River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-02-28

The building and plant of the Que
bee Daily Telegram was destroyed by
fire. All of the English printing for
the provincial legislature was burned.
The loss is 100000.
The Hamburg-American Steam
Packet company has decided to name
one of the new liners now being built
for that concern the George Washing
ton. She will be of $4,000 tons regis
ter
George Dallas Mosgrove, formerly
confederate soldier and of recent years
a writer of war stories, was found
dead on the road near his farm in
Trimble county, Kentucky.
British army estimates to be intro
duced in the house of commons Feb
ruary %, will provide for the expendi-
ture during 1907-08 of $138,800,000, a
reduction of about $10,000,000, COM
pared with the estimates of last year.
James A. Kirk, head of the big soap
house of James S. Kirk company, died
at Hartland, Wis.
An unknown ship with her crew of
IS men was lost on the west shore of
Jutland.
Samuel n. Rinaker, a sophomore
in the University of Nebraska, was
awarded Rhodes scholarship.
President Roosevelt, accompanied
by Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, went to Boston and Groton,
Mass, to visit his sons, Theodore and
Kermit
A man believed to be w. F. Walker,
the absconding banker of New Britain,
Conn, was arrested in Opelika, Ala.
The lower house of the Indiana leg
islature indefinitely postponed the
high license bill.
Hon. James Bryce, the new British
ambassador, and Mrs. Bryce arrived
in Washington.
]. c. Buchanan, who had owned and
edited newspapers in many different
cities, died in Pittsburg, Kan, aged rs
years.
Robert Finch, IL years old, dropped
dead at a district school near Ra-
VIENNA, O., while being punished by his
teacher.
A verdict of guilty was returned by
the jury in the case of Corwin D.
Bachtel, cashier of the now defunct
Canton CO., State National bank.
> Cornelius P Shea and his ten assO-
ciates in the Transfers union were
acquitted of the charge of conspiracy,
thus bringing to close the longest
and most remarkable labor legal bat
tie ever waged in Chicago.
The Oaks hotel and the residence of
B. r. Norvell at Beaumont, Tex, were
destroyed by fire. The total loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Senator Baily testified that he re-
fused yearly salary of $4,000 offered
him by the Standard Oil company.
A syndicate of English capitalists
has retained civil engineering firm
to make preliminary survey of sub
way routes in st. Louis.
Charles P. Zimmerman, who for the
past Is years had been manager of the
Empire theater in Indianapolis, is
dead.
The home of w. r. Cook at Brown
wood, Tex, was destroyed by dyna-
mite, and Werner Cook, 16-year-old
girl, was fatally injured.
'~ Mrs. Lottie Wa1lau of New York
was held on the charge of numbering
her mother, Mrs. Binge.
Frederick T. Gates, business repre-
sentative of John D. Rockefeller, said
the latter's fortune was not more than
$500, 100000 and his annual income not
over $2O,O0O,00O.
Four trainmen were killed when a
Michigan Central express collided with
an ice train near Ypsilanti, Mich.
w. H. Guerin was shot and killed
in Chicago by Mrs. M. c.. Mcdonald
and the police said he had been black
mailing her.
The Indiana house passed a two
cent railway fare bill.
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald, of Little
Rock, Ark, is dead.
William G.. Mcmillan, eldest son of
the late United States Senator James
Mcmillan, died in Detroit.
Mrs. Pete Zabrowski, of Fork Ridge,
KY, gave birth to five children, all OF
whom lived.
At a tribal council on the Oneida
reservation decision was reached to
press the claims for moneys aggregat-
ing more than $1,000,000 which the In
dams say is due them for land sales.
Prof Henri Moissane of Paris, who
recently was awarded the Nobel prize
for researches in science, is dead.
Frank MacVicars, who had been
playing in the Man of the Hour at
the Savoy theater in New York, was
found dead ct the foot of a fight of
stairs leading to the areaway of the
hotel where he lived. 1t is believed
his death was accidental.
The supreme court of Minnesota
handed down a decision fOrbidding
newspapers in the state publishing de-
tails of hangings.
John Cunneen, former attorney gen.
eral of New York state, died at his
home in Buffalo.
Harry P. C<owell, former council
man and well-known politician OF
Philadelphia, committed suicide by in
haling Illuminating gas.
The magnificent steel works club
house at Joliet, ILL.,, representing an
outlay of $4,000, was badly damaged
by fire.
E. E. Styner, late general manager
of the Mexican Central railroad, died
in Mexico City from wounds inflicted