River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-01

Helena, Ida and Ida Conley, sis
ters, and Wyandotte Indians, began
an armed guard over the graves of
Kansas City, Kan, recently ordered
sold by the government, and threat
en- to shoot the first person who may
attempt to remove the bodies.
Third Officer Hawse of the wrecked
steamer Columbia, whose sworn re-
| port of the disaster, filed with the fed
eral inspectors, charged Capt. Hansen
of the San Pedro with refusing to aid
in the rescue of the stricken pas
sengers, is now charged by survivors
who occupied the same boat with him
with conduct more cruel than that
specified by him in his formal report.
Margaret Magill at Clinton, ILL.,, said
| her mother committed suicide, and
exonerated her father and stepmother
from all blame.
Jacob Steiner, one of the prominent
pioneers of the head of the lakes re-
| gion, is dead at his home in Superior,
| Wis, aged 68.
Gov Johnson, of Minnesota, visited
the strike centers in the Mesaba coun-
| try and decided that state troops were
not yet needed.
Henry A. Hutchings, of Illinois, was
appointed a special agent of the In
dian bureau to aid in the suppression
of the liquor traffic among the Indians
Angered because her husband re-
| fused to praise her for saving money
on purchases for their store and for
recent heavy sales, Mrs. Anna Lowe,
of Little Rock, Ark, poured a gallon
of coal oil on her head and burned
herself to death
At Otter Lake, Mich, three persons
lost their lives when lightning struck
the hardware store of W. S. Heming-
way, exploding a quantity of dynamite.
An attempt to blow up the residence
of Mont Tennes, of Chicago, the pro-
fessional operator of gambling houses,
was made with a bomb which did lit
| tie damage.
Ten thousand residents of the st.
| Elizabeth district, Jamaica, are suffer
ing from the lack of sufficient food and
| the government officials are under
| censure.
Chester B. Runyan, the paying teller
of the Windsor Trust company, who
| defaulted in the amount of 100000,
| pleaded guilty at New York to the
Indictment charging him with grand
larceny and was remanded for SEN
| tence.
The Missouri board of railroad and
warehouse commissioners announced
that it's recent order, limiting the
speed of trains on the Missouri Pacific
line to 80 miles an hour, would be
| cancelled
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has officially opened it's
Mitchell-Black Hills line, distance of
100 miles.
Los Angeles, Cal, will attempt to
collect taxes from the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies on
the ground of their occupancy of the
streets. On this ground the former
has been assessed 100000 and the
latter $4,000.
Arnold Grouse was arrested at Mum
Gle, Ind, charged with completely in
the Speer poisoning at Lima, o. A
letter in his possession addressed to
Mrs. Speer called her sweetheart"
George Hayes, a farmer of Oxford
township, New York. kissed his wife
and then informed her that he had
taken strychnine with his tea. He
died in agony before physicians ar
rived
Jacob Steiner, one of the prominent
pioneers of the head of the lakes re-
gion, is dead at his home in Superior,
Wis, aged g.
Girls in Cleveland are reported to
have taken to cigarette smoking to
ward off mosquitoes.
Andrew Mason, superintendent of
the New York assay Office, who has
been in the service of the government
for so years or more, has presented
his resignation to Director Roberts, of
the mint.
Citizens of Hibbing, Mimi, bitterly
opposed the strike of iron miners and
protected men who desired to work.
The Western Federation of Miners
was denounced at a mass meeting.
Every adult male in the town of
Kerisova, Hungary, emigrated to the
United States and the municipal
offices are filled by women, in viola
ton of the law of the country.
Two men were killed and five others
seriously injured by the falling of
scaffolding at the Pittsburg and Con-
neaut dock at Conneaut, o.
Trunk line representatives decided
to continue the policy of granting ex-
cursion rates for special occasions in
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
DR.. j. T. Killebrew, a prominent
young physician of Mobile, Ala, was
killed in an automobile accident.
Twenty independent cigar manufac-
turers of Havana, Cuba, have decided
to raise the price of cigars, charging
American money instead of Spanish
gold. This step is likely to be fol.
lowed soon by ALL
In head-on collision between two
traction cars on the Cleveland &
Southwestern line at Elyria, O., three
persons were probably fatally injured
and score of others received in
juries of a minor nature.
Gov. Conner of Alabama signed the
antishipping bill, which prevents
shipments of liquor into prohibition
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