River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

The steamship Ponce, long overdue
at New York, was towed to the Ber-
mudas with a broken shaft, by Ger
man steamer All on board were well.
John Smith, one of the men under
indictment for the murder of DR.. B. d.
Cox in Kentucky has made confess
sion in which he said Hargis and Cal
lahan induced him and two others to
kill Cox.
President Harahan, of the Illinois
Central replied to Gov. Deneen's spe-
cial message, saying the charges
against the road were unjust and the
governor ordered suit begun against
the railway at once.
Walter S. Boyle, Jr., son of the mil
lionaire president of the Crescent Coal
company, Chicago, was killed by a pis-
toll shot in room at his home. Mem
bers of the family declare the death
was accidental.
A fire which started in the tobacco
warehouse of S. r. Moss e. Co., at
Lancaster, Pa, from the falling of an
electric arc light spread to adjoining
property and caused a loss estimated
st $1000,000.
Congressman Charles Curtis was
nominated for United States senator
to succeed Senator Benson by the
caucus of Republican legislators. The
action of the caucus is equivalent to
election.
Two men were killed and more than
e s,o3, 1iv,o
several women, by an explosion of
acetylene gas at a card party in Wood
mans hall in Wilmington, Ill.
Ebert w. Gibson, principal of the
schools at Riverdale, Mich, was
drowned while trying to save 14-year-
old Harry Valance, who had broken
through the ice while skating.
The North German Fire Insurance
company, according to a decision rem
dered by the Hamburg court in a test
case, must pay the losses incurred as
a result of the San Francisco earth
quake of last year.
The upper house of the Tennessee
legislature adopted a resolution in
dorsing President Roosevelt's stand
on the discharge of the negro soldiers
at Brownsville, Tex. The house had
adopted the same resolution.
For the first time since August
there is no case of yellow fever in
Cuba The last person to suffer from
the disease is dead at Sagua La
Grande.
President Roosevelt received a let
ter from the French ambassador at
Washington, stating that the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor had been
conferred upon Prof. Brander Mat
thews, of Columbia university.
Fourteen Texas senators signed a
resolution demanding an investigation
Of Senator Bailey and Attorney Gen
eral Davidson.
The mills at Minneapolis, were
forced to close for lack of cars.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at Cincinnati upheld the con
stitutionality of the Kentucky law EN-.
towering the governor to appoint a
racing board to control horse racing
in the state.
Robbers blew open the vault of a
bank at Bonfeld and escaped with
$500.
An immediate investigation of the
alleged exposure of cruelty and in.
humanity by attendants at the Cleve
land state hospital for the insane was
ordered by Gov. Harris, of Ohio.
Mexican troops killed 80 riotous
strikers at Nogales and wounded more
than so, after the mobs had destroyed
property valued at $1,5OO.000
A lamp being used by Mrs. Ella
Longley, of st. Louis, exploded. GOV
ering her with oil, and she was burned
TO death.
Prof. E. T. Cox, prominent mem
Der of the American Association fol
the Advancement of Science, died a
his home in Jacksonville, Fla, aged
Sc years.
Near Cairo, H., thousands of acres
of land were flooded and the loss Of
i've stock and corn was heavy.