River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-08

the In1rd MASSACHUSETTS ulSIflct, SUI
| of the late Senator George F. Hoar,
died at Worcester, after an illness OF
| five weeks.
Four men are dead as the result OF
battle near Kennewick, Wash, be-
tween officers and two men who had
robbed two stores in Kennewick.
The Indian Territory Federation OF
Women's clubs, in annual session at
Tulsa, adopted, by unanimous vote,
resolutions favoring separate schools
| for whites and blacks in the new state
of Oklahoma.
BY almost a miracle the teachers
and pupils at the Gallatin public
school house, Springhill township, Pa,
escaped being crushed to death. Just
as they left the building and the last
teacher was closing the outside door
the walls began to bulge and in less
than minute the structure was in
ruins.
Two passenger trains on the Union
Pacific railroad, eastbound overland
flyer No. and the eastbound Pacific
Coast express No. Z, collided head-on
the engines were demolished.
Oily Hit, left-handed pitcher of the
Pacific coast league, has signed con-
tract for next season with the Cincin-
natl National league management.
Burris A. Jenkins, president of Ken
lucky university, has resigned his
presidency, because of i'll health.
Dalny was opened to the trade of
the world on September l without any
ceremony whatever. At present no
business houses are available, but a
number of japanese firms have OBJ
tanned permission to repair buildings
which were damaged in the late war
and merchants of other nations prob
ably can obtain the same right.
Gerschunin, one of the most famous
| terrorists and head of their fighting
organization" during the Sipiaguine
and Plehve regimes, has escaped from
the mines of Siberia concealed in a
| water cask.
The third and last car of the Thor
oughfare wreck has been lifted from
the water. When placed on the mud
bank the car was in such condition
that it actually fell apart of it's own
weight. Chief of Police Maxwell and
squad of officers made diligent
search for any bodies that may have
been wedged in the car, but found
none.
An explosion in coal mine at OF
tumwa, Ia, killed Kinsey Houston,
fatally injured Oscar Lowe, and Sc
verely hurt three other miners.
Jacob Swigert, a banker of Farmer
City, ILL.,, and formerly member of the
state legislature, died, aged 70 years.
Thomas j. Devin, a brother-in-law of
President Benjamin Harrison, died at
Ottumwa, Ia, aged 80 years. He was
married to Sarah Harrison in 1859.
Mrs Devin and two children survive.
The will of William Scully, other
wise known as Lord" Scully, said to
be the largest owner of real estate in
America, was filed at washington for
probate. The document was executed
April %, 1901. All his lands, none of
which are outside the United States,
are devised absolutely to his wife, e..
Angela Scully
Six revolutionlsts, disguised as a
sergeant and five privates, drove up
in a wagon to the government powder
stores at Okhta, a suburb of st. Pc
tersburg, and presented formal order
for delivery of 575 pounds of pyroxy-
lin and $50 pounds of smokeless pow
der. The material was delivered, the
six men loaded it on their wagon and
drove away.
Herchall Order, aged GO years, O.
near Rowena, KY, fell asleep IL years
ago, and all efforts to awaken him
have proved unavailing to this day.
Sensational charges were made In
ten indictments which were returned
by the Chittenden county grand jary
in connection with the sale of diseased
cattle in Vermont and in the sale OF
which, according to the indictments,
two former members of the state cat
tie commission, participated with g
full knowledge that such cattle would
be used for food purposes.
Fire destroyed the entire opera
house block at Leipsic, o., entailing
q loss of 100000. The fire started in
the Knights of Pythias lodge rooms
and within an hour the entire block
was consumed.
William Horlick has purchased and
presented to the city of Racine, Wis,
a large island in Root river Mr.. Hor-
lick has also donated generous sum
to convert this island into beautiful
park, much needed in Racine.
The University of Moscow was
closed by order of the rector until No
vember II, in consequence of viola
tions of the rule against open political
meetings being held in the university
building.
The colonial government has de-
cided to test the validity of the modus
vivendi 1t issued an official notice
enforcing the bait act, which forbids
New Foundlanders to fish on board
| foreign vessels within colonial waters,
and it intends to prosecute one or
more colonial fishermen who have
been shipped by Americans outside
the three-mile limit.
Capt John Joseph Kennedy, aged
"a, a pioneer river engineer, known
among river men from Pittsburg to
the gulf, died at Cincinnati.
Gov Davidson returned to Madison
| i'll with rheumatism as a result of
strenuous automobile campaigning.