River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-25

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Churchill J. White, a pioneer bank
er, of Kansas City, Mo-, died at his
home there, aged 80 years. He form
erly was president of the National
Bank of Commerce, the leading f1nan-
cial concern of that city.
In a rear-end collision on the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway at
Belle PLANE, Ia, Engineer William FL
lott was killed and a fireman was
seriously hurt.
J. L. Davis and Miss Docia Vebryke
were drowned by the capsizing of
their boat on McCullough's lake at
Lima, o. The couple were engaged
to be married.
Captains of the American line
steamships have drilled their stew
ards into choral bands for the edit
cation of passengers. Other ships
employ brass bands and orchestras.
Mrs. Lucy S. Noble, Detroit, Mich,
arrived in New York after having
travelled alone through 35 countries
in Europe and Asia.
Mrs Josephine Leslie, who claims
to be friend of J. Pierpont Morgan,
has been committed for trial for
fraud in London.
The Rech, a ST. Petersburg news
paper, was confiscated because it
printed an article predicting war be-
tween Russia and China.
Louisville is in the midst of a po-
Of
Beckham's appointment of the city
and county officials and the lid is be-
ing put down tight.
Secretary Russell of the telegraph
ers' union predicted general strike
of operators. The Chicago operators
called a meeting to take vigorous
action.
Four Of the Italians tried for the
murder of the Lamana boy in Louisi-
ana were found guilty, without capital
punishment, and mobs began to or
ganize at once to lynch them.
Several thousand persons were
Frustrated by heat in Philadelphia
during the parade of the Elks.
w. w. Rape of Milwaukee, accused
of completely in Colorado land frauds,
admitted his guilt and promised to
testify for the state against others.
The naval court of inquiry decided
the disaster on the battleship Oregon
was due to bareback"
Herman Billik, self-admitted faker
and mixer of mysterious potions, was
found guilty of numbering Mary
Vrzal, 20 years old, by arsenical poi
soning, and his punishment fixed at
death by jury in Chicago.
Announcement was made of the
engagement of Frank T. Hamilton,
vice president of the Merchants Ma
tional bank of Omaha, Neb., to
Countess Louisa de Cistue, of Grana-
da, Spain.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi grant
Angie Birdsong, Monticello, slayer of
DR.. Thomas Butler.
An unknown man, who walked with
a crutch and cane, leaped into the
rapids above Niagara falls and was
carried over the American cataract
millionaire business man of Omaha,
Neb., dropped dead at his home.
J. w. Shake, SO years old, was
burned to death by an explosion of
gasoline at Carlisle, Ind.
William Roberts, aged 45, engineer
at the water station at Milan, O., was
found dead with a bullet hole in his
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ner his bitter enemy, shot and killed
himself.
James H. Wood, district passenger
agent, and o. G. Wilson, ticket agent
of the Southern railway at Asheville,
N. c., were found guilty of selling
passenger tickets in disregard of the
new rate law and each sentenced to
80 days in the chain gang.
The seedhouse of Woods, Stubs &
Co., Louisville, KY, was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of 100000.
Automobiles are to take the place
of the old-fashioned police patrol
wagons in New York.
The famous Schihau shipyard at
Dantzig excluded Commander w. L.
Howard, the American naval attache
at Berlin.
P. o. milford, former cashier of
the defunct American bank at Ma
Mia, was sentenced to Imprisonment
for eight years and ten months on
conviction of having falsified notes
purporting to be part of the assets of
the bank.
The premier of Korea demanded
that the emperor abdicate and go to
Toxic to apologize to the emperor for
sending a delegation to The Hague.
Karl Hau, formerly professor of
Roman law in George Washington
university, Washington, d. c., was
brought before the bar at Karlsruhe,
Germany, on the charge of having
murdered his mother-in-law, Frau Mol
itor, wealthy resident of Baden
Baden, in that city on November 6
last. The first days evidence was
decidedly unfavorable to Hau.
The grand lodge of Elks authorized
the Memphis lodge to prosecute negro
Elks of that city, and reprimanded
the Newark, N. j., lodge for electing
a man thought to be colored.
A severe drought is causing starva-
ton among people in Jamaica.
Thomas BOLTON, who shot Calhoun
Wallace (colored) during a quarrel
over a woman at Gary, Ind, was him.
self killed in a fight with a posse of