River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-27


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Constable J. H. Coad Of Memphis,
! Tenn, is dead and Isom Reed, a ne
gro, is suffering from wounds which
are considered fatal as result OF
pistol duel between the constable and
| the negro. Reed was resisting arrest.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, New York,
| has been sold to a syndicate which
next year will erect big office build
| ing on the site.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at
Butte, Mont, but soon melted.
John G. Clark, of Milwaukee, presi-
| dent Of the Clark Engraving company,
a prominent Mason and Elk, died at
Ocean Grove, Cal, of ptomaine poison
| ing.
Nearly every man and woman in
Lawrence county, Miss, has signed a
petition asking Gov. Vardaman not to
pardon Mrs. Angie Birdsong, slayer OF
Dr. T. H. Butler.
Parry L. Wright, vice president OF
| the American Luxfer Prism company,
| died suddenly while playing golf at
| Chicago
Three aeronauts fell from a. balloon
in Hungary and we're killed and peas
ants in trying to capture the balloon
approached it with a light, when it
exploded, killing ten of them.
The federal grand jury in Denver
indicted about 70 men in western and
northwestern states, most Of them
| being charged with land frauds.
Emily Deigle of st. Paul, who was
kidnapped by her relatives as she was
about to take final vows in a Catholic
sisterhood, has run away from her
home.
The Yerkes underground railroad
system in London has been complet-
ed
BY a majority of 104 the French
chamber of deputies voted confidence
in the government and gave the min
listers a free hand to employ the
measures they think best to establish
the sovereignty of the law in the dis
turbed departments of the south. The
funeral of the victims of the Mar
| bonnie riot was held without disturb
ance, but there was bloody fighting in
several other cities. One battalion OF
infantry mutinied but afterward sur
rendered.
Western Union and Postal telegraph
operators in San Francisco and Oak
land struck to enforce their demand
for 25 per cent. increase in wages
Several persons wepe killed and
others injured by lightning during a
severe electrical storm that passed
over southern Michigan. One man at
Kalamazoo was struck while in tree
and was bereft of reason.
Terrorists in Odessa are beyond the
control of the police and are killing
with bombs merchants who refuse to
contribute to their fund. 1t was re-
ported that 48 of the mutinous sap
pers at Kiev we're convicted and shot.
Frank E. Woller, clerk of the mu-
nicipal court of Milwaukee, pleaded
guilty of embezzling 100000 and was
sentenced to three years in the house
of correction.
Six women were arrested at AS
sumption, ILL.,, on the charge that they
were implicated in the attempt to
| lynch Alfred Bouland.
Striking metal polishers and ma
chinists of Detroit were enjoined from
| interfering in any way with workers
employed at the plants affected by the
strike.
German Ambassador Speck Won
Sternberg denied positively that he
was about to retire from the diplO-
matte service.
Joseph Soloy was sentenced at
Cleveland to death in the electric
chair for the murder of Veronica
! Vargo.
Brig. Gen. Henry T. Allen, chief of
the Philippine cOnstabulary of the
United States army, will tender his
formal resignation as head of that de-
partment to take the position of head
of the Yellowstone park service.
Eddie Tate, Eddie Fay and Patsy
Flaherty were indicted at Peoria, ILL.,,
for robbing the school board safe and
stealing the Dougherty forged scrip.
G. Fl. Beasley, prominent resident
of Linton, Ind, shot and instantly
killed his wife whom he had sued for
divorce.
A sheriff's jury in New York has de-
termined that James Bartlett Ham
mond, president of the Hammond
Typewriter company, is incompetent
to manage himself and his affairs and
will so report to the supreme court.
His estate is valued by the jury at
100000.
Arnaud Massey, the French golf
champion, won the open championship
of Great Britain at Hoylake. Alex
Ross, of the Brae Burn Golf club, won
the open championship of the United
States
Four men lost their lives when the
steamer Crystal Stream was burned
near st. John, n. B.
Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army,
arrived in England from his tour of
the world.
The Jewish World, of London, says
that the will of Daniel Osiris, the
Jewish banker and philanthropist, OF
Paris, who died some time ago, leaves
$5,000,000 to the Pasteur institute
The estate is valued at $13.0O0,OOO.
Word was received in Mexico City
that President Cabrera of Guatemala
was dying of blood poisoning.
Mrs Emma Kaufman, wife of
Moses Kaufman, for years a wealthy