River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-02-21

! Block Island, and all but IL or those
aboard persisted. The survivors were
nearly dead from exposure to the ex
/ IRENE cold. Many of the passengers
! froze to death in the small boats and
one man committed suicide.
| The list of survivors of the steamer
Larchmont was reduced to IL by the
death of James Vann, colored stew.
ard. Officials of the Joy line declared
the charges of cowardice against the
captain and crew were false.
The special committee appointed by
the directory of the Pennsylvania rail
way to investigate the charges OF
graft and favoritism against the Of
ficers and employees, reported that the
| charges were unfounded except that
10 men had accepted gifts of interests
in corporations.
Mexico's magnificent new post Of
fee, the finest public building ever
erected in the republic, and undoubt
| edIy the finest post Office building in
America, was dedicated.
A violent outbreak of anti-British
| feeling has occurred at Lahore, India
following the conviction of the propri
etor and editor of a native newspaper
who were accused of stirring up hat
red against England.
A mass meeting Of 1000 Irishmen
in New York adopted resolutions
warning the American people that Am
bassador James Bryce is coming to
this country especially to effect an al
lance Of England with America, which
has for it's immediate object war with
| Germany.
Charles w. Morse bought the New
York and Porto Rico Steamship line.
The supply warehouse of the Ari-
IONA Copper company at Clifton, Ariz.,
caught fire from spontaneous combus-
ton and the contents valued at $780,
900, were heavily damaged.
Mrs. Leopold Wallau of New York
was held on the charge of killing her
wealthy mother by giving her poison
in champagne.
Twelve miners were badly injured
by an accident at Monitor, w. Va
Capt. John N. Bofnger, a veteran
steamboat man, died at ST. Louis.
Fifteen thousand persons made an
anti-clerical demonstration in Rome
and troops protected the Vatican.
Seven members of the crew of the
Hamburg American liner Valdivia
were killed by the explosion of a
boiler
The town of Cookton, North Aus
tralia, was destroyed by hurricane.
No lives were lost but the monetary
damage was 100000.
A Kuckku, rancher near Emmett,
Idaho, killed his blind wife and him
self.
An insane man tried to assassin
ate DR.. Van Raalte, the minister Of
justice of Holland
Harry Corbett, a we'll known sport
ing man and brother of the pugilist
James ]. Corbett, was found dead in
San Francisco.
The president nominated J. T. Cline
for postmaster at Joliet, ILL.,
DR. j. Herman Feist, charged with
killing Mrs. Rosa Mangrum, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree at
Nashville, Tenn.
John S. Wren, former superintend-
ent Of schools, was indicted at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, as a result of a shortage
in his accounts found when he was
succeeded in office.
Theodore p. Shonts, addressing the
Iowa society of New York, predicted
large number of receiverships for
railways if there was not a let-up in
hostile legislation and the demands of
labor.
Four boys, the oldest Is years, con-
fessed to attempting to wreck South
ern railway train near Tallaposa, Ca,
in order to rob the express car.
Fourteen persons were injured in
Chicago in mad rush to escape a
burning street car.
John B. McKim, a prominent miller
of Pittsburg, Kan, committed suicide
in Kansas City, by taking carbolic
acid.
An apparent plot to destroy the
cruiser Yorktown by removing rivets
from her boilers was discovered.
Giosue Carducci, famous Italian
poet, died at Bologna.
John E. McWade, for years a popu-
lar singer, died in a Chicago hospital
A woman was killed and two chill
dren fatally injured at Annville, Pa,
by dynamite that was put in a stove
to thaW.
DR.. Franz Won Rottenburg, curator
of the University of Bonn, Germany,
is dead. He was chief of the imperial
chancellery and confidential adviser
to Prince Bismarck for nearly ten
years.
The Pennsylvania legislature passed
unanimously the two-cent a mile fare
BILL at the same time kissing Pres1-
dent Baer.
Howard T. Miller, of Lestershire, N.
Y, died of blood-poisoning resulting
from a hatpin scratch.
e. S. Ellsworth, promoter and build
er of the Iowa Falls & Northern Short
line and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
e Northern, is dead
The safe of the Georgia Southern
& Florida railroad ticket Office in
Lake City, Fla, was blown and $500
taken.
More than half a million dollars
worth of securities were taken from
the vaults of the Savings bank of
New Britain, Conn, by the missing