River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-13

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tuguese premier, succeeded in uniting
the various factions in a new cabinet
and it was given out that the entire
| policy of Franco will be reversed,
repressivc measure being abolished
and government by decree being with
! drawn.
King Manuel of Portugal signed
three DEGREES abolishing repressive
measures. Franco, the former pre-
mier, was said to have fed to Spain.
RevOlutionists in Oporto captured the
city hall and raised red flag, but
were routed by the municipal guard
The funerals of the late King Carlos
and Crown Prince LUZ was held in
Lisbon. Former Premier Franco ar
rived in Bordeaux and staid over
night, not telling his destination.
Officials at Oporto, Portugal, discov-
cred plot to seize the city, destroy
all lines of communication and pro-
claim a republic. The leaders and
many others were arrested.
Warden Haddox of the West Vir-
ginia penitentiary was killed by fall
ing from a fifth story window of a
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
Charles w. Morse, being interviewed
on the arrival of the Campania at
| Queenstown, denied that he was fee
| ing from creditors and said he would
start back to New York in about ten
days.
Albert West and Edward Williams,
negroes, were hanged in the parish
Jail at Lake Charles, La. West was
hanged first. The rope broke when
the trap was sprung, but he was quick
Iy strung up again and soon strangled
to death.
Miss Harriet Baird Huey, former
president Of the Philadelphia Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, committed suicide at her home in
Philadelphia by inhaling Illuminating
gas
Wagner's elevator at Storm Lake,
Ia, was destroyed by fire. The total
loss is about $4,000.
S. A. Moody of st. Louis was found
dead in his room at the Hotel Rich
mond, San Diego, Cal. He was 60
years old and was a pioneer resident
of Webster Grove, a suburb of st.
Louis.
Bay county, Missouri, voted in favor
of local option by majority of 1875
out of total of 1880. Sixty-seven of
the ia counties in Missouri are now
dry"
Frank H. Hitchcock announced that
he would resign as first assistant post
master general to assume charge of
Secretary Taft's canvass for the presi-
Dental nomination
Boy tramps who were drawn to st.
Louis by the national convention of
the unemployed and who were not per-
mitted in the councils, which were linn
tied to ''hoboes," held a meeting at
which addresses were made by men of
reputation among the wanderers.
Ten men were killed by an explo-
sion in coal mine at Port Hood, N. S.
Franklin l.. Greenleaf, one of the
most prominent figures in grain and
-four circles and one of the pioneers of
Minneapolis, is dead.
John Williams, So years old, was
shot and almost instantly killed in
Chicago by his son, Wilhelm Williams,
% years old, who then fired a bullet
into his own brain. Both were out of
work and the son was intoxicated
Two persons were burned to death
in fire that destroyed rooming
house in South Sioux City, Neb.
The American battleship fleet set
sail from Punta Arenas after an Off
territory of Magellan.
The isthmian canal commission
awarded contract to the General
Electric company for furnishing a
power plant to handle the material to
be used in the construction of the
Gatun locks, at price between 1884,
900 and $4,000.
c.. N. Bell, pioneer attorney of
Minnesota who drafted the first city
charter of st. Paul, is dead
Ten persons were injured in a wreck
on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Franklinville, N. Y.
c.. w. Milbrath, former city treas
urer and state assemblyman, and for
years one of the most respected citi-
zens of Milwaukee, was sentenced to
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
three years for the embezzlement Of
$500 from client.
An Erie passenger train struck and
instantly killed Daniel Thomas and
Mrs. Phoebe Taylor at a crossing at
Hills Tower, near Tallmadge, o.
More than $25OO0O in the treasury
of New York city, owing to former
employees, has not been called for.
Dr. Albert Harrison Mixer, professor
emeritus of modern languages at the
University of Rochester, died in Roch-
ester. aged SIS years. He was a mem
Der of the original faculty of the uni
versity in 1850
Former County Judge James Hargis,
for many years member of the Ken
lucky Democratic executive commit
tee, accused of completely in many
murders and prominent figure in the
feuds which have disrupted Breathitt
county for several years, was shot and
instantly killed in his general store at
Jackson, KY, by his son, Beach Har-
gis, whom he censured for drinking.
Night riders near Adams, Tenn,
burned several barns full of tobacco,
shot H. G. Lawrence and his son and
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