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

Lost Spanish Bullion Mines company
were sentenced in Denver to fines and
Imprisonment.
Father John of Cronstadt, leader OF
a peculiar sect of Russians and by
many regarded as a saint, is seriously
i'll in st. Petersburg.
Thieves stole an automobile in
a town near Los Angeles, Cal. Off.
GERS got another motor car and fol.
lowed, opening fusillade on the
fugitives with revolvers. The thieves
escaped by leaping from the machine.
Passenger train on the Lake Shore
road bumped into light freight en-
CINE two miles north of Franklin, Pa,
and Fireman William ]. Daily was
killed
The Dutch cabinet presented its
resignation at The Hague and the dis
solution of parliament liz likely to
follow.
Fire destroyed block Of factories
and stores in San Francisco, the lcss
being over 100000.
Cotton manufacturers of New Eng
lard agreed to reduce their output by
% per cent.
Gov Broward of Florida appointed
William James Bryan, of Jacksonville,
to be United States senator, vice
Stephen Russell Mallory, deceased, for
the balance of the term, expiring
March 1, 1909.
The Goldfield Mine Owners associa-
ton filed in the circuit court of the
district of Nevada suit asking not
only for an Injunction against picket
ing and interfering, but for the final
dissolution of the Goldf1eld miners
union.
At Hyde Park, Mass, DR.. Walter r.
Amesbury, of Milford, shot and in
stantly killed his wife Anna, teacher
of music in Roanoke college, Danville.
Va, as the family were about to sit
down to Christmas dinner.
The st. Louis university boys,
champions of the southwest, were
beaten by the Washington State col
lege football team, IL to 0, at
Spokane.
Lawrence Delmour, who, until he re-
tired from politics several years ago,
was one of the most prominent mem
bers of Tammany hall, died of the
grip. His natural reticence earned him
the sobriquet of whispering Larry"
About 500 Mexicans with families
are destitute at Los Angeles, Cal, hav.
ing been discharged by the railways.
Charles E. Mcconnell, president of
the Smelter City bank, of Durango,
Col, which closed it's doors December
II, was placed under arrest, it having
developed that he had borrowed $780,
600 on the banks securities.
Marines from the navy yard and
negroes had riotous fights in the
streets of Norfolk. Va.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York an.
nounced he would remove the board
of water commissioners for incom.
potency and misconduct.
Flour shipments from Minneapolis
for 1907 will fall short of the totals
shipped during 1906 by nearly mil
lion barrels.
A decree was issued fixing the date
of the elections in Portugal as April S.
Surgeon General Rixey issued state,
ment reviewing the controversy in the
navy over the command of hospital
ships.
New York, Chicago and the country
generally celebrated Christmas in a
way that showed no effects of the re-
cent financial stringency
DR.. Fl. E. Bolton has discovered in
Mexico IL of the 81 documents taken
from Lieut.. Zebulon M. Pike by Span
ish soldiers in 1906.
President Roosevelt went to Pine
Knot, Va, for week.
Martin Diller of Sterling, ILL.,, mem
Der Of the Sixth regiment, /. N. G.,
who was officially reported dead two
months ago, returned home. refusing
to make explain. tons.
John Looney, politician. lawyer and
newspaper owner of Rock Island, ILL.,,
has been indicated on each of "a
counts of criminal libel, bribery, ex-
tortion and conspiracy contained in
indictments against him which were
found by the grand jury last June.
Miss Olive Mcdowell, 81 years old,
daughter of Bishop William F. Nc
Dowell, Methodist Episcopal bishop of
Chicago, died at Camden, N. G.
Judge Rosalsky in New York sus-
pended sentence in the case of Hugo
c. Voecks, who pleaded guilty to
Matchmaking Raymond Hitchcock, the
comedian.
Col. Benjamin c. Lockwood, COM
handing the Twenty-ninth regiment
of infantry, has been placed on the re-
tired list of the army, as brigadier
general, On his own application, after
more than 43 years service.
An attempt was made to blow up
the new steel bridge of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company in course of
construction over the Erie railroad
tracks at Newark, N. J.
J. Frank Carpenter, secretary of the
Carpenter Paper company, one Of the
largest paper houses in the west, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Omaha
by shooting.
st. Louis university football
athletes made heroes of them
selves near Brocket Station, Wash,
on the Canadian Pacific, where they
helped to rescue trainmen from a dis
astrous freight wreck.
Violent gales prevailed for "a hours
in Colorado. Near Boulder two
coaches of train were blown into