River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20

uHHOuHCcu HIS CduuludCy IOT IHS
United States senate to succeed Ches-
ter l Long, whose term expires March
3, 1909
Charges of misconduct in Office, viola
ton and neglect of duty and contempt
for and the non-enforcement of the
laws of the state were filed against
Mayor Elias P. Mann of Troy, n. Y,
with Gov. Hughes.
Tornadoes devastated the towns of
Tyler, Tex, and Mossville, $3.50 and
Service, Miss, blowing down many
houses and causing a number of
deaths.
The American fleet of 16 battle
ships, under the command of Rear Ad-
miral Evans, passed Valparaiso, Chile,
where it was reviewed by President
Mont and thousands of Chileans, and
continued on its voyage northward for
Callao, Peru, the next stopping place.
The Wisconsin delegation to the ma
tional Democratic convention at Den
yer, Col, was instructed to vote as a
unit for William J. Bryan as the
Democratic nominee for president,
first, last and all the time.
Damage amounting to probably $751;
900 was done, oil paintings of judges
who have presided in Brooklyn in the
last half century were water-soaked
and valuable records narrowly escaped
destruction when fire swept through
the upper part of the Kings county
courthouse in Brooklyn.
An explosion of a boiler in the base
ment of the public school at Adrian,
Mo-, tore away the floor of the pri-
mary department and precipitated a
teacher and 60 pupils into the base
ment, burning and scalding many OF
them in frightful manner.
Prof. w. F. c. Hasson of the AGA
demic force at the naval academy at
Annapolis is dead.
SeVenty-two men, representatives
Of all the classes of labor employed
on the New Orleans river front, and
who compose a union known as the
Dock and Cotton council, were in
dicted by the United States grand jury
on the charge of conspiring to restrain
trade in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law.
Deputy Chief Charles w. Kruger of
New York lost his life while leading
his men in a desperate fight against
flames in Canal street. He fell
through a trap into a water-tilled
basement and drowned.
The American ship Emily Reed was
wrecked on the Oregon coast, ten of
her crew perishing.
Adolph Stemwetz, paying teller of
the National Bank of Commerce of
Minneapolis, was arrested for an al
legged shortage of $3,450.
There was an unconfirmed rumor in
Vienna that the shah of Persia had
been assassinated.
The will of Mrs. Rylands, widow of
John Rylands, of the famous Manches-
ter (Eng) cotton firm, bequeaths
$2,365,OOO to various charities, includ-
ing $1,000,000 to the John Rylands Ii
brary at Manchester
An explosion in a coal mine at
Glencoe, Natal, cost 81 lives.
Macon county, Georgia, went dry
by majority of 900. Seventy of the
Ia counties of Missouri have now
voted for local option.
Following the indicated preference
at a primary vote, the Republican
county convention at Lincoln, Neb.,
adopted a resolution declaring for
Theodore Roosevelt for president and
instructing its delegates to the state
convention to work to that end.
Dr. Leo Danziger, prominent Ger
man physician, was shot and instantly
killed in Cincinnati by Robert Gott,
the uncle of Anna Bell Stangley, IT.
year-old girl, at whose bedside the
physician was giving medical atten-
ton.
Yves Summerlin and his son Charley
were hanged at Carrollton, Ga, for
the murder of Jethro Jones, wealthy
farmer.
Women suffragists of London went
to Jail for six weeks rather than give
suretieS for their good behavior.
Because of interference with plans
for marrying his sister, Henry Bean,
a prosperous young farmer of Prich-
ard, w. Va, was shot through the
head and instantly killed by Virgil
Hatten.
A. c. Tisdelle of Chicago, who is
charged with accepting deposits after
his private bank had become insolvent,
surrendered himself to the police.
New York detectives hunted in vain
for Henry S. Snow, former treasurer
of the New York and New Jersey Tele-
phone company, who was indicted by
the grand jury on charge of grand
larceny.
Herbert Jordan, aged So years, who
was private secretary to ex-Gov Willis
j. Bailey when the latter was in con-
gress, was mysteriously assassinated
in Seneca, Kan.
Fred Slocum, an inmate of the in
sane asylum at Elgin, ILL.,, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a
piece of glass.
The Oklahoma house killed the hotel
bill which required 9-foot sheets on
beds and provided penalty for the
use of cracked cups.
BY direction Of the president, Act.
ing Secretary Oliver ordered com
pany of infantry from Fort Gibbon, in
Alaska, to Fairbanks, in that territory,
to preserve order during the mining
strike in that section.
William Andrews, formerly of Sioux
City, Ia, committed suicide in the