River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-12


tinued illness and its accompaniment
of melancholia caused Frederick M.
Fish, retired broker, to kill his wife,
Mrs. Mary E. Perren Fish, and then
attempt suicide at his home in Evans
ton, Ill.
There is a demand in the public
prints of England that President
Roosevelt head movement to rid the
world of the Monte Carlo gambling re-
sort.
Mrs. Cox, of Forest Hill, England,
aged 105 years, was killed by the
sting of a wasp
William Pearson, who escaped from
the Alabama penitentiary 80 years
ago while serving sentence for steal
ing pig, and fed to Texas, has been
pardoned by Gov. Conner.
Twelve persons were killed and II
others injured in the wreck of an ex-
press train on the Rock Island rail-
road at Norris, Ia The express train
jumped the track while going at full
speed and collided with freight train
standing on the siding.
France and Spain decided that it
was necessary for them to occupy the
seaports of Morocco and establish the
police organizations, the sultan being
admittedly powerless.
The James River bank at Frankfort,
| S. D., was dynamited and the robbers
escaped with $4,000 in cash and val
liable papers, after holding the citi-
| zens at bay with pistols.
A receiver was appointed at Chica-
go for the Belding-Hall Manufacturing
company, whose president, Jesse F.
Hall, had disappeared. The assets
were figured at 100000 and liabilities
at $55O,00O.
Three armed crooks, who had
picked the pockets of a number OF
| Rock Island passengers at the station
| in Lincoln, and attempted to continue
their game on the train, engaged in
| desperate encounter with Conductor
Henry Duval on the Rocky Mountain
| limited, nearaAlvo Station, Neb.
The $4,000 Dryden trophy and $3.50
cash, the most coveted prize offered
at the New Jersey Rifle association
tournament, was won in an exciting
finish by the United States cavalry
! team which scored 1,001 points.
With every possible indication that
she was not guilty of the crime OF
murder. for which she has already
served 16 years of life sentence in
the state prison, Wilhelmina Bache
was released from Waupun prison
| in Wisconsin. Her life sentence for
the murder of Michael Sell, of Shaw
ano county, was committed by Gov
Davidson.
| More indictments for rebating were
returned against the Standard Oil COM
pany and the Pennsylvania and New
York Central railway companies by
the federal grand jury at jamestown,
N. Y.
John King, a laborer, cut his throat
/ in the presence of hundreds of shop
pers in the Fair store, Chicago.
James Bellows McGregor, acknowl-
edged to be the Oldest Mason in the
world, celebrated his one hundred and
sixth anniversary at Mt. Sunapee, n.
H. Joining the Masonic order in 1927,
makes him a member of 80 years
standing.
A Manchester couple, respectively
70 and 65 years old, having waited 25
years for the passage of the act legal
! iZing marriage with deceased wife'S
sister, have given the necessary notice
of their intention to marry.
A wild boar hunt with javelins is
being prepared for President Roose-
velt's entertainment in Texas.
Acting Secretary of the Navy New
berry postponed Indefinitely action
upon the project to remove the famous
ton navy yard to Annapolis or to the
naval basin in Washington. Boston
people objected.
Gen Morteza Khan, minister pleni-
potentiary from the kingdom of Persia
to the United States and Mexico, ar
rived in San Francisco.
The Royal Typewriter company is
reported in New York to be the
nucleus of a gigantic trust backed by
powerful interests.
President Roosevelt is said to be
planning a peace conference to be
held at Washington, D. c., with the ac-
credited ambassadors as members of
the gathering.
The members Of the Hoboken, IN.
J) Young Women's Christian associa-
ton have started out to collect one
mile of pennies, which they wi Il string
together on a ribbon.
William S. Wirsing was awarded
| $4,000 damages at Uniontown, Pa,
for injuries received at the hands of
his father-in-law, James r. Smith, a
wealthy coal operator.
The International Harvester com
pany of Wisconsin pleaded guilty to
violation of the Texas antitrust laws
and paid a fine of $35, 900 assessed by
the court at Austin. The company also
agreed that a perpetual injunction be
entered forbidding it to operate in
Texas.
Edward Glasgo, physician, is dead
and his wife is wounded as a result of
a mysterious shooting at Brazil, Ind.
The wife says her husband shot her
and killed himself, but she is in Gus
toby
White mill hands of Bellingham
Wash, attacked the Hindus employed
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