River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

preme court of New York, why he
should not be enjoined from turning
over or delivering the remainder of
the $21,450,000 of the Panama canal
bonds to certain banks and persons to
whom he has announced allotments.
William White, a 17-year-old boy, is
the confessed thief, according to the
police, of the $4,000 package of jew
elry stolen from the United States Elk
press company in New York.
NJ Paquin, the famous dressmaker
of Paris, is dead.
A Michigan constitutional conven-
ton committee reported favorably on
a proposal for state accident insur-
ance department.
H. Clay Wyatt, of Lawton, Okla,
was found guilty of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government of land in the
Rosebud reservation in South Dakota.
Hugh L. Creighton, aged 70, civil
war veteran and prominent business
man, committed suicide at Oakville,
Ia, by cutting an artery in the arm.
Ill health caused him to take his life.
According to a report from London,
the German war ministry has pur-
chased the rights of Pulsen's wireless
telephone with which communication
was established between Berlin and
Copenhagen.
The schooner David Currier, laden
with stone, sunk near Westbrook,
Conn. The crew was landed at Say
brook Point.
Secretary of State Root, at the re-
quest of the Italian ambassador, has
called upon the governor of Kentucky
to stop the further destruction by
"night-riders" of tobacco belonging to
the Italian government and stored in
Kentucky.
Mike" the sixton elephant, the
largest in captivity, died in winter
quarters in Bridgeport, Conn.
Persian priests have again dispersed
the opposing factions at Teheran, and
the capital is quiet.
Charles Hank of Chicago, president
of the International Brick, Tile and
Terra Gotta workers, was arrested at
Athens, o., on the charge of melting
to riot.
BILLY" Warren, one of the old-time
stage drivers of the'country, is dead at
Stuart, Ia. Warren began stage
driving at the age of 10, and in 1845
drove line out of Chicago.
Robert Mitchell, member of the
state board of agriculture and lead
e I'D of
ton, Ind.
Edward Clifford was hanged at
Peoria for the murder of his father,
whom he shot November 25, 1906.
An explosion Of gas in the Darr
mine of the Pittsburg Coal company
at Jacobs Creek, Pa, entombed be-
tween 200 and $50 miners, and there
was scarcely ray of hope that
single one of them would be taken
from the mines alive. Many men es-
capped death because they were OBJ
serving festival of the Greek church.
A terrific explosion occurred in
Palermo in the military powder maya
zine, where a large quantity of dyna-
mite was stored, and was followed by
a number of lesser explosions, the
whole town being badly shaken and
the people thrown into panic. About
rs persons were killed and many in
jured.
Thinking it unloaded, John Meyer,
a farmer boy, living at Holy Cross,
Ia, pointed a shotgun at his 16-year
old sister and pulled the trigger, blow
ing her head from her shoulders.
Col. James B. McGonigal, who was
a conductor on the first train operated
died in Kansas City, aged "A.
The late King Oscar of Sweden was
buried at Stockholm with imposing
ceremony.
The Republican county committee
of New York county, by an almost
unanimous vote, refused to consider
at this time a resolution indorsing
Gov. Charles E. Hughes for the Re-
publican presidential nomination.
c. Hauge, the Norwegian minister
to the United States, died while on a
snowshoeing trip near Christiania.
I16uIy DlUDlSS, OuS VI (u6 u1OSt
prominent real estate men in Chicago,
died of heart disease, aged 81 years.
The first bill passed by the Philip
pine assembly appropriated $1,O0O,00O
for schools.
Burglars in Springfield, ILL.,, broke
the window of the jewelry store of
John c. Pierik and made their escape
with $4,000 worth of diamonds.
The Chenille Banking & Trust
company, a small concern in the
suburbs of Cleveland, o., made an as
signment in the insolvency court.
M. Filossofoff, Russian minister of
commerce and ex-comptroller of the
empire died suddenly at the Marie
theater during a gala performance.
Engineer Frank Krag, SO years old,
of Buffalo, N. Y, thought i'll and faint,
stayed at his throttle till he had
brought his fast Lake Shore train
safely into Collinwood, o. Then he
stepped from his cab, and in a few
minutes was dead
A band of eight or ten masked men
descended upon a sheep camp belong
ing to Waisner Bros. of Sheridan,
Wyo., killed 500 head and burned the
camp outfit.
Mrs. Kate A. Henderson, public
librarian of Joliet, ILL.,, and widely
known as an educator, died suddenly.
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