River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-02-21

| four passengers were cut ana bruised.
Fire destroyed flour mill and ele-
vator at Bloomer, Wis, the loss being
100000.
Representatives of the Kansas City
Star were barred from the Kansas
| senate chamber.
When Moses Hill, colored, was
hanged for murder at Farmville, Va,
the rope broke twice and the man
| died on the ground.
An outbreak of scarlet fever has
closed Amherst college, Massachu-
sets, until March 1.
Mrs John D. Rockefeller is serious
ly i'll at New York.
Capt Horace Sutton, well known
Mississippi river pilot, died at Mem
phis, Tenn, aged AZ years.
The Eau Claire Box and Lumber
company's plant at Eau Claire, Wis,
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $751;
900.
leader, says million peasants are
starving in Russia.
Charges of cruelty in the Cleveland
(O.) state hospital for the insane were
partly sustained by the report of the
trustees.
Diphtheria has broken out among
the students at Cornell university.
Miss Nora Baggott committed sui
eide in Indianapolis by leaping from a
sixth-story window.
DR.. Beachom Of Mangum, Okla,
killed Charles Thomas, who eloped
with Mrs. Beachom year ago.
Three miners were fatally hurt and
ten others injured by an explosion of
dust in shaft at Chandler, Ind.
Col. John Pope Baker, U. S. A., re-
tired, died at his home in st. Louis.
Jude Geehart, said to be an escaped
convict from the Joliet Qll.) prison,
where he was serving a ten-year SEN
tence for grand larceny, was arrested
at Los Angeles.
Chaplains in the French navy have
been abolished.
The Mann Lumber company of Mo
bile, Ala, failed because a hurricane
blew down it's standing timber.
The federal department of justice
prepared to prosecute number Of
railroads for violating the law relating
to the shipment of cattle.
The auditing committee Investigate
ing the books of the Vanderburgh
county Qnd) treasurer's office report
ed a shortage of $63, 1889, and stated
that John P. Walker, the treasurer, be-
gan misusing funds shortly after en-
tering his first term of Office.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Farmers Grain Dealers association of
Illinois ended at Springfield after the
adoption of resolution asking con-
gress to pass a national reciprocal
demurrage law.
Temperance advocates, 1000 strong,
marched through the streets of Wash
ington in support of a bill to abolish
the liquor traffic in the District of Co.
lumbia.
Fred Caster, convicted of killing Po-
lice officer Dan E. Davis, while flee
ing from Columbus residence which
he had robbed was electrocuted in the
Ohio penitentiary.
The county grand jury at Lebanon,
KY, returned indictments against the
Cincinnati Enquirer, Louisville Times
and Evening Post for printing and
circulating in that county the of
fensive and indecent proceedings of
the Thaw trial
The Venezuelan legation received
official advices from the Venezuelan
consul at Trinidad stating that Pres
ident Castro is doing well and that
Gen. Paroles, the revolutionary lead
er, has been captured with all his fol-
lowers.
Four children near Bridgeville, Del,
a mother and child at PotOntoc, Miss,
and an infant at Mount Vernon, ILL.,,
were burned to death.
William A. Howett, a well-known
lawyer, died at Litchfield, Ill.
Miss Flora Steipel, cashier of
Philadelphia department store, was ar
rested on a charge of embezzling $685.
600.
The motor works of the Daimler
Manufacturing company at Long Is
land City, were burned. The loss is
100000.
Judge Grimm, at Jefferson, Wis,
upheld the Wisconsin oleomargarine
law.
Two drastic bills to restrict the
freedom of the press as regards the
kind of matter published are before
the Washington legislature.
A Swiss workman named Gustave
Leeman, Sc years old and unmarried,
has won the 100000 prize at the Mi
Ian exposition lottery.
Princess Christina Ruspoli Bona
parte, widow of Prince Charles Bona
parte, died in Rome.
Col. James Findley Harrison, a
grandson of President William Henry
Harrison, died at his home in Mound
City, Kan, of old age. aged 50 years.
Negotiable securities of value of
$150,000 are missing from the vaults
of the Savings Bank of New Britain,
Conn, of which institution the treas
urer, William F. Walker, mysteriously
dropped out of sight in New York.
Fire in Cramps shipyards at Phila-
delphia destroyed the patterns of a
number of battleships, and several
firemen were injured.
The body of Willard D. Barr Of
Lawrence county, ILL.,, an orchardist
whose mind became unbalanced when
his wife deserted him a month ago,