River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-30

i George l.. Thomas, a freight broker
of New York city, and l.. B. Taggart,
his clerk, pleaded guilty in the United
States district court at Kansas City,
, to the charge of conspiring to pay
rebates to shippers. Judge Smith
Mcpherson then fined Thomas $1,000
and Taggart $4,000
The Central hotel at Pontiac, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire, the guests es-
Gaping in their night clothes.
The greater part of two business
blocks in Madison, ILL.,, was burned,
the loss being over 100000.
The Haytian revolution has been
suppressed. Jean Juneau, the leader
of the movement, was captured at
Dessalines, and was at once shot to
death by the government troops.
Gonaives has been occupied by a gov
eminent force.
Believing that restoration of the
old passenger rate law in North Caro-
lima will prevent the reduction ex-
pected in their salaries, the en-
ployes of the combined railroads of
the state will petition the legislature
to repeal the present 212 cent per
mile law
Capt. Charles F. Brown, aged IA,
civil war veteran and well known min
eralogist, died in st. Louis hos
pital pauper.
The Minnesota board of pardons
committed to life Imprisonment the
sentence of Merton S. Mum, who
was to have been hanged at Bemidji
on February Z for the murder of Au-
gust Franklin.
A fire which caused property dam
age of $1,000,000 destroyed the city
hall and police buildings in Portland,
Me-, and endangered the lives of more
than 700 persons.
Andrew Jackson Detsch, who was
charged with numbering Harry Ferree
in boarding house in Philadelphia,
was acquitted on his plea that he
thought Ferree was burglar. The
police asserted Detsch had discovered
an intrigue between his wife and Fer
rec, but he denied this.
Emily Yznaga, mother of the dow
ager duchess of Manchester and of
Lady Lister-Kaye of England, died at
NatcheZ, Miss.
After administering huge dose of
laudanum to her young son Kenneth,
Mrs. George Stetson of Burlington,
Wis, drank the remainder of the vial
in an attempt at suicide Friday. The
boy, aged nine, is dead.
w Leo Bockemohle, cashier of the
suspended Bank of Ellinwood at Film
wood, Kan, under arrest for making a
false statement of the banks condi-
ton in December, shot and killed him.
self when his bondsmen surrendered
him.
Gilman Milton was burned to death
near Kewanee, Ill.
Charles Bradley, fire captain of
Minneapolis, Mimi, was run over and
killed by his engine.
A fierce blizzard swept the Atlantic
coast, endangering and delaying ship
ping, and doing great damage in
numerous towns. In New York heavy
snow fell and the storm caused four
deaths.
The International Harvester COM
pany of Milwaukee was indicted at
Frankfort, KY, for violation of the
Kentucky antitrust laws.
S. r. Hamill of Terre Haute, Ind,
associate counsel for John R. Walsh,
died in Chicago of pneumonia.
Paul Kelly, the motorman who was
indicted for homicide in connection
with the New York elevated wreck in
which 16 people lost their lives on
September 1, 1905, was found guilty of
manslaughter in the second degree.
A drastic prohibition proposal was
unanimously and favorably reported
in the Michigan constitutional conven-
ton by the committee on liquor af-
fairs.
Rev DR.. P. F. Dissez a member of
the faculty of st. Mary's seminary,
Baltimore, and who was one of the in
structors of Cardinal Gibbons when he
attended that institution, died, aged So
Aurel Batonyi began suit in New
York against Frank Work, his father
in-law, and two others for $1,500,000
for their alleged alienation of the af
fections of his wife, Mrs. Burke Roche.
Margaret Fulton, aged Sc, and Jane
Fulton, aged 80, sisters, were burned
to death in their home near st. Glars
vile, 0.
Miss Georgia A. Smythe, waitress
in Boston lunch room, has received
news from her home in New Bruins
wick that she is entitled to a fortune
of 100000 by virtue of being a great
great-grandaughte of Maria Fitzher-
bert, celebrated in history as having
been married to King George w. of
England.
Hooking, Ia, small mining town,
was partly burned. The powder house
of the mines exploded and started the
| fire
DR.. Farmano Lopez, who was con-
nected with the recent conspiracy to
blow up Premier Franco of Portugal
| with a bomb, made a daring escape
from the San Julia prison, strong
| fortress at the mouth of the Tagus
| river.
James H. Smith and his daughter,
Mrs Matte Halpin, were burned to
| death at Irvington, Ind.
The Haytian revolutionists captured
| the town of Port-de-PaiX.
Fire destroyed a baggage car con-
| tanning all the baggage of party of
| 100 ShrinerS from ST. Louis Chicago