River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-27

Henry McCrOry, Tor years 1Qcnl1-
fed with the practical end of the steel
industry, related by marriage to
President ". E. Corey, of the United
States steel corporation, and also one
of the Junior partners" of Andrew
Carnegie, died at his home in Wilkins
burg, PIT.
Louis p Koeken, of Philadelphia,
Corporation Counsel Ellison and
Comptroller Metz, of New York, laying
claim to the major portion of the
property in upper Manhattan borough
and the Bronx, the value of which
runs up into the hundreds of millions.
Whisky men protested to Secretary
Wilson against his ruling on blended
whisky.
On hundred prominent men through
out the country have consented to the
use of their names as members of a
committee to further the movement
for a national department of health.
which was launched by Prof. Pease
Norton.
Bishop Charles c. McCabe died of
apoplexy in New York.
John Barrett, minister to Colombia,
American republics.
| The steamer w. T. Scoyil blew up
near Vicksburg, Miss, and four white
men and about ten negroes were
killed.
George A. Marden, for several years
assistant treasurer at Boston, died at
his home in Lowell, Mass.
The school authorities of Washing
| ton, have been called upon to decide
whether a Filipino is white or col
ored
Prof. w. W. Borden, widely known
| capitalist, died at his home at Borden,
Ind. He was SO years old.
| A son has been born to Dr. and Mrs.
Gerald Webb. Mrs. Webb is a grand
daughter of the. late Jefferson Davis,
and the newcomer is the only great
grandson of the confederate president
Four persons were burned to death
and one was fatally burned in fire at
the Zenobia apartment house in Buff
| falo, N. Y.
Charles Rodman, a graduate of the
| University of Illinois. where he at
| tanned fame as an athlete and discus
| thrower, was taken to the Central hos
pital for the insane at Jacksonville,
| III.
The bank of Horatio, Ark, was loot
ed by two robbers who covered the
cashier with pistols and took about
| $4,000.
By the explosion of dynamite in a
fireworks factory at Savannah, Ca,
| one fireman was burned to death and
several dangerously hurt.
John Annoy Knox, once widely
known as the editor and proprietor of
| Texas Siftings, died suddenly of heart
| disease.
A gigantic merger of all coal mining
properties in Illinois within a radius
of so miles of East ST. Louis has been
planned by eastern capitalists.
Judge Choadle, of Montana, has SEN
| fenced "Bill'' Hedican, a horse thief,
to the penitentiary for IA years, the
maximum punishment.
Fire in Hardin, Manchuria, destroy
ed the huge building situated in the
center of the town occupied by the
general staff of the Russian army.
The fire also consumed the museum,
| library and number of shops and
warehouses.
Terrorists threw bomb and fired
revolvers at Chief of Police Cheshan-
owsd at Lodz, Russian Poland. He
was only slightly injured, but his car
riage was wrecked.
George w. Harris, a prisoner for
forgery in the county jail at Goshen,
Ind, declares he is the man who MUIR
dered Miss Sarah Schafer at Bedford,
Ind, three years ago.
Fire destroyed the main business
portion Of Mexia, Tex, including six
large business houses, with their con-
tents, entailing loss of over $780,
The Citizens bank at Felicity, o.,
was blown open and between 5000 and
$500 in cash taken from the wooden
box in the outer portion of the big
safe.
Frank B. Sargent, commissioner of
immigration, may have to pay fine
for being passenger on a Japanese
steamer from Honolulu to San Fran
CISCO The Nippon Maru was fined
81 900 for violating the law prohibit
ing a foreign boat from carrying pas
sengers between American ports.
Thieves looted the residence of G.
" Stein, at Hinsdale, near Chicago,
of $4,000 worth of silver and jewelry.
About 100000 ballots were cast in
the election of trustees of the New
York and Mutual Life insurance COM
panies and both sides claimed the
victory.
Proceedings brought by the state
of Missouri to GUST the Standard Oil
company, of Indiana, the Waters
Pierce Oil company and the Republic
Oil company from Missouri were re-
sumed before Commissioner Robert
A. Anthony in New York.
The interstate commerce commits
sion received reports from 20 towns
in the northwest revealing fuel fam
inc which imperils scores of lives.
George S. McReynolds of Chicago
was convicted of fraud ulently remov-
ing grain from warehouses.
Mrs. Howard Powers, wife of the
manager of THE McFadden's Flats
company, committed suicide in Col
umbus, o., by shooting. On the stage