River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-07

light wire which had blown down.
DR.. p McF. Allen, a prominent
physician, was shot and killed at West
Nashville, Tenn, by Thomas S. Bush.
The main Office building of the
Nelson Morris packing plant at East
St. Louis, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being 100000.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
was reported to be in critical condi-
ton in the hospital at La Sale, Ill.
Two Catholic papers in Brussels
asserted that King Leopold had given
100000 to Baroness Vaughan.
The president has decided to ap-
point Roswell p Bishop of Michigan,
formerly congressman from that
state, to the vacant place in the Span
ish treaty claims commission.
William H. Higgie, who was for
many years lake captain, with
residence in Chicago, died at the
Mercy hospital there after undergo
ing amputation of limb.
Dispatches from Batavia say that
100 armed natives attacked a Dutch
patrol of 10 men on the Island of
Flores and killed all of them. After
wards the same band of natives mas
sacred eight women and children.
English mountain climbers and ad-
mirers of Alpine scenery have taken
up the protest made by many Swiss
against the building of a railway on
the Matterhorn.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not be a
witness for the defense in the second
trial of her husband for the murder
of Stanford White.
The executive committee of the
Amalgamated Society of Railway
a general strike and it was thought
the trouble was unavoidable, despite
the efforts of the president of the
board of trade and others to effect a
settlement.
Dynamite in trunk exploded in the
Union depot at Pittsburg, Pa, and
two men were seriously injured.
Police headquarters at Buffalo, N.
Y, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire, all the records were burned and
eight firemen were badly injured.
life convict at Rawlins, Wyo.,
killed a keeper, tried to effect his es-
cape with dynamite and failing, killed
himself
The G. B. Rickmans Wine company
cellars at Brocton, N. Y, the largest
and oldest plant in the Chautauqua
grape belt, were destroyed by fire.
After travelling around attired in
mans clothes for six weeks, a girl,
Newark, o., was arrested at Kanka-
kee, Ill.
Ten male inmates and one woman
nurse were attacked by diphtheria at
the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the
Insane at Kankakee.
Cows. Glenn, of North Carolina;
Cooper, of Alabama, and Smith, of
Georgia, reached a complete agree
ment on the question of railroad rates
within their states.
Deeds were filed with the secretary
of state of Minnesota conveying to
the Great Northern Railroad company
all the subsidiary lines of that system
in Minnesota.
Huntington Smith, wealthy resi-
dent of st. Louis, died in his summer
home in Castleton, VT, following
stroke of apoplexy.
Papers in a suit for 100000 in sal
airy and commissions were served up
on Mrs. L. T. Letter, of Chicago, as
she landed from a transatlantic
steamer in New York. The suit is
brought by Hugh Crabbe, of Chicago,
who declared he was Mrs. Letters
confidential agent
Cotton growers in all parts of Okla
homa and Indian Territory held secret
meetings and decided to hold the
1907 pick until cotton prices have adj
vanced to certain point.
Ernest Saunders, aged FL years, was
found guilty at Pana, ILL.,, of the muir
der of John Lundak and his sentence
fixed at 25 years in the penitentiary.
The Illinois senate passed the Ogles-
by direct plurality primary bill as
mutilated by its amendments.
Pope Plus was reported to be con-
fined to his bed with heart trouble.
Lieut.. Gov Sanders, of Louisiana,
refused to fight a duel with Donelson
Caffery, son of the former United
States senator
Wages of Grand Fork (B. c.
miners and smelter employees were
cut by the CRANKY Smelter company
SO cents a day. A strike may follow.
Mystery surrounds the death of
Princess Shun, sister of the dowager
empress of China. Women connected
with the foreign legations are stirred
up over the princess death
Physicians say bubonic plague
caused the death of Mrs. George Os-
borne at Seattle, Wash. This is said
to be the third death from the plague
there in two weeks.
Capt. Granville Fortescue, U. S.
A., retired, accepted from Gov Ma
COON of Cuba commission that car
ries with it the duties of special in
structor to the Cuban forces
City Councilman G. C. Linde, of
ST. Louis, was indicted for malfeas-
ance in Office and confessed, impli-
eating other members of the city's
legislative bodies.
Charging that football is prize fight
ing, Attorney S. r. Moore, of Kanka-
kee, Ill.,, filed bill in the circuit court