River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02

and general manager of the Woon-
socket Electric Machine & Power
company, confessed that he had
stolen $4,000 of the company,.s funds
and poured it into Wall street.
Because a deputy marshal was
killed by negroes in Big Springs, Tex,
all the colored people were ordered to
/ leave the town.
H. Shuckley confessed in San
Francisco that he and other union
men had plotted to abduct and murder
P. H. Mccarthy, president of the
Building Trades council.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed the
| Wisconsin Central freight depot, the
loss being 100000.
b W. o. Douglass, it was learned, stole
bonds worth more than 100000 from
the Trust Company of America, his
intention being to compel the company
to overlook his smaller thefts if he
should return the securities.
Gilbert L. Laws, former secretary
of state and representative from the
old Second Nebraska district, died at
Lincoln after an illness of several
weeks He was SO years old.
President Roosevelt and family and
many congressman. diplomats and
governors of states went to Norfolk
for the formal opening of the James
town exposition.
A negro made a murderous and
seemingly aimless attack on young
woman of Alton, ILL.,, and was pursued
by posse of citizens.
Economy a socialistic colony in
Washington, was wiped out of exist
ence by court order for the sale of
it's property to pay it's debts.
The Jail at Chipley, Fla, was des-
troyed by fire and Henry Berry, a
prisoner, was burned to death.
Three thieves stole $4,000 worth of
diamonds from a store in Oakland,
Cal.
Edward HaFper, of Leadville, Col,
cashier of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, died of tuberculosis at Pitts
burg, Pa.
John NJ Seaton, a we'll known
mining man of Cananea, Sonora, MeXi-
co, has mysteriously disappeared, and
| it is believed that he has been muir
dered, as when last seen he had a
| large sum of money on his person.
Canada has purchased the famous
Pablo herd of buffalo.
| Several attempts of train wreckers
| to set fire to a bridge on the Southern
railroad near Temple, Ind, were un-
covered by the town marshal of Eng
| lish, Ind, who was shot twice by two
men believed to be the guilty parties.
| John A. Avery, manager of the
Lyceum theater of Cincinnati, died of
heart disease. Mr.. Avery was born at
Avon, ILL.,, SO years oga. He was well
| known in theatrical circles throughout
/ the country.
Theodore P. Shonts has decided to
| give a number of service scholarships
| to Drake university, which was found
ed by his father-in-law, former gov
ernor of Iowa.
| Gen. Henry r. Guss, who command
ed the Ninety seventh Pennsylvania
regiment in the civil war and who was
| commissioned major general in 1857,
| died at Westchester, Pa He was u
years of age.
Over 100 cottages at Pleasant Lake,
| in Massachusetts, were destroyed by
a fire which swept through the resort.
The cottages are owned by the Spir-
itualists Camp Meeting association.
The government of the Philippines
has replaced American stamps with
a distinct series on which the demon
| nations are expressed in pesos and
| centavos.
Robert Bradley a well-known horse
man, died at his home, the Greenway
stock farm, in Virginia.
By whipping out his penknife and
cutting a patients windpipe DR.. julius
London saved the life of man who
was choking to death in the Lincoln
hospital in New York.
| Thaddeus Stevens Ross, of Oil City,
Pa, was shot and killed few hours
before the time set for his wedding,
by Miss Belle Stroup, his former
sweetheart, who then committed sui
eide.
| A treaty of peace was signed at
Amapala by the representatives of
| Nicaragua and Salvador. Another
revolution in Honduras in favor OF
Manuel Bonilla was started.
| After 20 hours deliberation the jury
in the case of Bill Britton, charged
with the assassination of Town Mar
shall James A. Cockrill at Jackson,
Breathitt county, Kentucky, reported
hopeless disagreement and was dis
| charged.
| Sherwood hall, a frame dormitory
connected with Park college, Park
vile, Mo-, and a one-story frame build
| ing used as a dining hall were des-
troyed by, fire. The dormitory was
occupied by so girls.
| One man was killed, two seriously
burned and the American Insulating
Material Manufacturing company's
plant damaged to the extent of $4,000
by an explosion of large blast fur
mace at Alexandria. Ind.
Three thousand people in mass
meeting at Albuquerque united in a
protest against the resignation OF
Gov H. ]. Hagerman of New Mexico,
which was requested by President
| Roosevelt.
The Kansas supreme court appoint
| ed Judge S. H. Allen, G. H. Whit
| comb and Judge T. F. Carver, all OF
Topeka, receivers for the property in