River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-23


aged SO years and ten months.
While rescuing the golden chalice
from fire that threatened to destroy
st. Mary's Roman Catholic church,
Evanston, H., one priest was severely
burned by the heated vessel and an
other was overcome by the smoke.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, banker
poet and literary critic, dropped dead
in his home in New York. He was
born in 1888.
The king of Italy and American
Ambassador Griscom bagged SO wild
boar and one antelope in single
hunting expedition.
Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford, widow
of the novelist who was killed by his
brother, Malcolm W. Ford in May
1902, became the bride of DR.. Linley
r. Williams in New York.
Four children were drowned while
skating at Coral, Ind, six in New Jer-
sey and four in New England.
The International Harvester com
pany was fined $4,000 by Judge Dana
at Topeka, Kan, for violations of the
Kansas antitrust law.
Isaac n Hascall, at one time acting
governor of Nebraska, died in Omaha
He was a member of the Nebraska
constitutional convention and cast the
deciding vote which made Nebraska
a free soil state.
Mail advices from Honolulu say
that under instructions from the war
department the National guard of
Hawaii is to be recruited up to full
regimental strength.
A company is being organized in
Denmark to establish a towing service
in the straits of Magellan.
G. G. Breuer, a Cincinnati capitalist,
was arrested on charge of attempt
ing to blow up and destroy building
he owned, the rentals from which he
had been ordered by court to pay to
two daughters who had refused to live
with his second wife.
Forcible resistance by tenants whom
an upper East side landlord In New
York was trying to evict resulted in
the gathering of crowd of 1000 or
more sympathiZers in the neighbOr-
hood, who made so much trouble for
the police that the precinct reserves
were called out. During the rioting
four women and a number of men
were taken into custody.
Miss Mary Robinson, an American
woman, the daughter of a southern
painter, who in the recent bruce case
testified that she knew bruce as the
duke of Portland, was arrested in Lon
don for perjury.
The American battleship fleet was
joined in the harbor of Rio Janeiro by
the torpedo boat fiotilla, numbering
six vessels.
0. S. Sisson, one of the leading
Grand Army men in Wisconsin and
known throughout the northwest
where he for many years acted as pen
sion agent, died at La Crosse, aged 62.
Three girls were killed, ten serious
ly injured and a score or more slight
ly hurt at fire in the Imperial Knit
ting cOmpany's mill in Scranton, Pa.
The mayor of Mobile, Ala, ordered
closed all the moving picture shows
in the CITY,
Demurrers to indictments against 10
prominent lumbermen charging con-
spiracy to defraud were upheld in the
federal district court at Minneapolis.
President Roosevelt informed Gov
Sparks of Nevada that he would per
nit the troops to remain in Nevada for
such reasonable length of time as
would give the legislature opportunity
to organize force to perform the po-
lice functions of the state.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada went
into liquidation and other banks ar
ranged to take over it's numerous
branches.
Former officials of the state dis
pensary of South Carolina and some
whisky men were accused of having
defrauded the state out of large sums.
Three nieces of the late Mrs. Lydia
Bradley of Peoria decided to contest
her will
The wholesale grocery house of the
Mcneil & Higgins company in Chicago
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$600,0OO
The Masonic Temple in Baltimore
was Quilted by fire, the loss being
about $250,0OO
The last of the Indiana National
guard left Muncie, the strike trouble
being ended.
Woman suffragists in London were
arrested and sent to Jail for three
weeks.
Mrs. Herbert H. Sears, member of
a wealthy Boston family and a guest
at the Hotel st. Regis, New York,
committed suicide by jumping from a
thirteenth story window.
Thomas Bates, who ran away from
his home at Springfield, Mass, in
1852, has been found by his brother
in the state soldiers home in Ten
nessee.
Mrs. Jennie G. Sorg, widow of the
late Paul ]. Sorg, tobacco millionaire
of Middleton, O., was elected presi-
dent of the Merchants National bank
of Middleton.
Ambassador Briscom in Rome pre-
scented King Victor Emmanuel with
number of the new American gold
coins, $40 and $40 pieces, for the
kings collection, which numbers co.
900.
Isaac w. Baird, who 20 years ago
was proprietor of celebrated min
Cfro1 trOuno iS hood in porflopd