River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-08-27

in a boarding house in Lexington, KY.
Mrs. "Jack" Gardner and Mrs. Emily
Crane Chadbourne are not to be pros
ecuted on a criminal charge by the
United States government in connec-
ton with their alleged attempt to
smuggle $4,000 worth of art goods
into the country.
One man was killed and four per-
sons injured when an automobile
turned turtle in San Francisco.
Fourteen horses were shot to pre-
vent their being burned to death at
Carroll, Ia.
William Finney, colored patient in
the insane asylum at Peoria, ILL.,, who
was attacked by white lunatic, died
of his injuries.
Theodore Norman of Avon-on-the
Sea, N. Y, removed a piece of glass
three-quarters of an inch in length
from his forehead, which, unknown to
him, had been imbedded there ever
since he fell downstairs with bottle
in his hand 26 years ago.
The bride of a week of Prof. Ru-
dolph Splitter of Sternberg, Mecklen-
burg Schwerin, threw herself from the
top of the Bismarck tower at Herings-
dorf, Prussia, falling 1920 feet to the
bottom of the cliffs upon which the
tower is built
Mrs. Mary Cassidy of Chicago, who
killed her husband and wounded her
self, ended her life by leaping from
hospital window.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
adopted the Congo annexation treaty.
assuring the annexation of the Free
State and the end of King Leopolds
misrule in Africa
Announcement was made that cor
poration is being formed to be known
as the Commonwealth Fuel company,
embracing 153 Illinois coal mines with
in a radius of SO miles of ST. Louis,
supplying practically all the coal con-
sumed in st. Louis and in East st.
Louis.
After drugging three watch dogs
that guarded the summer home of
Frederick w. Woerz, wealthy New
York brewer, burglars entered the
house at Belle Haven park, Conn, and
stole $4,000 worth of jewelry and $100
in money.
The National Editorial association
elected w. II. Mayes of Brownwood,
Tex, president and decided to meet
next year in Seattle.
The Pennsylvania pure food law of
1907 was declared unconstitutional in
decision rendered by Judge Martin
Bell in the Blair county court.
The Lusitania lowered her own
transatlantic record by nearly four
hours.
Rev. George S. Fitzhugh of Virginia
took out a license to wed Lulu v.
Frazier, ten years old, explaining that
he intended to marry the child to
make her his heiress.
The Southern Indiana railroad,
owned by John r. Walsh of Chicago,
went into the hands of a receiver.
James S. Sherman, Chairman
Hitchcock and other Republican lead
ers, conferred with President Roose-
welt on the New York situation and
it seemed settled that the party must
renominate Gov. Hughes.
President Roosevelt received the
members of the team which piloted
the American automobile to victory in
the New York-to-Paris automobile
race.
United States troops stationed in
Yosemite park were called out to
fight a destructive forest fire in
Tuolumne county, Cal.
John Pedman Reid, said to be
wealthy American, committed suicide
in Bournemouth, England.
The design of William G. Potter for
an equestrian statue of Gen. George
B. Custer, who was killed in the battle
of the Little Big Horn, to be put up
at the Custer home in Monroe, Mich,
has been accepted.
Two companies of regular troops
broke out of their cars at Atlanta,
Ga, and started riot that was not
suppressed until soldiers had been
summoned from Fort Mcpherson.
Mrs. Wardwell, the quarantined
leper, widow of Gen. Wardwell, es-
capped from her quarters at Tomb
stone, Ariz., and is supposed to have
boarded a train for California.
The Minnesota Democratic state
convention met in Minneapolis and
after scene of indescribable tumult
caused by the mention of his name
and which continued for Ga minutes,
Gov. Johnson was nominated for re-
election.
Edward H. Hacker, a travelling
salesman employed by the Mccall Pat
tern company, and his young wife, to
whom he had been married only ten
months, shot and killed themselves in
their New York home after a quarrel.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Sydney and was given an en-
thusiastic welcome.
Hague diplomats expect that Hol-
land will declare war on President
Castro of Venezuela to vindicate the
national honor, and work on the war
ships meanwhile is being rushed.
The ten-year-old daughter of John
Stoltz, residing ten miles west of
Armour, s. D., committed suicide,
using a double-barreled shotgun to
commit the deed.
Thirteen men were seriously in
jured in lower Detroit river, when a
charge Of dynamite exploded under
the drill vessel, Destroyer.
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