River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10


mitted during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1906, was 1,100,735, beating
all records.
The Russian terrorists are reported
to have condemned to death, among
others, Grand Duke Nicholas, Premier
!, Stolypin and two conservative mem
bers of the cabinet, who lately re-
ceived letters of warning.
Great suffering and loss was caused
in Cleveland by the cutting off of the
city's natural gas supply, due to a
break in main.
Modern methods of combining and
consolidating mammoth railway sys-
| TENS and extending the principle OF
community of interest were delved in
to at great length by the interstate
| commerce commission, which began
in New York an inquiry into the So
called Hartman lines"
Kaiser William is in deadly fear of
| assassination and is surrounding him.
self with a guard as formidable as that
by which Gar Nicholas is protected.
Boston's municipal court enforced
| JU6 UluS laws LUdl IOIUiu oil uuHCSOo-
sary work on Sunday.
Rivers in southern Indiana over
flowed the Iowlands, driving out great
numbers of people.
Los Angeles, Cal, and Jet, Okla,
were in great distress for lack of fuel.
Adolph Johnson, fish and cheese
peddler, was brutally murdered by a
| L,
Anxiety for the safety of the liner
Ventura was relieved upon receipt Of
news that she had reached Honolulu
from Australia and New Zealand.
Judge John F. Phillips in the United
States district court in Kansas City,
denied the application of the attor-
neys for Mrs. Aggie Myers for writ
of habeas corpus and preparations
were begun for her execution January
10.
Andrew Carnegie has given $750,000
for the construction of a building to
be used by the bureau of American
republics.
A lengthy protest by members of
the advisory board of the jamestown
exposition against THE diversion of
the program of the exposition to the
service of militarism" was issued.
The small steamer Lindholmen
which plies between Christiania and
Bergen, caught fire. Four passengers
were suffocated, one was drowned and
one went mad.
The Bay of Quinte, one of the finest
hotels between Toronto and Montreal,
was destroyed by fire. Many of the
guests had narrow escapes. The loss
is $4,000.
Three persons died at Los Angeles
caused by eating canned beans. They
are Henry Carter, well known resi-
dent of Ontario, his daughter, Miss
Mabel Carter, 2S years old, and
Charles Edward Abbott.
Arthur F. Davis, mayor of Fayette,
Mo-, and president of the Farmers and
Mechanics bank, who accidentally
shot himself while looking for burglars
in his residence, died Of the wound.
r.. c. Flower, who has been a fugi-
tive from New York since 1903, where
he is wanted to answer charge Of
swindling credulous investors out of
about $1,000000, was arrested in Phil
adelphia.
Samuel Fl. Jones, for many years
one of the leading Republican poll
ticians in Illinois, died in Springfield
from the effects of a stroke of party
sis.
A negro was lynched at Midway,
Ala, because he had attempted to as
sault Miss Morrell King, daughter of
prominent banker of Midway.
Hundreds of lives and thousands of
dollars worth of property were placed
in jeopardy by an attempt to blow up
the plant of the King Powder COM
pany southwest of Lebanon, o.
Rev. Dr. John Cotton Brooks, of
Springfield, Mass, brother of the late
Phillips Brooks, is dead in Paris,
where he went for his health. He was
So years old.
During collision between the po-
lice and the people at Programme,
province of Buenos Ayres, Argentina
six persons were killed and II
wounded.
The San Francisco Coke and Gas
company and the power and paper
interests of the Flieschhackers at
Friston, Cal, are to be consolidated.
Riots over the customs laws in the
province of Valencia, Spain, resulted
in the death of four persons.
Lieut. Splitter was shot in the alb
domen and dangerously wounded in a
duel with Lieut.. Andreal near Yer
sailles, France.
Emperor William of Germany plans
to build cruiser larger than any
other warship in the world. 1t will
have a displacement of 10000 tons.
News Of a mutiny in the Austrian
navy has reached Vienna. The trou-
BILE is reported to have occurred on the
battleship Arped, cruiser st. Georg
and the naval hulk Bellona.
Federal Judge Landis decided in
Chicago that the Standard Oil COM
pany must stand trial on eight of
the ten indictments returned against
it.
Mines in the Bullfrog district of Ne
vada valued by the owners at over
$2O,000,O00 were awarded to E. A.
Montgomery by Judge 2. Seawell at
San Francisco, against the claims of