River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-20

| to testify against his father and sister,
charged with the murder of the lat
| ters infant child, Emery Mosher, or
Huntington, Ind, committed suicide.
Thos C. Coghill, cashier of the First
| National bank of Seymour, Wis, has
| confessed that he has lost $4,000 Of
! the banks funds in the wheat pit DUR
| ing the last six months and the bank
| is in charge of the national bank ex-
aminer
| A federal grand jury at Springfield,
| ILL.,, returned an indictment against
Rev James r. X. Kaye, formerly pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church
of Lincoln, and now editor of the
Home Herald, published at Oak Park,
suburb of Chicago, charging him
with manufacturing counterfeit money.
Over 100000 saw logs, valued at ST.
100000, the largest gorge of timber
ever known in West Virginia river,
broke loose up the Guyandotte river
and practically swept out everything
in the river that came in it's path
DR.. Franz Joseph, a leading Berlin
physician, and Frau Burgothelf, prom
inent in German society, were found
dead in bed. They had shot them
selves in a suicide compact.
Rufus Williams at San Antonio,
| Tex, confessed to robbing Mrs. Sal
lie Gibbons of $4,000 after attacking
| her
| Mrs. Jose A. Hill, prominent in Den
yer (CoI) society, obtained verdict
| of $4,000 against Mrs. Anna Bent,
whom she charges with alternating her
| husbands affections.
Jacob Moran, after having killed a
man at Kingston, n Y, was saved
from lynching by the arrival Of the
police
Three masked men raided sani-
tarium in Winnetka, Chicago sub
urb, terrorized the patients and es-
capped with booty valued at $1,000.
Mayor Eugene SchmitZ, of San
Francisco was found guilty of extor-
ton by jury and remanded to the
| custody of the sheriff until June 27
when he will be sentenced.
Charles Shafer, living near Ironton,
| Ohio, shot end killed his wife and
| eight-year-old son and wounded his
mother-in-law. The tragedy was the
result of domestic quarrels.
New Orleans police raided a large
number of Italian homes in vain eff
| fort to find Walter Lamana, the boy
who was kidnapped by the BLACK
Hand"
BY authority of the secretary of the
interior there will become subject for
settlement on September 80, and to
entry on October 80, 1907, about 1885,
600 acres of land in Alaska.
Cloudbursts did great damage to
crops in Kentucky and southern Indi-
ana.
The death Of James Stewart, an
| iron worker, who fell ten stories in
building being constructed in st.
Louis resulted in the strike of about
| 1000 iron structural workers to en-
| ing be placed on alternate floors of
buildings in course of construction.
Don C. Henderson, once private Sec
rotary of Horace Greeley, and for
many years publisher of the defunct
| Allegan Journal, has been taken to
! the insane asylum at Kalamazoo.
Upon petition of Frank Hagerman,
acting for the IS principal Missouri
railroads, Judge Smith Mcpherson in
the United States district court at
Kansas City, granted temporary or
| der restraining Missouri officials from
| enforcing the maximum freight rate
| law and the two-cent passenger rate
| law.
Mrs Telfair Hodgson, the philan-
thropist, aged 60, dropped dead at
| Sewanee, Tenn, while entertaining a
| large party of ladies at dinner. She
was the widow of DR.. Telfair Hodg-
son, who was third vice president of
the University of the South from 1875
to 1882, was for years dean of the the
illogical department.
The body of Senator John T. Nor
funeral and interment.
A man shot himself on board
Coney Island steamer and then jump
ed overheard.
The strike of longshoremen at New
York was declared off, the men resum-
ing work at their former wages.
Five persons were killed and num-
Der of buildings destroyed by an
earthquake at Valvivia, Chile.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in Pitts
burg and an epidemic is feared.
Henry Wolff, of Easton, Wis, in a
quarrel with his wife killed her with
a blow of his fist.
| The Wisconsin senate by vote OF
II to killed the two-cent fare rail
way bill.
August Meyer, q well-to-do shoe
dealer of Brooklyn, was SO severely
beaten by three highwaymen that he
died.
| In duel resulting from literary
| jealousy Alfonso Bacale was killed by
Marianao Palombelli, writer of pop
ular songs, at Naples, and Palombelli
is himself dying.
Art Brunskill, an Arapahoe %. I'd
farmer, was killed by Albert Walters,
a hermit who lived in cave. Wal
ters tried to kill himself, but was cap
| tured
Maj. William p Butler, well-known
officer in the Illinois national guard
and former colonel in the regular
army, is dead at his home in Bloom
| ington. III.