River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19

automobile and Killed.
Evidence was introduced by the
prosecution in the Lamphere trial at
! Laporte, Ind, tending to prove that
| bodies found in the ruins of the Gun
ness farmhouse were those of Mrs.
| Guinness and her three children, of
whose murder Ray Lamphere is ac-
cused.
In boiler explosion at the Miller
Lumber Company's plant at Pound,
near Pound Gap, KY, four men were
killed and four more severely injured.
Three men were killed outright, two
were fatally injured and two others
were seriously hurt in an explosion at
a sawmill plant in Wise county, Virgil
MIA.
The new divorce law, increasing the
| period of residence from six months
to one year was carried on November
in South Dakota by vote of two
to one.
Francisco l.. de la Barra, at present
Mexican minister to the Netherlands,
has been appointed to succeed En-
rique G. Creel as Mexican ambassa-
dor at Washington.
University of Michigan alumni in
New York have subscribed funds for
the erection of a 100000 dormitory
with an immense commons or eating
room in Ann Arbor
The appointment of Col. George H.
Torney as surgeon general of the
army to succeed Surg. Gen. r. M.
O'Reilly was announced by the secre-
tary of war.
Fire in the business district of Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, destroyed property
valued at $4,000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by band of Is Russians to rob
railroad train that was carrying $12,-
100000 to st. Petersburg
Four children persisted in a fire that
destroyed the country home Of John
Wampfler near Alliance, o.
George S. Terry of New York has
been appointed assistant treasurer Of
the United States to succeed Hamilton
Fish.
Prof. Mark w. Harrington, former
chief of the United States weather
bureau, who mysteriously dropped out
of sight nearly ten years ago, has
been found, hopeless mental wreck,
in the New Jersey Asylum for the In
sane at Morris Plains.
Three hundred and thirty-nine men
were killed in the Radbod mine near
Hamm, Westphalia, by an explosion
and resulting fire. Thirty-five were
taken out badly injured.
A motor boat containing ten China
men and three white men was
wrecked on the breakwall at Buffalo,
N. Y, and six of the Orientals, who
were being struggled from Canada,
lost their lives.
The Register and Leader of Des
Moines, Ia, has bought the Daily Trib-
une, an afternoon Democratic daily.
The Illinois state board of equaliza-
ton fixed the total assessed valuation
of property in the state at $1,263,-
$751; against $1,251, 974, 306 in 1907.
Mrs. Mary Wheeler Somerby of
Newburyport, Mass, an aged widow
was declared to be the sole heir to an
estate valued at 100000 by an order
HloQ III Inc cudnCSfy court DIT lISu~
ton, N. J.
President Roosevelt Thursday re-
ceived at the White House about 500
farmers and their wives, who were at
tending the convention of the National
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
The jury in the Lamphere murder
case at Laporte, Ind, was completed,
the states attorney made his open
ing statement and the introducing OF
evidence was begun.
A cold blooded plot by a daughter
to murder her mother for her money
was exposed in the arrest of Miss Mae
L. Otis of Chicago. The woman had
arranged to have her mother beaten
to death, but unwittingly hired de-
tectives to do the deed.
Albert Berger, former Alaska min
er, just before committing suicide at
Canyon Ferry, Mont, threw $4,000 in
post-ofice money orders payable to
himself, in the stove.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that the postal deficit for the
fiscal year ended June 80 amounted to
$16,91O,279, the largest in the history
of the post-office department.
Eleven persons pere killed and
many injured when Great Northern
express crashed into the rear of a
| New Orleans e Northeastern local at
Little Woods station, a fishing and
| hunting camp on Lake Ponchartrain
| IL miles from New Orleans.
Republican members of the Bull
garian national assembly and even
| several members of the government
| majority made a most sensational at
| tack on Emperor Ferdinand during the
debate on the address in reply to the
| royal message.
The battleship North Dakota was
successfully launched from the yard
of the Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany, at Quincy, Mass.
In a fit of jealousy S4-yearold Elond
| Olson killed his wife, one year his
| junior, and then attempted suicide in
their home on a farm, near Esofea,
| Wis.
A mob of white men stormed the
| Jail at Biloxi, Miss, and lynched a
negro accused of asSaulting a white
| girl.
The names of 90 Nebraska newspa-
per men holding Western Union Tele-
| graph Company franks were certified