River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-19
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ment and living expenses in the town
cut down.
Assistant Secretary Murray of the
department Of commerce and labor,
Charles P. Neill, commissioner of Ia
Dor, and Herbert Knox Smith, commits
sioner Of corporations, left Washing
ton for Goldfeld, New, to make thor
Sugh investigation of the trouble be-
tween the miners and mine operators
president. The federal troops at Gold
field were ordered not to take sides.
Gen. Funston arrived in Goldfeld
and announced that he would stay I'M
til the danger of trouble was over and
trat the troops probably would remain
there for some time.
Gov Folk, of Missouri, committed to
life Imprisonment the death sentence
of Martin Paulsgrove, who murdered
Miss Mary Newman.
Little Lillian Wulff, who was kid
mapped in Chicago, was found five
miles south of Momence. The man
and woman who were her captors
were arrested
A receiver was appointed for the
John Thompson & Sons Manufacture
ing company, Of Beloit, Wis, makers
of gasoline engines.
Fire in the Cooke brewery plant in
Chicago did more than 100000 dam
age and the falling walls crushed two
buildings and injured several persons.
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Indians is advocated by Francis E.
Leupp commissioner Of Indian affairs,
who says the squaws make good
wives.
In Cleveland, O., George P. Harpst,
president of a real estate concern,
shot Mrs. Mary Volek, young widow,
| Friday and then turned the revolver
to his own head and fired. Harpst
may die The woman was but slight
| ly injured.
The pope received Archbishop Rior-
| dan of San Francisco in private audi
ence, and the Catholic situation in the
| United States in general and in the
diocese of San Francisco in particular
was discussed at length.
Richard E. Walton was hanged at
| Chicago for the murder of Mrs. Lillian
Grant White.
The cry of babe in lodging house
proved an alarm that saved eight from
death by fire in Allentown, Pa. Two
were asphyxiated.
Col. A. S. Colyar, aged 80 years,
noted jurist, statesman and author,
died at his home in Nashville, Tenn.
Fire in stable in East Ninth
street, New York city, spread to an
adjoining building, causing the death
of one man.
DR.. Vladimir Sviatlowsky, professor
of political economy in the University
Of st. Petersburg, Russia, reported to
the New York police that he had been
defrauded of $3.50 when box contain
| ing two quarts of chestnuts was
palmed off on him as one containing
valuable diamonds.
Miss Catherine Andrews, dressed in
| boys clothes, called at the United
States recruiting Office in Sioux City,
Ia, and sought to enlist in the army
of the Philippines.
New York brewers have announced
that after January / they will increase
| the price of beer one dollar barrel.
Eight hundred agents of the Singer
| Sewing Machine company have voted
| 10 strike for the closed shop and other
concessions.
Gov Warner, of Michigan, formally
4nS1 GnnnroI nd
to draft charges against State Treas.
urer Frank p. Glazier, of Chelsea,
| looking to his removal from office.
The body of George Whitney, of
Canterbury, n. H., was found in the
woods lying beside deer which he
had killed. Death probably resulted
from heart failure.
William H. S. Wood, president of the
Bowery Savings bank, an institution
with more than $1O0,000.000 in dc
posits, died at his residence in New
York from a complication of diseases.
The police of Providence, r. l., were
notified that Frank Losee, of New
York, an actor OF '"The Rose of the
Rancho" company, had been missing
| Tor TWO days.
At Cobalt, Ont, fire destroyed the
house of William Hewitt and caused
the death by suffocation of his two
little girls.
| The fleet of battleships at Hampton
roads was declared to be ready to start
on its cruise to the Pacific and to do
any service that might be required
of it.
J. Dalzell Brown, the imprisoned
manager of the California Safe De
posit & Trust company, of San Fran
cisco, made a confession to the bank
commission that fictitious entries were
made in the books of the bank.
r. P. Easton, As years old, cashier
of the state bank at Herscher, ILL.,,
shot himself to death in the bank. No
reason is given.
Boris Sarafoff, the most famous of
all the leaders of the Bulgarian bands
in Macedonia, was shot dead at the
threshold of his home by a Macedo-
MAN.
Queen Garcia, widow of King Albert
of Saxony, who has been ill for some
time past, has had a serious relapse.
She is suffering from nephritis.
The Farmers Union warehouse at
Taylor, Tex, together with about 1000
bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $125,000.