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

81 ,UOO,UOO in settlement OF the claims
for back taxes which have been pend
ing against that estate for two years
The full claim was $1,730,000.
City Marshal William Abney Of
Marion, H., shot and killed Ambrose
Grogan and Frank Blake on the street
in a fight following the marshals at
tempts to send the men home.
The Continental limited passenger
train on the Wabash railroad, west
bound, was derailed by broken rail
at Delhi, Ont. No one was badly in
jured.
The village of Cahokia, the Oldest
settlement in Illinois, was placed IN
the hands Of a receiver because It's
financial affairs we're entangled.
Count Hadik, whose engagement
with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt OF
New York has been reported, declared
in Vienna that the report was fabri-
cation.
Rev. Charles M. Carroll, pastor OF
the Howe Avenue Congregational
church of Cleveland, o., rendered his
resignation to accept the superin-
tendency of the anti-saloon league IN
the Pittsburg district.
Night riders invaded Fredonia, KY,
locked up some of the citizens and
then blew up a tobacco factory and
burned a tobacco barn a few miles
away, the loss being $4,000.
The big English ship-building syn
dictate Of Sir James Laing & Son has
suspended. The yards of the syndi-
cate at Sunderland and Deptford en-
ployed 5000 men.
John w. Oliver, editor and principal
owner of the Yonkers Statesman, died
at his home in Yonkers, N. Y. at the
age of 49, He with his brother, Isaac
Oliver, founded the Sons of Tenn
perance.
l.. G. Hutchins, vice-president of the
Fort Worth (Tex) National bank, and
G. a. Beasley, president Of the Amer
lean Bank and Trust company OF San
Antonio, Tex, both committed suicide
because of i'll health
Drum Major James d. Elderkin, a
veteran of the Seminole, Mexican and
civil wars, died in Detroit, Mich.
Three persons were asphyXiated
and two probably were rendered ia
tally i'll in Cleveland, o., by escaping
gas fumes. The dead are John Geh-
ringer, an auctioneer his wife Ida,
and his niece, Mrs. Pansy Brockway,
Of Peoria, Ill.
Elvin Newly, prominent farmer
of Valley View, KY, shot and killed
his wife, and then committed suicide.
All arrangements were completed
for the start Of six automobiles on the
New York-t0-Paris race, in which the
cars will go through Alaska and across
Siberia
President Roosevelt, in a letter to
w. d. Foulke, vigorously denied that
he had used federal patronage to Sc
cure the nomination of Secretary Taft
as a presidential candidate.
Frank w Gould, president of the
Union Malleable Iron Company of
Moline H., and president of the board
Of trustees Of the Western Illinois
hospital for the insane at Watertown,
committed suicide while deranged by
worry over financial matters.
Capt William NJ. Forrest, son of
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the con
federate cavalry leader, died in Mem
phis, Tenn.
The Heath & Milligan Manufacture
ing company Of Chicago, large paint
concern, was put in the hands of re
ceivers.
1t was reported in ST. Petersburg
that the police had discovered a plot to
blow up the czar by II bombs distrib-
uted through the palace
Judge Weaver of Birmingham, Ala,
decided that the section Of the blue
laws" forbidding the game of golf on
Sunday was unconstitutional.
The diamond trust issued a notice
that the present price of diamonds
will be maintained.
The residence of w. D. Boyce, the
Chicago publisher, in Ottawa, H., was
destroyed by fire. Loss is $150,000
Contracts to build airships for the
army were awarded to ]. F. Scott OF
Chicago, A. NJ. Herring of New York
and Wright Bros. of Dayton, O.
Mrs. Cleo Walton of San Francisco
committed suicide in New York.
Residents of GAINESVILLE and Still
River, in the Housatonic river valley
between Brookfeld and New Milford
Conn, were startled by two distinct
earthquake shocks and several large
cracks appeared in the earth.
President Roosevelt temporarily
suspended as public printer Charles A
Stillings and appointed William s.
Rossiter temporarily to fill the duties
of that office. The action, as explained
officially, is to facilitate the investiga
ton now being made of the govern
ment printing office by congress.
Mrs Honorah Kinney died in Beloit
Wis, at the age of one hundred years
aal@ three months.
reeRi>H. Laidley, one of st. Louis
p0stnRrominent physicians and who
was medical director of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, died suddenly OF
cerebral hemorrhage.
B9hSl E. Fftton, in charge of Los
AMe1nas forest reserve, reports fully 75
per cent of the homestead entries
there fraudulent.
The Los Angeles limited on the Sar
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail
road was wrecked at Fettly Station
Cal. Five passengers were injured.