River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-18

police pursued the robbers, killing
three.
After a campaign of extraordinary
bitterness the voters of Sedalia, Mo-,
rolled up a majority of S48 against
local option.
A jury in Pontiac, Mich, decided
that Henry Clay Ward of that city, a
millionaire whose eccentric actions
led to his family's applying to have
guardian appointed for him, was
competent to manage his own affairs.
The Agnew-Hart anti-racetrack gam
bling bills were passed by the New
York senate by the constitutional ma
jority of 26 to % and were at once
signed by Gov Hughes.
Patrick O'Hare of Pittsburg, Pa,
fatally shot his wife and child and cut
his own throat.
Flood conditions in Missouri and
Kansas were much improved, though
there were three drownings at Kan
sas City.
Two children of Fall River, Kan,
were found suffocated in a trunk in
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Before the brewers convention ad-
journed at Milwaukee it was decided
to raise 100000 to wage war against
the spread of prohibition.
Explosions and fire in the Morris
packing plant at Kansas City, Kan,
resulted in two deaths and the de-
struction of about $350.O00 worth of
property.
The Allison Glass works of Cen
tralia, ILL.,, employing 300 men, filed a
petition in bankruptcy with the fed
eral court.
Nine bookmakers were arrested at
the Gravesend racetrack for violating
the new anti-racetrack gambling laws
of New York.
John McGreer, a landscape artist, SO
years Of age, who recently lived in
Chicago, was drowned in the Hudson
river near New York.
Anthony Comstock, head of the New
York Society for the Suppression of
Vice, says his society will fight the
sheath gown, whether worn by chorus
girls or members of the 400.
The receding of the Mississippi
river flood in the vicinity of La Crosse,
Wis, revealed thousands of dollars
worth of pearls cast up by the high
waters.
More than a dozen persons were
hurt at Capitol Heights, a suburb of
Montgomery, Ala, when the platform
used to accommodate participants in
the unwilling of a statue to Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee, collapsed.
Federal Judge Lands granted an
appeal to the United States supreme
court to Herman Billik, convicted of
the murder of Mary Vrzal, just as
preparations for his execution were
being made in Chicago.
Wisconsin Prohibitionists nominated
ticket headed by w. d, Cox of Mil
waukee for governor.
President j. G. Wallace of the
American Shipbuilding company an
nOunced the permanent closing of the
Bay City (Mich) yard of the COM
half century ago.
"A OILNCI SCINlC0 d uSSISn ny
Paul Revere, the American revolution
airy war hero, is to be presented to the
United States cruiser Colorado by the
state of Colorado at San Francisco
prior to the sailing of the cruiser to
the orient in August.
The Lusitania beat the Mauretania's,
record on the western passage by
seven minutes.
For the third time in as many days
an entire square of dwelling houses
was burned in New Orleans.
Thieves smashed a window in the
jewelry store of Hyman, Berg & Co.,
State and Washington streets, Chi
cago, and escaped with 60 gold
watches and jewelry valued at $4,000.
AS the result of the local option
elections held in Oregon, county pro-
hibitiona will prevail in 81 of the %
counties after July.
David B. Hill of New York, on sail
ing for Europe, scored William J.
Bryan, declared there was no longer
a Democratic party, and commended
the candidacy of Gov. Johnson of Min
nesota.
A pouch of registered mail from
Los Angeles for New York, containing
upwards of $50,000 was stolen after
reaching Kansas City.
The United States Brewers asso-
citation at it's closing session in Mil
waukee adopted platform of prin-
ciples in which it pledges itself to the
abolition of the immoral saloon and
to the cause of temperance in the use
of intoxicants in the broadcast sense.
w F. Burns of Jackson county, S.
c., while on a bridal trip across
Panther mountain, in Greenville coun-
ty, was robbed of his pretty young
wife by gang of six men, after he
had been bound, beaten and robbed.
According to the school census, Chi
cago now has a population of about
2,140,000.
Archbishop Nixon, exarch of Geor-
gia was assassinated in Tiflis by rev.
olutionists.
An 11-year-old boy at st. Joseph,
Mo-, wrecked a freight train to obtain
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OBITUARY.
Blind Tom,'' the famous negro
pianist, died at Hoboken, N. J..
Frederick Arthur Stanley, earl of
Derby, died in London.
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