River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02


was suspended because of the violence
of strike sympathizers.
President Roosevelt, the diplomatic,
naval and military representatives of
81 Of tie nations Of the world, and the
governors of a score of states partici-
pated in the opening exercises of the
jamestown Tercentennial exposition.
The president reviewed the foreign
and American war ships in Hampton
Roads, made vigorous address in
the exposition grounds, reviewed a
parade of soldiers and sailors and
pushed the gold button that opened
the fair.
William B. McKeand, president OF
McKeand & Co., Chicago note brokers,
has left that city and it was said a
Kansas City company accused him OF
appropriating the proceeds of two
notes for $4,000 each sent him for sale.
Prof. NJ Mugan, of st. Louis, and E.
M Dey, having decided an oratorical
contest at Shurtleff college, Upper AL
ton, ILL.,, against the freshmen class,
were seized by freshmen, tied to trees
and left there all night.
Prof Albert Ritter Won Mosetig-
Moorhof, the famous surgeon and in
PRODUCER of iodoform, while walking
on the banks of the Danube fell in
the water and was drowned
Reports coming to the Great Moth
ern railway headquarters at ST. Paul
indicate that the farmers of the north
west are suffering from lack OF help
during seeding time.
Citizens of Winona, Mimi, presented
to James A. Tawney, chairman of the
appropriations committee of the ma
tional house of representatives, solid
silver loving cup, lined with gold.
A Portuguese Jew was murdered at
Casablanca, Morocco, by a negro in
the pay of Moor The murderer re-
crime
Alfred Packer, who in 1888 was sen.
fenced to Imprisonment for 40 years
for killing five men with whom he was
lost, and eating one of them, died in
Deer Creek canyon, Colorado.
Sentiment among the humorists OF
the country favorable to building a
monument to the late Edgar Wilson
Nye (Bill Nye) has taken definite
form.
George Hively, of Kettle, W. Va,
shot and killed Robert Summers OF
the same place. They were respected
farmers and have families. Hively
made his escape.
Lindsay B. Hicks, the miner who for
IL days was buried in the Edison
mine at Bakersfield Cal, attempted
suicide at Reno, New, by leaping in
front of a switch engine. A nystander
saved his life.
David Wilcox, former president OF
the Delaware & Hudson railroad com
pany, committed suicide on the steam
er Barbarossa, because of i'll health.
John D. Rockefeller gave to the
University of Chicago land valued at
100000
s. T. K. Prime, a veteran crop re-
porter, died in Chicago as the result
of stroke of paralysis.
DR.. ]. N. Groves, for 40 years prac-
ticing physician in Effingham, ILL.,,
died. He was surgeon of the Fourth
Michigan cavalry during the civil wal
and was member of the squad which
captured jefferson Davis.
Gabriel Potts, a young farmer, shot
and probably fatally wounded his bride
of three months, and then shot him
self, at Selipman, Mo.
Fully $4,000 people attended bar
beque given by the American Society
of Equity at Lexington, KY, organized
to fight the tobacco trust. Kentucky,
Ohio and Indiana contributed the
crowds.
Charles Ansberry, of Bement, ILL.,,
and ]. Thebald, of Hannibal, Mo-, were
crushed to death at Strasburg, Ill.
While they were moving the Wabash
railway station the jacks gave way.
The men were underneath.
Giovanni Morosini, the New York
banker, was dangerously injured in his
home in Riverside-on-the-H Hudson.
Having reached the age of Ga years,
Brig Gen John W. Bubb, recently in
command of the department of the
Dakotas at st. Paul, Mimi, was placed
on the retired list of the army
Patrick Gallagher and John Novack,
miners in No. drift of the Delaware
& Hudson company at Olyphant, Pa,
were crushed to death by falling roofs.
Engineer John Phillips, Of Delmar,
Del, was killed in a head-on collision
between a south-bound local passenger
train and a north-bound freight on the
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk
railroad at Eden, Md. No passengers
were injured.
Fire in a den of lions at the Lin
coin park animal house in Chicago
excited the entire menagerie and
threatened a delivery of reptiles,
tigers and leopards.
Four miners were killed and nine
injured by an explosion in the Black
Diamond mine % miles from Seattle.
E. G. Russell, executive agent of
the Grand Trunk Pacific in British Co
lumbia, committed suicide at Prince
Rupert.
Eddie Tate, the safe-blower who es-
capped from a hospital in Peoria, was
located in Chicago and was said to be
seeking to make terms with the police.
Capt. N T. Smith, the veteran
treasurer of the Southern Pacific
Railway company. died at his home
at San Carlos, San Mateo county