River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-31

Lucas Raney and c. T. Miller were
fatally scalded IN the plant of the Mu.
tual Heating company in Terre Haute,
Ind
Matte Merritt, aged 81; Vergie Tay-
lor, aged five, and Ethel King. aged
four, were burned to death at Indian
apolis.
The Texas oil fields along the gulf
coast have decreased their production
over As per cent. within the last week
and the cause is attributed to seismic
disturbances in Jamaica.
H E. Ager, member Of the Indiana
/ legislature, was drowned in the Wa
bash river.
The central part of the city of Pc
lotsk, in the province of Vitbsk, one OF
the most ancient cities of the Russian
empire, was destroyed by fire
1t was officially announced by the
"a men were killed by the mine explo-
sion at Primero. Col.
High water in the Ohio river caused
Baltimore & Ohio freight train Oh
the Marietta branch to plunge through
a bridge and the engineer, fireman and
| two brakenen were killed.
Judge Oscar Hallam at st. Paul
signed an order enjoining James J.
| Hill and other officials of the Great
Northern Railway company from
making the proposed increase Of $780,
100000 worth of additional stock Of
that company or issuing the same or
part thereof during the pending lfti-
CATION without first making an APP
plication in writing therefor to the
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission and securing it's approval
| thereof
Theodore P. Shonts has rendered
his resignation as chairman of the
Panama canal commission and has
been elected president OF the Inter
borough Metropolitan Traction COM
pany of New York
Henry Ball, a negro, was lynched at
Greenwood, Miss, the home of Gov.
Vardaman, Tuesday night, by I'M
known parties.
Four men were killed and several
injured in freight wreck on the
Ohio division of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near Letart, w. Va.
The Alabama house of representa-
tives passed a resolution approving
the action of President Roosevelt in
discharging the negro soldiers impli-
Gated in the Brownsville, Texas, af-
fair.
Fire in Viroqua, Wis, destroyed the
Vernon county bank and the buildings
occupied by the Bell and the La
Crosse and Interurban Telephone
companies
The house of representatives OF
South Dakota passed an anti-lobbying
bill, making it unlawful for persons
interested in legislation to approach
members except through the regularly
organized committees
The 200 Japanese immigrants who
arrived at San Francisco on the
steamer Alameda, and whose landing
was not allowed by the immigration
commissioner, were permitted to land
later on instructions from Washing
ton.
A maid in the service of Queen
Olga of Greece has been arrested
charged with the theft of diamonds
valued at $4,000 from ornaments be-
longing to her majesty. The maid
substituted paste limitations for the
real stones.
The Red Cross sent by cable draft
the sum of $4,000 to the American
consul general, Rogers, at Shanghai
for the relief of the Chinese famine
sufferers.
Mrs. Narcissa Nance Kendrick,
aged 60 years, niece of President
James K. Polk, is dead at UniontoWn,
Pa.
Ferocious wolves are causing panic
and havoc in the north provinces of
Spain. The heavy fall of snow has
driven the animals into the plains,
where they have attacked fiocks and
devoured a man and child.
The Kansas legislature in joint SEES
sion ratified the election OF Charles
Curtis as United States senator for
the long term, also for the unexpired
term of ex-senator Joseph R. Burton.
= IOllCl @COuAty, 6ldilQ july
and the state railroad commission are
probing the wrecks at Woodville,
Fowler and Sanford, which cost in the
aggregate nearly 100 lives.
Three serious fires in Richmond,
Va. did damage aggregating 100000.
The armory of the Richmond Blues,
the second Oldest military company in
the United States, was destroyed.
The trial of Harry K Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White began in
New York Wednesday.
All grades of fine writing paper are
to be increased ten per cent in price,
according to adviecs from Holyoke,
Mass.
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom was given
the majority vote of both branches of
the Illinois legislature.
Joseph w. Bailey was reelected
United States senator from Texas by
a vote, in both houses of the legisla-
ture, of 108 to As; necessary to a
choice, SO.
Capt Thomas Peabody, who COM
man5ed the transport Sheridan when
it ran on a reef off Hawaii last sum
mer, has been suspended for six
months
Senator Giuseppe Saracco, formerly
premier of Italy and minister Of the
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