River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-09

in a letter read before the Central
Federated Union of New York, Presi.
is submitted to him showing that
there has been miscarriage OF
justice for or against Meyer and Hay
wood awaiting trial at Boise, Idaho,
charged with the murder OF former
Gov. Steuenberg, he will bring such
evidence to the attention of the at
torney general for such action, if any,
as it may be in the power of the fed
eral authorities to take. The com
munication was the formal reply of
the president to the committee of the
union which called upon the presi-
dent in Washington.
The street car motormen and con-
ductors of San Francisco struck for an
eight-hour day and fiat wage Of three
dollars. The company announced that
it would operate it's cars with non
union crews, calling on the authorities
for protection if necessary.
Civil and criminal suits will be
brought against the grafters respon-
sible for the Pennsylvania capitol
scandal, by Attorney General Todd.
Gen J. K Hudson, prominent sol
der and newspaper man of Topeka,
Kan, died of heart failure.
More than 100 Italians in Buffalo,
~ Y, attacked a motorman who ran
his car through a parade, and were
routed by score of police after a
bloody battle
Seated on a couch beside her lover,
Hattie Garree, Of Lima, o., fatally
shot herself with his revolver, because
they had quarreled.
The body of Horace Marvin, Jr.,
which was found lying in a pool of
water less than half mile from
where he was last seen playing on
March 4, was inferred in bay Meadow
Lawn" on the Marvin farm, near
Dover, Del 1t is believed the lad
wandered away and died of exhaus-
ton
Two persons were fatally hurt and
more than a score seriously injured
in a head-on collision on the Toledo
Urban & Interurban road near Bowl
ing Green, Q.
Frederick w. Wertheimer, "a years
old manager of the Hotel Fairfax,
Norfolk, Va, committed suicide by
shooting in his apartments in the
Hotel York, New York. In note to
his wife he said he feared illness
would drive him insane.
stubborn fire, $50 feet in the air,
WAS successfully fought in the sixth
and seventh stories of the penthouse
of the Schwartzschild & SulZberger
company, Chicago. The loss was
about 100000
Benjamin Warren, Jr., member of
the Peoria and Chicago boards of
trade, died in Peoria of Bright's dis
ease and diabetes, aged 55 years.
John Vaughan, aged SO, weak
minded man, killed Elizabeth Strubel,
aged II, at Lafayette, Ind. because
she would not marry him.
David Rosenthal, a Cincinnati artist,
has sued Edward c. Wettengel for
$4,000 for SANDER because Wettengel
said unkind things about his work as
a painter.
Thomas w Lawson, the Boston
financier, was received in private audi
ence by the pope.
The Burlington flyer was wrecked
near Manhattan, Mont, one passenger
being killed and IS injured
81,
naval training station at Lake Bluff,
near Chicago, were rejected as too
high.
Twelve identical bids for the Mag
ara Falls IN Y) coal contract for the
schools may lead to an investigation
Of an alleged combination of coal
dealers of western New York.
Ernest W. Suffcutt, former dean of
the law school of Columbia university
and legal adviser of Gov. Hughes of
New York, committed suicide on a
Hudson river steamboat. Overwork
had brought on nervous strain and
insomnia
Mrs. Mary Hurley, of Winona,
Mimi, formerly prominent in society
but for several years a recluse, was
found dead
The jury that heard the case
against Victor Roland O'Shea, of Chi
cago. charged with killing his wife,
disagreed and was discharged
A verdict of not guilty was returned
by jury in the United States court
in tho case Of AthOIo p Paador who
had been on trial in New York on a
charge of perjury.
Twenty persons were injured when
a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
was wrecked at Pleasantview, w. Va.
The planning mill and lumber yard
of ]. A. Holinger at Chambersburg,
Pa, was burned, entailing a loss of
100000.
The blockade in the harbor at Su.
perior, Wis, is estimated to have cost
vessel owners a quarter of a million
dollars.
John L. Morgan, formerly of Chi.
cago, starved to death on the desert
in Death valley, according to the story
brought to San Bernardino, Cal, by
Walter Adams. Morgans partner.
Six colored men were badly beaten
by mob of white men at Greensburg
Ind.
John Enjeck, while working in a
licorice factory in Newark. n. j., fell
into a vat of the boiling licorice.
The judicial convention at Decatur