River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-11

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bezzling officers of the Farmers De
post National bank of Pittsburg
were given ten years in the peniten
/ tiary.
Eleven persons were injured by ar
explosion that wrecked the plant Of
the Prest-O-Lite company at Indianap
oils.
Mrs. Leonora Pearce was convicted
at Denver of robbing an aged, blint
woman of $4,000 by means of spirit
ual seances.
A mad cat in Brooklyn bit severely
five persons.
The Russian duma by vote of 1874
to 78, administered a crushing defeat
to the ministry in rejecting the pro
posed expenditure of $5,500,000 to lay
the keels of four new battleships.
Eight persons were killed and a
score injured in head-on collision on
the Washington, Baltimore & Annapo
lis electric railway between Annapolis
and Camp Parole.
Three packing companies and one
railroad company, convicted in 1906
of rebating and sentenced to pay fines
aggregating $61, 900, handed to the
clerk of the United States court in
Kansas City a check for the total
amount Of their fines, plus costs.
Contests for "a seats in the Repub-
lican national convention were de-
cided by the national committee in
favor of the Taft delegates. These
contests came from Alabama and
Arkansas.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra and
Princess Victoria started for Reval,
Russia, for a visit to the emperor of
Russia.
Sheriff George w. Garrison of Okla
homa City, Okla, was shot and killed
by negroes while trying to arrest a
murderer.
Gregory Grey of Laporte City, Ia,
made will leaving his $4,000 estate
to a poor man who had befriended
him, and ten minutes later he died.
A tornado which passed near &C.
neva, Neb., caused two deaths, fatally
injured two other persons and de-
stroyed several thousands of dollars
worth of property.
Stacy Matlock, chief of the Pawnee
tribe Of Indians, and Miss Blanche
Bill a Pawnee girl, will be married at
Carlisle, Pa, where the young woman
is attending the government school
In the case of the Minneapolis, st.
Paul & Sault Ste Marie Railway COM
pany against the Wisconsin railway
commission, the supreme court of
Wisconsin upheld the commission and
favorably established the constitution
atty of the law that created it.
1t was declared in London that
10000 pounds of American meat that
has been stored in London, Glasgow
and Liverpool was reshipped by fast
steamer to New York to meet the con-
tinued shortage of meat in America.
The full Republican national COM
mittee met in Chicago and began the
hearings on which will be determined
convention.
The City of Cleveland, largest pas
senger steamer on the lakes, started
from Detroit on her maiden trip.
About 20 persons were killed and
$4,000 damage done to property by a
cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico.
Mae O'Reilly, who, julius G. Truel-
son, Jr, declared in confession" to
the Texas authorities, was murdered
on the Guinness farm at Laporte, Ind,
is in Saratoga, N. Y, alive and we'll.
Three persons were killed instant
ly and more than a dozen injured in a
collision between an Elgin, Joliet &
Eastern freight train and an Aurora
car of the Joliet & Southern Electric
Traction company.
Joseph M Brown defeated Hoke
Smith for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton in the Georgia Democratic pri-
mary.
Forty ships were wrecked and 270
pearl fishers met death in a terrible
typhoon off the west coast Of Austria
lia
The Wise levee, constructed along
the Missouri shore of the Mississippi
river, across from Alton, broke and
about 1000 acres of farm land were
submerged
Mrs. Minnie Grunert was found
strangled to death at Appleton, Wis,
and the police believed she was muir
dered.
The jury at Allegan, Mich, disa-
greed in the case of Mrs. Nelly,
charged with manslaughter because
her child died while under treatment
by mental healers.
Reports of principals of schools in
the East side, New York, have re-
vealed the shocking fact that hundreds
of the pupils are starving. A commit
tee of East side school board members
has organized for the relief of these
poor children and emergency meas
ures have been adopted.
In desperate fight with a large
wildcat near Cannonsburg, Pa, John
Brady, farmer, was fatally injured
Robbers cracked the safe of the
Bank of Falkland, Okla, and obtained
100000
The federal grand jury at st. Paul
returned three indictments against
James L. Lowering, publisher of the
Mail Order Monthly and of Successful
Agriculture, charging him with using
the mails for the purpose of promoting
a lottery and a scheme to defraud.
The president appointed Roy H.
Chamberlain, an attorney at law, of
Iowa, as general appraiser of mer-