River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

and killed at her home in Olathe, Kan,
by J. Frederick Kastendiek, a former
! sweetheart, who then killed himself
! Howard West, alias Frank Earl, was
electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio
penitentiary at Columbus for the MUIR
der of William Legg, butcher of Sid
ney, o.
An attempt to rob car on the Buff
falo express in Philadelphia was frus-
trated and William A. Hewett, said to
have been caught beneath the car
which contained 10000 in gold bullion,
paced under arrest.
Capt. d. l.. Keller, alias D. L. Smith,
United States officer of Reno, New.
was crested at Kamloops, B. c.,
charged with having stolen bank
check from Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, and
! filling it in for $92, 800
The new Calvary Protestant Episco-
pal church of Pittsburg was dedicated
with impressive ceremonies. 1t cost
$55O,OOO.
| A jury at Kalamazoo, Mich, award
ed Jacob Dalm, boy of 16, damages
/ of 1881 for the loss of both hands in
the Bryant paper mills.
Foreigners attacked Constable
James Dolan at Lebanon, Pa, when
he attempted to arrest coal thieves
and the constable shot into the crowd,
killing two Hungarians.
The coal mines of the United States
are killing three times as many men
per 1000 employees as those of most
| European countries. In the last II
| years 22,S40 men have given up their
| lives in the mines of this country.
| These and other shocking facts are
set forth in report of an investiga-
ton by experts ordered by Secretary
| Garfield.
The supreme court of Illinois hand
ed down an opinion declaring the anti
cigarette law passed by the legislature
this year does not apply to cigarettes
which contain pure tobacco, but only
to those cigarettes which contain sub
stances deleteriOus to health.
The Diamond 10 line of Mississippi
river steamers has been sold to a syn
dictate of men who will improve the
present feet of passenger and freight
boats and increase it's carrying ca
pacity very materially.
Henry f. Currier, national bank ex-
aminer, took charge of the jewelers.
National bank at North Attleboro,
Mass, whose vice president and
cashier, Frederick E. Sergeant, was
found dead in bathtub.
Tt,,o~.Ix WIZ NEi11o. - x1o-+a1
at the University of Pennsylvania,
whose home was in Kansas City, Mo-,
committed suicide in his room at the
dormitories of the institution by hang
ing.
A band of Yaqui Indians captured
13 men in the state of Sonora, Mex,
and massacred IL of them.
William F. Walker, absconding
treasurer of the New Britain Comm
Savings bank, was arrested in the
mountains of lower California.
Eminent men in New York and other
cities have begun movement for the
release of Nicholas Tschaikovsky and
Catherine Breshkovsky, the Russian
revolutionists now imprisoned at st.
Petersburg for political reasons.
Col. Gurko, on the witness stand in
the Stoessel court martial, accused the
defender of Port Arthur of showing
the white feather twice under fire.
J. Israel Tarte, former minister of
public works of Canada, died at Mon
treat
William H. Hinrichsen, editor, for
mer congressman and Familiarity
known among Democratic politicians
throughout Illinois as Buck" Hinrich-
sen, died at his farm home near Alex
andria, ILL.,, of paralysis.
Hanged to tree and then struck on
the head as part of course of hazing
inflicted by a crowd Of young men,
John Tinnan, 80 years Old, a theater
doorkeeper, formerly of Wheeling, w.
Va, is thought to be dying at hos
pital at East Liverpool, o.
o. A. Hilton, of Denver, Col, special
counsel for the American Federation
of Labor, arrived in Goldfeld, New,
empowered by President Meyer, of the
Western Federation, to make terms of
peace with the mine owners.
Gov. Harris, of Ohio, pardoned Will
liam Houck, serving life sentence on
| conviction of the murder of Mrs.
Sarah Hess, at Bladensburg.
| Dr. V. A. Moore, bacteriologist of
Cornell university, says investigation
shows that of 100000 mich COWS in
New York state, 100000 are infected
with tuberculosis.
Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, the
we'll known novelist, is i'll in Ran
dolph, Mass, while her husband, DR..
Charles NJ Freeman, is in a Boston
hospital, too sick to go to the bedside
of his wife.
CTS Ringing, head of the circus
combination which controls the shows
of Ringing Bros, Barnum & Bailey
and FCrepaugh-Sells, died Wednesday
! in 9 New Orleans sanitarium, of a
complication of diseases.
One of the civil war bombs found in
the old custom house at New York ex.
| ploded and nearly killed M. ]. Howell,
an employee of the bureau of com.
| bustibles, while on its way to be
| dumped into the sea.
Frederick E. Sergeant, cashier and
vice president of the jewelers. Nation
al bank of North Attleboro, Mass, and
prominently identified with Provi-
dence, R. l., and North Attleboro bust