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

Inc Will OF Inc late ex-senator
Brown, filed at Salt Lake City, dis
claims paternity of Mrs. Bradley's
children, and cuts them off absolutely.
Jacques Schoenberger, a first class
passenger on board the steamer Kron-
prinz Wilhelm, disappeared on the
/ way over to Europe.
Charles d. Faber, city paving in
spector and ex-mayor of Montgomery,
Ala, was shot by his assistant and
former chief city detective, w. H.
Murphy
The French governments new re-
ligious measure was passed by the
chamber of deputies with the over
whelming majority of 413 to 166.
The Illinois state board of equaliza-
ton made its final reports. Grand total
of assessments as returned by the
board is $1,126, 470,836, an increase
over last year of $30,789,279.
John d. Rockefeller said he would
go into court whenever summoned.
Henry Chesterfield, a retired bust
ness man of Elgin, Ill.,, was killed in
the woods near that city while cut
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and crushed him.
The parish church at Baldernock,
near Glasgow, Scotland, where Presi-
dent RooseVelt's maternal ancestors,
the Stobos and Bullocks, worshiped
in bygone days, was burned.
Ten terrorists were executed at
Riga, Russia. They belonged to a
band guilty of series of robberies,
bomb outrages and murders extending
over months, and also were concerned
in plot to kill Baron Moeller-Sako-
melsky, governor general of the Baltic
provinces.
Curtis Jet was found guilty of the
assassination of James CockrelI, town
marshal at Jackson, KY, four years
ago, and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
President Roosevelt asked e. H.
Hartman to close the break in Colo
RADIO river causing the Salton sea.
Richards, Comstock, Jameson and
Triplett, of the Nebraska Land and
Feeding company, were convicted of
fraud at Omaha.
President A. Il. Stickney, of the
Chicago Great Western railway,
blamed shippers for the car shortage.
Gov. Higgins committed to impris-
onment for life the sentence of death
under which Albert T. Patrick has re-
NAMED nearly five years, since his
conviction of the murder Of William
Marsh Rice, the aged Texas million
aire, in New York city.
Attorney General julius Mayer, in
the name of the people of the state of
New York, began an action against
the American Ice company for the dis
solution of the so-called '.ice trust"
Mrs. Elizabeth Stalker, of Williams
burg, Pa, celebrated the one hun
dred and sixth anniversary of her
birth. Among the kilograms of con-
graduation she received was one from
President Roosevelt.
A masked bandit at Leadville, Col,
after shooting and fatally wounding
Joe Dale, ticket agent at the Denver
& Rio Grande depot, robbed the cash
drawer of its contents and escaped.
Mrs. Frank Mills, SO years old, was
burned to death and go persons were
made homeless by fire at Butler, Pa,
which caused loss of $4,000
A reduction of more than $4,000, 900
or 2783 per cent, in the excess of ex-
penditures over receipts of the post
Office department is shown in the an
nual report of Edwin c. Madden, third
assistant postmaster general
The post Office employees OF Austria,
numbering $4,000 men and women,
have voted to go on strike at once as
a protest against the conditions under
which they are forced to labor by the
government
The Vatican issued note of protest
against the course of the French gov
eminent and forwarded it to all papal
representatives abroad, including the
apostolic delegates.
Sheriff Alex Compton, of Wabash
county, ILL.,, was shot and killed at
Keensburg while about to take child
from it's father, David Kellum, and
turn it over to the mother.
The shipment Of coffee from Rio
Janeiro is at a standstill owing to the
fact that the stevedores have gone
out on strike.
One man was killed and another
hurt by a recklessly driven automo-
bile in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stalker, of Williams
burg, Pa, pioneer resident of Blair
county, celebrated the 106th anniver-
sary of her birth. Among the tele-
grams of congratulation received was
one from President Roosevelt.
The United States will have i'm
ported an aggregate of $50,000,000
worth of crude India rubber at the
close of the present year, according
to a statement by the department of
commerce and labor.
A merger of the leading wooden
mills of the south, involving capital
ization of 81 $50 900, has been effected.
The combine will be known as the
American Textile Woolens company.
The London Chronicle says Joseph
Chamberlain's memory is entirely
gone as a result of being overtaxed
at the celebration in honor of his
10th birthday.
Pietro Cuneo, former United States
consul at Turin, Italy, and for so
years editor of the Union Republican
at, Upper Sandusky, o., died of apo