River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-28
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That revolution, the abdication OF
King Carlos and the formation OF
republic in Portugal will be the out
come of the present disturbances in
that country is the belief of well in
formed circles in Paris.
After being out "a hours the jurors
in the Steve Adams murder trial at
Rathdrum, Idaho, reported Sunday
night they could not agree and were
discharged. They stood eight for &C
quittal and four for conviction.
Investment buying in small lots OF
railroad and Industrial securities IN
Wall street continues in unprecedent-
ed volume, and stock transfer officers
are overwhelmed with work transfer
ring the names of new security hold
eTs.
Theodore Betram, the celebrated
opera singer, committed suicide at
Batruth, Germany. He had been mel
ancholy and Respondent since the
death of his wife, who was drowned
on February II last, in the wreck OF
the steamship Berlin off the Hook OF
Holland
Sir William Crookes was designated
for the Nobel prize for chemistry and
Rudyard Kipling that for literature.
The steamer Monohansset burned
to the waters edge on Thunder bay
Lake Huron. The crew were rescued
by the Thunder Bay island life savers.
The bureau of insular affairs has re-
ceived a cablegram from the governor
general of the Philippine islands in
dicating that probably 300 teachers
will be required at the beginning of
the next school year.
At Brentwood Tenn, Garfield Hill,
30 years old, was stabbed through the
heart and instantly killed by Nat
Dixon
Former President Grover Cleveland
is again seriously i'll at his home i'll
Princeton. He is said to have suffered
a relapse of the old intestinal trouble
which attacked him last June.
+. r. Baker, assistant cashier of the
Union Bank and Trust company Of
Lexington, KY, confessed to defalca-
tion of $19,27790 The amount has
been made good by the directors.
The Katy" passenger depot dining
hall and division headquarters office
building at Smithville, Tex, caught
fire and burned to the ground. E. B.
Kenney of st. Louis, who was en-
pIoyed as cook, persisted in the flames.
Charles w. Wiley, cashier in the
Minneapolis Office of the Wells-Fargo
Express company, is being sought for
by the police of the Twin cities and
secret agents of the express company
on charge of enlightenment of 81 900
of the company's funds.
With the completion of enumeration
OF the population of Cuba there has
been accomplished the first step in the
direction of the termination of the
American intervention and the rees-
tablishment of the Cuban republic. An
estimate by one Of the most accom-
plished statisticianS in the service of
the provisional government places the
population of the island at 100000.
John Hartley, Britisher who went
to Japan in 1864 has brought suit
. against the Japanese government for
100000 yen damages for having i'm
pounded opium imports by him in
1875. while allowing Dutch firms and
other foreigners to import the drug.
Attorneys on both sides in the
Harry Thaw case agreed to another
postponement of the trial.
NJ. Chotchg lovitoff, Russian minis
ter of justice, has renewed his old
tactics in instituting legal proceed
ings on slim preteXts against opposi-
ton members of the duma in order to
disqualify them from participation in
legislation.
A. c. Smith. general manager and
secretary of the Schmidt Bros Trunk
company of Oshkosh, Wis, and presi-
dent of the National Trunk Manufac-
turers association of the United
States, died of pneumonia.
Mrs Michael Kerpen, of Chicago,
shot and killed Matthew HERES, a
neighbor. mistaking him for burg
lar.
With her infant in her arms and her
three other small children tied to her
with ropes, Mrs. Margaret Deters, aged
IS years, jumped into the river Des
Peres at st. Louis. A policeman res
cued them ALL
j. H. Fowlkes, q farmer. was muir,
dered and robbed of $1,000 in a box
car at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
John Hall, of Camden, N. c., while
driving to Elizabeth City with Miss
Maggie Sawyer to be married, was
shot by Edmund Daily, his rival. who
then kidnapped the young woman.
United States Senator Joseph Ben
son Foraker, of Ohio, was endorsed
for both reelection to the senate and
the Republican nomination for presi.
dent. at joint meeting of the execu'
tive and advisory committees of the
Ohio League of Republican clubs at
Columbus. o.
Speaker Cannon was in a railroad
wreck at Bismarck, III. He escaped
injury, although his life was in great
danger.
One tralnman was killed and seven
persons injured when an Alton pas
senger train and a Vandalia freight
collided at Farmdale. Ill.
At Gaylord, Mich, Frank Valot
aged 81 years, shot and killed his sis
ter Laura, aged Is. and then ended his
own life.
Aud McMunn, charged with killing
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