River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-28

Assurance society present of $121.8O
and bouquet of roses in honor of her
distinction as the most successful in
weston in life insurance on record.
Mrs. Nicholas M. Smith, Jr., of New
Rochelle, N. Y, while insane killed
her husband and herself
The permanency of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research has
been assured through the gift by
John D. Rockefeller, it's founder, of 81
100000
Mrs. Mary Hall dropped dead at her
home in Springfield, ILL.,, while sit
ting beside the coffin of her son Will
liam.
Princess Elizabeth has left her hus-
is said to be with her parents in Mu-
mich.
Papinta, the fire dancer, dropped
dead from an attack of apoplexy on
the stage of the Apollo theater in
Dusseldorf, Germany.
Leslie M. Shaw's presidential boom
was practically launched at dinner
of the National Business league in
Chicago, at which he made an adj
dress.
William NJ. WINS, while Investigate
ing the affairs of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company for the New York
public service commission, declared
that Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleve-
land and his friends, who formerly
owned the Nassau Electric Railway
company of Brooklyn, had watered
it's stock to the extent of $6,25O,OO
and then sold it to the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company.
Lieut.. John w. Crawford, secretary
of Admiral Dewey, disappeared and it
is believed he committed suicide.
Railway Commissioner Joseph A.
William and H. G. Powell, rate expert
in the office of the Nebraska commits
sion, were seriously injured while
making an inspection of the Missouri
Pacific tracks.
Physically wrecked through ex-
cesses, George P. Miller, aged 4S
years, once a brilliant law graduate
and private secretary to Samual }.
Randall of Pennsylvania, committed
suicide in st. Louis.
Prince Salmon of Tahiti was ar
rested in San Francisco on charges
of defrauding an automobile livery
company and failing to pay board
bill
The jury in the case of Edward G.
Lewis of ST. Louis, who was charged
with having used the mails fraudulent
ly in organizing and establishing the
Peoples United States bank, dis
agreed.
Louis M. Dyke, president of the
former Atella (Ala.) National bank,
charged with misrepresentation of
funds of a national bank, entered a
plea of guilty and was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary.
o. K. McCutcheon, wealthy mer-
chant of Turtle Creek, Pa, was
crushed to death in Pittsburg.
Patrolman George Gusrang was
murdered at Burlington, N. j., by an
unknown man, evidently an Italian,
fatal wound. The shooting was the
direct result of the assassination of
E. S. Jefferson, a grocer. 1t is
thought both crimes may have been
committed by the same person.
]. Pierpont Morgan and George F.
Baker, the latter president of the
First National bank of New York city,
conferred in Washington with Secre-
tary Cortelyou and later with the
president.
The works of the Aluminium Com
pany of America at st. Louis were
closed indefinitely.
o. r. Nattinger was killed and
Frank Getchell was seriously in
iured in an automobile accident at
Des Moines, la. Miss Ruth Wilkinson
hurt.
The eighteenth annual meeting of
the Trans-Mi Mississippi Commercial
congress adjourned at Muskogee,
Okla, to meet in San Francisco next
November.
Christian workers representing
many lands gathered in Washington
in attendance upon the thirty-sixth
international convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of North
America.
The resignation of w. w. Howe,
United States district attorney for
the eastern district of Louisiana, was
announced.
Among the relics disclosed by the
opening of the metal box which for
more than 20 years rested in the
cornerstone of the old Consolidated
Exchange building at Broadway and
Exchange place, New York, now be-
ing torn down, were particles of the
bones of Christopher Columbus. They
were in a gold mounted urn.
Dr. w. c. Whitney, member of the
Ohio legislature from Franklin coun.
ty, died of burns received while at.
tempting to rescue a horse from a
burning barn.
Andrew Carnegie placed Ida Lewis,
keeper of the Lime Rock lighthouse
on his private pension list for $50 a
month.
A riot occurred at Joliet, ILL.,, as the
result of the strike which followed
an attempted wage reduction among
stone quarrymen.
A rush of natural gas from an ex.
cavatiOn in the southwest land tun.