River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-06
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to death as they sat in the royal car
rage, by a band Of revolutionists. HIS
majesty, accompanied by Queen
Amelia. Crown Prince LUZ and Prince
Manuel, were returning from the Villa
Vicosa, where they had been tempo
rarily residing, when a company Oh
men leaped from behind a barrier and,
leveling carbines at the royal family,
fired. No revolutionary outbreak fol-
lowed the murders, and the second
son of Carlos was proclaimed king un-
der the name of Manuel II.
Harry X Thaw was found not guilty
OF murder, on the ground of insanity,
and was at once committed to the nos
pital for the criminal insane at Mat
teawan, N. Y, where he will remain
until set free by lunacy commits
sion.
The fourstory brick building con-
tanning the mechanical department of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer Publishing
company was practically destroyed by
fire.
Five persons were injured, one fatal
", in a fire which destroyed three
story apartment house in Kansas City
The plant of the Atlantic Compress
company, with between 1000 and
$500 bales of cotton, was destroyed at
Americas, Ca, by fire. The loss is es-
timated at $150,000.
The Detroit accommodation train
on the Wabash railroad was thrown
into the ditch near Adrian, Mich, two
women being killed and many persons
injured
revision of the College of Herald
ny of Georgia, Transcaucasia, has re-
suited in the uncovering of monster
forgeries of princely titles Among
1000 registered hereditary coats of
arms 800 have been found to be bogus.
Traffic has been opened over the
Julia railway connecting Russia and
Persia This line clinches Russian
hold on the north Persian provinces.
Alfred King, Mrs. Alfred Killing and
the formers brother, Ora King, were
killed at Benefits Switch, 13 miles
south of Peru, Ind, by being run down
by an interurban car.
Henry Oliver Collins, until recently
editor of the Muscular and in former
years associate of Eugene Field, Opie
Read and Charles Hasbrook in Denver,
died in Missoula, Mont, of pneumo
MIA
handsome woman, supposed to
be Almyra Wilcox, who conducted a
millinery establishment in Milwaukee,
was found dead in her room at the Ho
tel Chelsea, New York, from an over
dose of some narcotic.
David Barrie, Sir Thomas Lipton's
representative in this country when
the Irish baronet raced Shamrock /.
and Shamrock III. for the Americas
cup, was killed in the Jersey Central
depot in Jersey City, slipping on the
ice and falling in front of a locomo-
tive.
Rev. DR.. Frank Bristol, pastor of
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
church of Washington, had narrow
escape from death in his pulpit, a
heavy ornament falling on him from
the ceiling and knocking him sense
less.
Because the girl to whom he had
been engaged refused to talk to him
John Mollet fatally shot himself while
standing at the telephone in his broth
er's grocery store in Chicago
William Brace, well-known Chica-
go lawyer, was found frozen to death
near his suburban residence
Dennis O'Sullivan, the Irish actor
and singer, died in a hospital at Col
umbus, o., after an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
A. II. Sheldon, for many years a
prominent Republican politician and
a leading business man of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, and we'll known throughout the
state, died of stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Eva Toms, the one hundred
and seventeen victim of the Boyer
town theater fire, died of burns.
In the United States circuit court
for the district of Utah, United States
Attorney Hiram E. Booth filed a bill
in equity which has for its purpose the
dissolution of Harriman's network of
railways, which consist of more than
10000 miles of main track and of his
allied steamship lines
in Lublin, Russian Poland, the DO
lice unearthed band of robbers COM
posed entirely of women and the lead
ers have been taken into custody.
E. G. Anderson, alderman coal deal
er and prominent citizen of Aberdeen.
S. D., was arrested charged with be-
ing receiver of stolen COAL
The Illinois house passed the direct
plurality primary bill already adopted
by the senate.
Practically complete election re-
turns gave J. Y. Sanders a lead of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 votes over T.
S. Wilkerson in the Democratic guber-
material primary in Louisiana.
Judge +. NJ. Powers at Denison. Ia,
sentenced Joseph and Solomon HAIRS
san to a term of 20 years each in the
penitentiary for the murder of their
cousin, Fred Nawfal, last January.
Bert Swan. wealthy farmer near
Missouri Valley, Ia, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with razor
Mistaking mis- father-in-law, William
Conner, for burglar, A. c. Burr shot
and instantly killed him at Dallas,
Tex
Flames destroyed a part of Nelson
Morris & Co.'S packing plant in Kan
sas City, half million dollars dam