River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-02
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MS mana, PROBABLY fatally lnJuTlnS
him, killing a companion and hurting
four policemen and a number of other
persons.
Between So and 20 men lost their
lives in two explosions in coal mine
No. ], owned by the Union Pacific
Coal company at Hanna, Wyo. The
explosions were caused by gases and
coal dust and each was followed by
fire. The first explosion occurred at
three o'clock, when Is mine workers,
including superintendent and three
bosses, were killed. The second &C.
CURED at 1920 o'clock at night,
snufing out the lives Of from 40 to
so members of a rescue party, includ-
ing State Mine Inspector ID. M. Elias.
Emperor William, having been fully
advised as to the attitude of President
Roosevelt and the feeling of the Amer
lean public in regard to the alleged
refusal of his majesty to receive DR..
Hill as ambassador to Germany in
succession to Charlemagne Tower, has
recalled all the expressions of disap-
proval he recently sent to President
Roosevelt and will be pleased to re-
ceiVe DR.. Hill as ambassador.
Because Mrs. Spires, wife of Con-
stable William Spires of Wellsville, O.,
refused to elope with him, George
Snowden of Steubenville, O., fatally
shot the woman and then killed him
self.
The Korean cabinet has decided to
donate $4,000 yen to the family of
Durham w. Stevens, who was assas-
sinated in San Francisco by Korean
zealot
Archbishop John Ireland of ST. Paul
has written letter to the clergy and
laity of his archdiocese on the sub
ject of marriage and divorce, in which
he characterizes the marriage con
tract of the times mere commercial
exchange.
Minister Russell protested to the
Venezuelan government because
sack of mail for the American cruiser
Tacoma was opened at La Guayra.
Unable to meet mortgage that was
about to be foreclosed, Henry Kock,
o5Cu 70 JOulo, SOluiLlIISu 0u1CluS III
ST. Louis.
The circuit court at Toledo, o., af-
firmed the decision of the lower court
in the cases Of 20 prominent lumber
men of the city who were sentenced
to jail for violation of the Valentine
antitrust law.
In Jail delivery at Fairmont, w.
Va. six prisoners escaped.
Mrs. George Yanning of Millers-
burg, Ia, mistook a cup of gasoline
for water and poured it on her burn
ing apron. She was fatally burned.
The town of Chilapa, Mexico, having
$4,000 inhabitants, was practically de-
stroyed by earthquake shocks followed
by conflagration. 1t is believed no
lives were lost.
Much damage was done by severe
windstorms in Michigan, Iowa and
Illinois.
Secretary Taft announced that he
had ordered federal troops to the
Treadwell mines in Alaska, where
500 strikers are threatening to destroy
property with ten cases of dynamite
they have stolen.
In desperate ARRAY on a Pennsyl-
vania avenue car in Washington,
negro and white man were shot by
Congressman Thomas J. Hef1in of
Alabama who tried to stop the negro's
drinking on the car.
Daniel Leroy Dresser, former presi-
dent of the Trust company of the Re
public, who recently was arrested on
a charge of larceny, was discharged
because the statute of limitations in
tervened.
Two robbers blew up the post office
at South San Francisco and escaped
with $4,000.
W. H. KEENAN, of Mexico, Mo-, for
mer adjutant general of Missouri, com
mitted suicide by hanging.
Illinois Republicans Endorsed Speak
er Cannon for president and asked re-
vision of the tariff; Democrats of In
diana Endorsed Bryan and nominated
a ticket headed by Thomas r. Mar
shall for governor; Iowa Democrats
declared for Bryan.
AeOpO1A0 u4duC q vain dIl6IupC W
crack the safe of the Farmers bank
at Springtown, Ark, and one of them
was killed by premature explosion
of dynamite, his head being blown
off.
Mexico City was shaken by two Sc
we're earthquake shocks, four persons
being injured.
In a quarrel over $3.50, the price of
a load of wood, Peter Karanen of Cal
umet, Mich, shot and almost instantly
killed John Ahlgren, a farmer.
Half of the business section of
Vaudeville, Mich, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $4,000.
Republicans of Tennessee had a
vicious fight in their state convention
at Nashville.
Citizens of Lexington and central
Kentucky signed a petition asking the
president for federal aid in suppress
sing the night riders. Officers of the
Society of Equity denied report that
the society had reached an agreement
with the American Tobacco company.
Twenty persons were injured at the
farm home of Loren Gage, near San
Lake, Mich, when the floor of the
kitchen gave way while an auction
sale was in progress.
OBITUARY..
Col Maurice S. Langhorne, aged SIS,