River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-21

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Miss Grace Parish, u years old,
committed suicide at Los Angeles,
Cal, by inhaling Illuminating gas. Her
father is a lumber dealer of Moore
head, Wis.
Two men held up jewelry store in
Los Angeles, Cal, and escaped with
booty valued at $4,000.
C. r. Clark, prominent citizen of
New Albany Ind, en- route to San An
tonic, Tex, for his health, died on a
Missouri & Texas train at Pilot Grove,
Mo.
A revolution has started in the state
of Tachira, Venezuela, with Gen. Juan
Pablo Penalosa as its leader.
Bishop O'Gorman, of Sioux Falls,
S. d., was received by the pope, who
warmly praised Archbishop Ireland
and the action of the United States in
the Philippine church matter.
The White Star liner Suevic struck
on the rocks near The Lizard, off the
English coast The passengers and
crew were landed in safety.
Robbers blew the safe of the First
National bank of Batesville, Ind, but
obtained little money.
Gov Folk announced he would call
special session of the Missouri legisla-
ture to consider bills for the regulation
of public utilities, corporations and
dramshops.
NJ H AIberty, a banker of Cherokee,
Kan, fell down a mine shaft during an
epiIeptic attack and was killed
Sixteen tunnel miners were injured
by the collapse Of part of an inter-
cepting sewer in Chicago.
John d. Rockefeller denounced as
pure rot the story that he was going
to give $5O,000,000 to modernize China.
Upton Sinclair's Helicon hall, near
Englewood, N. j., was destroyed by a
gas explosion and fire, and one man
was killed and several members of the
socialistic settlement were injured.
Jan Gulkus, alias Jack Ziotkowslki,
wanted in Tacoma, Wash, and other
places in that state on the charge of
jewelry robberies amounting to $780,
600, was arrested in Chicago after a
desperate battle with the police.
Two men were seriously injured and
many others hurt in a strike riot at the
Republic Iron & Steel mills in East
Chicago.
President Roosevelt has appointed
an inland waterways commission OF
eight members whose duty it will be
to prepare and report q comprehensive
plan for the Improvement and control
of the river systems of the United
States.
Messrs. McCrea, Mellen, Hughitt
and Newman, the railroad presidents
for whose visit to the White House j.
Pierpont Morgan arranged, decided
not to go to Washington because they
did not feel that they had any proper
mandate from the railroad corpora
tions to represent them.
The new constitution for the state
of Oklahoma was completed. 1t in
cludes some very modern ideas of re-
form in government.
Macias G. Tomayo, a Mexican car
penter who was close to the barracks
at the time of the shooting at Browns
vile, Tex, made a good witness for
the colored soldiers.
A Rock Island passenger train was
wrecked at Cuneo, Ark, and the en-
gineer and fireman were killed.
The house of representative of the
Tennessee legislature ordered the ar
rest of Mayor Thomas o. Morris and
% members of the city council of
Nashville, Tenn, for contempt.
Standard Oil received the most
crushing legal blow in its history
when Judge Lands in the United
States district court at Chicago over
ruled all the objections of the defend
ants counsel to the further trial of
the Alton rebate case.
Judge Thomas Maloney, who was
private secretary to President Andrew
Johnson, died in Ogden, Utah.
Rather than face prosecution for
the embezzlement of $4,000 from the
Washington brokerage firm of Wade
& Hedges, of which he was manager,
Charles Abbott, 20 years old, commit
ted suicide by shooting.
The date of the national G. A. r.
encampment at Saratoga, N. Y, was
fixed for the week of September 8.
George Stewart, of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, dropped dead at the Trocha hotel,
in a suburb of Havana, Cuba.
Arnold thinner (white) and Tom
Grimes (colored), who pleaded guilty
to the murder of John Gavin, Jan. %,
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
by Judge Withrow at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa.
The second section of a freight
train on the Erie railroad went over
an embankment at Meadville, Pa. Two
trainmen were killed .and a number
fatally injured.
William O'Brien, member of parlia-
ment for Cork, was awarded six farth-
ings in his libel suit against the Free
mans Journal.
Destructive fires and the deaths by
drowning of a number of persons were
added to the distress caused by the
flood in the Wheeling district. Eleven
persons were drowned at and near
Athens, O. At Pittsburg the flood re-
ceded after doing damage estimated
at nearly s10,000.000.
The forces of President Bonilla, of
Honduras, were defeated near Tegu-
cigalpa by Honduran revolutionists.
Quartermaster Sergeant Osborn
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