River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-15

pOSeu OF prominent luemUeiS u Iuc
race from all parts of the United
States, organized at New York.
Fire that started at Ottawa, Kan,
from gas explosion totally destroyed
the John Nelson building, the largest
structure in the city.
Mrs. Esther Summer Damon, said to
be the last surviving widow of a sol
der of the revolutionary war, died at
her home in Plymouth Union, VT, at
the age of SO years.
Marine engineers employed on the
tug boats and the ferry boats of the
ton asking for an increase in pay of
$40 a month.
The Dominion steamer Kensington
is reported ashore at Matan, 1876 miles
below Quebec The Kensington was
bound from Liverpool to Montreal. A
snowstorm was raging when the
steamer struck.
A serious split has occurred in the
ranks of the liberal party in Cuba,
due to the belief of the more radical
element, largely composed of negroes,
that Alfredo Zayas is too friendly
with the Americans, even to the ex-
tent of secretly fayoring annexation
of the island by the Unitetd States.
A state of ~panic exists in the town
of Maria and the vicinity in Precsidio
county, Texas. Twelve deaths have
occurred in the town Of a few hun
dred population from an unknown and
malignant disease which recently
made it's appearance.
Before a number of medical men
and scientists at San Francisco Drs.
Albert j. Atkins and e. j. Lewis sue
ceeded in charging an electric cir
cult with human electricity to such
degree that external sound waves
were transmitted and heard through
an ordinary telephone receiver.
Clarence Igenfitz, aged 20 years,
shot his sweetheart, Mary Kutz, and
then committed suicide at Drytown,
Pa. Because they were first cousins
Miss Kutz refused to marry him.
Henry Firth Smith, 25 years old, son
of Joseph Smith, a prominent and
wealthy business man of Pittsburg,
Pa, was shot twice and almost in
stantly killed by burglar whom he
surprised in the dining-room of his
fathers residence.
Thomas Dougherty, a prominent
young man of Dunmore, Pa, died as
the result of being stabbed by an un-
known woman. Dougherty declared
that he was visiting woman and that
after which he was taken i'll.
A north-bound Frisco passenger
train collided with an engine standing
on curve at the edge of Fort Worth,
killing Fireman Joseph D. Wilkinson
and probably fatally injuring Engineer
Robert Fowler
While attention was directed to the
outskirts of Hillsboro, Tex, by two
destructive fires, the hardware store
of Smith & Thomas, located in the
center of the business district was
dynamited and partly wrecked by rob-
berS.
James A. Guest, head of the Guest
Piano company at Burlington, Ia, died
after a long illness at the age of 81
years. He was civil war veteran and
prominent in FreetMasonry.
Charles Feeney,,40 years DID, known
in baseball circles as Fat" died sud.
denly at Springfield, Ill. He weighed
$50 pounds.
At least IL workmen are believed to
have been killed in the collapse of the
new Bixby hotel at Long Beach, Cal.
A score of other persons were in
jured and taken from the mass of
wreckage. One man is missing and
eight bodies have been recovered.
The Russian ministry of marine is
considering the desirability of organ
izing an expedition for the discovery
of sea route to Boring straits
through the Arctic ocean.
John Price Wetherill, one of Phila-
delphia's richest man, who accumu-
lated his wealth in the zinc business.
is dead. He was about GO years of
age.
P. T. Powers, who was recently re-
elected to the presidency of the East
ern Baseball league of baseball clubs,
sold the controlling interest in the
Providence team of the league to
Hugh Duffy and A. G. Doe.
DR.. Walter j. Marcley, superintend-
ent of the Massachusetts state SAM
forum at Rutland, resigned to become
superintendent of the Minnesota state
sanitorium for tubercular patients
now being built at Walker, Mimi.
A plot Matched in Cripple Creek by
a band of desperadoes to hold UP
Short Line train No. on it's arrival
at Rosemont was foiled.
d. o. Smart, one of the wealthiest
pioneer citizens of Kansas City, Mo-
died of apoplexy while participating
in revival service at the Independ
ence Avenue Christian church.
An automobile containing Sir Thorn.
as Upton, Wilson Marshall, whose
guest Sir Thomas was; Thomas H
Macdonald and r. A. G. Smith was
wrecked by the breaking of the front
axle just after the party had started
on trip to Bridgeport, Conn, fac
tory, and that serious injury did not
result to the occupants is believed to
have been due to the fact that the
car was running slowly.
At Lodz, Russian Poland, seven ma
tionalist workmen were shot down by
socialists