River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13

ton at De Soto. Kan. after knocking
the girl night operator senseless with
a wagon spoke.
One man was killed, three were In.
jured and 40 were imperiled by pow
der explosion at the Quincy mine at
Houghton, Mich.
The Georgia pardon board commut.
ed to life imprisonment the death SEN
fences of Jesse and Milton Rawlins,
whose father was hanged.
The explosion of boiler in a shoe
factory at Lynn, Mass, injured II
persons and started fire that did
| $4,000 damage.
The name of Lord Desborough
| (William Henry GrenfelD is among
the latest mentioned as possible ap-
pointees to the British embassy at
Washington. Lord Desborough who
was born in 1855, is noted Rocky
mountain hunter, oarsman and au-
| thor.
The strike of the 500 employees of
the Reading Iron company, which be-
gan five months ago, came to an end
when the men were granted an adj
vance in wages of about IL per cent.
Besides the increase the men obtain
ed other small concessions.
The police of Warsaw, Poland, are
showing great activity In the track
ing and arresting of political offenders.
and during the past week eight ter
rorists have been executed and eight
others condemned to death.
John Marsden Rhodes, president OF
the Greenwich Savings bank, of New
York city, and identified with several
other financial institutions, is dead.
The Consolidated Gas company of
New York has just completed the first
of six tanks to hold 90,000.000 feet of
gas at Astoria, N. ].
Ground was broken for the Illinois
state building at the jamestown (Va.)
exposition.
The gunners of the arDnored cruiser
Drake, flagship of the second cruiser
squadron of the British Atlantic feet,
have made record of 106 hits out OF
1873 shots.
| Mrs. Angie Birdsong, prominent
Mississippi woman, is on trial for
murder at Hazelhurst. She shot and
killed DR.. T. Fl. Butler.
Ambassador Reid and wife sailed
from Southampton on the Kronprinz
Wilhelm for the United States.
The steam barge Hikkok, Oswego,
N. Y, for Belleyille, Ont, is long over
due, and much anxiety is felt for her
| safety.
Three violent patients escaped from
the state hospital for the insane at
| Weston, W. Va, and are believed to
be hiding.
John III. Kejampaa, while crazed
with drink, ran amuck at Astabula,
O., armed with revolver and a knife.
attacking nearly Everyone he met,
| with the result that FIVE men were
more or less seriously injured, and
Kejampaa was killed by policeman.
Train No. So, on the Monon road,
| which is the fast limited of that line
between Cincinnati and Chicago, was
derailed two miles north of Frank
fort, Ind, by broken rail. Eighteen
passengers were injured.
Edward Mcdonald, son of a farmer
| near Benton, ILL.,, accidentally shot
and killed his ten-year-old nephew.
Mcdonald, 1t is believed, has lost his
reason as the result. of the tragedy.
Fire at the plant of the American
and British Manufacturing company.
successors to the Corliss Steam En-
CINE company, at Providence, r. T.,
caused damage estimated at about
$4,000.
F. w. Finley was elected president
Of the Southern Railway company,
succeeding the late Samuel Spencer.
Mr.. Finlay has been second vice pres
ident of the company.
Four men were seriously injured,
two fatally, in freight train wreck
on the Monongahela and Washington
division of the Pittsburg, Virginia &
Charleston railroad at Stock, Pa.
Calvin Drake, Pullman car clean
er at st. Louis, shot and killed Forest
Gay, a saloonkeeper, and fired two
Intellectual shots at Mrs. Drake.
In panic and fire that started
from an explosion of thousands of
paper matches at the factory of F. A.
Rathbun & Co., West Indianapolis,
eight young women were seriously
burned.
East-bound passenger train No. 4
| (the Atlantic express on the Union
Pacific railroad) was derailed near
Church Buttes, Wyo.. 40 miles east
of Ogden, and seven persons were in
| jured.
A witness in the Shea case at Chi
cago told how horses were tortured
| with acid and men were slugged in
the transfers strike Of 1906.
A freight house of the Chicago &
Burlington road at Chicago was
buraed, the loss being 100000.
The annual report of Rear Admiral
Cowles, chief of the bureau of equip
ment, called attention to the impor-
lance of wireless telegraphy in time
of war and of the work already done
and being done in the direction of in
stalling wireless apparatus through
out the service.
The flood at Clifton, Ariz., receded
after much of the town had been de-
stroyed The number of dead is not
known.
Government departments and COM
mercial bodies of Hawaii have organ