River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-19

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that he had remarked Estelle Alexan-
der under the French law.
From statement made by Assist.
ant District Attorney Francis j. Heney,
of San Francisco, it was believed that
the prosecution was contemplating
granting Abraham Ruef immunity in
order to successfully prosecute the
bribery-graft cases by getting the
former political boss to take the
stand
DR.. William Wells, the Oldest pro-
fessor of Union college, sffectionately'
known to the students for a quarter
of century as Uncle Billy" died at
the age of 81 of grippe. He had been
connected with Union since 1865.
The Bank of Aldrich, at Aldrich,
Mo-, was robbed of $4,000 by three
bandits.
Prince George Of Greece and Prin-
cess Marie Bonaparte were married in
the cathedral at Athens.
Sir John Roger, governor of the
English Gold Coast colony, told a
Philadelphia audience the negro was
the greatest problem confronting
civilization and was becoming as acute
in the English colonies as in the
United States
George McCulloch. who for manv
years was associated with the devel-
opment of mining industries in Austria
liza, died in London. He was the nos
SCISSOR of one of the finest art collec-
lions in the world.
Acting Gov. Sanchez of Chihuahua,
Mexico, committed the death sentences
| of Dr. G. S. Harle, William Mitchell
and c. T. Richardson to 20 years in
the penitentiary
Regis H. Post, who recently was
renominated governor of Porto Rico
by President Roosevelt, was enthusi-
astically welcomed upon his arrival at
San Juan, Porto Ricans and Ameri-
cans participating in the demonstra-
ton as rebuke to the opposition.
According to the Pennsylvania rail-
road, the operation of the two-cent
fare law has caused a large decrease
| in it's earnings in Pennsylvania.
On the farm of John Duff, near Bris-
II,
years, was playing with stick of dy-
Mantle when it exploded, killing the
boy, Mrs Nathaniel Barnes and Mrs.
Elijah Moody and her child.
The governor of Kentucky ordered
troops to Hopkinsville to protect the
town from night riders.
| Harry G. Pulliam was reelected
| president of the National league for
| the sixth time. Secretary Treasurer
| John Heydler was unanimously re-
! elected, as was the board of directors.
John G. Jenkins and his three sons,
! John G., Jr., Frank and Fred, all bank
ers of Brooklyn, were indicted jointly
for criminal conspiracy in having il
| legally obtained loans aggregating
| 1907, 900 from trust companies OF
which they were officers.
| Lee Pemberton, of Clay, KY, shot
and fatally wounded his son Chauncey,
aged II.
Gov. Harris of Ohio committed to
life imprisonment the sentence OF
death imposed upon John Soloy, of
| Cleveland.
For love of his neighbours wife, who
had first accepted his advances, but
later decided she loved her home and
her babies more, D. H. Breese, a
wealthy farmer of Jefferson, Ia, sent
| a bullet through his brain.
United States Senator Stephen R.
Mallory is seriously i'll at his home in
| Pensacola, Fla.
| When the Democratic national COM
mittee met to select place for the ma
| tional convention practically the only
candidates were Louisville, Denver
and Chicago, with the chances in favor
of Louisville.
The last vacant berth iE the impos-
| ing double line of Pacific-bound battle
| ships was filled when the heavily ar
mored Minnesota, the flagship of Rear
! Admiral Thomas, steamed into Hamp-
ton Roads and took her place at the
head of the outward column.
| Five most valuable pictures, the
works of Fragonard, Boucher and Van
! loo, have been stolen from the Musee
de Picardie, at Amiens, France, to-
| gether with a collection of coins and
art objects valued at about $4,000.
| r. Otway Sadleir, manager of the
| West End branch of the California
Safe Deposit and Trust company, of
| San Francisco, committed suicide by
blowing off the top of his head with
a sawed-off shotgun.
Reports of a race war in Pickens
| county, Alabama, in which many ne
| groes were said to have been killed,
were fatty denied by newspaper men
of that county.
John Busha, aged ia years, who
served in the Blackhawk war, died in
| Council Bluffs, Ia.
Justice Burr, of the supreme court
of Kings county, decided that the
New York police have no right to take
photographs and measurements of a
man under arrest but not convicted.
In the midst of his speech at the
annual dinner of the Minnesota So
ciety of New York, Frank Kellogg, of
ST. Paul, Mimi, who is the prosecutor
in the case of the United States
against the Standard Oil company for
dissolution of the corporation, sud-
denly collapsed from fatigue due to
overwork.
James Henry Stoddart, the veteran
actor, died at his home in Sewaren, N.
]. Mr.. Stoddart was born in England