River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-09
wmYiam L. Daley, who, with Will

| residence in Denver after an illness
| of several months. Mr.. Daley was
| born in Tiffin, o., in 1888.
An explosion, declared by the police
/, to have been caused by a dynamite
bomb, partially wrecked the First Ma
tional Bank building in Kansas City,
causing $4,000 damage and slight
| injuries to nine persons.
| Bishop Charles d. Williams of the
| Episcopal diocese of Michigan has
! opened a downtown Office in Detroit
for the discussion of civic matters.
Irving H. Wheatly of Galestown,
Md, may die from eating two ounces
of black pepper on a wager.
George W. Eckert, known all over
| the world as the breeder of owl
| pigeons that have won first prizes at
shows in all parts of the country, died
at Allentown, Pa.
The countess of Yarmouth, sister of
Harry K. Thaw, applied to the divorce
court in London for notification of her
marriage to the earl of Yarmouth. In
brief her petition declares that there
has been in fact no marriage. AS
most of the testimony will be given
by medical experts the case will be
heard in camera.
Following a raid on Russellville,
! KY, the governor offered reward of
| $500 for the arrest and conviction Of
each night rider.
The president has awarded rail
/ road life saving medal to Edward Nc
| Grath, station agent for the Chicago,
| Milwaukee & st. Paul railway at
! Stowell station, Milwaukee. He is
cripple, and risked his life to save
that of a child.
The woman murdered on the Pas
sale river flats in New Jersey was
| identified as Mrs. Theodore S. Whit
more Of Brooklyn, and her husband
was detained by the police.
At Lansing, Mich, Circuit Judge
| West held that the use of cereal and
water in sausage is an adulteration of
the product and brings it within the
scope of the state pure food law pro-
hibiting authorizations.
The notorious Harden-Von Moltke
libel suit came to an end in Berlin
when the accused editor of Die
Zukunft was sentenced to four
months Imprisonment and to pay the
entire costs of both trials.
Charles Carroll Marsh of Warsaw,
H., 27 years, son of the late Congress-
man Marsh, committed suicide by
shooting. because of i'll health.
A fiat refusal to be bound by the
conditions of the call for the Ohio Re-
publican state convention which is to
name a state ticket and select dele
gates at large to the national cOnven-
ton, was the conclusion reached by
United States Senator J. B. Foraker.
Mrs. Mamie G. Hoagland, aged 90
years, widow of the late millionaire
philanthropist, George Hoagland, died
at st. Joseph, Mo.
One hundred members of the
Daughters of Liberty barely escaped
with their lives when fire swept
through Waverly hall, Brooklyn, on
the top floor of which the Daughters
were holding an entertainment. The
janitors wife and child were killed.
on the charge of attempted bribery of
a juror to vote fagorably to the Stand
ard Oil company in a conspiracy trial
at Findlay, o., last summer
Horace Boles, twice governor or
Iowa and candidate before the Demo
cratic national convention for the
presidential nomination in 1896, was
reported critically i'll at Ell Paso, Tex,
with pneumonia.
Express companies in New Orleans
announced that they would ship no
more liquor c. o. D. to southern states
Jeremiah O'Meara, 70 years old,
married Helen Naughton, IS years old,
in Stamford, Conn, after a wait of 40
years. O'Meara could not find his
sweetheart after he returned from the
civil war; and she thought he had been
killed
H. l.. Storrs, bookkeeper for the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company, is said TO have confirmed
81 100000 scandal in a confession.
Prof. Thomas G. Chamberlain, head
of the department of geology at the
Oil Sly VI SA1CcSO, was SlSCl6u
president Of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science
Clarence Sturgeon, 10 years old,
was hanged at Louisville, Ky, for
murder
Five persons were injured and two
street cars were riddled with stones
at Muncie, Ind, in a riot that followed
an attempt of the Indiana Union Trac-
ton company to run cars manned by
strike-breakers. The strike followed
the refusal of the company to sign
again the wage agreement that has
been in effect for five years.
John Bartham, mayor of Fort Gay,
W. Va, was shot and mortally wound
ed by Samuel Kinser, a prominent
Democratic politician.
Rioting was resumed on the streets
of Muncie, Ind. between the striking
employees of the street railway COM
pany and the strikebreakers. Two
thousand men began stoning the cars.
Shots were fired and nine persons
were injured.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana ordered bat
terry and II companies of infantry to
Muncie to suppress the street car
strike riots.
The Colonial Arms, the largest
summer hotel, on the north shore of
With