River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

I
Monk Gibson, a negro boy, was cons
yicted by jury of completely in the
murder Of Mrs A. j. Conditt and four
children near Edna, Tex, and the
death penalty was ordered.
Yale defeated Harvard by boat
length in the best race ever rowed at
New London E. H. Hartman, the
railroad magnate, deliberately trans
crossed the rules of the course and
was arrested by Lieut. Bulmer, Presi-
| dent Roosevelt's naval aide.
Gov. Pindall of Arkansas pardoned
F. o. Butt, formerly state senator,
convicted of the bribery of Senator
r. r. Adams of Grant county and
sentenced to the state prison for two
years.
Walter Swinburne Hancock, former
ly an Episcopalian clergyman of a
fashionable church in Chicago, whom
his bishop inhibited on account of
scandals with women, is under police
surveillance in London, being suspect
ed of having poisoned his wife.
Fire destroyed the entire saloon Sec
tion of Morenci, Ariz. The loss aggre-
gates 100000.
Twenty-seven letter carriers of
Butte, Mont, walked out as a demon
stration for higher pay, but in three
hours all but nine returned voluntar-
ily
The taking of evidence in the muir
der trial of Judge Loving at Houston,
Va, ended after the court ruled that
the prosecution could not attack the
truthfulness of the story told by Miss
Loving to her father.
The social revolutionists of Russia
have revived the terrorist organiza-
ton and are contemplating attempts
on the emperor and Premier Stolypin
and big robbery in ST. Petersburg.
The Lloyd Baxter company of
Parkersburg, w. Va, and Montpelier,
o., large music concern, petitioned
for a receiver.
Several hundred natives of the
Caroline islands persisted in hurri-
cane.
Mrs. Elizabeth Agassiz, widow of
Louis Agassiz, the famous zoologist,
died at Arlington Heights, Mass.
Bills were filed by the Pittsburg &
Connellsville railroad, B. & o. cor
poration, in the Pennsylvania courts,
attacking the validity of the two-cent-
fare law
Harry E. Kicker, formerly business
manager of the Metropolitan opera
house of st. Paul, Mimi, was found
guilty of having stolen over $4,000
from the funds of the theater.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Anglesey, England. Buildings were
rocked, but no damage was done.
Seismographs in Austria and England
recorded violent shocks at distances
of from $500 to 1920 miles.
Irving T. Bush, president of the
Bush Terminal company of New York,
has received a "black hand" letter
demanding $4,000 on threat of death
for him and his wife.
A legal battle for the 100000 es-
tate of the late Cornelia A. Miller was
begun in Joliet, Ill. Charles Fish, the
favorite nephew, is charged by his
two brothers with gaining the proper
ty by illegal means.
Harry Vaughan, Edward Raymond
and George Ryan were hanged at
Jefferson City, Mo-, for the killing Of
Prison Guard John Clay during an at
tempt to escape from the penitentiary.
Three persons were killed by light
ming during an electrical storm that
swept over New York city.
J. u. Barnes, of Minneapolis, who
was president of the defunct Mime
sofa Title, Insurance and Trust COM
pany, was arrested, charged with the
embezzlement of $4,000 of the funds
of the concern.
George Hamfeldt, an American,
while in Copenhagen, Denmark, gave
reward of $3.50 to messenger boy
who found a bag containing $4,000
in money and jewelry and returned it
to Mr.. Hamfeldt.
Col Orestes Ferrara, secretary of
the Cuban delegation at The Hague,
has resigned because of attacks made
on him due to his once having been
sentenced to prison by an Italian
court for writing political pamphlet.
Cornell won the varsity eight-oared
race at the Poughkeepsie regatta,
Syracuse the varsity four-oared race
and Wisconsin the freshman eight
cared contest
A block of hotels and other build
ings adjoining the jamestown exposi-
ton grounds were destroyed by fire.
The oil fields of northern Indian
Territory were swept by a tornado
that killed three men and destroyed
hundreds of derricks. The loss was
estimated at 100000.
Richard Croker won the Irish derby
with Orby, who won the English derby
of 1907. This is the first time that
these two great classics have been
won by the same horse.
Premier Campbell-Bannerman's res
olution in favor of curtailing the pow
er of the house of lords in vetoing
bills passed in the house of commons
was carried by 432 to lat.
AS a result of the premature explo-
sion of a box of dynamite near lola,
Charlotte county, Virginia, eight per-
sons were killed outright and six 9TH
ers seriously injured
Albert Woltemade, cashier of the
Alton (Ill) branch of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing association, who had
been missing for eight days, returned
home after having travelled $500