River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-03

quantity Of Minneapolis flour for Rus
sian consumption.
Commissioner of Immigration Sar-
geant says fewer Japanese are coming
to Hawaii now.
Half of the town of africa, Chile,
was destroyed by an earthquake.
Capt James E. Lehman, famous
Pacific coast pilot, was drowned at
Jnueau.
Harrison Parkman, who first
brought alfalfa from South America
and planted it in the United States,
died at Emporia, Kan, aged 70 years.
Benjamin Brown, financial manager
of the American and United States Ex-
press companies, shot and probably
fatally wounded himself.
The Chicago Bar association COM
mittee found that Judge A. H. Chef
lain had committed improprieties and
merited severe censure.
Count Eugene Itchy, the Hungari-
an statesman and Central Asian ex-
plorer, died of apoplexy. He was born
in 1897.
The residence of Gov. McInnes, OF
the Yukon, at Dawson, known as. Gov
eminent House, was burned. Loss,
100000.
George Davis, aged 25, of Morris
town, N. j., lost his life in an unsuc-
cessful attempt to rescue John Arke,
an eight-year-old boy, from drowning.
Hiram Mullins and his son William
were shot and fatally wounded in
feud battle fought at their home in
Kentucky with gang of desperadoes,
headed by Charles and Bud Little and
John Brewer.
The cotton harvest in central Asia
is extremely good, 1900 carloads in
stead of the usual $4,000, being avail
able for export. Railroads will re-
quire special facilities to transport the
cotton.
French, German and Russian expe-
ditions have arrived at Tashkent,
Asiatic Russia, to observe the eclipse
January IA.
Gen. Joseph K. Hudson, editor and
publisher of the Topeka (Kan.) Her
aid, is i'll 81 Topeka and his physicians
say his recovery is doubtful.
Fire originating from a defective
gas lighting system destroyed three
business blocks in Perry, Ia. The loss
aggregates 100000.
The employees in the blast furnaces
in the Mahoning and Shenango val
| legs have been notified that they will
receive an increase of ten per cent.
with the beginning of the lew year.
The increase will affect about 1000
men.
Henry Newman, IS years of age,
| founder of the cotton firm of H. e C.
Newman and a member of the cotton
exchange, died at his home in New
York.
| A heavy snowstorm in Great Britain
has delayed trains and several schoon-
ers off the coast were wrecked by the
gale.
The Zionists congress, in session at
Crajeva, Roumania, was invaded by
members of the anti-Jewish society. A
riot ensued, during which many Jews
were injured.
| Several persons were seriously in
| jured in a McKeesport (Pa.) boarding
house in riot over a Christmas tur-
key. The bird was not cooked to suit
the boarders and the cranberry sauce
was missing.
| Falling into a sponge mixer full of
dough, which he was feeding, H. D.
Van Kirk, Columbus, o., was whirled
round and round until every bone in
his body was crushed before the ma
chine was stopped and he was extri-
Gated, a corpse.
| A duel with pitchforks between two
grooms employed in a fashionable
riding academy in New York resulted
in probably fatal injuries to Thomas
Connolly, whose eye and brain were
penetrated by the prong of the fork
welded by James Cassidy.
Mrs. Susan Kelly, aged so years,
was burned to death and her husband
barely escaped with his life in fire
which destroyed their apartments in
West Sixtieth street, New York.
Otto Yogieslsky, contracting
plumber, shot and instantly killed his
wife and then committed suicide in
New York
do liz p1CoC4CCO q Nl1 AOIhAe'o
gift to his wife, Thomas Cardin, of
Philadelphia, dropped. dead of heart
| disease.
Rev. T. K. Crowley, of ST. Patrick's
church, Denison, Tex, while putting
on his vestments to celebrate high
mass, dropped dead.
Three men were killed and four
wounded in battle between guards
employed by the West Kentucky Coal
company at Sturgis, Union county,
KY, and the striking miners at that
place.
Edward H. Judson, Dr. Emanuel L.
Hess, Thomas Cochran and DR.. L. w.
Babcock, all prominent pioneer resi-
dents of st. Paul, Mimi, died.
Manager Iso Abe, of Waseda univer-
sity, Japan, has accepted the challenge
of Stanford university for an interna-
tional baseball contest to be played in
Toxic some time in May.
Sailors from the United States
cruiser Cleveland caused a panic in a
public park in Cienfuegos, Cuba,
where concert was going on, by en-
gaging in a fight and firing many
shots. The police arrested several of
the sailors.
Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and three
other officers were sentenced to death
| for surrendering to the Japanese in