River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-16

The widow of a New York banker,
whom the Earl of Clancarty is to
marry, is Mrs. Arnold Marcus, who,
since the death of her husband three
years ago, has lived most of her time
abroad.
George w. Smith of ST. Louis was
elected chairman and ]. T. Rock OF
Iowa vice-chairman of the national
board of directors of the Travellers
Protective association.
The 'all big gun" battleship South
Carolina was successfully launched at
the Cramps shipyard at Philadelphia.
Elaborate plans were made for July
28 in Cincinnati, when w. H. Taft
will be formally notified of his nomi-
nation for president by the Republi-
cans.
Robert Roman tried to hold up fast
mail train on the Great Northern road
in Idaho, but was shot by the conduc-
tor and captured
The will of Grover Cleveland, pro-
bated at Princeton, did not disclose the
size of the estate, nearly all Of which
was left to Mrs. Cleveland
Revolutionists in Honduras cap
tured the fortified town of Choluteca
after nearly four days of fighting.
Herbert ]. Hapgood, president of Hap
goods incorporated, and his secretary,
Ralph l.. Ki1by, were discharged in
New York for lack of evidence in the
case in which they were arrested
charged with obtaining stock sub
scriptions to the Hapgoods Sales COM
pany through misrepresentation.
An uprising of Navajos was reported
to have occurred in New Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Hutchings Of
Brooklyn were killed when train
struck their automobile at Center
Moriches, L. |.
The Petoskey Fiber Paper company,
indicted at New York for violating the
Sherman antitrust law, pleaded
guilty and was fined $4,000.
Two children were killed and
woman fatally burned in a fire near
Nevada, Mo.
The national Prohibition convention
will be held July Is and 16 in Column
bus, o.
Seven trainmen were killed and
four injured in a collision on the
Canadian Pacific near Medicine Hat.
Three little girls tried to wreck the
Pennsylvania flyer near Hazleton, Pa,
by piling stones on the track.
Mrs. Grace Goodsell of New York
declared her six-year-old son was the
Messiah and branded him on the fore
head and throat
Diplomatic relations between Amer
lea and Venezuela have been COM
plete1y severed, Senior Veloz-Goiticoa,
the Venezuelan charge daffaires, hay
ing presented to Acting Secretary
Bacon notice from his government
that he was to quit his post here. clos
ing up the Venezuelan legation in
Washington, and repair forthwith to
Venezuela.
During the fighting in Paraguay the
American minister, E. G. O'Brien, was
fired on three times by government
troops by mistake, and narrowly es-
capped death.
Charles Taylor, Missouri Pacific
operator at Lamonte, Mo-, was arrest
ed on charge of manslaughter on ac-
count of the wreck near Knobnoster.
A Russian torpedo boat was wrecked
in the Gulf of Finland by running on
the rocks off Reval. The crew were
saved.
The members of the Brooklyn Arion
Choral society met with an enthusiast
tic reception in Philharmonic hall,
Berlin, where they gave their first con-
cert, rendering American and German
folk songs.
In a gun and knife fight at pro-
tracted meeting near Backusburg, KY,
Wayne Lawrence shot and killed
Annie Bannister and was himself per-
Eaps fatally stabbed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Smith, who
lived on a farm two miles east of
North Rose, n. Y, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed their
residence
The Republican national committee,
in session at Hot Springs, Va, elected
Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts
its chairman and made him manager
VI luS 0SOlSC
R. Sheldon of New York was chosen
treasurer and Arthur l. Vorys was
given charge of the Ohio Republican
headquarters at Cincinnati.
Fire on the harbor front of East
Boston destroyed piers and ware
houses and an elevator, the property
loss being about $1,500,000. A watch
MON mac rnnorfpd m
Having thrown a 5000 bank certif-
cate of deposit into stove, Joe Wal
insky, thinking he could not get the
money on it, committed suicide by
drowning in IS inches of water at Mo-
line. Ill
Richard Alexander treasurer and a
member of the board of governors of
the real estate board of brokers of
New York, shot himself twice at Dex-
ter, Me-, and probably Will die.
Reports that Frank ]. Gould and his
wife have become reconciled were cir.
culated following the striking from the
court calendar of an action entitled
Gould versus Could
The two-masted schooner Acacia,
owned and captained by William Sim
mons of Kingston, went ashore on
Bull Rock point, near Sackett's Har-
Dor, and the crew of eight was rescued
by S. Gibble.
President Roosevelt and party. IN