River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-12
An express train was derailed near

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four shot flrers were entombed and
probably killed
Vice-President-elec Sherman for
warded to Albany for filing with the
secretary of state, statement of his
expenses in the campaign just closed.
It showed his expenditures to have
been $4,000.
The second squadron of the Amer
lean battleship feet left Annoy for the
Philippines.
The freight steamer B. M. Whitney
of the Metropolitan Steamship line
was sunk in the East river while on
her way to Boston The loss on YES
sci and cargo is about 100000.
The Union Telephone & Telegraph
Company, having telephone system
in Rock Island and Moline, ILL.,, and
Davenport, Ia, and capitalized at
S550,000, went into the hands of re
ceiver on an application filed by the
American Trust and Savings bank OF
Chicago.
A small steamer carrying 600 pas
sengers from Annoy to Tungan, China,
sank and 200 of the passengers were
drowned
Thrilling escapes and heroic work
by a Costa Rican student, Rubena
Herrera, marked a fire which burned
to the ground the Bliss Electric school
in North Takoma, a suburb of Wash
ington.
ToTpoc IT MIIIho1 cnnfnnon6 n
Is months at the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan; Edgar McConkey
to one year and one day at Leaven-
worth, and Felix Williamson to six
months in the county Jail by Judge
Milton Purdy at Minneapolis for
fraudulent operation of the Nicollet
Creamery Company.
Talk Of the election of Theodore
Roosevelt to the United States senate
to succeed Senator Plat Of New York
was revived in Washington.
The Japanese steamer Taish Maru
sank in storm and $50 persons were
drowned.
The general committee of foreign
missions of the Methodist Episcopal
church, at it's session in st. Louis, be-
gan the work of itemizing the appro-
priations for the year 1909, after vot-
ing to appropriate total of $1,060,-
578.
John Cooper, a student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and a men,
Der of the varsity football eleven,
who was injured during the prelimi-
nary practice of the team in Septem-
Der, is dead.
Two women and five children per-
ished in a burning farmhouse near
Swan Lake, Man.
Chancellor e. Benjamin Andrews of
the University of Nebraska resigned,
to take effect January 1.
The people of Plauen, Germany
were terrified by a violent earthquake
shock
The Citizens and Farmers State
bank of Arkansas City, Kan, closed it's
doors.
The suit to GUST the Western Trust
and Savings bank of Chicago as trus-
tee of the $10,000,000 bond issue of the
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Rail
road Company was begun in Milwau-
kee by Alexander Beaubien, bond
holder
Boston's park system fund has been
increased by more than $4,OO0,OO0 by
the terms of George F. Parkman's will,
made 80 years ago.
Mount McCulloch, which last year
thrust its head up from the center of
Bogaslov island, 60 miles west of
Unalaska, has disappeared in the
throes of another volcanic change.
Many mills and factories that have
been running on half time have begun
operating on full time.
While attempting to arrest Jesse
Rice, a negro, at Riverside, Pa, Con-
stable George Brown shot him dead
and was himself fatally shot in the
abdomen by the negro.
Phil Short, one of the best known
newspaper men in North Dakota, was
shot and killed by Clayton Yeakins
while they were hunting deer in Nc
Kenzie county, N. d.
John Hagen, a hotel keeper at
Scranton, N. Y, killed his wife and
son and attempted suicide.
Nine laborers were killed by pre-
mature blast on the Grand Trunk Pa
cific road near Dryden, Man.
Prince Louis d'Orleans-Braganza
and Princess Maria-Pia of Bourbon
Sicily, were married at Cannes,
France.
Business property valued at 100000
was destroyed by fire in Pembroke
Ont
Near Jefferson City, Tenn, Victor
Mcmahon, a prominent farmer, prob
ably fatally shot Mrs. John Wilkes,
the wife of tenant on his farm, while
shooting at her husband. Wilkes then
emptied the contents of shotgun into
McMahon's breast.
Israel JAMESON, former cashier of
a bank in Lindersburg, Sweden, who
was arrested by detective at Yankee
Bush, Pa, has, it is alleged, made a
complete confession, admitting he alb
stracted $1,000 kroners of the banks
funds.
Mrs. Catherine Louis Lynn of Cal
cago, while mentally deranged, killed
her baby girl and cut her own throat.
While 10000 spectators were loudly
cheering his successful flight with a
glider, when 20 feet in the air, Law
renee J. LeSh, the 16-year-old areonaut,