River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-05-14

mile northwest of Laporte, Ind, where
she and her three children recently
persisted in flames. 1t is believed she
also caused the death of her two hus-
bands. Ray Lamphere is suspected Of
having been her accomplice.
Four more bodies were dug up in
the barnyard' of Mrs. Guinness farm,
near Laporte, Ind, making nine
found so far. The mystery of the
death house" is growing deeper,
though there is evidence that the
bodies were shipped to Mrs. GUM
ness, probably from Chicago, in
trunks and boxes which draymen tell
of carting to her house
Another of the bodies dug up on
the farm of Mrs. Guinness near La
porte, Ind, was identified as that of
Ole B. Budsberg of lola, Wis, whom
the woman Iured there by matri-
monial advertisement. New witnesses
against Roy Lamphere were found.
Another body was dug up on Mrs.
Guinness farm near Laporte, Ind,
making ten found. More incriminat-
ing evidence against Ray Lamphere
was obtained
Fully $1,000 morbid sightseers
from LapOrte and many other towns
spent Sunday picnicing on the Gun
ness farm. There were not enough
vehicles in Laporte to carry them all
Supplementary to it's endowment
of Gaelic chair at the Catholic Uni
versity of America several years ago,
the Ancient Order of Hibernians has
begun a movement for the endowment
of scholarships at the university by
each of the state organizations of the
order
Isaac Williams, New York cotton
broker, committed suicide.
A frightful epidemic of exanthe-
matuus typhoid is raging in the city
prison at Kiev, Russia. More than
200 deaths have occurred and prac-
tically all of the inmates are infected.
The will of Thomas Crumbaugh of
Bloomington, ILL.,, who left 100000 to
the Spiritualist church, was set aside
on the ground that he was unduly in
1uenced by mediums.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf re-
viewed the combined Atlantic and Pa
cific fleets in San Francisco harbOr.
Admiral Evans was unable to take
part in the ceremonw and later relin-
pushed the command to Rear Admiral
Thomas and left for Washington.
DIR. j. Sanderson Christison, noted
aienist, committed suicide in Chicago.
Members of the Russian duma made
violent attacks on the Jews, urging
their exclusion from the army.
Fire in Atlanta, Ga, destroyed two
blocks of business buildings, the loss
being $1,25O,000.
The Wabash river levee broke near
Vincennes, Ind, and serious flood
was expected
School children of Chester, Pa,
struck because two teachers rode on
street cars manned by strike-breakers,
and the school board ordered the
teachers to apologize.
The governments crop report for
May gives winter wheat's average
condition as SO per cent. of normal.
Seventy-twO men who for more than
"a hours had been facing death in the
raging sea near Fire island, were
rescued from the crumbling hulk of
the big German ship Peter Rickmers.
Charges of rioting against Univer-
sity of Michigan students were all dis
missed after the boys had reimbursed
the county.
P. S. Sullivan was burned to death
at Glenwood, MINI.
Juan Durand, one of the leaders of
the recent abortive revolutionary
movement in Peru, and ten of his fol-
lowers, have been captured.
The Euclid Avenue Trust company
of Cleveland, o., made an assignment
the insolvency court.
Eight thousand men from the com
bined Atlantic and Pacific fleets pa
raded the streets of San Francisco, es-
corted by thousands of men of the
regular army, National Guard and
civic societies.
One hundred men were in great
peril on board the stranded steamer
Peter Rickmers on the Long Island
coast which was going to pieces in a
gale so violent that life-savers could
not reach the vessel.
Train robbers who boarded Denver
& Rio Grande train No. 4 at Castle
Rock Col, shot to death Express Mes
senger Charles H. Wright, aged so,
and looted a small safe in the baggage
car, from which they took less than
500 in currency.
w. E. Loucke, his wife and baby
were killed at Reedley, CAL, when
their automobile was struck by a
train.
Utah Republicans declared Roose-
welt their first choice and Taft their
second choice. Taft instructions were
given by the Republican conventions
of Wyoming and Kentucky.
Massachusetts Democrats instructed
their delegates-at-large for Bryan.
Irene Dolph, II years old, was SEN
fenced at Clinton, Ia, to eight years
in prison for killing her husband.
Led by the Connecticut, with Rear
Admiral Evans on the bridge, the bat
tleships of the Atlantic fleet passed
slowly through the Golden Gate and
anchored in the harbor of San Fran
cisco, while many thousands of people
watched the magnificent spectacle.
Democrats of Iowa nominated judi
son Harmon for governor and elected
BRYAN DELEGATES