River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-13

trolley car wreck at Los Angeles,
/ Cal.
L. S. Peckham, president of the
Iowa State Baseball league, died at
| Marshalltown.
! Miss Julia Magruder, the novelist,
died at Richmond, Va, after pro-
tracted illness. She was 81 years
old
James Black, president of the
James Black Masonry & Construction
company, died at st. Louis at the age
of rs.
Cromwell Dickson, Is years old,
made a successful flight with an air
ship of his own construction at the
Columbus CO.. Driving park.
The Goethe and Schiller monument,
gift of the German citizens to the
| city of Cleveland, was dedicated.
Mrs. William Moline, while resting
her head on wire clothes line at her
home near Shoals, Ind, was struck
by fash of lightning over the wire
and instantly killed.
Dan Coughlin, wanted in Chicago
for jury bribing, who was arrested in
Mobile, Ala, obtained his release on a
habeas corpus writ and is believed to
have started for South America.
The Kansas supreme court granted
a judgment of custer against the An
heuser-Busch Brewing company and
held that the recent appointment of
receivers for the property in that
state of foreign brewing companies
was legal.
Capt John Walker, former naval
officer, killed his wife and himself at
Biloxi, Miss.
In a fight on Kirk plantation, IS
miles southeast of Yazoo City, Miss,
three negroes were killed and four
white men shot.
A university of industry, science
and art is to be established at Grand
Junction, Col, and supported by the
Carnegie foundation fund.
The Twenty fifth infantry, one of
whose battalions figured in the
Brownsville incident, was ordered to
sail for the Philippines from San
Francisco on the transport Buford on
July 25.
Judge F. K Dunn, of Charleston,
ILL.,, the Republican nominee, was
elected to the Illinois supreme court
from the Third judicial district, to
succeed the late Judge Jacob w.
Wilkin, of Danville.
Judge Artman, at Lebanon, Ind, de-
clared George Rhodius, of Indianapo-
lis, to be insane and appointed James
M. Berryhill as his guardian. Rhodius
owns real estate in Indianapolis worth
100000. January 81 he was married
at Louisville to Elma Dare, a keeper
of a resort in Indianapolis. 1t was
charged that the Dare woman kid
naped him.
An investigation of the relations of
the railroads and the post Office de-
partment by direct order of President
Roosevelt, which has already caused
saving to the government of more
than So 100000, is declared to be under
way.
Lieut. Mack Richardson, who failed
to marry a Brownsville girl and re-
Gently resigned from the army, COM
mitted suicide at San Antonio, Tex.
The Dempsey Timber company's
mill, at Tacoma, Wash, just complet-
ed at a cost of $250000 and in opera
ton about three weeks was destroyed
by fire.
Duquoin and the west portion of
Perry county, ILL.,, was visited by de-
structive tornado.
Marguerite and Helen Curtis, aged
II and ten years, of Cleveland, o.,
committed suicide because of grief
over their mothers death.
That e. H. Hartman, the railroad
magnate, is immune from criminal
prosecution as the result of his testi-
mony before the interstate commerce
commission in New York recently,
that the question of prosecution of BIZ
luminous coal carrying railroads
should be left in the hands of the at
torney general and that prosecution
of the anthracite coal roads will be be-
gun in Philadelphia, probably next
week, were conclusions reached at
conference held at the White House.
Sister Boromea, a teacher at the st.
Clements Catholic school, at Duluth,
Mimi, was kidnapped by two men, who,
driving rapidly away in a closed car
riage, escaped.
Edward G. Delano, veteran teacher
connected with the schools of Chicago
for the last so years, was found dead
in bed
Railroads in Missouri and Illinois
decided not to oppose enforcement of
the two-cent fare laws.
Miss Lillia Davis, aged q years, be-
lieved to be member of prominent
family at Princeton, Mo-, committed
suicide at the Wellington hotel in
Kansas City.
American horses won number of
prizes on the opening day of the Lon
don horse show
The strike of 200 teamsters in
Hammond, Ind, was settled, the
Transfers association agreeing to
meet demands for an increase in
wages from $3.50 to S14 per week.
John A. Grant, one of the most
prominent citizens of Atlanta, Ga,
died at his home there, aged 20 years.
He built the Mississippi Valley rail-
road, now part of the Illinois Cen
trail, and the Texas & Pacific.
Mrs. H. G. Barber, sister of Mrs.