River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-09

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committee.
Fire completely Quilted the five
story brick building on the southeast
corner of Eighth and Walnut streets,
st. Louis, occupied as the southwest
ern headquarters of the Salvation
Army, with Jurisdiction over 80 insti-
tutions throughout Missouri, southern
Illinois, Arkansas, Texas and Louisi-
ana Joe Matthews, employed as a
baler of waste paper, fell or jumped
from the fire escape at the third floor
and was dashed to death on the pave
ment
Mrs. Thomas w. Lawson, wife Of the
Boston financier, died at Scituate,
Mass. Mrs. Lawson has been suffer
ing from heart disease for several
months.
In the streets of Chadwick, Mo-,
Charles Freeman, a merchant, and
Robert Keene, 10 years old, fought a
duel to the death with revolvers.
Nicholas Berti, aged 30 years,
well-known resident of Vineland, N. j.,
was shot and instantly killed by Alex
ander Cordella, a prominent farmer
living near that place.
Robert Edward Pearce, three years
old, who was shot by the negro, Ell
mer Dempster July 20, died at Wash
ington, Pa, of hemorrhages, caused by
the bullet wound. The child was
wounded at the time Dempster killed
Mrs. Pearce and two others of her
children.
While apparently crazed John earle,
a homeless youth, crept up behind
William d. Pearson, travelling sales
man, in New York, and plunged long
knife into his back.
The signal corps headquarters in
Washington has been advised that the
cable duplexing apparatus sent to Sc
attic for use on the Alaskan cable has
been complete success.
The admiralty has aband oned all
further attempts to refoat the British
battleship Montagu, which ran ashore
in a fog off Shutter Point, Lundy isl
and, May 3.
Memorial services for the late Rear
Admiral Charles J. Train, commander
in-chief of the United States Asiatic
fleet, who died at Chefoo August 4,
were held on shore. Representatives
of the American, French and Chinese
fleets attended.
Judge Babcock, in common pleas
court at Toledo, o., handed down his
decision in the ice cases, sustaining
Judge Kinkade in every particular and
generating him of having made any
promise or suggestion of leniency as
claimed by the attorneys for the ice
trust. The judge declared the conten.
tons of the attorneys for the trust to
be ridiculous.
Because he had refused to marry
her, Marie Shabara, an Italian girl 20
years of age, shot and killed her cou-
sin, Nicola Felrare, "a years old, in
the Italian district near the Five
Points mission, New York, in the pres
ence of hundreds of their countrymen.
Alfred E. Bills, who has openly sup
ported John Alexander Dowie in his
fight against Wilbur Glenn Voliva,
filed petition with Judge Lands in
the United States district court at
Chicago announcing his candidacy for
the Office of general overseer of the
Christian Catholic church in Zion AL
most simultaneously with the filing of
the petition by Bills Voliva's petition
as a candidate for the same Office was
filed.
r. G.. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade says: Trade reports are eSpe-
cially gratifying from the northwest
and other points that are dependent
upon agricultural results, but all Sec
tons of the nation enjoy great pros
perity and there is scarcely discord-
ant note in any of the dispatches.
Scarcity of labor is the only serious
complaint.
The governor of Samara was in
stantlY killed by bomb thrown by an
assassin who was subsequently arrest
ed. The governors lead and feet were
toSn off by the explosion.
In runaway accident near Lehigh,
Iowa, two children of Mr.. and Mrs.
AXel Johnson were killed, and two
more children and the mother were
badly injured.
Fifteen thousand men are need ed
in Minnesota, Iowa and the two Da-
kotas and about thousand are avail
able The wages offered by the farm
ers range from $1.75 to So day and
board, but the jobs go begging.
Timothy Sullivan, of Detroit, and
Herbert Walker, IL years old, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William HI. Walker, of
Swan Creek, Mich, were drowned in
Swan creek near the Walker home. 1t
is believed they fell into the water
while reaching for pond lilies.
At Pensacola, Fla, an investigation
of the alleged peonage at the Jackson
Lumber company's camp at Lockhart,
Ala, resulted in three men being held
to the United States court for trial
under heavy bond.
The Minnesota state railroad and
warehouse commission entered an or
der compelling the railroads whose Of
ficials have given testimony in the
merchandise rate hearing, which has
been in progress during the present
year, and which was lately resumed,
to produce at the Office of the COM
mission all records on which their
statistics have been based.
Secretary Root, Lloyn G. Griscom.
the American ambassador, and Senior
lean congress, visited the Brazilian