River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-04-25
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the jurors in the recent trial of Harry
X. Thaw had been approached by
a policeman before the trial closed.
twenty-five persons are believed to
have been drowned by the laundering
of the river steamer Archangelsk
while she was crossing the Neva near
st. Petersburg. The boat, which was
unseaworthy and manned by incompe-
tents, struck an ice foe.
The body of Peter J. Kennedy, a
well-known theatrical manager who
disappeared in December last, was
found in the water off South Brooklyn.
The grand jury at Toledo, o., re-
turned 245 indictments against promi-
nent citizens and concerns engaged in
the building trades, for conspiring in
restraint of trade.
Rev. DIR. Carter Helm Jones, pastor
Of the Broadway Baptist church, Louis
vile, KY, and close friend of John
D. Rockefeller, announced during
mission sermon that Mr.. Rockefeller
had nearly completed his plans for
gift Of $5O,OOO,00O for the education of
the Chinese.
Capt. Piccono, the commander of the
Navigazione Italia line steamer Sirio,
which struck on the rocks of Hormigas
island, Spain, last August, as result
of which 300 persons were drowned,
died at Genoa of a broken heart.
Diamonds valued at from $4,000 to
$4,000 were stolen by burglars, who
blew the safe of John Daynes & Sons,
jewelers., of Salt Lake City.
Four prominent young men of Ell
Paso, Tex, were arrested for gamb-
ling, under the new Texas law that
makes it felony.
An agreement was signed by the
executive committee of the mine own
ers and the officers of Miners union
No. 900, Goldfield district which term
mated the great lockout and labor
struggle of the past seven weeks.
Thinking he had killed his son,
whom he had floored in quarrel, Viii
liam Robinson, of Stamping Ground,
KY, blew out his brains, dying in
stantly.
James Gilbert, a son of William Gil
bert, wealthy tobacco man of Muir
ray, KY, committed suicide aboard a
train en- route from Memphis by swal-
lowing a half ounce of bromidia.
The Methodist Episcopal church of
-Menominee, Mich, was destroyed by
fire. high wind spread the flames
to the Baptist church and the resi-
dence of Dr. Phillips, and they were
damaged.
Investigation proved that the lad
held by the police of Gloverville, N. Y,
was not the kidnapped son of DR.. IIor-
ace Marvin, of Dover, Del.
John Orson Johnston, president and
general manager Of the Columbus
CO.. Gas e Fuel company, fell dead
at the telephone in his residence just
as he had finished a conversation
with his family physician.
Three burglars locked w. l.. Baker,
postmaster of Dyer, Ind, in his house
and then blew open the safe in the
front of the building. They escaped
with 500 in cash and $40 in stamps.
Louis Meyers, hide inspector at the
stock yards, shot and killed his friend
and former roommate, John Max
laslxa, rs years old. in a boarding
house, mistaking him for burglar.
An attempt to depose the pastor of
church in Portsmouth, o., resulted
in a riotous fight in the sacred edifice.
Two men were fatally injured and
100000 damage done when big fire.
works factory at Chihuahua, Mexico,
blew up.
Fruit in eastern Colorado was
nipped by sharp drop in temperature
following a snowstorm.
Two trainmen were killed by col
lision between a passenger train and
a freight at Woodlawn Junction, Ala.
Edward L. Somers, freight traffic
manager of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad since 1908, died
at his home in New Haven, Conn, of
neuralgia of the heart.
The vice governor of the prison at
Rostor-on-Don. Russia, was assassi-
mated in the street.
William Sander, a student at Co
lumbia university, was drowned in
the swimming pool of the gymnasium.
A rumored discrepancy of $500, 900
in the accounts of the University of
Wisconsin was explained by Presi-
dent Van Hise as merely the result
of careless bookkeeping.
Mrs. David Mclean was reelected
president general of the Daughters
OF the American Revolution.
The supreme court of Illinois decid-
ed that the ex-treasurers and ex-audi-
tors of the state must make restitu-
ton of fees amounting to 1921, 900.
John Malang, of Joplin, Mo-, Repub-
lican, was elected state senator for
the Twenty-eighth district to succeed
the late Thomas Conner.
Fire in Montreal steam laundry
caused the death of three persons,
two men and woman, and the injury
of II others.
Two lives were lost and a great
amount of damage was done by a flu
rious storm of wind and hail that
struck Jacksonville, Fla.
A new board of three members has
supplanted the indicted officers of the
Uncle Sam Oil company in the man
agement Of the concerns affairs.
The Ancient Order of United Work
men was ousted from the state OF
Ohio on the petition of Attorney Gen
eral Ellis.