River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-20

Souci II>won the Grand Prix de Paris.
Fire supposed to have been caused
by defective electrical wiring de-
stroyed the high school building at
Fort Dodge, Ia. The loss is estimated
at SIS 1000; insurance, $25,0000.
Ellsworth Rains, of Oskaloosa, Ia,
cut the throat of his divorced wife in
the presence of officers who had come
to arrest him. Mrs. Rains probably
will die.
A four-tory brick building in Chica-
go was destroyed by dynamite by a
gang of blackmailers to whom the
owner had refused to give $1,000.
German H. Hunt, one of the most
prominent citizens of Baltimore, died,
aged rs years.
An explosion of dynamite at Cow
hilo, a manufacturing town, of Portu-
gal, killed 80 persons. 1t is believed
that the explosion was caused by dis
missed workmen.
Mrs. Thomas Cook and her daugh-
| ter, Miss Estelle Fountain, were
burned to death in fire that de-
stroyed the home of N. A. Fountain, a
son of Mrs Cook, in Savannah, ca
Redmond Prindiville, of Chicago,
for many years well-known lake cap
tain, was struck by street car and
killed.
United States Senator Beveridge, Of
Indiana, is engaged to marry Miss
Katherine EDDY of Chicago.
of Bingham Lake, Mimi, Of $500, but
were captured and the money recov-
cred.
The sunken launch Of the battleship
Minnesota was raised at Hampton
roads and only one body, that Of
Fireman G. w. Westphal, was found
in it.
William lie Baron Jenney, one Of the
leading architects of Chicago, to
whose genius the modern steel con-
struction building is largely due, died
at Los Angeles, Cal, aged IA years.
Walter Brown, aged 16, only son Of
William Barringer Brown, a wealthy
man in Crown Point, Ind, was
drowned in Fancher lake, near Ham
mond.
Gov. Conner, of Alabama, decided to
appoint John H. Bankhead to fill out
the late Senator Morgan's unexpired
term.
Samuel E. Haskins, a wealthy lum-
Der broker, of Glasgow, Scotland, COM
mitted suicide in St. Louis by drink
ing carbolic acid.
The missing launch of the battle
ship Minnesota was located in II feet
of water in Hampton Roads. Across
the little craft was tell-tale piece OF
towing line, serving to convince the
naval officers that they are right in
their theory that the launch was run
down by boat of some kind in tow
of a tug. The diver who went down
to examine the launch reported that
the heads and arms of three men were
protruding from beneath the canvas
covering.
Eddie Guerin, who escaped to the
United States from Devils island,
then went to England where he was
arrested and ordered to be eXtradited
to France, was set free by the divis-
ional court, which decided that the
extradition act did not apply to the
case.
The agreement between the Harri-
man interests and the Rock Island
company, entered into in 1904 for their
alternative control of the Chicago e
Alton railroad, has been abrogated
by mutual consent.
Harry Posner, aged 10, waif
brought to Howard, Kan, from New
York in 1899, received message from
New York city stating that he had
fallen heir to half a million dollars left
by his father, who died in Cape Town,
Africa.
The Russian premier demanded that
the douma suspend number of it's
members who are social democrats,
that they might be tried for revolu-
tionary crimes. The douma refused
and its dissolution seemed certain.
julius Lehman and Emil Hartman,
former ST. Louis councilmen convicted
Of boodling and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary over three years ago, were
pardoned by Gov Folk and released.
Secretary Taft suffered a severe at
tack Of indigestion while at ST. Paul,
Mimi.
Judge Dunno refused to release on
bail Mayor Schmitz Of San Francisco,
convicted of extortioa.
Little Herbert Sinclair, the 11-year-
old son of a music dealer in Tyrone,
Pa, has been captured at North Balti-
more, o., after years abduction. The
child said he was taken from his par
ents by tramp, who made him live
the life of a vagabond
The business portion of Wesley, Ia.
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000.
Jesse Mcdowell, a veteran of the
Seminole, Mexican and civil wars and
a cousin of Gen. Mcdowell, the distin-
guished union soldier, died at Burling-
ton, Kan, from injuries received in a
fall, aged 102 years.
Roscoe Scofield Burton, of Peoria,
ILL.,, member of the junior law class
in the University of Michigan. was ac-
cidentally drowned while bathing in
Bass Lake, Mich.
Arthur Appleyard, who got in trou-
BILE Thursday in Philadelphia over
United Gas Improvement stock, arriv-
ed in Buffalo and said he hoped to
break even