River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-30

Carnegie for the Illinois college at
! Jacksonville, ILL.,, had been raised.
All the missing passengers and crew
of the steamer Amsterdam were taken
into port at Hook of Holland by the
Norwegian steamer Songa.
District Judge George M. Bourquin
at Butte, Mont, approved loan of
! 100000 by Edward Creighton Largey
to the State Savings bank, a suspend
ed Heinze institution, to resume bust
ness.
The will of Mrs Lydia Bradley, who
died at Peoria, ILL.,, leaves 100000
to the Bradley Polytechnic institute,
affiliated with the University of Chi
cago, and only $4,000 to heirs and
others.
| Three valuable miniatures of the
duchess of Fife, the queen of Norway
and Princess Victoria, all belonging
to Queen Alexandra, were stolen by
burglars from the studio of an en-
graver in London.
Turie Nordstrom, wanted in Chica-
go for passing forged check amount
ing to $4,000, was arrested at May
port, Fla. on board a yacht which he
had purchased at Brunswick, Ga.
Several hundred men were dubbed
| by the Chicago police and number
were more or less seriously hurt in
the loop district when 200 uniformed
patrolmen and detectives charged an
army of the unemployed" in efforts
| to dispense them. The army" was
marching toward the city hall to de-
mand work 1t was finally disrupted.
| Frank J. Constantine, who killed
Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago and
who attempted suicide in the Joliet
penitentiary by throwing himself from
a gallery, died.
Several severe earthquake shocks
| terrified the inhabitants of towns in
| Calabria, Italy, and did great damage
| to buildings.
An attempt to overthrow the mon.
archy and proclaim Portugal a repub-
| lie was nipped in the bud by the
prompt action of the government. The
plot was organized by small group OF
advanced republicans, the leaders OF
whom were arrested. The plan was to
assassinate Premier Franco and then
depend for success upon street risings.
supported by secret, republican and
labor organizations, armed with bombs
and revolvers.
| Believing that his illness would re.
suit fatally, John Fetter, aged 73 years.
of South Bethlehem, Pa, confessed
that he murdered his daughter, Ella
Fetter, aged SO years, in November.
1894
Fire at Deer River, Mimi. destroyed
a block and a half of the business
portion of the town, causing loss es
timated at 100000
Mrs. Henry A. Alexander, daughter
of the late Gen. Joseph T. Terrence
of Chicago eloped from Hyeres.
France, with William Graham Blakes
ton, an Englishman.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad cut
all salaries of officers and employees
receiving $3.50 month and over.
Three firemen were killed and IL
| injured in the worst fire Baltimore
has had since the big conflagration
of 1904. The loss is estimated at
$5OOOOO
Charles Mitchell, aged 20 years,
retired wholesale dealer, died at st.
Joseph, Mo. He was wounded on the
Merrimac in it's first days fight with
the Monitor during the civil war.
Rev. ]. w. O'Bryant, who has been
pastor of the Hyde Park Methodist
church of st. Joseph, Mo-, has re-
signed to become a street car con,
ductor on suburban line
King Alfonso of Spain while hunt
| ing had a narrow escape from being
killed by a wild boar.
The supreme court of the United
States denied the petition for an ap.
peal in the Chicago Street Railroad re
organization case.
In order to prevent the spread OF
| scarlet fever, the board of education
| of Minneapolis decided to burn large
number of text books.
At Dowagiac, Mich, an audience of
about $50. mostly women and children,
was thrown into a panic by fire in
moving picture theater. No one was
SSl1OuOly AhJuA GU.
Three men were arrested in Mes
| sina, Sicily, charged with completely
in the murder of a paymaster at
| Portage, Pa, several years ago.
Dr. w. E. Carter, veterinary sur
| geon of Meadville, Mo-, was tortured
| by whitecapS.
Bonnie A. Walker of Canton, O., is
thought to be lost in the mountains
near Los Angeles, Cal. He has been
missing since January Is.
1t is announced in New York that
| W. d. Haywood, who was acquitted
on the charge of numbering ex-Gov
| Steunenberg of Idaho, will be the can
| didate of the Socialists for president
Nils Nelson, tender of the light
house on the New Haven breakwater,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat. He had saved many lives.
| Gov. Warner of Michigan announced
that former Gov. John T. Rich had &C.
copied an appointment as state treas
urer to succeed Frank p. Glazier, who
resigned.
Fire Commissioner Lantry of New
York said the citys fire hose was so
old and rotten they had never dared
to test it.
| Judge Phillips at Cleveland, o., in
| deciding the case against the Amalga-
| mated Glass Workers union held that