River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-01

DIES.
Five members of the failed broker
age firm Of A. o. Brown & Co. were
arrested in New York on a larceny
charge.
The International Fishery congress
decided to meet in Rome, Italy, in
1911.
A large portion of the town Of Pasig,
near Manila, was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Cairo, ILL.,, destroyed a lum-
Der yard, several houses and other
property, the loss being $4,000.
An order of Judge r. w. Archibald
OF Scranton, Pa, adjudging Harry K.
Thaw in contempt Of court, was filed
in the United States district court at
Pittsburg.
The control of the Washington Life
Insurance Company passed from the
hands of Levi P. Morton, Thomas F.
Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to a
Pittsburg syndicate headed by Will
liam C. Baldwin, president of the
Pittsburg Life and Trust Company.
Raymond w. Pullman of the forest
service, who is in Minnesota investi-
| government, estimates the loss in that
state at 100000 to $10.000,0OO.
The supreme court of Washington
upheld the state law prohibiting the
sale Of cigarettes and cigarette pa
pers.
Declaring her disgust with modern
fashions, Mrs. Lulu Kreitzer, aged 40,
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peared in the street at Dayton, O.,
nude When the police were summoned
the woman entered her home and ia
| tally shot herself.
Forest fires were reported raging In
northern Wisconsin and Upper Mlcht-
gan which threatened to wipe out sew
eral towns. Residents had to flee for
their lives. Foster City, Mich, lum-
Der town across the Wisconsin line OF
Marinette county, was said to have
been destroyed with the loss Of six
lives, though this was not confirmed.
Forest fires were reported to have
destroyed some small settlements in
northern Wisconsin and Michigan and
to be spreading rapidly in the Adiron-
dacks.
Heavy rains checked the forest fires
in northern Michigan and Wisconsin.
Justice Gerard in the supreme court
of New York signed the final decree
of absolute divorce in favor of Elsie
French Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt.
The French police have arrested sew
eral dangerous anaJ chists, who with
others were engaged in celebrating a
plot to assassinate King Alfonso OF
Spain when he passed through Bar
ritz on his way to Paris.
Two persons were killed and four
others injured when a passenger train
on the Southern railway ran into an
open switch near Duncan, S. c.
Two heavy earthquake shocks were
felt off the Port of Acapulco, Mexico,
and the steamer Radmes was so tossed
about that four persons were killed.
A typhoon of terrific velocity swept
through the central portion of the Phil
ippine group, sweeping part Of the
island of Samar, northern Leyte,
southeastern Imzon, northern Panay,
Masbate and part of Romblem. Hun
dreds were reported dead.
A st. Louis & San Francisco pas
senger train was derailed near Car
thage, Mo-, and rolled into the ditch,
the engineer and fireman being killed
and 40 passengers injured.
The Denver Coliseum, one of the
city's landmarks, was destroyed by
fire.
President Roosevelt, in reply to Mr..
Bryans defense of Gov. Haskell, Wig
orously upheld the charges against the
latter, declaring him unfit to associate
with reputable citizens. Gov. Haskell
issued a statement defending the
criticised actions and holly attacking
the president.
The United States cruiser Yankee
struck on Spindle Rock, near the
western entrance to Buzzards bay, dur.
ing fog, breaking several holes in
her hull on the port side.
Delegates to the international Fish
cry congress were given souvenir
paintings of the Roosevelt golden
ltrout, named after the president be.
cause he prevented its determination.
Publication was begun in the
Worlds Work" of a series of reminis.
cences by John d. Rockefeller, in
which he defends the tactics and
trade methods of the Standard Oil
Company.
The Asiatic cholera in st. Peters
burg is spreading among the upper
classes of society. Deaths are SC
numerous the bodies lie unburied
The government of Paraguay un
earthed a plot against it organized by
members of the negro party. All the
conspirators were taken into custody
and a state of siege was proclaimed.
; Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould
who is suing Howard Gould for di
vorce, applied for an order compelling
Mr.. Gould to pay her 100000 year
alimony and $4,000 for her counse
fees.
Because she accepted the attentions
of another man, Lewis Turner of LIZ
Grange, H.. shot and killed Dora Hel
, mer, his ffancee. and committed sui
eide.
OBITUARY..
Frank De Haas Robinson, owner Of
the st. Louis National League baseball
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