River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-14

| -Four Italians were arrested III NEW
York as a result of the murder of Mrs.
Alice Kinnan, and story told by one
of them would indicate that she had
been killed by mistake.
Thirty-fiye thousand Christian Sci
entists assisted in the dedication OF
the new 100000 mother church at
Boston, six services being held.
While dressing for partys Miss
Annie Weisenborn, of Belleville, ILL.,,
broke her left arm in trying to button
her shirtwaist up the back.
Judge Alfred Watson Benson, OF Ut
tawa, Kan, was offered the appoint
ment of United States senator to sue
coed Joseph r. Burton, stated that ne
would accept the position.
Thomas P. Coyne, former county
clerk, was killed in a runaway at
funeral at Madison, Wis. Mr.. Coyne
was drummer boy in the civil war.
Thirty-four Christian Scientists
were injured through the overturnlng
of large sightseeing automobile In
the Brighton district at Boston.
The first educators to be awarded
pensions from the $10,000,000 Carnegie
fund are two members of the faculty
of Ripon college. They are DR.. Il. n.
Merrill, former president of the col
lege and Prof. G. H. Chandler.
A tornado at Dewey, I. T., demol-
ished several residences and wrecked
200 oil derricks.
Col. Henry J. Latshaw, who at one
time represented the Fifth Missouri
district in congress, died in Kansas
City.
A terrific wind and rain storm swept
over Ontario from one end of the
southern peninsula to the other, demol-
ishing buildings, uprooting trees and
leaving the telegraph and telephone
lines in tangled mass of wires.
An unusually severe rain and wind
storm did mnch damage to crops and
farm property in various Indiana coun-
| ties. In South Bend and Peru the wind
unroofed buildings and caused loss of
| thousands of dollars.
Following a spell Of very oppressive
weather throughout central New York,
word comes of violent storms which
| did considerable damage at number
of points.
AS a result of the strike at Cananea,
Mexico, mines of Col. w. G. Greene,
the American miners are crossing the
line now in droves.
The strike in the Indiana coal fields
ended when the joint convention of
| operators and miners voted unan1-
mously to report of the joint scale
committee. Work will be resumed at
once.
Gov. Warfield, of Maryland, has ap-
pointed William Pinckney Whyte, the
noted lawyer and former governor and
United States senator, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of United
States Senator German.
Purchasing Agent Charles Armitage,
of the Illinois Eastern hospital, was
summoned before the grand jury at
Kankakee with the records of coal
purchases made by the state institu-
ton for three years.
Daniel Szelig, refugee from San
Francisco, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself in the presence
of his two children at st. Louis. SEE
| lig had been separated from his wife
| for two years.
There were rumors that charges
| had been filed against a member of
| the Illinois supreme bench and that
| the secret night session of the court
in itself an extraordinary proceeding
was held to consider the evidence in
the case.
The number killed in the riots at
Cananea will probably never be
known. The Mexican authorities bur-
| led the dead without any attempt at
| Identification.
The Miners International Congress
held it's closing sitting at London I'M
der The presidency of ]. P. White, pres
ident of the American Miners associa-
ton. Resolutions were adopted in ia
vor OF miners old age pensions and the
NATURALIZATION of miners.
F. L. McKoy and Chester Ogle,
miners, were blown to atoms in a
shaft by a premature explosion in a
mine near Carterville, Mo. Scott AL
frey and H. G. Bishop were injured
when freight train backed into the
ambulance.
All the Ohio troops in the Jefferson
county mining region have been or
dered home.
The Stockholm Bladet asserts that
Russia has sent military detachment
to the Aland islands Tin the Gulf of
Bothnia) to do patrol service against
Finland, and that this section is a
breach of the treaty of Paris.
Six dead, many seriously injured and
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty blown away, briefly summarizes
the effects of the storms which devas-
tated sections of Minnesota and Wis
consln.
Thunder showers, electric storms and
heavy downpours of rain that have
prevailed throughout western Pennsyl-
vania during the entire week Gull
minated in cloudbursts in Cambria,
| Westmoreland, Somerset and Butler
counties, that caused the rivers and
creeks toaoverfiow, flooding the streets
in many communities and disseminate
ing a general flood scare.
| Sweeping a path one mile and a
quarter wide for a distance of three
miles a tornado that struck the viii
lagos of Martin and Monteith, Mich,
killed William West, a farm laborer,
| aged "a