River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-30

ing warehouse.
T. A. Mcintyre & Co., members OF
the New York stock, cotton and
produce exchanges, with branches in
many cities, failed for about $1,000
900.
An attempt was made to burn the
Allis-Chalmers plant at West All1s,
Wis.
Burglars dynamited the safe of
Scion Kugler's store in Pinckney-
vile, ILL.,, taking about 81, 1000.
Joseph Miller, wealthy oil opera
tor of Butler, Pa, was shot by a
burglar.
Winston Spencer Churchill, just
made president of the board of trade
in the Asquith cabinet, was defeated
for reelection to parliament from
Manchester.
Charles d. Pierce of New York, a
prominent engineer, committed sui
eide by inhaling gas.
Tornadoes in Texas, South Dakota
and Nebraska resulted in several
deaths and great destruction of prop
erty.
The Illinois Democracy adopted the
unit rule and instructed it's delegates
to the national convention at Denver
to vote for William J. Bryan and to
''use all honorable means" to secure
his nomination.
President Cabrera of Guatemala is
authority for the statement that is of
the ringleaders in conspiracy
against him have been shot to death
and that probably more executions
will follow.
The supreme court of Illinois
handed down an opinion holding that
the local option law which was passed
by the legislature last year is consti-
tutional in every respect.
Mouris Bengston of Belvidere, ILL.,,
dangerously wounded Miss Sigrid APP
pleholm, to whom he was engaged,
and then committed suicide.
Four men were killed by an eXplo-
sion in a coal mine at Ellsworth, Pa.
A hundred others narrowly escaped
DEATH
Fire destroyed nine business blocks
in the town of Richmond, vt.
The murder of a policeman in Lub-
lin, Russian Poland, was followed by
the arrest Of 300 workmen in local
factories where the police found stores
of arms, ammunition and mellenite
bombs.
A remarkable woman's rights petit
ton has been received by the Rus
clio frnT In n a
women of Orenburg province, demand
ing that the Mohammedan deputies
take steps to free them from the "des-
potism" of their husbands and give
them their share of the privileges
granted by the emperor to the peo-
pie.
The North sea and Baltic treaties
were signed by Germany, Holland,
Sweden, France and England.
Residents of Skidoo, a California
mining camp, lynched Joseph Simp-
son for murder.
Fire at Cape May Point, N. j., de-
stroyed dozen buildings, the loss be-
ing over 100000.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., with Capt.
Fitzhugh Lee, the presidents military
aide, and Capt. Chandler of the signal
corps, in charge of the experiments
with army balloons, made an ascen-
sion from Washington, landing safely
near Wilmington, Del.
Six hundred editors and publishers
gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York to attend the joint banquet
of the Associated Press and the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton.
Two men were killed, several in
jured and the electric light plant in
Waukegan, ILL.,, destroyed when huge
fly wheel broke from it's shaft.
The village Of Mosinee, Wis, was
reported to be surrounded by forest
fires and in great danger of destruc-
ton.
Representatives Tawney of Mime
sofa and CLANCY of Indiana were in
jured in street car collision in
Washington.
Nine men were killed and Is hurt
when a work train was wrecked near
Laquin, Pa.
The home for rich women reduced
to needy circumstances, built and fur
nished by the widow of Charles o.
borne, the Wall street banker, was
dedicated at -on-the-Sound, N. Y.
Harvard defeated Annapolis Naval
academy in the eight-oared shell race.
Father j. H. Kiel of Holy Name par
ish, near Hamel, Mimi, was drowned
while out rowing.
Two new White Star line steamers,
which will be the largest vessels yet
projected, will be laid down at Eel
fast next June.
Instructions for William H. Taft
were refused by the state and Second
district conventions of New Hamp-
shire.
William Wolcott and Charles VOL
colt, brothers, of Milan, Mich, were
instantly killed near Dearborn, Mich,
when the automobile in which they
were riding was struck by Michigan
Central train.
N. d. Harlan and w. E. Walk, former
clerks in the land Office, testified in
the land fraud case in Washington
that they were paid large sums of
money for expediting land deals and
for divulging information about
boundaries of proposed forest reserves.
The bravery and GOODNESS of John
TRULY, an employee of the Adams Elk