River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12


age estimated at 100000
Charles Aldrich, curator and foun-
der Of the state historical department
of Iowa, died at Boone, la.
Congressman Adolph Meyer, for
merly an assistant adiutant general in
the confederate army, died in New
Orleans
Giuseppe ALA was placed on trial in
the Denver (Col) criminal court. He
shot down Father Leo Heinrichs.
An effort is being made before con-
Rress to secure a new apportionment
81 the recompensation now given by
the government for the transportation
Of United States mails by rail.
The Point Iona (Cal) wireless sta
ton reported dispatch for the navy
department from Admiral Evans on
board his flagship, the Connecticut.
Warden Frank Conley OF the Deer
Lodge (Mont) state penitentiary was
dangerously wounded and his first as
sistant warden, James Robinson, was
killed when three life convicts made a
dash for liberty.
the Tatsu Maru has been presented to
the Chinese foreign board at Picking,
and the board has the matter under
consideration. The Tatsu Maru was
seized off Macao by Chinese customs
cruisers.
Gov. Charles F.. Hughes was formal
ly Endorsed as New York's candidate
for president by the Republican state
committee at its meeting in New
York
The Argentine elections resulted iG
complete victory for the existing
government
David Waldo wealthy horseman
well-known throughout the United
States, and who formerly owned a
race track. was killed near Indepen-
dence, Mo- in a runaway accident
Raminez Arbelaez, the Colombian
charge d'affaires, died at Lima, Peru.
The Union Lumber company St
Paul, Mimi, which will take over
seven sawmill plants and more than
3,000,000,000 feet Of standing timber,
has been granted a charter by the
MdHIlODd government.
A battle between farmers and three
robbers, in which two of the latter
were wounded, followed the daring
robbery OF the post offices at Pedrick-
town and Bridgeport, ~ ].
Twenty-siX railroad laborers were
overcome by gas in the Pennsylvania
railroad tunnel at Baltimore, Md
-Four died and ten badly affected
The Knickerbocker Trust company,
New York, which suspended business
at the beginning of the financial panic,
resumes business soon.
Nine. Anna Gould, who recently Sc
cured a divorce from her husband,
Count Boni de Castellane. in Paris,
denied the report that she married
Prince Helie de Sagan.
In court at Waukegan. ILL.,, verdict
of $4,000 was returned in libel suit of
Attorney Philip W. Mothersill against
Overseer w. G. Voliva of Zion City.
The army auto car, carried mes
sage from Gen. Grant in New York
city to Col. r. H. r. Loughborough,
commandant at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan
Germany's first mammoth war ship
was launched at Wilhelmshaven sue
cessfully and named Nassau.
The supreme court at Nashville,
tion law This law confines the sa-
Tenn. upheld the Nashville segrega-
looms of the city to a certain terri
tory.
Fire destroyed the boys dormitory
at the New Mexico School of Agricul
turc at Mesilla park, Tex, and many
sleeping students had narrow escapes.
While boating on the Appalache
mill pond near Greers, S. c., skiff
carrying ten people capsized and three
young women were drowned.
In a fire at Niigata, Japan. 1900
houses were totally destroyed. the dis
trict being swept clean. There was
some loss of life.
Daniel ]. Ainsworth, commander of
the revenue cutter Rush, committed
suicide at Seattle, Wash
Floods were reported throughout
northern Indiana The Wabash was
ont Of its banks for miles northeast
of Lafayette. South Peru was partly
under water.
Kansas Republicans in state con-
vention at Topeka, Kan, instructed to
vote for the nomination of Secretary
". II. Taft for president.
United States Senator Redfield Proc
tor of Vermont died in Washington
after a short illness following an at
tack of grippe.
Safe blowers robbed the Mount
Grab bank. Mount Grab. O.. 40 miles
east of Cincinnati, of $4,000 in curren-
cy and securities.
A complete shutdown of the coal
mines in Iowa, worked by $4,000
miners, is threatened. The agree
ment expires March 81
Three Italians carved Joseph Pi-
raino, California farmer. almost to
pieces. robbed him of S165 and threw
him into the Sacramento river.
At the New York home of f. H
Hartman it was said that the condi-
tion Of Miss Carol Hartman. Mr.. Har-
riman's daughter, was improving
The long-pending suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. A. Hart Mckee
against her husband came up before
the first tribunal in Paris.
After a business career of half a
century in Chicago, the drug store of
Dale & Sempill has been placed In