River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-12


death.
Police Commissioner Bingham an
nounced that he would enforce strict
ly the Sunday closing law in New
York and that no form of public en-
tertainment would be permitted.
Mrs. Clara Bloodgood the actress,
committed suicide by shooting in her
room at the Hotel Stafford at Balti-
more, presumably because she feared
an attack of nervous prostration.
Five men terrorized the town of
Carney, Okla, blew open the bank
safe and escaped with $4,000.
A jury in Topeka, Kan, found the
International Harvester company
guilty of being a trust and entering
into an unlawful combination to con-
troll the price of harvesting machinery
products exclusively.
President Roosevelt instructed Gen.
Funston to dispatch sufficient force
Of regulars to Goldfield, New, to con-
troll the situation there. This action
was taken upon receipt of Geographic
request from the governor of Nevada.
The National Bank of Commerce,
the second financial institution in i'm
portance in Kansas City, announced
it's suspension after a steady run of
six weeks, during which the bank had
paid off $19,00O,000 of it's deposits, re-
duced it's loans $3,500,000, cut down it's
cash resources 81, 100000 and sold
100000 Of high-grade bonds.
John Nahan, a fe-5eater, was SEN
fenced to five years in prison and
fined $1,000 by Justice Bowling in
New York
V. B. Nethaway murdered his wife
on a Union Pacific train at Norfolk,
Neb., and later blew out his own
brains
An insane man entered the state
house in Boston and fired three shots,
probably fatally wounding Edward
Cohen of Lynn, president of the state
branch of the American Federation of
Labor; seriously wounding Dennis d.
Driscoll, of Boston, secretary of the
same board, and injuring with the
muzzle of his revolver Arthur M. Hud-
dell, of Boston, former president of
the Central Labor union.
Antonio Thompson and wife, of Los
Angeles, who recovered their daugh-
ter from a band of gypsies at st.
Louis, were arrested on charge OF
having sold the girl to one of the
gypsies for $500.
Maj. w. t. Seward, doorkeeper of
the United States senate, dropped
dead while entering revolving door
Of the capitol.
The Cunard liner Mauritania cut
down the eastbound transatlantic rec
ord by Fl minutes.
James ]. Hill told the rivers and
harbors convention that railways
favored the development of the coun-
try's waterways because the roads
could not take care of the rapidly in
creasing traffic.
Prominent officials of the national
government, governors of states, rep
resentatives of foreign powers, mem
bers of the senate and house of repre-
sentatives and leaders in all walks
of civil life in America participated in
the opening of the convention of the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
in Washington
The Cornell association football
team probably will play in South
America next summer, the manage
ment having received an offer of ex-
penses and rs per cent. of the gate re-
ceipts for series of three games with
the football of the Province of Sac
PauIo, Brazil
Nicolo de Fallco a well-to-do mer-
chant of Philadelphia, fatally wounded
a 14-year-old girl while in a jealous
rage, shot her mother and committed
suicide.
Vesta Field and Jessie Bryan,
chorus girls in the Merry Widow"
company at Chicago, were arrested for
shoplifting and confessed their guilt.
Peter F. Roller, said to be secret
service agent, obtained a confession
from John Worthington, fellow pris-
oner in San Francisco, that he was
one of the robbers that held up Great
Northern train in Montana and took
between $4,000 and 100000 in coin.
The other two robbers have been cap
tured
Secretary of War Taft and his party
left st. Petersburg for Berlin.
The report of the treasury depart
ment to congress by Secretary Cor
telyou, showed that total receipts of
the government from all sources were
1916, ,339, against expenditures Of
1852, 4S8.753, leaving a surplus of $685.
2365S6. l
Crazed by cocaine, Wash Mussay, a
negro, ran amuck in Augusta, Ark,
shooting seven white people, two of
whom were women. The negro was
finally corralled in the courthouse yard
and shot to death. /
Before the superior court of Mon.
AGO, We're ST. Legged Goold and his
wife, Marie, were convicted of the
murder of Emma Levin at Monte Car
10 last summer The court found that
Mrs. Goold was the chief instigator of
the crime and sentenced her to death
by the guillotine, and that Goold was
less responsible because under the in
fiuence of liquor at the time the muir
der was committed, and sentenced him
to Imprisonment for life.
Henry Osborne Havemeyer, presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
company, died at his country home,