River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-13


regulation bills.
Columbus Croy, town marshal at
! Shirley City, Ind, was shot and in
stantly killed by burglars who were
footing a saloon.
Gen. William Mcmahon McKraig,
former member of congress for two
| terms, died at Cumberland, Ind, at
the age of so years.
Thomas Battle, confederate vet
eran, 72 years old, was sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Atlanta, Ga, for
throwing D. M. Berry to his death
from roof 100 feet from the ground.
Through the arrest of August Do
lin, SO years old, for IA years past a
trusted employee of S. Baumann &
| Brother, furniture dealers, of New
York, thefts aggregating $4,000 by
means of false checks will be brought
to light.
Isaac Greenbaum was almost in
stantly killed and his wife and daugh-
ter, a girl of 10, were seriously in
jured at a Philadelphia fire. J. j..
Reynolds, negro, has been arrested
| on charge of arson.
Andrew Simonson, a former post
master of Racine, Wis, died in Chi
cago. Mr.. Simonson was a prominent
Democrat, and was identified in the
building of Racine.
Great damage was done by a
cyclone that struck the city of Kur-
rachee, India.
France tan1orod bor orOod oficoc tO
the United States to promote a COM
plete understanding with Japan con-
corning interests in the far east.
Mrs Emma Leahy, proprietor Of the
Leahy hotel in Brownsville, Tex, told
the senate committee on military af-
fairs that she saw 16 colored soldiers
shooting at the Cowan house and she
believed she could identify one of
them.
United States Senator Philander c..
Knox, of Pennsylvania, announced his
willingness to become a candidate for
the presidency in 1908 should the Re-
publican party see fit to nominate
him and expressed his appreciation of
his endorsement by the Pennsylvania
Republican convention.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the deaths of Fred Hating, of
Reddick, and Austin Stockton and
John Frasee, of Danville, by the eX-
plosion of car of gasoline at Red
dick, held the Chicago e Southern
railway responsible.
The president announced the APP
nfyoRr - M
Macklin as collector of internal reve-
nue. at Toledo, o.
Helen w. Cougar, the well-known
temperance leader and lecturer, fell
dead at her home in Lafayette, Ind, Of
heart failure. She was 70 years old.
There is another reign of terror in
Lodz, Russian Poland, and terrorists
are executed every night by work
mems vigilance committee.
A jury in the United States district
court, at Springfield, ILL.,, returned a
verdict finding the Wabash road guilty
on Is counts, alleging violation of the
interstate commerce laws by failing
to have freight cars equipped with
safety appliances.
The golden wedding of King Oscar
and Queen Sophia was joyfully cele-
brated throughout Sweden.
Clarence Mckenzie, president of the
Standard Brake company of New
York, was instantly killed in an auto
mobile accident near Albany.
Eugene A. Sittig, a prominent Ger
man resident of Chicago and publisher
of the Brewer and Maltster, died Of
pneumonia.
Prof. Ernest o. Sweetzer, of Wash
ington University, st. Louis, was hit
on the head by pitched baseball and
probably fatally injured.
Gov. Harris, of Ohio, granted res
pite until June 81 to James Cornelius,
the Canton wife murderer, who was
to have been electrocuted.
Jimmy Britt and Battling Nelson
signed articles for 20-round fight on
the night of July in San Francisco.
Florence Morales and Bemada Mora
have been found guilty in Mexico of
the murder of Gen. Manuel Barillas,
former president Of the republic Of
Guatemala, and have been given death
sentences.
Former Judge J. S. Bossier, we'll
known confederate veteran of Easley,
S. c., fell from train and was killed.
President Castro read his message
to the Venezuelan congress and paid
a high compliment to w. W. Russell,
the American minister
DR.. L. H. Blanton, who has been
vice president of the Central Univer-
sity of Kentucky for the past so
years, resigned.
Three arson suspects-Oliver Leib-
enguth, William Leibenguth and Oscar
Schwank-were arrested near Allen
town, Pa, by policemen after chase.
They are supposed to have set three
fires in Allentown that caused losses
of $4,000.
Charles N. Holt. aged 40, member
Of the well-known Holt family of Ala
bama, died at Montgomery, Ala, as
result of a dose of strychnine, taken
with supposed suicidal intent.
The petition of the three trustees to
whom Mrs Mary Baker Eddy had
transferred her property, asking that
they be substituted as plaintiffs in
place of next friends" in the suit to
secure an accounting of Mrs Eddy's
property, was denied by Judge Robert
N. Chamberlain at Concord, N. H.
Mayor Sherburn Becker, of Milwau-