River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-02-14

Several Japanese laborers on the
Southern Pacific at WOODBURY., Ore,
,, were driven from town by white men.
Sir William Howard Russell, editor
of the Army and Navy Gazette, is
dead He was sc years old. He was
famous war correspondent and
served on the London Times at the
battle of Bull Run.
Three men who blew open the safe
in the post office at Erie, Kan, and
escaped with 500 in stamps and
money were captured at Thayer, Kan.
Grover Lockwood shot and killed Jo-
seph Snyder and his wife Elizabeth in
Buffalo, n. Y, and then killed him
self
American exports of iron and steel
manufactures for 1906 aggregated
$172, 100000, an increase of 100000
900 over 1905.
Mrs. Mercedes Donovan of Mem
phis, Tenn, was killed on the street
by robber.
The supreme court at Topeka, Kan,
has finally dismissed the cases against
Chauncey Dewey and his cowboys for
the killing of the Berry family.
State Senator Howard Robb of
Arkansas died at Arkansas City.
Funeral services for Representative
John r. Rixey, of Virginia, who died
of consumption, were held in Wash
ington.
John p McManus, editor of the
Pilot Rock (Ore.) Record, shot and
killed gambler named Robert Estes.
Hugh Mcmillan, brother of the late
Senator Mcmillan of Michigan, is
dead in Detroit.
The Russian famine relief commit
tee appealed to the American people
for money to aid starving peasants.
Burglars stole the valuable Byron
Reed collection of coins from the
Omaha public library building.
DR.. E. NJ. P. Ludlam, a prominent
sipelas while nursing his wife, and
died.
The schooner M. V. B. Chase,
thought to have been lost on Dia-
mond shoals, was reported at Whining
ton, N. c., as anchored Is miles west
of Cape Fear Bar.
Chief Master at Arms w. H. Bel
KNAPP and three seamen on behalf of the
the crew of the battleship Louisiana,
presented to Mrs. Roosevelt at Wash
ington large silver loving cup as a
token of their admiration.
Five students of the University of
Michigan were fined for creating dis
turbance in theater.
A jury in Kansas City returned a
verdict finding Albert M. Crone guilty
of murder in the second degree for
killing Bertha Bowlin, his former
sweetheart, and fixed his punishment
at IS years in the penitentiary.
Ira H. Shattuck, part owner of the
Nicollet hotel of Minneapolis, is dead.
S. A. AleXandrovsky, governor of
Penza, Russia, was shot and killed by
a young man who, after also killing
two police officers in attempting to
escape, committed suicide.
Justice Robert Cortese of Paterson,
n g., an active enemy of Italian law
breakers, was killed by an Internal
machine he received by mail.
Lyndhurst, the country home of
John Wanamaker, at Jenkintown, near
Philadelphia, was completely des-
troyed by fire, the loss approximating
$1,500,000.
All the evidence on which was
based the complaint of Attorney Gen
eral Julius Mayer against the Ameri-
can Ice company for dissolution of an
alleged monopoly of the ice business,
served on December 20, has disap-
peared from the attorney generals Of
flee, in Albany, N Y, and cannot be
found.
The navy department dispatched
the gunboat Marietta from Guantana-
mo to Greytown on the gulf coast of
Nicaragua, in addition to the cruiser
Chicago, which has been sent down to
the west coast to Acajulta, Honduras,
so that there will be an American war
ship on each side of the scene of the
threatened trouble between the South
American republics.
Four men were killed and five in
jured in a collision between an cleo
trio car and string of wild freight
cars at Birmingham, Ala.
Mayor Schmitz and the school board
of San Francisco arrived in Washing
ton in a conciliatory mood to confer
with the president on the Japanese
school question.
The engineer and fireman of the
Adirondack and Montreal Express of
the New York Central road were
killed and several passengers slightly
injured when the express crashed into
the rear of freight train.
Seven miners were entombed in a
colliery at Wanamie, Pa.
Fire Quilted one of the principal
business blocks in Aberdeen, S. D.,
causing a loss of 100000.
G. NJ Overstreet, father of Congress-
man Jesse Overstreet, died at his
home in Franklin, Ind, aged 81.
Count Boni de Castellane filed an
appeal against the decree of divorce
granted his wife, formerly Miss Anna
Gould.
Werner Townley was acquitted at
ST. Louis of the murder of his brother,
Alfred n. Townley.
Julius Culbertson, prominent
business man of Glidden, Ia, for S5
years a resident of that place, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.