River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-26

| Pa, judge OF the federal court or Porto
Rico, cabled his resignation to Presi
/ dent Roosevelt.
Edward G. Stoiber, millionaire
mining man, formerly owner of the
Silver Lake mines and mills near Sill
verton, Col, died at Paris, France, OF
typhoid fever.
| Mrs. Margaret Mather, mother OF
Robert Mather, president of the Chi
cago & Rock Island Railroad company
died at Galesburg, ILL.,, aged 70.
! Robert E. Drake, street railway law
yer and financier, noted throughout
New York state, was killed at Lyons
N. Y.
/ Struck by a batted ball while watch
| ing a game on the grounds of ST
Johns orphan asylum at Philadelphia
| 11-year-old Thomas Brown, an inmate
of the home, had his neck broken and
died almost instantly.
Announcement was made that an
drew Carnegie had agreed to give the
Illinois Wesleyan university at Bloom
ingtou 100000, providing that 100000
was raised by the trustees. The offer
was accepted.
Two highwaymen were seen to
hold up, rob and throw man off the
Commerce street bridge at Dallas.
Tex, 20 feet down to the bank OF
Trinity river. His legs were broken,
Robert Ramsey, machinist of Ne
vada, Mo-, while beating his way on
Chicago & Alton train, fell under
| the wheels at Bloomington, ILL.,, and
was killed.
Skip" Wilson, one of the proprie-
tors of a wild west show, is dead and
his partner, William Duvall, was ia
tally injured as the result of battle
with officers on the public square at
Richmond, Mo.
| A procession of 1900 Catholics from
neighboring villages tried to recapture
their church at Lesnos, Poland. "A
furious fight with Mariavits ensued,
in the course of which IL persons
were killed and SO wounded.
Joseph G. Smith, colored, was hanged
at Fort Madison, Ia, for the murder OF
Mrs. Ida Cannady at Buxton, Ia, on
October Is, 1903. He met his fate
calmly after a restful sleep and a
| hearty breakfast.
The court at Sunbury, Pa, consid-
cred the application of A. Herndon for
wholesale liquor license. He tipped
coin with the attorney for the petit
toner, and the lawyer won.
A number of enormous vultures,
probably emboldened by hunger, are
spreading terror in the valley of Cou-
ches, Canton of Valais, Switzerland
They have been preying upon sheep
and cows.
The post Office at Cavalier, Pembine
county, N. D., was robbed of $1,100
$500 of which was in stamps.
State Secretary M. T. Filming of the
Illinois Association of Letter Carriers
issued call for the eighth annual
convention, the date being fixed at
May 80 at Elgin.
Fire has swept the town of Mari
quina, Rizl province, P. I. Many thou
sands of persons are homeless and
starving. Two thousand dwellings are
in ruins. The government is rushing
assistance to the sufferers.
Fire destroyed Pasil, near the town
of Cebu, P. /. Two hundred dwellings
were burned and many persons are
homeless.
Miners spurned the arbitration
scheme of operators in western Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
r. G. Dun & Co. report trade condi-
tions as favorable.
The report of the Canadian section
of the international waterways com
mission declares the maintenance of
Niagara falls is national matter and
| should be dealt with as such
| DR.. Mary E. Breen, en- route for her
home at Lemars, went violently insane
bat Fort Dodge, Ia, upon hearing of
the terrible catastrophe at San Fran
cisco.
| William Perry, negro, who killed
Lewis Williams and Alice Merritt, also
colored, in New York, gave himself
up to the Philadelphia police.
Fire Chief William Kennedy of Green
Bay, Wis, pleaded guilty to charge OF
/
voluntary statement.
Jesse Davis shot and instantly killed
his wife and then killed himself at Co.
lumbus, Ind. She filed suit for di-
| vorce.
| James Fl. Cartwright, of Ogle coun-
,y, was unanimously nominated for re-
election to the Illinois state supreme
court by the Republican convention of
the Sixth district.
| The real name of Nine. Andreiva,
the Russian actress now in America
with Maxim Gorky, is Zhelabuski, and
she is the wife of Moscow engineer of
that name She is the daughter of M.
Murrievski, registrar of the imperial
| theatef.
| Mrs. Nellie Montgomery sued
Stephen A. Douglas, wealthy citizen
of Princeon. Ind. for $4,000, claiming
he had Rugged her against her con
sent
BY a vote of % to 90, the Illinois
senate, in committee of the whole,
adopted a resolution which declares for
plurality nominations of such candi-
dates as are placed on the primary bal.
lot.
Many divorced persons prominent in
New York society are affected by the
supreme court decision, among them
Mrs. Shaw. young Waldorf Astor's
promised bride