River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18


Americas, Ca, was shot and instantly
killed Saturday night by an unknown
person.
Gail Robinson of Buffalo fell 1000
feet with a disabled airship at Spring
field, O., and was practically unin-
jured.
Every fire insurance company doing
business in Kansas was enjoined from
using the so-called "Eldridge rating
sheet" in writing Kansas risks.
John w. H. Geiger, late cashier of
the Canton National bank of Balti-
more, was found guilty in the United
States court of abstracting and fraud
ulently using funds of the bank.
Charles Stoner of Bradford, ILL.,, has
sued six other boys for $4,000 be-
cause he. was injured for life while
being hazed.
/ Mrs. Nina Field Gibson, prominent
in Chicago society, was granted di-
vorce from Preston Gibson.
J. Pierpont Morgan appeared in the
West London police court as wit
ness in the case of Mrs. Josephine
Leslie. who is charged with defraud-
ing members of well-known families
by false pretenses and who repre-
scented herself to be a friend of Mr.
Morgan.
Mrs. Mary Gaylord, Of Pontiac, ILL.,,
was killed by fall downstairs.
Overjoyed with the news that her
daughter would arrive from Europe
to see her, Mrs. Paul Murthke of
Marinette, Wis, died in Chicago.
Heart trouble, fastened by joy, was
the cause.
The menagerie tent of Barnum &
Bailey's circus was demolished by a
wind storm at Watertown, S. D., and
one employee killed.
Robert Buckell, a former resident of
Terre Haute, Ind, but who returned
some years ago to his native town OF
Oxford, England, has been knighted
by King Edward.
Admiral Baron Yamamoto was en-
tertained at luncheon by President
Roosevelt and they discussed the re-
cent war stories, agreeing that they
were utterly unfounded.
Mrs. Mary E. Bowie and her son,
who killed Hubert Posey for wronging
Miss Bowie, were acquitted by jury
at La Plata, Md, their attorney having
appealed to the ''unwritten law"
Joe Fitzpatrick and four cousins,
indicted at Prestonsburg, KY, for the
murder of Andy Coburn, defied the
law at their home in the mountains
and were not arrested
Telegraph operators in New York
were instructed to be ready to strike
on a moments notice.
Six persons were drowned near
Russell, Pa, when a steam launch
was swept over a dam in the Cone
wangO river
Albert Peverette, convicted bank
robber, escaped from the guards at
the entrance of the prison at Mar
quette, Mich.
Judge Richard Waite, pioneer law
yer of Toledo, O., died of paralysis,
aged IS years.
The charge d'affaires Of the Siamese
legation at Washington, Phra Ratana-
yapti, who arrived from London,
where he went to pay his respects to
the king of Siam, said that it is likely
the king will visit the United States
next year.
John Lynch, of Dayton, o., who shot
and killed Harry Martin, was found
guilty of second degree murder.
Kilfoil's hotel at Boksburg, South
Africa, was blown UP with dynamite
and three men were killed.
The countess of Trobriand, who was
Miss Mary Jones, of New York, died
at the home of her daughter, Countess
Rodellec du Porzics, at the Chateau
of Kerstears, Finisterre.
Twenty-one members of the Lumber
Dealers Credit association, nine mem
bers of the Brick Dealers association,
and two bridge agents at Toledo, O.,
who pleaded guilty to indictments
charging violations of the Valentine
antitrust law, were sentenced by
Judge Lindley w. Morris. The lum-
bermen and the bridge men were SEN
fenced to six months in the workhouse
each
Lieut.. Varra, of the Tenth regiment
Italian infantry, was seriously wound
ed in duel with Lieut.. de Notard, of
the same regiment. The men fought
for 80 minutes, during which there
were IS assaults.
Another Japanese was arrested at
Fort Rosecrans, near San Diego. Cal.
He was a servant and had in his pos
session blue print of the fort.
Peter Larson, one of the richest
men in the northwest, died at his
home in Helena, Mont.
The Thaw family has realized
100000 from the sale of coal land,
thus providing funds for the defense
of Harry X. Thaw.
Curt Smith was killed in card
game by Sigel Turner at Jackson, KY.
Smith was chief witness in the Har-
gis murder trial
Henry J. Wilson, former messenger
of the First National bank, New York,
who said he was robbed of $1,715 in
cash while collecting for the bank
July l, was arrested and held in $4,000
bail
Three men are known to have been
killed, one was fatally hurt and Is
others were injured in the collapse of
a new concrete building at the plant
of Bridgman Bros. company in Phila-