River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-12-17

fore a mob that had gathered could
secure him.
The betrothal was announced OF
Beatrice, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ogden Mills of New York, and
Bernard Arthur William Patrick
Hastings Forbes, eighth earl of
Granard, of Castle Forbes, County
Longford, Ireland.
Gen. Firmin and 115 other exiles re-
turned to Port au Prince, Hayti
Judge Kavanagh at Chicago ruled
that Private Joseph Klein of the
National Guard must stand trial for
killing Earl Nelson at Kankakee dur
ing the Springfield riots, but declared
the killing was justifiable.
After 24-hours' battle with ice 16
miles out in Lake Erie, Capt. Andrew
Hageney, his wife and two men aboard
the barge Charles Wall were rescued
by the tug Sheboygan.
The Kansas supreme court decided
that cities OF Kansas may provide sep
arate schools for white and negro chill
dren in the grades below the high
school, but the schools for negro chill
dren must have equal facilities and be
as easy of access as those provided
for white children.
The vessels of the Pacific fleet ar
rived at Panama, where the govern
ment provided adequate protection for
the men,
Umpires KLEIN and tombstone, who
officiated in the decisive Chicago-New
York game in the National league,
have made charges that attempts were
made to bride them.
The Minnesota state supreme court
affirmed a decision of the district
court holding it unlawful for prac-
ticing physician to practice dentistry.
Proclaiming himself to be John the
Baptist, come to save the world" an
armed fanatic, wrought up to high
pitch of maniacal fury, terrorized
Edgewater, N. ]. He appeared sud
denly on the main street, waving a big
revolver, held up the proprietors OF
several stores, exchanged many shots
with a hastily formed posse and at
last was wounded when the police and
a mob of citizens ran him down.
The lumber interests represented by
the Weyerhaeusers, O'Brien & Cook OF
st. Paul and Duluth and Edward Hines
of Chicago are in Duluth working on
the formation of lumber trust which
will control practically all the pine in
North America.
A woman leaped with her little son
~ - ht1nY INC
in Chicago and both were so badly
hurt they died in few minutes.
A force of 200 men, which landed
from the Haytian gunboat, took with
out resistance the town OF Gonalves,
Hayti, and established authority there
In the name of Gen. Simon.
The Springport (Mich.) State Saw
ings bank, with deposits of about $9O,-
900, was closed by Banking Commits
sioner Zimmerman while an examina-
ton is made of its affairs
The Peninsular & Oriental Steamship
Company will begin next year to I'M
port hogs from China into Great
Britain.
John r. Hegeman, president OF the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, was freed by the New York ap-
pellate court in a decision that, If it
stands, will serve to quash all indict-
ments now outstanding against inSur-
ance officials.
Louis Pratt, the religious fanatic,
and officer Mullane, wounded in the
street battle in Kansas City, died.
James Sharp, the leader of the band
of fanatics, was arrested.
Iaboring under the delusion that he
had been marked as victim of the
"Black Hand" Thomas Fitzpatrick,
aged Sc, shot and killed himself near
Gaines, Mich.
After a brief argument with
crowd of negroes in q saloon in Mem
phis, William Latura, white saloon
keeper, shot and killed three of the
negroes and wounded others, one
MORALLY.
Representative George L. Lilley,
governor-elect of Connecticut, has
been served with a subpoena to an
swer the complaint that in the recent
campaign he, himself or through
financial agent, violated the corrupt
practices act.
Two bunco men worked the time
honored satchel substitution game at
Minneapolis and got $7,105 from r. F.
Cargell, an aged cattle dealer from
Clyde, n. d.
The board of regents of the Univer'
sity of Minnesota decided that mem
bers of the faculty must retire on
reaching the age of 65 years.
w. H. Crowninshield, aged 40 years,
of Boston, Mass, said to be nephew
of Rear Admiral Crowninshield, was
run down and killed by railway
train in Cleveland, o.
The police of Kansas City and a
band of religious fanatics headed by
John Sharp, who styles himself
Adam Cod" engaged in a fierce re-
volver street battle. Over 100 shots
were exchanged, one patrolman and a
little girl being killed, Sharp and two
officers fatally wounded and two
other officers slightly hurt.
Miss Helen Chaffee, daughter of
Lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Adna R. Chaffee,
was welded at Los Angeles to Lieut..
John Hastings Howard, U. S. A.
F. D. Hirschberg of st. Louis, mill
lionaire merchant and prominent
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