River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-09


| Hastings, Neb.
Theodore Roosevelt officiated for
the seventh time as president of the
| United States at the New Years re
ception at the White House. Assist
ing him in exchanging the salutationf
of the season were Mrs. Roosevelt
and the members and ladies of the
cabinet
Premier Franco of Portugal, during
the first half of the fiscal year, eff
fected a saving of $3,850,000 as com
pared with the expenditures during
the like period for last year under the
previous administration.
Edward Hanlon, eX-champion oars
man of the world, died in Toronto
Ont, from pneumonia.
Seven shipwrecked sailors, believed
to be the only survivors of the crew
of 16 of the Norwegian bark Ger.
manic, were brought to New York by
the oil-tank steamer Hothan Newton
They were picked up in midocean in a
terrible condition from exposure.
Dr. Nicholas Sem, Chicago's fight
ing doctor" and one Of the foremost
surgeons of the central west, died at
the age of 60 years.
Lamar Jackson, a full-blooded Choc-
taw Indian, has been appointed to
a cadetship in the United States mill
tary academy at West Point by Con-
gresham Charles D. Carter of Okla
homa.
The State Bank of ROCKFORD, Col,
closed it's doors following run. The
liabilities exceed 100000, and the
assets are placed at over $525,00O.
Friends of Secretary Taft outvoted
the Foraker faction in the Ohio state
committee and primaries were ordered
for February IL at which Ohio Repub-
licans will express by direct vote
their choice for presidential nominee.
Two women were killed by an ex-
plosion in a fireworks factory in
Rochester, N. Y.
Gov. Folk of Missouri announced the
appointment of Virgil Rule to succeed
Circuit Judge Jesse Mcdonald, who
resigned. Judge Rule was once ST.
Louis newsboy.
Louis M. Givernaud, member of
the firm of Givernaud Bros, said to be
the first to establish silk manufacture
ing in the United States, died at Los
Angeles, Cal, of heart trouble, aged
Is years.
United States Circuit Judge Pritch-
ard at Richmond, Va, named two re-
ceivers for the Seabord Air Line rail
way.
Suffering from melancholia, Charles
Becker of Belleville, ILL.,, former state
treasurer, shot and killed himself
Nightriders raided the town of Rus
sellville, KY, dynamited the tobacco
warehouses and burned other build
ings.
Allison ]. Mailer, secretary general
Of the Supreme Council of the An
cient Order of Scottish Rite Masons,
southern jurisdiction, died of the grip
in Washington.
John D. Rockefeller gave $2,191 900
more to the University of Chicago.
Count Boni de Castellane and his
cousin, Prince Helie de Sagan, had a
sensational fight in Paris.
Ulrich Augustus Hoegger, a Swiss
artist, was probably fatally burned in
fire which burned his studio in
Philadelphia and destroyed paintings
said to be worth 100000.
Although officially declared dead
several years ago and for many years
believed by his wife and friends to
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in court at Lancaster, Pa, to claim
$4,000 from the estate of his uncle.
His wife had remarked.
During the calendar year 1907 the
bureau of navigation reports 1,056 ves-
sells of 502,50S gross tons built and
specifically numbered in the United
States, compared with 1,045 vessels
of 393,291 tons in 1906.
Phillip F. Kramer of Portland, Ore,
a locomotive engineer employed on
the Isthmian canal, was murdered by
robbers.
The vaudeville war was finally con-
Guided when George Middleton, presi-
dent of the Western Vaudeville asso-
citation, and his associates signed an
agreement to take over Celia & OPP
penheim's theaters in Kansas City,
Milwaukee and Louisville and the
new theater being built at st. Louis.
St Anne's Orphans home at Terre
Haute, Ind, was burned, but the 100
children were saved
James G. Stowe, former consul gen.
eral TO South Africa and a Well-knOWn
manufacturer, died in Kansas City.
Roy Howard, 10 years old, was SEN
fenced to eight years in the peniten-
tiary for the murder of Martha
Picray at Des Moines, Ia.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
Capt j. E. Pillsbury had been selected
as chief of the navigation bureau of
the navy department.
Fire that brought death to Charles
Figone, eight years of age, fatal in
jury to Louis Figone, 16 years of age,
and almost cost the lives of so others,
broke out in the coal yard of Antonio
Figone, in San Francisco, and caused
damage to the extent of $4,000.
j. w. Belknap, a wealthy lumber
man, was dangerously injured, H. A.
Kemp was hurt, and Charles H. Tidy
and a housemaid. had a narrow es-
cape from being burned in their beds
at Greenville, Mich.
Owen Moran, champion feather
weight of England, made draw fight
of Ok rounds with Ahn Atta11 cham.