River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-05

ADJOURNED sine Ole, without reaching
! an agreement upon the wage scale.
Because he would not take drink
"Blacky' Collins, said to be a member
of a prominent family, was shot and
killed at Erie, Pc.
Resolutions favoring the candidacy
of William H. Taft for president were
adopted by the Missouri Republican
state convention at st. Louis.
Telegraph operators on the North
ern Pacific rejected the proposition
made by the road in regard to the
new schedule of hours and wages.
Senator Robert L. Owen of Okla
homa engaged in a tilt with Senator
Charles Curtis. declaring the Chero-
kee Indians are not under the control
Of the secretary of the interior.
| Lord Kitchener's frontier war in the
Bazaar Valley against the Zakkakhels
| tribesmen is making rapid and sue
cessful progress in India.
The Ormsby New county grand
| jury returned an indictment against
I. B. Hickey, president of the State
bank on six counts for ENLIGHTENMENT.
| H.
Thomas, financiers of extensive inter
ests, were indicted in New York on
charges growing out of management
of funds of the Provident Savings Life
Assurance society.
twenty-five specific charges are
made in a petition praying for the re-
moval of William t. Jerome as dis
trict attorney of the county of New
York, which was sent to Gov Hughes
at Albany, N. Y.
Seven Russian terrorists, including
| two women, were sentenced to death
| for plot to kill Grand Duke Nicholas
and the minister of Justice in ST. Pc
tersburg.
The American Trust and Savings
bank and the Hibernian Banking asso-
citation may be consolidated in Chi
| cago.
The Wisconsin Republican state
| central committee Endorsed Senator
La Toilette for the presidency.
Lima, Peru, shopkeepers, fruit
vendors and curio dealers reaped
rich harvest from American sailors.
HC OOuy VI JOIu jules, IdIuOuS DIS
the Jim Bludso" of the upper Missis-
sippi river, was buried at Dakota,
| Mimi.
An opinion handed down by the
| supreme court of Missouri held that
| the law creating the court of general
sessions in st. Louis is unconstitu.
tional and the court is invalid.
IN 0P
ernor of Mazagan to deliver the gar.
risOn into the hands of Mulai Hafid,
the sultan of the south, Hafid says he
intends to attack the garrison.
George Dawkins, policeman,
charged with being confederate OF
thieves has been found guilty of bur.
glary and grand larceny, in the su.
preme court of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Paul D. Elliser, an aged white
woman, who resides at Cayce, S. c.,
was killed by an unknown negro.
Operating officials of railways were
in attendance upon the hearing given
by the interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington and 81 applica.
tons for an extension of the time of
law were made.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw moved out OF
her New York apartments and it is
said she will go to Europe soon.
Dr. George Frederick Kunz has re.
ceived from Norway the cross of the
first class of the Royal Order of ST.
Olav in recognition of his distin.
CrIliC in ho ,tr
of mineralogy.
The Missouri supreme court decided
the law passed by the last legislature
prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating
liquors within five miles of any state
educational institution having 1900
students enrolled is unconstitutional.
Night riders set fire to the house OF
Broussais Gregory, one mile west of
Hopkinsville, KY, and fired shots into
the bedroom in which Mr. Gregory,
his wife and his daughter were sleep.
ing.
The German car in the New York-to.
Paris automobile race broke the uni.
versal joint seven miles west of Elk.
hart, Ind, and was towed back by
horses.
After making gifts of nearly $1,000
600 to relatives and for educational
purposes, Mrs. Anna M Walker
Weightman was married in New York
to +. c. Penield.
The supreme court of Texas rem.
dered a judgment for $1,600,000 dam
ages and custer from the state against
the Waters-Pierce Oil company for
violating the Texas antitrust laws.
Fire in Sioux City, Ia, wrecked the
building and the stock of the Sioux
City Iron Company, a wholesale con-
Germ. The loss was $4,000.
In New York plans have been drawn
for what will be the largest restau-
rant in the world and on which work
will begin in the spring.
Emperor Nicholas received 800 dele
gates in st. Petersburg from duma
and addressed them on the agrarian
problem.
A receiver was appointed at Fort
Worth, Tex, for the International and
Great Northern Railroad company, a
Gould line.
The Macedonian difficulty was
raised in both houses of the British
parliament.
The sixteenth district Republican
congressional convention at Steuben-