River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Charles T. Yerkes, street railway
magnate and financier, died at the
Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, leav-
ing his Fifth avenue mansion and it's
treasures of art to that city. The mag
Mates wife, from whom he had been
estranged for years, was reconciled to
him on his deathbed.
Two s1uggers and five union men
who hired them were found guilty in
the Gilhooley case at Chicago, with
prison terms as the punishment.
Tortured by fear, hunger and thirst,
Joseph Davis wandered for nine days
in the abandoned corridors of mine
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, and when finally
rescued ate so ravenously that his life
almost paid the penalty.
me American Association for the
Advancement of Science at New Or
leans adopted resolution asking con-
gress to Immediately take steps to
preserve Niagara falls.
Engineer Frederick Barlow, Fire
man T. Erwin and Brakeman Edward
Gosslin were killed in a collision on
the Great Northern road at Granville,
N. d. Several passengers were in
jured, none seriously.
Claude A. Bagby. of Durango, Col,
was shot and killed at Notre Dame,
Ind, by Louis Roquels, of South Amer
ica, whom Bagby and number of 9th
er students tried to hold up as a joke.
Engineer John J. O'Brien, of Kouts,
Ind, Fireman G. B. Oliver, of Hunting
ton, Ind, and Brakeman Lemuel Fish
er, of Rochester, Ind, were killed by
the blowing up Of a freight engine near
Disco Hill. Ind.
William Beach and his wife and
mother-in-law were fatally injured at
Wheeling, w. Va, by the collapse of
their home.
Over $5,000,000 revenue will be pro-
duced as the result of the first years
operation of the stock transfer law
in New York state.
District Attorney Jerome, in open
court, declared that the gambling
houses and pool rooms are as numer-
Gus as ever and scored the police for
failing to suppress them.
The supreme court at st. Paul hand
ed down an opinion in which the court
holds the inheritance tax law constitu-
tional and valid legal enactment.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned an indictment against the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
and two of it's officials on charges of
violating the Elkins law in regard to
rebates.
DR.. Oliver B. Hart, of Chicago, who
entered plea of guilty of murder in
the case of Irene Klowkow, ten years
old, was sentenced by Judge Barnes to
Is years in the penitentiary.
A strike of structural iron workers
caused a lay-off of 2,100 men at steel
mills at South Chicago Ill.
Matthew Patterson Wood, consulting
engineer, scientist and author, died at
his home in New York city, after a
protracted illness. He was the author
of many papers in technical subjects.
A new high record of price for a
scat on the New York stock exchange
was reached when $4,000 was paid,
This with the $4,000 initiation fee
brings it up to $4,000.
Robert McFall and Clarence Misner,
six and eight years old, were drowned
near Terre Haute, Ind, while skating
Mr.. Merritt, of New York, says Pres
Ident Roosevelt is trying to obtain con
troll of the party organizations in New
York, Connecticut and Ohio.
In preparation for possible Russian
crisis France orders warships to be
made ready for service in the North
sea.
Gov Hayward, of South Carolina, or
dered the arrest of $50 white men, who
lynched two negroes at Barnwell last
Friday.
Irvine Baxter, United States district
attorney for Nebraska has been sum
marily removed from ofico by Presi
dent Roosevelt.