River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-14


and a woman in her home.
Henry Leeds, archdeacon of the
/ Kansas diocese of the Episcopal
church, died in Topeka, Kan, of heart
| failure, aged AZ years.
The French line steamer La Savoie
encountered severe gales and was
swept by monster wave that forced
the captain to lie to for eight hours.
The Milwaukee Gas Light company
reduced the price of gas to 80 cents.
J. T. Haviland, New York stock
broker was arrested on a charge of
embezzling $4,000 belonging to Scran-
| ton (Pa.) clients.
Michael Bower and his ten-year-old
| daughter were killed by a train at
Lancaster, n. Y.
The anti-suicide bureau of the Sal
walton Army in New York has saved
many persons from self-destruction
and will be made permanent.
John Turner, who was an intimate
friend of Charles Dickens, died at Pa
ola, Kan.
The Danube river overlooked it's
banks and did great damage.
The springs Of Pullman car on
the Pennsylvania Chicago special
broke and the passengers were Sc
verely shaken up.
Leohidas NJ Preston, who commit
ted suicide in New York Thursday, is
said to have forged notes aggregating
| nearly 100000 and to have lost all
his money betting on horse races.
The grand jury at Peoria, ILL.,, re-
turned indictments against ex-Sheriff
Daniel e. Potter, Deputies w. E. Pc
ters, Robert Conkey and Sherman
Hunt, and City Clerk Robert Joos, the
latter being charged with embezzle-
ment of city funds and malfeasance in
| office. Ex-Sheriff Potter and his depu-
ties, it is said, misused the county
funds to the extent of $4,000.
Two German steamships foundered
in the North sea and "a men were
drowned
Robert C.. George, chief deputy
clerk of the federal courts at Cincin-
natl for &c years, is dead.
Katherine Eleanor Conway, editor
of the Boston Pilot, wac awarded the
Laetare medal by Notre Dame univer-
sity.
Roscoe P. Miller, of Beaver Dam,
Wis, shot and killed his wife and his
stepmother and then committed sui
eide.
United States Minister Merry was
driven out of Managua, Nicaragua, by
| soldiers and his dispatches and mail
were seized.
Abraham Ruef, the political boss Of
| San Francisco, who had abeen fugi-
tive from court, was arrested at
suburban resort by the courts elisor,
w J. Buggy.
The conductors and trainmen of the
Santa Fe system are likely to strike
unless the road comedies their de-
mand of nine-hour day and II per
cent. increase in pay.
Leonidas Preston, the millionaire
who died suddenly in the Hotel Cum
berland, is believed to have commit
ted suicide, the autopsy revealing in
his stomach enough hydrocyanic acid
to kill six men.
unexpected strike on the part of prac
tically all the electricians of Paris re-
suited in the almost complete paraly-
sis of the business of the city.
Repulsed by the woman with whom
he was madly in love, Henry De Burt,
prominent contractor, fired bull
let into his head while standing in the
~ he M
Prospect avenue, one of Cleveland's
fashionable residence streets. He was
removed to a hospital in a dying con-
dition.
The Nebraska house passed the
senate employers liability bill, af-
fecting railway trainmen, and it now
goes to the governor. Under the pro-
vision of the bill railroads are not
permitted to plead contributory negli-
gence as a bar to recovery, nor can
they claim exemption from damage
suits under the fellow-servant prin-
ciple.
Two persons were killed and sew
eral injured in the wreck of a Great
Northern passenger train near Ojata,
N d.
Isaac Freeman Rasin, who for near
ly 40 years had been the acknowl-
edged leader of the Democratic organ
ization in Baltimore, died of heart
failure following an attack of apo
pleXy.
In the trial at Danville, ILL.,, of Will
j. Davis, charged with manslaughter
in connection with the Iroquois the
alter fire in Chicago, Attorney Levy
Mayer, for the defense, took up the
entire day addressing the court in an
attack upon the validity of the Chi
cago ordinance alleged to have been
violated.
The legislatures of North and
South Dakota adjourned after passing
much important legislation.
The bill to extend the right of SUI
frage to women was defeated in the
house of commons, where it was
talked to death without coming to a
vote.
Andrew William Mulligan, 81 years
of age, well known in the steel bust
ness, died at Mount Vernon, N. Y,
from paralysis of the heart.
H. NJ. Brainard, a Cleveland bust
ness man, and his wife, filed volun-
tary petitions in bankruptcy.
James and Philip Strother of Gull