,
in his annual report, blames negligent
directors for bank frauds.
Mrs. Fernando Jones, wife of Chica-
gos well-known pioneer, died after
brief illness.
The boom in building operations in
Chicago causes builders to offer Is
cents an hour for bricklayers.
Colossal naturalization frauds, FeX-
tending to every state and territory,
are revealed in report OF special
examiner for the department of JUS
tice
Former Gov. Yates, of Illinois, has
decided to be a candidate for the
United States senate and announces he
is backed by the Deneen machine.
The dead bodies of Annie Mitchell
and Alonzo Conway were found in a
boarding house in ST. Louis, both hav-
ing been asphyxiated as the room was
full of gas from an open gas stove.
Watercress, the famous stallion, was
auctioned off for 1000 in New York.
His purchaser was J. B. Haggin.
The Wisconsin assembly tabled
resolution calling on Gov. La Toilette
to resign at once either the governor
ship or the United States senatorship.
The Undertaken steamer Fran was
sunk in Christiania ford in Norway.
Seven of her crew and four passengers
were drowned.
Apoplexy caused the death at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, of Mrs. John I. Martin, of
st. Louis, wife of Col John I. Martin,
who, during the last three national
campaigns, was sergeant-at-arms of the
national democratic convention.
J gAlfredsP. Frelich, pharmacist in
the Presbyterian hospital, shot and in
stantly killed his wife Fannie and her
mother, Mrs. Anna Hoefung, in his
home in Brooklyn, N. Y. He gave
himself up, but refused to make a state
ment.
Leo McNally, "a years old, who was
| injured in football game between To-
cal teams in Bridgeport, Conn.,, on
Thanksgiving day, is dead. McNally's
back was broken in mass play.
The monument erected at Anderson
vile, Ca, in memory of soldiers from
Pennsylvania who died in prison dur
ing the civil war, was unveiled.
John r. Ward, adjutant general Of
Indiana, resigned on the demand Of
Gov. Hanly, as the result of an inves-
tigation of his accounts. The investi-
eating committee claims there is
shortage of $976.75.
The census returns show that the
city of Berlin, Germany, has a popula-
ton of 2,O33, 900 souls.
The resignation of Chauncey M. De-
pew from the United States senate on
account of his connection with the in
surance scandal will, it is said, be de-
manded by the New YORK legislature.
Secretary Roots visit to Brazil is
planned to have a far-reaching effect
on Latin-American states. An impos-
ing squadron of warships will visit
Brazil
One of the largest offers ever known
for piece of real estate in New York
city was made by Marshall Field, who
made cash bid of $5,750,000 for de-
partment store building.
The total of appropriations sought
for the government service during 1907
is $622.723,151.
Pennsylvania politicians from
United States senator to ward heller,
are hit by the order of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad abolishing free trans
portation, and it is expected that other
roads in the state will unite to end
the pass evil.
The New York Central, Reading and
Jersey Central railroads decided to stop
tho issuance of passes.
Under an old common law statute
States Attorney Healy, of Chicago,
acting for the state of Illinois, began
suit against the Illinois Steel company
for reclaimed Lake Michigan lands