River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-25

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Mrs. Harry Miller of Bucyrus, o.,
was killed by lightning while stand
| ing in a church.
George Lightcap, an aged and in
| firm ex-treasurer of Starke Eolnty,
Indiana, went to work as a day labor
er to get money to repay bondsmen
who paid shortage lost by specula-
ton. The amount is $5,633.14.
The Pennsylvania state board of
pardons has refused to recommend
pardon for James B. Gentry, the
actor, who was convicted of the MUIR
der of Madge Yorke, an actress, in
Philadelphia in 1896.
Bureaus of the war department at
Washington are trying to find out
what is wrong with the army. Hard
work on Notifications and heavy prac-
tice marches are said to be reasons
for the falling off in recruits.
Capt. McCrea, of the Georgia, told
of the heroic actions of some of the
members of the crew when the ex-
plosion in the turret took place, kill
ing nine men and injuring many
others.
Three men attempted to steal from
its grave at Clinton, ILL.,, the body of
Mrs. Pet Candy McGill, first wife of
the former bank official who is ac-
cused of numbering her. Immediately
| afterward the body was exhrmed and
the vital organs sent to Chicago to be
subjected to poison tests.
AT0G Tn11 ~
the Seneca Indian nation, died of
cerebral hemorrhage at the Emer-
gency hospital in Washington.
Caid Sir Henry MacLean escaped
from the hands of the bandit Raisuli
Andrew Carnegie gave the city of
Cleveland, O., $4,000 for library pur-
poses.
A. o. Gholsten, of Fort Smith, Ark,
kissed his wife and cut her throat,
killing her. Jealousy caused the muir
der
Jack johnson stopped Bob" Fitz-
simmons in the second round of the
six-round boxing bout before the
Washington Sporting club, of Phila-
delphia Fitzsimmons did not show a
u ace VI HIS Olu prOW6SS.
Marietta Dennoro killed Raffaele
Daroato in Cleveland, O., because he
refused to keep his promise to marry
her.
The big coastwise steamer Allie
ghany, one of the crack vessels of the
Merchants & Miners TRANSPORTATION
company, caught fire near Savannah,
Ca, and was destroyed by the flames.
All of her 80 passengers and her crew
were saved.
Terrific rains and consequent floods
did great damage in the Tygarts val
ley, West Virginia.
The North Coast limited, westbound.
on the Northern Pacific, was ditched
near Garrison, Mont, killing Engineer
Graham, of Butte
JanOs Van Cleef, an immigrant from
Amsterdam, sailed for home immedi-
ately after his arrival in New York. to
get valuable diamond which he had
left in snuff box.
Theobald Chartran, the noted por-
trait painter, died at Paris
Railway clerks employed on the
New Haven railroad voted that the in
crease of five and ten cents a day in
wages the company offered was not
satisfactory
Annual free-fish day in Blooming
ton, ILL.,, brought out thousands of per-
sons to Miller lake, where fishing is
allowed once year.
Fourteen persons were injured,
seven seriously, in a street car col
lision at Lyndora, a suburb of Butler,
Pa.
Two Workmen were fatally burned
and four injured by an explosion of
0,O0O-pound ingot at the Mesta ma
chine works, West Homestead, Pa.
Prof Angelo Heilprin, the noted
scientist, died at the home of his Sis
ter, Mrs. Adolph Loveman, in New
York city.
Seaman Edward F. Walsh, of the
battleship Georgia, died in the naval
hospital at Chelsea, being the ninth
victim of the explosion in the turret
of that vessel. Admiral Yamamoto,
of Japan, sent bouquets to the injured
and wreaths for the funerals of the
dead.
Gen. Alikhanoff, former governor
general of Tifiis, Nine. GliebOff, wife
of Gen. Glieboff, and the coacLman
who was driving their carriage were
blown to pieces by bombs thrown at
their conveyance in Alexandropol,
Russia.
Seventy-five boilermakers, the en-
tire force at the Lake. Shore railway
shops at Elkhart, Ind, struck because
the unions president, vice president
and two members of the grievance
committee were laid off,
Crazed by the effects of a drunken
spree, Mazda Brokazinwitch, of Belle
vile, ILL.,, shot and fatally wounded
Joseph Pilkerton, severely wounded
Michael Lepere and shot himself
through the heart, when surrounded in
wood by a posse.
c. w. Aller, the Haywood witness
arrested for perjury, was given a pre-
liminary hearing, Harry Orchard be-
ing the principal witness against him.
He was released on bail.
Returns of deaths from the plague
in India show the appalling total of
1,060,067 for the six months ending
June 80.
Eight officers and men of the bat
tleship Georgia were killed and 10
were severity injured by the explosion
of two cases of ol1nDOwder in one of