River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-22

open by nitroglycerin and the robbers
escaped with 81 900.
Rev. DR.. Raphael Benjamin, rabbi
of the Temple Beth Elohim, of Brook
/ Ign, and formerly rabbi of the Mount
Street temple of Cincinnati, died in
Brooklyn. He was 60 years old, and a
| member of many geographical, histor-
ical, scientific and charitable societies.
William Randolph Hearst, Independ-
ent League and Democrataic candi
j date for governor, certified to the sec
] Rotary of state that he had spent $256.
/ $40 in promoting his canvass.
Mrs. Frank r. Stockton, widow OF
the novelist, is critically i'll at her res
idence in Washington.
The Bank of Henderson, Ia, was
dynamited by robbers. They secured
nearly $4,000 and escaped.
The grand jury at San Francisco
| brought five indictments against Eu-
gene Schmitz and Abraham Ruef on
/ the charge of extortion. On each
charge the bail was fixed at $4,000
and bond at $4,000.
A small fire occurred in the Ameri-
can embassy at st. Petersburg. Start
/ ing at the fireplace in Ambassador
Meyers Office, it crept beneath the
| flooring for considerable distance.
| Firement tore up the floor and extin-
guished the fire.
The deep water ways convention,
which held its opening session at st.
Louis, passed resolution calling on
congress to appropriate 100000
! for water way between the great
! lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. It
was evident from the start that the
! delegates were emphatically opposed
| to the effort to limit the amount of
water Chicago may turn into the
drainage canal.
Several lives reported lost, the
i town of Catlin swept away by the
/ Cowlitz river, railroad traffic between
/ Puget sound and Portland at stand
| still, the railroads of western and
northwestern Washington in the same
condition, the Union Pacific and Ore
/ gon Railroad & Navigation track tenn
porarily blockaded by land slide at
Dodson, briefly summarizes the known
destruction wrought by the storm in
j Washington.
The insurance department of the
/ state of Connecticut has issued an Of
fetal statement giving the figures of
| the net amount of fire insurance paid
out by Connecticut companies by rea-
son of the San Francisco disaster.
/ Fhe total amount is 1861 100.
Six Columbus, o., ice companies
and firms alleged to be in combina-
ton to control prices were indicted
/ for the third time, the first and sec
ond indictments having been dis
missed by the court as defective.
4 Rev. DIR. James Mason Hoppin, pro-
/ fessor emeritus of art at Yale univer-
/ sity died in his eighty sixth year from
| disease incident to old age. He was
retired from active connection with
the art school in 1899.
Official returns from county can
wasting boards in Iowa gave Cum
minis (Rep.) 20,453 plurality for gov
ernor over Porter (Dem.). The total
vote was: Cummins, 216,505; Porter.
196,O52. Cummins' plurality In 1908
was 1907.
Embodying membership of over
million, claiming to represent more
than one-seventh of the entire popula-
ton of the country, the American So
ciety of Equity, the recently formed
j national farmers union, Thursday be-
came affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, now in conven-
ton at Minneapolis and agreed to an
interchange of labels.
Representative Bourke Cochran and
Miss Annie Ide, daughter of Henry
Clay Ide, formerly governor general
of the Philippines, were married in
| New York by the Rev. Father Nc
Kinnon of st. Ignatius church.
T. e. Larry pleaded guilty to the
embezzlement of $1,000 funds belong
ing to the First National bank of
West, McLennon county, Texas,
where he was cashier, and was SEN
fenced to five years in the federal PEN
| itentiary.
Thirty-eight kegs of dynamite ex-
ploded at the surface workings of the
Boston Consolidated copper mine in
Bingham camp, near Salt Lake City.
The dead: Mike Coglietta. Fatally in
jured: Samuel Coglietta, N. Coglietta.
Hurt seriously: John Monahan; may
lose both eyes; George Telegrino,
head and face cut.
/ The Oregonian received telephone
message that Seattle is cut off from
the surrounding county by floods.
Three lives have been lost The dam
age will run into the hundreds of thou
sands.
i Harris Swimmer, grand foreman
of Illinois Ancient Order United Work
men, past president of B'nai Birth of
the middle west and prominent mer-
chant, died at Quincy, H., aged 62
i years.
i Mrs. Margaret Bottome,. president
of the international Order of the
Kings Daughters and Sons, and of
the women's branch of International
Medical missions, died at New York,
aged rs years.
Colonial officials boarded the Amer
lean herring schooner Ralph Hall at
Bay of Islands, made note of the
names of New Foundlanders at work
on board the schooner and notified
them that they would be prosecuted.
The Bank of Beckwith & Co., It