River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-07

been prosecuting her; that her prop
erty was well and honestly managed
but had been greatly overestimated,
and that her mind was perfectly clear.
Alleging that Mrs. Mary Baker Clio
yer Eddy, head of the Christian Sci
ence church, is too feeble in mind and
body to attend to her vast affairs and
that her property and prerogatives
have been usurped by others, George
w. Glover of Deadwood, S. D., her
son, filed suit in the superior court of
Merrimac county, New Hampshire,
asking that an accounting of her prop
erty and that of the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, of Boston be made
and that receiver be appointed.
George Fitzgerald, teller of the Chi
cago subtreasury after being subjected
to a gruelling cross-eXamination by
Chief Wilkie and Capt. Porter of the
secret service concerning the $4,000
robbery, attacked a reporter in the
federal building and threatened to
kill him.
Driven to bay by a crowd of men
who pursued him after he had twice
shot at and wounded 17-year-old Edna
Mcknight, of whom he was enamored,
Malcom H. Pool, aged II years shot
and killed himself.
Ten prisoners sawed their way out
of the county Jail at Williamstown, w.
Va.
Head-on collisions between freight
trains on the Cumberland Valley rail
road near Maugansyille, Pa, and the
Reading railroad at Shippensburg,
Pa, resulted in the killing of two en-
gineers and the injury of several
trainmen.
James b. Williams, founder OF J. B.
Williams and company, shaving soap
manufacturers is dead at his home in
Glastonbury, Conn, of ills incident to
old age, in his nintieth year.
Fred A. Busse, postmaster of Chi
cagO, was nominated for mayor by the
Republicans.
The report of the examiners who
have been investigating the books of
ty, Ohio, was made at Columbus and
shows that $526,575 in fees and inter
est was collected without legal war
rant.
1t was announced at Washington
that the president had rendered the po-
sition of assistant secretary of the
treasury to Beckman Winthrop of New
York, at present governor of Porto
Rico, and that the appointment had
been accepted.
r. G. Gill of Cleveland, O., was
fined $3.50 for operating bucket shop
for women.
Six men were killed and two seri-
ously injured by a gas explosion in the
Holden colliery at Taylor, Pa.
One man was blown to bits, several
others injured and many buildings
damaged by tremendous explosion
of dynamite at Homestead, n. j.
John Comfy, an actor, jumped from
the third story of a burning hotel at
Chester, Pa, and was killed.
r. E. Binz, of Philadelphia, commit
ted suicide in a Detroit hotel by TAX
ing carbolic acid and laudanum.
Sherman f. Grim, treasurer of
Waynesburg, Pa, attempted suicide
by taking morphine, severing the
arteries in his left wrist and cutting
his throat
st. Petersburg police found many
bombs and rifles in the quarters of
the Polytechnic institute.
The steamer Corona, of the Pacific
Gooc+ 1;,oo xro,,f ochnra noaY
Cal The 140 persons aboard were
rescued with difficulty by life savers
and the steamer Roanoke. One sailor
was drowned.
Forces of the Nicaraguan govern
ment captured without resistance the
Honduran towns of Conception and
Maria They took possession of the
town of Corpus Christi after hard
fighting.
A special bearing Gov. Woodruff
and company of the Connecticut
National Guard collided with another
passenger train near Waterbury, Conn.
Three or more persons were killed
The governor was not hurt
Strike sympathizers at Portsmouth,
O., stoned street cars and nearly killed
one man.
A passenger train on the Seaboard
Air line collided with freight near
Powder Springs, Ca, and was burned.
One trainman was KILLED.
President Newman and other Off
GERS of the New York Central ap-
peared at the coroner's inquiry into
the fatal Harlem wreck. They had
made safely a fast test trip over the
track where the accident occurred
Leroy, ILL.,, town of 5000 inhabi-
tants, was partly destroyed by fire.
An engineer and six railway labor
ers were killed in collision at Pedro,
Wyo.
DR.. Claudio whitman was elected
president of Uruguay in succession to
Jose Battle y Ordonez.
The whipping post was revived in
Maryland, Sadler Brooks, colored, be-
ing sentenced to receive nine lashes,
in addition to a Jail sentence of two
months, for brutally beating his wife.
Frank M. Mabry, well-known bank
er of McGregor, Tex, was sentenced
to five years in the Leavenworth peni-
tertiary for embezzlement from ma
tional bank
Two clerks in the Hamilton Ma
tional bank of Chicago were arrested
for the embezzlement of $4,000.