River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-02

N. J.
Mason Burnett, aged Is, son of DR..
and Mrs. George w. Burnett, Of
; Greenville, o., was killed by an explo-
sion while engaged in chemical re-
search at the high school laboratories.
Despondent over continued i'll
health, Henry F. Terry, a well-known
society man of Brooklyn, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the chest.
In Muskogee, Okla, fire destroyed
the three-story building and the stock
of the Whitlow-Williams Wholesale
Drug company. Loss, $1S0,000.
The mayor Of Portland, Ore, said
Japanese spies had procured maps Of
that city and of its water supply pipe
system.
James Simpson, paying teller of the
Farmers National bank of Philadel-
phia, was arrested on warrant
charging him with the embezzlement
of 81 400.
The Sunday closing movement in
Chicago received a setback when
jury found a saloonkeper not guilty
OF violating the state law.
J. G. Cain, sentenced to life impris-
onment for murder, committed suicide
with razor in Jail at Des Moines, Ia.
Henry Wulff, former state treasurer
of Illinois, died in Chicago.
Because they believed that a promi-
nent citizen had been murdered in a
Chinese restaurant 1900 men raided
the oriental quarter Of the town of
district
The Delta Tau Delta fraternity
house at the University of Illinois in
Champaign was destroyed by fire, the
loss being $4,000.
Henry Thaxton, colored, sentenced
to death for murder, was reprieved
just as the black cap was being drawn
over his head at Birmingham, Ala.
]. Frank zahm, a prominent broker
and tobacco manufacturer of Toledo,
O., committed suicide.
Miss Cora Marie Arnold Of Denver
was married in Santa Fe, n. M, to
Albino Chavarria, a full-blooded In
dian. The wedding ends a romance
which began five years ago.
A murder combining the elements
of mystery and deliberate cruelty that
take it out Of the ordinary was COM
mitted on the Hackensack Meadows
in the town of Harrison, N. j., and the
nude body of the victim, a comely
woman of perhaps 80 years, was found
nearly submerged in tho icy waters of
a little pond. She was seen crossing
the meadows with a man during the
night.
Resolutions were adopted unani-
mously at the biennial love feast Of
Indiana Republicans, urging the nom
ination of Vice President Charles w.
Fairbanks for the presidency.
Judge A. B. Anderson refused to
take the case of John r. Walsh, the
former Chicago banker, from the jury
in the federal court and order the de-
PENDANT dismissed on plea made by
Attorney John S. Miller
Albert G. Beaunisne, assistant to the
publisher of the Chicago Daily News,
died suddenly of heart disease.
At Dayton, o., the third explosion in
as many weeks at the Kings powder
mills fatally injured two employees.
George w. H. Davis, president of the
Farmers Grain company, which owns
a line of elevators in North Dakota
and Manitoba, died at Devils Lake,
N. D.
BY a majority of 545 Raleigh, N. c.,
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becomes prohibition city.
Frank Amos of Hastings, Pa, made
respondent by the fact that he had
broken temperance pledge, shot and
killeC himself.
The pope, on Christmas eve
launched the severest blow he has
yet dealt modernism, the pronunciation
against all concerned in the produc-
ton of the monthly review II Rinno-
vamento, which is published at Milan.
Rear Admiral Charles w. Abbott, re-
tired, died at Warren, R. l., aged IS
years. In 1853-54 he went with Com
modore Perry on his famous expedi-
ton to Japan.
Papers in case to test the legality
of the discharge of the privates of
companies B, G and D of the Twenty
fifth United States infantry (colored),
following the disorder in the streets of
Brownsville year ago, have been pre-
pared by New York law firm.
Reuben H. Warder, superintendent
of Lincoln park, in Chicago, and Sec
rotary of the park board, is dead.
James B. Conkling, a prominent
business man of Middleton, N. Y, was
found unconscious with one ear filed
with lead
At &seading, Pa, Roland P. Stokes
shot and instantly killed his father-in-
law, DR.. John Y. Hoffman, former city
treasurer
Bands of Kurdish raiders besieged
the town of Uruniah, Persian Armenia.
Bertram Somers of San Jose, Cal,
shot and killed his five-year-old boy,
ntistaking him for burglar.
Ernest G. Stedman, vice president
and a director of the j. C. Lyons Build
ing and Operating company of New
York, against which petition in bank
ruptcy was filed, committed suicide
by jumping in front of a subway
train.
Railroad construction in the United
States has progressed during the past
year on almost as large a scale as