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

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been searching for big shipment OF
gold which sank with the burning
steamer Golden Gate off Manzanillo in
1862, has turned up in San Francisco
with report of failure.
Concurring in the recommendation
of acting Public Printer Rossiter, the
president Cancelled the contract of the
government with the Audit System
and ordered it's election from the gov
eminent printing Office at the end of
six days. The Audit System is the
corporate name of the cost-ascertain-
ing method which was installed more
than a year ago by Public Printer
Stillings.
Caid Sir Harry MacLean, command
er of the sultan's bodyguard and next
to the sultan the most influential man
in Morocco, arrived in Tangier under
an escort from the Bandit Raisuli, who
has held him under bondage for the
past seven months.
At the request of United States Dis
trict Attorney Stimson Albert B..
Boardman, counsel for Charles w.
Morse, the New York financier, cabled
his client at Liverpool to return at
once.
Robert Mitchell, colored, an alleged
murderer, was taken from a deputy
sheriff by a mob at Oakgrove, La,
and lynched.
Owing to recent heavy Withdrawals
the Copenhagen Freeholders' bank
temporarily suspended payments. The
banks capital is about 100000.
Highwaymen in the vicinity of Wo-
burn, Mass, shot two policemen and
several other persons who tried to ar
rest them.
Two men were killed and several
other persons were slightly injured
when part of passenger train on
the Western Maryland railroad jumped
the track and toppled over an en-
bankment at German, W. Va.
Fire in an apartment house result
ed in the death of three persons.
Sir Birrell Barnes, president of the
divorce court in London, granted the
countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss
Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, decree null
lifying her marriage to the earl OF
Yarmouth
Samuel Floyd Angus, former owner
of the Detroit American league base
ball club and prominent as a capital
list, died at his home in Detroit
Jack Long, white, was lynched near
Newberry, a small mining town in
Florida He was accused of the muir
der of Elias Sapp, prominent farmer.
The Democratic state committee de-
cided to hold the state convention in
Indianapolis March Is and &C.
Republican factions in Florida held
two state conventions in the same
hall, one indorsing Taft and the other
condemning the use of federal patron
age to secure delegates.
An exposition designed to show the
best methods of safeguarding work
men and protecting the general public
will be held in New York beginning
early in April under the auspices of
the American Museum of Safety De-
vices and Industrial Hygiene.
Ernest Douglas, the mysterious for
eigner who was found murdered in
Baltimore on January 16, was in re-
atty Count Henrico Douglas Scott,
member of an Italian noble family.
Alvah H. Martin of Portsmouth, Va,
was appointed a member of the Re-
publican national committee to sue
coed the late George E. Bowden.
Five firemen were injured and
$4,000 damage done by fire in the
IL
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of Haver-
hill, Mass, killed her little daughter
and son by cutting their threats with
a razor.
Viscount Aoki, ex-ambassador to
| Washington, was made privy coun-
cillor by the emperor of Japan.
Gustav Walstedt, a carpenter of Chi
cago, crazed by an attack of grippe,
killed his nine-year-old daughter and
himself,
Senior Franco, the former premier
of Portugal, arrived in Madrid from
Lisbon. He was accompanied by his
wife and son. In the evening he
boarded the south express" pre-
sQmably Cor Paris.
Maj Gel. o. o. Howard on the retired
list of the army as a lieutenant gen.
eral
The nited Fruit company's steam
er Auselm was wrecked on a reef off
the coast of Spanish Honduras.
Charles w. Morse, organizer of the
ice combine and of the Consolidated
Steamship company, and few months
ago regarded as one of the greatest
financiers in America, has disap-
peared His creditors attached all his
property in New York, including his
residence at 72S Fifth avenue, in a
suit for $249,321 begun by Charles A.
Hanna, national bank examiner, as re-
ceiver of the National Bank of North
America, which Morse controlled.
Three prominent ice dealers of To
ledo, O., were sent to prison for six
months for conspiracy in restraint of
trade.
Mrs. Mary Sherry died in Brock
ton, N. Y, aged 102 years.
George D. Wise, for many years a
member of congress from the Third
Virginia district, died in Richmond.
He was unmarried and Y years old,
Hundreds of the unemployed gath
cred in ST. Louis to attend a conven.
ton of the Brotherhood Welfare asso-
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