River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-15


had been growing steadily insane for
three years, ever since he gained wide
notice over the birth of triplets in his
family.
Vice Admiral Chouknin, commander
of the Russian Black Sea fleet, was
wounded by woman who attacked him
in his Office in Sebastopol. A sentry who
rushed to the admiraPs assistance, shot
the woman dead.
Political partisans of two rival local
! factions had pistol fight in front of the
city exchange in Savannah, Ga. One
man was killed and three wounded.
Viceroy Tuan Fang and Tai Hung
Chi, the imperial Chinese commission
ers, enjoyed the first sleigh ride of their
lives in Ithaca, N. Y.
The jury in Milwaukee, Wis, court
brought in a verdict of acquittal in the
case of Herman Haasch. former chair
man of the county board, charged with
accepting a bride in connection with
county building contracts.
Wisconsin farmers held convention
in Madison and adopted resolutions in
sisting on general tariff and rate re-
form.
Russian rebels have ceased activity
for the present and are preparing for
a new uprising in the spring.
The Bolivar County bank, a state
institution at Cleveland, Miss, failed
It's assets are given at 100000 with
liabilities of $4,000 Inability to COL
lect outstanding obligations is given as
the cause of the failure.
A jury was secured in Omaha. Neb.,
for the trial of Pat Grove, charged
with robbing E. A. Cudahy of 900
in connection with the kidnapping of
the latter's son December 10, 1900
The supreme court of Illinois in
Springfield administered the last legal
death blow to the hopes of Johann
Hoch, the Chicago wife murderer The
petition of his attorneys for rehear-
ing of his appeal was decided against
him. Unless Gov. Deneen gives an
other reprieve, doch will be hanged
February %.
The executive committee of the
Trans Mississippi congress fixed upon
Tuesday, November 20, 1906, in Kansas
City, Mo-, as the time and place of the
seventeenth congress. The session will
continue four days.
According to a report issued by the
department of commerce and labor,
the aggregate volume of internal COM
merce during 1905 was undoubtedly
the largest for any corresponding peri
cd in the history of the country.
The situation in China makes the
powers reconsider their determination
to withdraw troops from the empire.
John Cremens, of Chicago, a retired
contractor, shot his wife and commit
ted suicide while insane from illness.
Gov. Patterson, of Ohio, signed the
two-cent fare bill passed by the legis-
lature, and it is now a law. 1t pro-
vides that two sents shall be the maxi
mum rate charged in Ohio for trans
porting passengers on the railroads of
Ohio for all distances in excess of five
miles.
A man alleged to have embezzled
$4,000 from the Austrian government
has been arrested in Chicago
Former United States Senator David
B. Hill is seriously i'll in South Caro-
lima, where he went several days ago
to benefit his health.
| Rear Admiral Wilde has the whoop-
ing cough and is in serious condi-
| ton.
Twenty-eight miners were killed by
a West Virginia mine explosion, hid
den pocket of gas becoming ignited.
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white woman two weeks ago has been
sentenced to be hanged.
| Andrew Hamilton illegally got
| 81 ,309,77 from the trustees of the New
York Life Insurance company, ac-
cording to a report made by the COM
mittee to the trustees, and suit is to
be instituted against him, John A. Nc
Call and George w. Perkins to REF
cover the money.
Judge V. M. Rose, of Little Rock,
Ark, announced that he will accept
the peace commissionership at The
| Hague which President Roosevelt re-
Gently rendered him.
| Simeon Wilder and John Hatchett,
of the firm of Wilder & Hatchett, saw
mill men, were instantly killed by a
boiler explosion near Rockhill, Ga.
DR.. Frerrer, the Cuban minister to
Paris, reported to President Palma
that he had purchased a collar Of
pearls as Cuba's wedding gift for
Miss Alice Roosevelt
| Miss Alice Roosevelt has received
| the wedding gift which the French
government had intended for her.
The gift consists of a beautiful Gobe-
| lin representing Justice"
Marquis Ito left Toxic for Seoul,
where he will take the post of jap
anese president general of Korea.
The Illinois supreme court denied
motion for leave to- file petition
for a writ to compel Mayor Dunno, of
Chicago, to enforce the Sunday clos
ing law as applied to saloons. The
court held it had no jurisdiction.
IN a dynamite explosion in the camp
OF the Utah Construction company at
Tank Point, 40. miles west of Grants
vile, Utah, three men were killed.
In a fight between Andrew Dirker,
a wealthy farmer, and Robert Copeley.
at Ironton, o., the latter struck Dirker
win his fist, killing him instantly.
Copeley was arrested.
Manufactures from New York and
other places will ask congress to re-
move the internal revenue on alcohol.