River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-24


duck, one possum and one wildcat.
We ate them all except the wildcat
and there were times when we almost
felt as if we could eat it"
William English Walling, of In
dianapolis, Ind, his wife and his sis
ter-in-Iaw, Miss Rose Strunsky, were
arrested in ST. Petersburg by force
of gendarmes because of their associa-
ton with several members of the
Finnish progression party. They are
well-known socialists and settlement
workers.
Acting Chairman New announced
that the Republican national commit
tee will meet in Washington December
and for the purpose of deciding
upon the place and time for holding
the next Republican national conven-
ton.
The New York clearing house com
mittee declared that the HeinZe, Morse
and Thomas interests had been elm
mated from the banking organizations
of New York city, and, in the light
of this fact, the clearing house assO-
citation announced it's readiness to
lend all necessary aid to any of the
banks which have been under sus-
picion, the clearing house investiga-
ton having established their solvency
About 20 persons were injured in a
collision of trolley cars about 80 miles
from Pittsburg.
Fire, supposed to be of incendiary
origin, destroyed $4,000 worth of
property in the business section of
Colchester, I'll.
A woman was killed and three other
passengers injured at Cincinnati when
a train smashed a crowded street car.
Fifteen firemen narrowly escaped
death or serious injury in Pittsburg,
Pa, when the plant of the Pittsburg
Stove and Range company and the lum-
Der yard of the A. S. Schwerd Porch
Column company of Allegheny were
Quilted by fire. The loss is $4,000.
A cablegram announced the death in
Egypt on October 16 of Rev. Chauncey
Murch, a Presbyterian missionary
from Ohio. He was 48 years old
A violent hurricane ragged over the
province of Finmark, Norway. Many
fishing boats are missing and several
lives were lost.
e. f. Stacey made an attempt at
Great Bend, Kan, to kill his wife with
bomb.
The king had a narrow escape from
a serious accident near Manresa. In
his automobile he was going over
temporary bridge when the structure
collapsed His majesty escaped with
a wetting
After failing to bring about recon
ciliation between himself and his di-
vorced wife, Eldred Mckee, a carpen-
ter, shot and killed Gertrude Mckee
in Boyne City, Mich, and then sent
bullet through his brain.
The Kansas City Southern Railway
company granted a voluntary increase
in salaries of five dollars a month to
its telegraph operators, effective Oc-
toher Is.
All the Kansas City theaters vio-
lated the Sunday closing order and de-
tectives gathered evidence for the in
dictment of all the actors.
William G. Albrecht, of Chicago,
sustained injuries in a football game
that caused his death.
In an automobile accident at Pom
tiac, Mich, Harry Wood, aged 40, was
killed and Karl e. Smith had his
right arm broken.
One man was killed and q persons
were injured in head-on collision of
two suburban trains on the Chicago e
Northwestern railroad a short distance
from the Wells street station in Chi
cage.
Harry p. Brunaugh, private score
tary to Mayor Bookwalter of Indian
apolis during his first administration
and for two years connected with the
asphalt repair works on streets, was
indicted on the charge of padding the
books of inspectors. He is now a flu
gitive.
A capital of $1O.625, 100000 is direct
~ concerned in the raising of meat
animals and their Strengthening and
packing, according to a report on meat
supply issued by the department of
agriculture.
Rev. John Potts, treasurer of Vic
toria college and secretary of the de-
partment of education of the Method
list Episcopal church of Canada, died
at Toronto, Ont
Charles E. Schroeder, oe Columbus,
o., a widely-known circus man, fell
dead in a cafe in FL Paso, Tex.
Thomas Agnew & Sons, of London,
bought the famous Ashburton collec-
said to have been 100000.
Sergio Osmena, nationalist, who for
merly was governor of the island of
Cebu, was chosen president of the
Philippine assembly.
Secretary of State Root returned
from his Mexican visit, pleased with
the trip and bearing many gifts.
The Heinze corner in United Cop
per collapsed in New York and prices.
especially of copper stocks, declined
violently. The stock exchange firm of
Circus & Kleeherg SUSPENDED.
Marx Bros, Paris, antiquaries, who
sold the statue of ST. Catherine to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York last May, while unable to ac-
count for the exact origin of the
statue, are quite certain that it is not
a product of the recent church rob-
hpries in France