River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-05


dollars in cash were taken from the
house.
Hugh Murray, gr. nd secretary of
the Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada,
died suddenly in Hamilton, Ont, from
apoplexy.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of the village of Columbus, N. D. The
loss is $4,000.
Judge Templeton of the district
court decided that the North Dakota
statute authorizing the seizure OF
liquor imported into the state to be
used as a berevage is unconstitutional.
Turning on the gas and phono-
graph at the same time, Mrs. George
little, aged So, committed suicide in
New York to the strains of In the
Wild Woods Where the Blue Bells
Crow
At Miffiintown, Pa, julius Derr, a
railroad employe, was shot and fatally
wounded by an Italian, who was pur-
sued and killed by party of hunters.
Irwin Robson, of Blue Grass, Ia,
senior in the Iowa State college at
Ames, was killed in jumping from
train.
Alpheus Stothower, half-back on the
! Wellington (Kan.) football team, ran
into a buggy on the side line in a game
in his home town and suffered con-
cussion of the brain. The injury may
prove fatal.
The jury to try Caleb Powers was
completed at Georgetown, Ky. There
are eight Democrats and four Repub-
leans on the jury.
An organized gang of kidnapers
operating in Mexico City has stolen 40
children ranging in age from two to
II years.
Mrs Louise NJ Taft, mother of the
secretary of war, is again seriously i'll
at her home in AIillburg. Mass.
Marquis Giuseppe CitO, member
of the most ancient aristocracy of
Naples, Italy, and a cousin and aide of
the king of Italy was seized and car
ried off to grotto where he was tor
| tured, and a letter to the marchioness
demanding $500 extorted from him.
Thomas P. McCutchen, graduate
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we'll known manufacturer of Philadel
phia, dropped dead while witnessing
the Pennsylvania-Cornel football
game.
w. Fl. S. Wright, one of the most
prominent Masons in the United
States. died at the Angus hotel in st.
! Paul, Mimi.
Two San Francisco boys found a
trunk full of money that was buried
at the time of the earthquake and a
crowd that gathered carried off about
SIS, 900, leaving $4,000 which the po-
lice cOnfiscated
Rioting and bloodshed are threat
ened among the people of Shansi
province, China, because of the Picking
| syndicate, British corporation hold
ing the largest concessions ever given
by China, which has failed and seeks
to sell all it's holdings back to the
government.
The new subway under the East
river at New York, connecting Man
haitian and Brooklyn boroughs, was
formally opened.
Isidore Cohen was arrested at
Gary, Ind, accused of selling to a for
| eigner for $40 the right to fish in Lake
Michigan.
Delegates representing rs American
Gaelic Athletic clubs of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
] Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island formed an organization, and de-
cided to coalesce with the Amateur
Athletic association.
Chairman Goethals of the Panama
canal commission has warned labor
ers that all positions on the isthmus
are filled.
The wedding of Miss Edith Root,
daughter of the secretary of state,
and Lieut.. Ulysses S. Grant Ill, corps
of engineers, United States army, was
solemnized at the home of Secretary
Root in Washington. About 500
guests, including President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, were present
Every industrial wheel in Joliet
came to sudden standstill for several
hours and over 10000 people were in
idleness as the result of the shutting
off of the flow Of water in the Chicago
drainage canal to release a boat stuck
in the channel in Chicago.
George w. Starr, deputy surveyor of
the port of Peoria, died of pneumonia,
aged 33 years.
The supreme court of Missouri de-
cided that bull fights are public
nuisances, and injunctions lie to re-
strain persons from conducting them
in the state.
John Mosier, an employe on the
stock farm Of R. c. Brien near Nash
Vile. Tenn, was kicked and paved to
death by Mr.. Brien's race horse Ker-
chival.
Charles Paddock, one of the captors
of Jefferson Davis, died in Dansville,
Mich.
Forty-one lumber companies doing
business in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho filed complaint with the inter-
state commerce commission against
20 railroad companies operating in
that region and the states tributary
thereto, alleging that these roads have
unlawfully combined and raised the
rate of freight on lumber from three
to 1872 cents per hundred pounds.
Edward Miller and Edward Davis
entered pleas of guilty to an indict-
ment charging robbery of the State
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