River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-07
A verdict Of $3.50 900 against Joseph.

land operator, was handed down IN the
supreme court of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Kirwan of
Springfield, Mass, were found by en-
ployes of hotel in that city lying in
their room critically wounded. The
husband declared that he and his wife
had tried to commit suicide by shoot
ing.
Representatives of the principal
steel producing companies, it is said,
held secret meeting in Pittsburg and
formed billet pool to keep up prices.
Experiments made with "lucideS-
cent light at the New York Skin and
Cancer hospital are declared to have
demonstrated that intense light is a
powerful cure for pain.
Heirs of George Washington are
seeking to recover the value of lands
on which the city of Cincinnati now
rests.
Frank Croker, cashier of the First
National Savings bank, of Charlton,
Ia, committed suicide after notifying
the bank examiner that the bank was
overloaned.
The yacht Kingdom, with about 60
members of the Holy Ghost and Us
colony at Shiloh, Me-, on board and
crew of 20, sailed for the Holy Land.
Notices posted about the Calumet
& Hecla works at Houghton, Mich,
announced a reduction of wages on
December 1 of 1917 per cent, approx
mately equal to the increase granted
early in the year.
Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian
who disappeared after being indicted
for mistreating girls, was believed by
some of his friends to have been
kidnapped or murdered by gang OF
blackmailers.
DR.. Richard Mohr, general director
of the Hahnemann hospital in Phila-
delphia and professor of materia
medica and therapeutics, dropped
dead on the street.
E. G. McNair, convicted of wife
murder at Beaumont, Tex, committed
suicide by hanging himself to the
bars of his cell in the county jail at
Houston.
AS a result of the application of the
Pendleton law by which cities of Ten
nessee can reincorporate without the
saloon, over 100 saloons closed their
doors in Knoxville.
The supreme court Of Massachu-
sets declared the use of voting ma
chimes unconstitutional.
Eta l.. Mclean, a stenographer
in the office of United States District
Attorney Sims at Chicago, was ar
rested on charge of stealing papers
and records in the John r. Walsh
case.
The business part of Rockton, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire with loss ex-
ceeding $4,000.
The Imperial Tobacco company pur-
chased for 81 800 900 the entire 1907
tobacco crop pledged to the American
Society of Equity in Henderson,
Union, Webster, Hopkins and Critten-
den counties in Kentucky.
The West Texas Bank e Trust
company of San Antonio closed it's
doors under a temporary suspension
of business.
Royal Fowler, of Dayton, who
killed his sweetheart, Mary Hagerty,
more than a year ago, was electro
cuted in the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus
Fire on State street, Chicago, did
100000 damage to the N. B. Holden
Shoe company.
In a battle between United States
troops and Indians in southern Utah
three persons were killed and another
wounded, all believed to have been
Indians.
Miss Josephine Hill, 80 years old,
a teacher in the House of Mercy, a
charitable institution conducted by
the Sisters of ST. Mary of the Protest
ant Episcopal church in New York,
committed suicide by shooting.
Mischievous small boys in West
Duluth, Mimi, attached piece of
wire to an electric light wire and
strung it in front of an Austrian
boarding house. Yova Mehis, the first
man to approach, stepped on it and
was instantly killed.
A case which has been occupying
the courts at Staunton, Va, for over
100 years has finally been adjudicated.
1t was known as Pock VS.. Borden and
100000 was at first involved. Only
$4,000 remains to be divided between
400 persons.
The tobacco situation in Kentucky
became serious. Burley growers
agreed to cut out next years crop. Eff
forts were made to pool this years
crop and to induce buyers to leave the
fields. Opposition at Henderson and
elsewhere gave promise of trouble.
The mutinous crew of the Russian
torpedo boat destroyer at Vladivostok
fought with four other warships and
fort and was subdued only after a
number of men had been killed or
wounded
Commissioner General Sargent of
the bureau of immigration denied the
appeal of a confessed clipping couple
from Berlin, Germany, for admission
to the United States.
The little town of Karatagh, in the
Hussar district of Bokhara, was over
whelmed and completely destroyed by
a landslide that followed the earth
quake of October 81. 1t was believed
1,500 persons persisted.
T. E. Mcdonald, superintendent of
the United States Express company at
Milwaukee, announced that the