River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-06
GENERAL NEWS.

TWenty-fOur miners were entOmbed
by a cave-in in coal mine at Crows
Nest Pass, B. G. Twenty-one of them
we've rescued, having been kept alive
by leaking compressed air pipes.
Grand Army men in Ohio started a
movement to raise money by popular
subscription to build a big United
States battleship.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the
Hamburg-America line pier and a
great quantity of merchandise, the
loss being about 100000.
Mrs Ralph Harris of Kansas City,
Mo, and her five-year-old son were
drowned at Walloon lake, Michigan.
David Lamasuey, a dealer in fine
horses, who travelled extensively but
had no permanent home, committed
suicide by the hari-kiri method at
Burlington, Ia He was temporarily
deranged by the heat.
W. B. Whitwell, who kept a country
store in Ripley county, Missouri, was
shot and killed while resisting arrest
as a deserter.
Bolivar, said to be the biggest ele-
plant ever in captivity, died in his
prison house at the geological gardens
in Philadelphia.
The Hotel Roberval on Lake st.
John, Canada, was destroyed by fire,
all the guests escaping.
A demurrer by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad company
SIS defendant in the action brought
eminent, was filed in the United States
district court at Boston.
The mining town of Stafford, w.
Va, was wrecked by the explosion of
100 kegs of powder.
Carl Burton, % years old, a recent
graduate of the University of Chi
cago, and heir to property worth
100000 in Aurora, was fatally in
jured in an automobile crash in Chi
eago.
Three masked men held up and
robbed an elevated ticket agent in
Chicago.
Leonard Hendricks of Cranston, R.
l., killed himself and his two little
daughters by means of gas.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
freight house at Chillicothe, Mo-, was
wrecked by robbers, who blew open
the safe and escaped with $500.
After an all-day conference of the
leading government prosecuting Off
GERS and Frank B. Kellogg of Minneso
ia. it was announced by Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte at LenoX, Mass, that
every effort would be made to secure
a revision of the recent decision and
opinion of the United States circuit
court of appeals in the case of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
William Oliver, a young aeronaut of
Mason, Mich, was killed while making
a parachute drop at Hague park, near
Jackson, Mich.
James S. Sherman, Republican vice
presidential candidate, announced that
he would be succeeded as chairman of
the congressional campaign commit
tee by Representative William B. Nc
Kinley of Illinois.
Peter Sendak of Cleveland, o., shot
and killed his wife and himself.
In the presence of the Sheik VI Is
lam, the head of the hierarchy in Tur-
key, the sultan of Turkey took the
oath of allegiance to the constitution
on the Koran.
Tad" Smith, negro boy accused OF
assaulting a white girl, was burned to
death by a mob at Greenville, Tex.
Andrew Haag, prominent resident
of Cullom, ILL.,, was shot and killed by
his 21-year-old son, Albert Haag, fol
lowing family quarrel.
A band of men attacked the office
of the cashier at the railroad station
in Tiraspol. Russia, and got away with
$4,000.
A gasoline launch was sunk at Pitts.
burg, Pa, by waves from a coal boat
and three steel workers were drowned
The packet steamer Neva, owned by
the Green Packet company of Cincin.
natl, burned to the waters edge al
Buffalo. w. Va. The crew swan
ashore