River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-03

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The $50 guests of the Homestead
hotel at Hot Springs, Va, presented
Judge Taft, Mrs. Taft and Master
Charles Taft each with silver loving
cup as formal farewell expression oil
their regard.
The revolution in Persia is in full
swing and has resulted in bloody
battle at Herman, which was taken
by the rebels.
An unidentified burglar was shot
dead in a pistol battle with four
Greeks in Chicago
1t is asserted in Tokyo that the gov.
eminent has decided to postpone I'M
til 1917 the international exposition
which was to have been held in 1912
John, Harry and Edward Conrad
lads, were drowned near Vevay, Ind,
their skiff being run down by a
! steamer.
Guests of the Homestead hotel at
Hot Springs, Va, presented loving
cups to Mr.. and Mrs. Taft and their
little son.
The civil court at Caracas found the
French Gable company guilty of com
plicity in the Matos revolution and
imposed a fine of 100000.
Gov. Fort of New Jersey issued a
proclamation threatening to send state
troops to Atlantic City to compel the
observance of the Sunday closing law
by the saloons and cafes.
Jesse Coe, one of two negroes who
murdered two Indianapolis, Ind, po-
licemen on September 80, 1906, was
shot to death by a sheriff's posse in
Monroe county, Kentucky.
Nearly 80 miners are believed to
have persisted in Hailey-Ola coal mine
No. /, at Haileyville, Okla, when
fire destroyed the hosting shaft and
air shaft and cut off air from the men.
Floods at Augusta, Ca, did immense
damage to property, demoralized bust
ness, stopped all traffic and caused
several deaths.
a terrific downpour of rain lasting
more than "a hours and attended by
the coolest August weather New York
has experienced for % years, was re-
property damage.
Earl Trey, an apprentice on the
training ship Pensacola at Yorba, Cal.
is said to have been so severely hazed
that he probably will lose his eyesight.
Macrena Kavorzoof, 10 years old,
confessed at Valdez, Alaska, that she
induced George Postriakoff, whom she
loved, to kill her husband, Peter S.
Kavorzoof, a woodman, at their home
on AfOguak island.
AS a result of an attempt by David
and William Webb, brothers, to carry
out a threat to "do up" J. w. Culpep-
per, a grocer, of Tulsa, Okla, David
Webb is dead, William Webb fatally
wounded and Culpepper is seriously
injured.
Snow fell in Baltimore and other
parts of Maryland.
Mrs. Kate Howard, leader of the
mob in the recent race war in Spring
field, Ill, killed herself by swallowing
poison while being taken to the Jail
following the return of an indictment
against her charging murder.
The police of Warsaw captured a
band of swindlers who have carried
on an extensive and lucrative business
in the sale Of spurious government
bonds of the so-called lottery issue.
Yeggmen robbed the State bank of
Geneseo, N. D., of $4,000.
Two negroes entered the home of
Mrs. Virgil Bassett in st. Louis,
choked and locked her up, robbed the
house and set it on fire.
After a big harmony meeting of
Iowa Republicans Gov. Cummins
called a special session of the legis-
lature to so amend the primary law
that Republican voters can select
successor to Senator Allison.
Ill, half blind, criticising the church
on the score of untruthfulness and in
sincerity and declaring that he could
not worship Americas trinity-suc-
cess, pleasure and gold". Rev. Albert
H. Trick shot and killed himself in a
room in Mills hotel in New York He
was once pastor of a Presbyterian
church in Chicago.
W. " SOulGS, OC. LOUIS DdrD0r,
killed himself because the use of safe
ty razors had ruined his business.
The stage running between Cody
and Meetettso, Wyo., was held up
and the passengers robbed of $1,500
G. H. Watson of Allison, o., shot and
killed Elijah Crabtree, who had eloped
with Watson's daughter.
So suspiciously large was the vol.
ume of business done on the New York
stock exchange on one Saturday that
it will be investigated by a special
committee Of five members. More
than million shares were bought
and sold in very large blocks and it is
believed the trades were matched"
in pursuance of some deep laid scheme.
Judge Thompson in the United States
court at Cincinnati denied the petition
of the Union Distilling company and
others for temporary Injunction re.
straining the government from carry.
ing out its order that limitation" wills.
key must be branded as such.
Formal notice of his nomination for
the vice-presidency by the Democratic
convention at Denver was served on
John w. Kern in the great Colosseum
at Indianapolis. Mr.. Bryan was among
the speakers.
Alonzo Walters, cashier of a bank
at Ellaville, Ga, committed suicide to
avoid ~, ho ,f oroho,o1,