River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10

Fire destroyed Inc Dig IurHiIuI0
store of Cowperthwaite & Sons at
Third avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-first street, New York, entail
ing a loss estimated at half million
dollars and causing the injury OF four
firemen.
A sweeping investigation iE-o the
question as to the compliance with
the new corrupt practices act by can
didates and party committees con-
cerned in the November election in
New York is promised by the new at
torney general, William S. Jackson.
Will Harvey, negro was hanged
at Mayorsville, Miss, three minutes
before notice that his sentence had
been committed reached the sheriff OF
Issaquena county.
Senator Culberson of Texas de-
Tended the order of the president dis
missing the colored soldiers for the
shooting affair at Brownsville.
Maj. Gen. Won der Launitz, project OF
police of st. Petersburg, was shot and
killed by young man at the Institute
of Experimental Medicine. The assas-
sin was killed by officers.
Snowstorms and billiards. of eXceps
tional severity are prevailing through
out southern and southwestern Rus
STA. According to some accounts LOU
persons succumbed to the cold.
Partisan clubmen created a riotous
scene in the Moulin Rouge in an in
effectual effort to prevent the Mar
quise de Morny, niece of Napoleon ILL.,,
presenting an improper sketch on the
stage.
Federal Judge Sanborn sentenced
to jail several leaders of the striking
molders in Milwaukee for violating an
injunction.
Mrs. Clara S. Heyl of Milwaukee
was granted a divorce from jacob
Heyl and the property was divided.
A fire which started from the flash
of a miners blast in the Ellsworth
mine No. 8 at Cokesburg, Pa, owned
by the Lackawanna Coal company,
caused a loss of 100000.
Eight persons were injured, two
perhaps fatally, in a street car &C
cident at Cleveland, o. While rum
ming at a high rate of speed a car
jumped the track and ran into an iron
trolley pole.
Southern Pacific passenger train
No. IA, northbound, known as the
Portland express, ran into washout
near Comstock, 25 miles south OF
Eugene, Ore. The engineer is report
ed missing, mail clerk seriously hurt
and several passengers injured.
w. K McDougal, railroad man,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head in the City of Mexico.
He was well known in railroad circles,
especially in Chicago and Toronto.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Kurdy, 70 years OF
age. who lived with her son in ST..
Paul, Mimi, was found in the cellar
of the residence dead with her head
beaten to pulp. The house had been
robbed of $500.
Prof. Otto Benndorf, the archeolo-
gist, is dead in Vienna. He was noted
for his discoveries of antiquities ia
Ephesus.
In Madrid counterfeit coin factory,
raided by the police, it was found that
women were used to distribute the
spurious product.
The Paris Journal says that Jacques
Lebaudy, the self-styled emperor Of
the Sahara is making a tour of the
United States.
Prof. Albert William Berg, for 40
years organist at the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION, commonly known as
"The Little Church Around the Cor
ner," in New York, died in that city,
aged 81 years.
Another break occurred in the Col
orado river, and Washington officials
say the 100000 set aside for repair
work by e. H. Hartman will be insult
ficient to protect the Imperial valley
in California.
William r. Hearst, speaking before
the New York city committee of the
independence league, said: Il myself
am not and will not be again can
didate for any office"
The Louisiana railroad commission
will investigate the complaint of lum-
bermen that they lose $1,000,0O0 a
year by railroads charging in excess
of weight.
James H. Wilcox, So years of age,
former president of the Second Ma
tlonal bank of Pittsburg, Pa, and di-
rector in over two score of corpora
tons died after an extended illness.
A report which gained currency
throughout Cyrenaica, Africa, that the
mahdi is still alive caused great ex-
element. He was reported to have
died four years ago.
Interstate commerce commissioners
report that the recent car shortage
and consequent fuel famine were
caused by the abundant west-bound
traffic at the head of the lakes.
Andrew Carnegie made a gift OF
$50 900 to Lafayette college, with the
promise of more.
A 100000 fire, resulting in the
death of one man and the injury of six
firemen, occurred in Montreal, Que
bee.
Dekalb, ILL.,, has 40 cases of scarlet
fever. The normal school and other
public institutions are closed.
The Nebraska house of representa-
tives adopted a resolution barring
lobbyists from the floor.
Conrad Rausch, baker in Downey.
Cal, accused his wife of unfaithfulness