River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-16
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der in the streets and the manifesto
tions were helped along by about 3d.
900 sympathizers with the socialists.
Marvin r. Reynolds, 20 years old,
night clerk at the Olivia apartments
hotel in Joplin, Mo, was killed, and
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Stephens were
seriously injured by an explosion OF
natural gas.
John Ullery of Indianapolis, a Penn
sylvania freight conductor, was in
stantly killed at Richmond, Ind, by
another freight train, of which his
brother, William Ullery, was en-
gineer.
The tenth annual meeting of the
National Guard association of the
United States opened in Boston
Admiral Evans and his fleet of 16
American battleships steamed into
the port of Rio Janeiro and were
greeted with enthusiasm by thousands
of Brazilians The passage from Port
of Spain, Trinidad, over 5000 miles,
was interesting but not marked by
any important event
known as a journalist and humorist,
shot and seriously injured Patrol Con-
ductor Peter Dillon at Omaha while
Visscher was being taken to the po-
lice station in patrol wagon, charged
with disturbing the peace.
President Roosevelt announced
that he would withdraw the federal
ance with the recommendation of the
investigating committee that he sent
there.
Edwin ]. Collier of Cleveland, who
killed his blind son and then shot
himself at the grave of his wife at
Ravenna, o., is dead.
The saloonkeepers will make an at
tempt to enforce the closing of the
churches in Waukesha on Sunday be-
cause, through the work of the minis
tiers, the saloon proprietors have been
compelled to close their places of
business on the Sabbath
Frank Purdy of Chicago, fresh
man in the college of agriculture of
the Wisconsin university, was run
and SO badly injured that he died.
Heavy snow and high winds para
lyzed traffic and wire communication
at Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and
other places in the lower lake region.
John Alexander Bay Althof, an Oak
land (Cal.) clubman, aged 46, son of
a New York banker, after firing two
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upon himself and blew out his brains.
General Freight Agent w E. Estes
of the Central of Georgia railway was
perhaps fatally shot by his wife at
Savannah, Ga. The shooting was ac-
cidental
Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, the
oldest Jewish theolOgian in the Uni
ted States. recognized as the worlds
greatest Hebrew scholar, died in Chi
cago after ten days of illness. He
was most widely known as the
founder of the reform" movement
among Chicago Jews.
The United States dredge boat
Henry Fladd, worth $175,OOO was
burned to the waters edge at her
moorings in Memphis.
David S. Rose, four times mayor Of
Milwaukee, announced at a mass
meeting that he would make the race
again and intimated that he was in
favor of an open town.
Mulai Hafid was proclaimed sultan
of Morocco at Fee and holy war was
announced
In theater panic at Barnsley
England, Is persons were trampled
to death and many injured.
Peter Rasmussen of st. Charles.
ILL.,, committed suicide because of do
nestle and financial troubles.
Charles Krall of Cleveland, O.. who
graduated from high school last June.
committed suicide because he feared
he was going insane
Four firemen were killed and many
injured in a fire that destroyed the
Parker building on Fourth avenue,
New York. The loss, chiefly to pub
fishing houses, was about 100000
Edward Burch, at Hampton, Va,
and Miss Eva Downing, at Winchester,
KY, were married by long-distance
telephone.
William Shamburger persisted in a
fire that partly destroyed the round
house and shops of the Lake Shore
road at Elkhart, Ind.
Five men were injured, one prob
ably fatally, and the lives of so pas
sengers endangered by terrific head
on collision on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railway in Chicago.
The courthouse at Calhoun, KY, was
destroyed by fire. All court records
for Mclean county were burned.
w. B. Thomas was elected presi
dent of the American Sugar Refining
company to succeed the late H. o.
Havemeyer
Vernon l.. Nettleton of Coldwater
Mich, gashed his sisters throat with
a carving knife and then killed him
self
]. F. Selby, mayor of Hillsboro, N
D., dropped dead in Moorhead, N. d
Bishop George Worthington of Ne
braska, who was recently appointed tc
take charge of the Episcopal churches
on the continent in succession tC
Bishop Henry G. Potter of New York
died suddenly at Mentone, France.