River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-04-26

Maggie Goeken, OF Green Valley, ILL.,,
aged four years, was burned to death.
Her clothes caught fire from a stove.
A committee of the Ohio Brewers
association decided to employ after
neys to contest the constitutionality
of the Aiken law and the Jones local
option law, passed recently by the
general assembly.
| An automobile owned and driven by
Daniel Kenney, formerly of Chicago,
and containing three friends, was
struck and demolished on the Big Four
crossing at Danville, one occupant be-
ing killed.
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Railroad company, Darius o. Miller,
| the vice president and traffic manager,
and Claude G. Burnham, the foreign
| freight traffic manager, were fined an
aggregate of 100000 by Judge Bethea
in the United States district court at
Chicago on the charge of granting IL
legal rebates in the shipment of tin
plates to British Columbia.
| An earthquake shock of unusual vio-
lence at Calumet, Mich, spread con-
sternation through the mining coun-
| try and caused the death of one man
and the serious injury of four others.
A gift of 1900 pennies, saved up
in bag, representing the absolute
self denial for the year of nine-year-
old Raymond Shannon from candy
and other childish luxuries, was the
most cherished gift received on Easter
by the sisters of st. Francis hospital,
in Trenton, N. ].
Dependency because the trial board
had recommended his dismissal from
the department, Christopher A.
Schreck, Chicago policeman, killed
himself.
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworh will sail from New York
June 2 for England They will remain
abroad all summer and return to
| Washington October /.
Vast coal interests in West Virginia
tare aroused by the state tax commits
sioner's announcement that coal as
sessments previously made in various
counties would be advanced.
Two simple cures for domestic quar-
rels have been discovered by Magis-
trate Eisenbrown, of Philadelphia. One
| is to allow an angry wife at all times
| to have the last word and the other
requires the husband to take a walk
of four squares as soon as quarrel
starts.
Frank Thompson, son of Gardner
Thompson, prominent farmer living
two miles south of Paw Paw, ILL.,, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the neck with shotgun.
Gov Cummins, of Iowa, reprieved
till August 10, Louis Busse, sentenced
to hang at Anamosa April 20.
Capt. William M. Morrow, Twenty
first infantry, attacked Tiducducs'
band in their mountain fastness on
the island of Samar, killing eight of
them. Three Of the United States sol
diers were wounded.
Mrs. Anna Short, widely known Tor
80 years as an evangelist and home
missionary in Illinois for the Chris
tian church, was found dead in bed
at Bloomington, Ill.
A dispatch from Rome states that
the pope is confined to his bed with
heart trouble. DIR. Lapponi, his physi-
clan, ascribes his trouble to lack of
exercise
The committee in charge of the
plans for the celebration of the semi
centennial of Minnesota's admission to
the union, have decided to hold an
exposition in connection with the an
nual state fair, but to continue Tor
one month.
Representative John c. CLANCY, of
Sullivan, was renominated for con-
gress by the Republicans of the Sec
was by reclamation.
The Cossack officer, Abramoff who
mistreated Maria Spiridonovo, the rev.
olutionist, while she was in prison,
has been assassinated at Borissog-
liebsk
With thousands of innocent persons
suffering from the effect of the Had
dock divorce decision of the United
States supreme court, congress finds
itself powerless to enact any legisla-
lion to legalize their present mar
riages or the illegitimacy of their chill
dren. The states alone can provide q
remedy.
Capt. Ejnar Mikkelsen, the explorer,
who is preparing the schooner Duchess
to start from Victoria, B. c., on May
Is for an arctic cruise, has received
cable from Lord Rothschild adding ST.
900 to his contribution
There is great commotion among
the managers of the large fertilizer
plants in Nashville, Tenn, over ru-
mors that the government is preparing
to proceed against them on the ground
of being in trust
John D. Rockefeller bought the
dwelling at Is West Fifty-fourth street,
New York, and gave it to his son, John
d. Jr. The young man has occupied
the house as lessee for several years.
The price was nearly $250.000.
Mrs. Lavenia Foy, who became the
richest woman in Connecticut by in
venting the modern corset, died at
New Haven at the age of SO. She
leaves about S2,000,000 to her son,
Gen. George II. Harmon.
A grand total of 100000 in contri-
buttons to the starving Japanese was
reached when the American National
Red Cross, through the state depart
ment, cabled an additional $4,000 to
tho Tananpsso Rod Cross