River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-23
Union labor at meetings throughout

James Lally, charged with the MUIR
der of Herbert Johnson, newspaper
man, was burned to death in fire
/ which destroyed the Jail at Seneca,
Kan.
A receiver was appointed for the
Odell Brokerage company of Cincin-
natl, one of the largest concerns of the
kind in the country.
With the dawn of Easter Sunday,
| Pope Plus decree on marriage, en-
phasizing the sanctity of the relation,
went into effect in every Roman Cath
Ollie parish in this country. =
DR.. Lucy Hagenow, Chicago mid
wife, was sentenced to 20 years in the
penitentiary for causing the death of
Mrs. Annie Horvatich.
Lilith, the 11-year-old daughter of
George A. Ford of Holland, Mich,
died of poisoning caused by eating
breath candies.
Jesse w. Osborne of Kokomo, Ind,
confessed that he killed his sweet
heart, Fairy McClain Miller, in jeal-
GUS rage on April 7.
Russian troops have invaded Per-
sian territory in the vicinity of Len
koran, a port on the Caspian sea, for
the purpose Of furnishing Kurdish
raiders.
About 40 Japanese laborers persisted
in a great landslide near Alberta can
yon, in the Cascade mountains.
Gus Long killed his landlady, Mrs.
Bessie Gilbert, in Detroit, and then
committed suicide.
Operators and miners of the central
competitive field reached an agree
ment by which the 100000 idle men re-
sumo work at once. The old rate Of
80 cents ton was adopted.
Russian troops that invaded Persia
to punish Kurdish raiders defeated the
tribesmen in pitched battle and de-
stroyed three of their villages.
Algerian tribesmen attacked a
French column but were repulsed with
considerable loss after desperate
fight.
Two little daughters of William M.
Watts were cremated near Worthing-
ton, Ind, in a barn by blaze they
started while playing.
Two negroes assaulted a 19-year-old
girl in Indianapolis and were pursued
by armed posses.
State police protected the street
cars from the mobs at Chester, Pa.
One officer was shot.
The supreme court of Wisconsin
handed down a decision which in ef-
feet makes impossible the forming of
drainage system out of $4,000 acres
OF land known as the Horizon Marsh.
Rev. George w. Tomson, pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Woodbury.,
n. j., shot and killed himself because
OF a scandal following the announce
ment Of his engagement to a wealthy
widow.
Five persons were injured in
street car collision in st. Louis.
Grover and John Sturgeon, school
boys, were drowned near Lawrence
burg, Ind
A national spelling contest is to be
held at Cleveland in connection with
the meeting of the National Education
al association.
The Danish steamer United States
and the Ward liner Monterey collided
in the lower New York bay and we're
badly damaged, but no one was killed
or injured.
-Four delegates-at-large instructed to
work and vote for William H. Taft in
the Chicago convention until he is
nominated for the presidency, were
elected by the Minnesota Republican
state convention.
Louis Orian, wife and five children,
whose farm buildings were destroyed
by a prairie fire near Forman, N. D.,
are believed to have persisted in the
flames.
A jury found verdict of guilty in
the case of the United States against
Herbert F. Robinson, ]. L. Layne and
F. E. Holiday, tried before Judge Nor
ris, in the federal district court at Min
neapolis, on an indictment charging
conspiracy.
Enraged because American and
negro workmen were being given the
preference when the American Alum
mum works at East ST. Louis, ILL.,,
were reopened, more than $50 Ar
menians, Turks and Greeks started
desperate riot.
Five thousand men from the battle
ship fleet paraded in San Diego and
a gold key and a sword for Admiral
Evans were presented to Admiral
Thomas.
Robert n. Harper, president of the
Washington chamber of commerce,
a drug manufacturer, and one of the
best-known business men in Washing
ton, was sentenced by Judge Kimball
in the police court to pay fine of $500
for violating the pure food law.
The ministers of the II 900 Presby-
terrain churches throughout the
United States were requested by the
department Of church and labor to OBJ
serve labor Sunday, May 10.
Hauser lake dam across the Mis-
souri, river, Is miles below Helena,
gave way with a great crash and pre-
cipitated from % to so feet of water
over the dismembered structure.
Bryanites were defeated in the
New York state convention, the com.
mittee on resolutions adopting a reso-
luton for an uninstructed delegation.
President Roosevelt will again
nominate John w. Jackson to be post
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