River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-04-04
Ex-Representative James T. Nj

Cleary Of Minnesota was sworn IN as
second assistant acknowledgement in
succession to William S. ShailenbeTg-
er resigned.
There are now nearly 100000
more people in continental United
States than there were six years ago.
| The above estimate is based upon fig
ures compiled by the census bureau
! in a special report. The estimated
population for 1906 was 1891 SO.
Executive officials of railroads OPP
Grating in Missouri and Arkansas de-
cided to contest the two-cent fare
laws passed in those states.
Twenty-six persons were killed and
about 100 injured when the Southern
Pacific's Sunset express ran into an
! open switch near Cotton, Cal. The
victims were nearly all Italians.
The Minnesota supreme court up
held the Great Northern railroad in
its contention that it had the right to
issue $60,000,000 of additional stock
which was authorized by the board of
directors.
At South McAlester, I. T., seven
prisoners overpowered their guards
and escaped from the United States
| jail. One man was recaptured.
Jennie Burch, who killed baby Will
! bur Winship at Carmel, n. Y, was
found not guilty by reason of insanity
and the court committed her to Mat
teawan asylum for criminals.
Fire in South Boston, Va, destroyed
tobacco factories and other buildings,
threatened the destruction of the en-
tire town and entailed loss estimat-
ed as high as 100000.
Miss Bertha McNally, % years old,
committed suicide at Canton, O., by
| taking carbolic acid, on the day set
| for her wedding to Emil Knolle, a
Pittsburg policeman, who died six
weeks ago.
| All danger of infection having
passed, the quarantine placed upon
| the room in the White House occd-
pied by Archie Roosevelt during his
| illness from diphtheria was raised.
Gen. Kuroki will represent the Jap
anese army at the jamestown cele-
bration.
| Fire at Savannah, Mo-, destroyed
two stores and damaged a lumber
yard. Loss, 100000; insurance, $780,
000 Savannah has no fire depart
ment and 800 citizens fought the
| flames with buckets.
small tornado slightly damaged
the suburbs of Chanute, Kan. No one
was hurt.
A locomotive attached to an ore
train on the Pittsburg, Youngstown &
Ashtabula railroad, a branch of the
Lake Shore line, exploded at Lock
wood O. Engineer H. E. Watson of
Mahoningtown, Pa, is supposed to
have been blown to pieces.
President Roosevelt has decided to
| increase the American delegation to,
the coming peace conference at The
| Hague.
New York fires in 1906 entailed a
loss Of s5,679,691.
Chick Stahl, well known ball
player committed suicide at West
Baden Ind, by drinking carbolic acid.
The Corbin Banking company of
New York assigned for the benefit of
creditors. Assets, $3,O00,000; liabili-
ties, $1,700,O0O
Fire in Iroquois, Ontario, destroyed
two hotels, four stores and two dwell
ings, the loss being 100000.
Five of the seven trustees of the
Foundation for the Promotion of In
dustriaI Peace authorized by recent
act of congress to take over and ad-
minister the $4,000 Nobel peace
prize awarded to President Roosevelt,
met and effected an organization, with
Chief Justice Fuller as president.
Judge Mcmahon decided the plant
of the Laporte Qnd) Water Supply
company belonged to the city of La
| porte.
William A. Proctor, president of the
Proctor & Gamble company and son
of one of the firms founders, died
from a bullet wound, self-inf1icted, at
his home in Glendale, a suburb of
| Cincinnati.
| Thirty sacks of gold, valued at $10,-
| 900, said to have been stolen from the
mines at Rhyolite, New, and shipped
into Pueblo, was seized by a United
| States marshal.
| Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco de-
MED the story that he had profited
to the extent of $662,000 from partici-
pating in boodling operations, and in
timated that as soon as he was well,
he would sue the papers for libel.
James Henry Smith, of New York,
who inherited over $50, 900, 900 from his
uncle, George Smith, died in Kioto,
Japan. He was on his bridal tour.
An explosion in a fireworks factory
on Staten island killed one man and
fatally injured boy and two girls.
A. l.. Sutton, chief of the bureau of
exploitation of the jamestown Exposi-
ton company, rendered his resignation
at the request of the board of govern
ors upon charges filed by a tourists
| bureau.
William West, of Montgomery, Ala,
shot and killed Engineer Fraser and,
finding escape impossible, turned his
pistol on himself, dying a few mo-
ments later. West was accused of
stealing diamond ring from Fraser.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
began an investigation of the abuse of
the express ranking privilege.
John w. Leonard, a Chicago police
man, killed his wife and himself by
shooting.