River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-24

OI6SOIy Il. 1NlSOH, ~ years Olu,
said to be former football star, was
arrested at Lemont, ILL.,, on charge
Of stealing aluminium valued at $4,000
from the plant of the Illinois Pure
Aluminium company, where he was
employed as a storekeeper.
Dawson E. Burch of Chicago killed
his bride of four months and himself
because of jealousy.
Martin Clehossy was killed and his
son wounded near South Cotton, N. Y,
by a hunter who mistook them for
deer.
Alfred Flowers, a high school stu
dent, was killed in football game at
Cincinnati
William G. Rockefeller, assistant
treasurer of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, testified in the govern
ment's suit for the dissolution of the
oil combine, that the Standard was a
heavy lender of its surplus funds in
Wall street, for which it obtained the
prevailing rates of interest. Mr.. Rock
efeller made this declaration when
asked to account for the loans of $780,
900, 900 made by the Standard Oil
company of New York, in 1906, to
interests other than the Standard"
Aeronauts ]. C. Mccoy and Capt.
Charles De F. Chandler, who assembled
from st. Louis for a test flight, won
the Lahm cup by travelling about 500
miles to West Virginia.
Acting under instructions from
Judge Cochran, the jury at Decatur,
| H., returned verdict acquitting Fred
erick Magill and his wife, Faye Ora
ham Magill, of the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Pet Magill, the first wife OF
Magill.
| Lewis M. Wilson, student at the
Eureka College Theological Seminary
at Eureka, ILL.,, shot and seriously
wounded John Walsh, classmate.
Edwin r. Wright was reelected
president of the Illinois Federation of
IsLabor, and James F. Morris, secre-
| tary-treasurer.
Gov. Hughes, addressing the Repub-
lican club of New York city, declared
that he was not seeking the presiden-
tial nomination, directly or indirectly.
Negroes in New Orleans started
riot in which they killed policeman,
barricaded themselves in house and
wounded several other officers before
they were captured.
The direct New York-Havana cable
of the Commercial Cable company was
completed, the final splice having
been made at sea, 120 miles from
Coney island.
The Canadian Pacific liners Tartar
and Charmer collided off the mouth
of the Fraser river and both were bad
ly damaged.
E. r. Brundick, former cashier of
the Peoples bank at Huntingburg,
Ind. attempted to commit suicide
after he was arrested on charges of
perjury and for receiving deposits
after the bank was in an embarrassed
condition.
Delegates Frederick w. Priesmeyer
and Ferdinand Warder, of st. Louis,
were arrested on the floor of the
house of delegates on indictments for
bribery, returned at special session
of the grand jury after the passage by
the delegates of a bill granting per-
mission to build garage on Delmar
boulevard.
Princess de Bearn, formerly Miss
Beatrice Winans, of Baltimore, Md,
died in st. Petersburg.
John Antrobus, an artist, who was
widely known throughout this coun-
try and the father of Miss Suzanne An
trobus, the novelist, died in Detroit,
Mich.
The peace conference at The Hague
closed in a blaze of oratory.
George Kincaid, head of the public
works department in Yukon Territory,
who was arrested at Dawson on
charge of stealing $4,000 from reg
istered mail sack, committed suicide
by taking poison.
President Roosevelt succeeded in
shooting a large black bear.
The police Of Manila were warned
that an attempt would be made to
throw a bomb at Secretary Taft.
A Chicago jury returned a verdict of
life Imprisonment for Michael Maher,
accused of attacking an 11-year-old
girl
w. w. Westcott, one of the most
successful gamblers in America and
brother of Mrs. Katherine Tingley,
head of the Theosophist organization,
is dead at his home in New York.
Gov Gen. Grey of Canada an
nounced that some members of the
royal family would visit the dominion
in connection with the centenary of
the landing of Champlain.
AS results of the collapse of the at
tempted corner in United Copper in
New York, the firm of Otto Heinze
e Co. was suspended in the stock ex-
| change; F. Augustus Heinze, the
Butte copper magnate, resigned the
| presidency of the Mercantile National
bank of New York; the Amalgamated
Copper company cut its quarterly divi-
dend from two per cent. to one per
cent; the directors of the Boston &
Montana Copper company declared a
| quarterly dividend of six dollars in
| place of a former dividend of SIP; the
| failure of Haller-Soehle & Co., promi-
nent bankers of Hamburg, Germany,
with liabilities that may reach $780,
! 600, was announced, and the State
| Savings bank of Butte, Mont, of which
the Heinzes are the principal stock