River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-27

Roosevelt to go to Panama and make
a report On labor conditions.
| Attempts that had been planned
against the lives of exalted personages
were frustrated by st. Petersburg po-
! lice by succession of arrests in va
rious parts Of the city, aggregating 5O
men and women.
| Former Gov Pennypacker of Penn
! sylvania emphatically denied that
there had been any official attempt to
white wash" the capitol scandal in
the inquiry by former Attorney Cen
eral Carson.
Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, once known as
the Hero of Port Arthur" was con-
in st. Petersburg for the surrender of
that fort to the japanese.
George Dixon, a carpenter on the
American collier Abarenda, killed Wal
ter Weichert, chief officer of the col
lier, at San Juan.
| By the will of the late Mrs. Amy
Sheldon, filed at Newport, r. l., be-
quest of 100000 to Harvard univer-
sity is made in the codicil.
Without leaving anything to indi-
cate why the act was committed, Col.
Eugene w. Guindon, president of
Fuller's Express company, fired bull
let into his brain while seated at his
desk in New York city.
| E. II. Hartman won complete con-
troll of the Illinois Central railroad
when Judge Farlin @. Ball dissolved
the injunction restraining the voting
of 286,231 Hartman proxies.
Mohammed ell Torres, the sultans
former representative for foreign af-
fairs at Tangier, has protested in the
name Of Abd-el-Aziz against the Span
ish occupation of Marchica.
The marching of nearly 1000 for
eigners upon the Philadelphia city
hall, where they said they intended
to make demands upon Mayor Rey-
burn for work precipitated riot in
which 20 persons were injured.
William F. Barrows, aged 60 years,
a clerk in the office of the Indianapo-
lis building inspector committed sui
eide.
The Illinois supreme court has de-
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is an illegal boycott.
Attorney General Bonaparte has ap-
pointed special counsel to prepare
railroad rate law test cases.
Dispatches giving further details OF
the fighting in Morocco have been re-
ceived in Paris from Gen. d'Amade,
the French commander-in-chief. He
relates that the French lost four men
killed and q men wounded in two en-.
gagements.
With Chicago suffering in the after
math of a storm which has broken all
records since 1884, traffic was partial
! ly paralyzed and want and destruction
are everywhere.
Senior Gomez has resigned as a
member of the Philippine assembly.
1t is believed that he will not be a
power in insular politics in the future.
The Illinois supreme court affirmed
the decision in the Cook county crimi-
nal court in the Billik murder case.
Senator Asbury G. Latimer of South
Carolina died in Washington of peri.
| tonitis
The will of Vernum Lincoln, Just
probated, leaves $500 to provide prizes
for annual old-fashioned spelling
matches at Andover, Mass.
The formal reception of Baron
Takahira, as ambassador of Japan to
the United States, took place at the
White House.
Three business blocks, hotel and
a livery stable, which comprised the
| larger part of the business section of
North Woodstock, N. H., were de-
stroyed by a fire at an aggregate
damage of approximately 100000.
Investigation into the affairs of the
American Ice company, promoted and
formerly controlled by Charles w.
| Morse, was formally begun in New
| York
! r. Livingston, Russian writer, per-
sonal friend of Leo Tolstoy, was ad-
judged insane in Oakland, Cal.
Missouri Pacific train was lost for
more than so hours between Auburn
and Crete. Neb. The road was
blocked for rs miles.
A petition for the impeachment OF
Judge L. r. Whitley Of Shanghai, judge
of the United States court of China,
was introduced in the house.
Information from unofficial and lndl'
vidual sources evidencing the aggres'
siveness of Japan in Manchuria has
been accommodating in the state depart
ment at Washington. That this con-
dition is irritating in increasing de-
grees to China is a matter of knoWl-
| edge.
Millionaires, race-track followers
clergymen, lawyers and legislators
were represented at the hearing pe'
fore the joint senate and assembly
codes committee on the Agnew-Hart
bill at Albany, N. Y.
The northeast storm, the worst In
| years, ragged in northern New YORK
and rapidly added to the snow that
covers the whole Adirondack region.
w H. Cresviston, on trial for the
murder of H. Wellington Stewart IN
lola on the night of December 8, 1907,
was convicted of murder in the first
degree by a jury.
Mrs. John Angus and her two small
children were burned to death in their
homes at Tallyho, w. Va.
The Civic federation of Burlington,
| Ia, has notified the mayor and other
city officials that gamblers @nfust be