River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-20
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A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD or THE MOST lMPOR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
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HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal OF the
Busy Man.

Man for man, gun for gun, and ship
for ship, the American navy is second
TO none in the world, according TO the
report of Admiral Converse, called
forth by the many criticisms recently
made in magazines and otherwise.
Charles w. Morse, financier and
promoter of many large combinations,
returned from his brief trip to Europe,
was arrested in his stateroom when
the steamer Etruria reached quaran-
tine In the lower bay at New YORK,
and was released on $4,000 bonds.
He issued a statement declaring his
innocence.
Cant N. B. Thistlewood Of Cairo,
Ill, Republican candidate for congress
in the Twenty-fifth Illinois district,
was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of George w. Smith last
November.
The navy department was officially
advised of the arrival of the American
torpedo boat fotilla at Talcahuano,
Chile, four days ahead of the schedule.
In the Democratic primaries in Okla
homa to elect delegates to the state
convention w. J. Bryan was indorsed
by every one of the Is counties.
Following a fight on the tug Annie
r. Wood of Providence. bound from
Newport to Fort Greble, Benjamin
G.. Stevenson, son of Congressman
STEVENSON of Crookston, Mimi, fell
or was pushed overheard and drowned.
Bert Hendersliter, son of Mrs. Bell
Taylor and stepson of Nathan Taylor,
who was murdered in the rear OF his
confectionery store at Creston, Ia,
confessed that he fired the shot which
ended Taylor's life.
On the steamer Crispin, which ar
rived in the roads, three miles out
from Galveston, Tex, from Para
Brazil, there were two cases of yellow
fever.
Peter Gruener, aged 40, a copper
smith Of Cincinnati, shot and instantly
killed his wife, and then shot himself,
dying shortly afterwards.
Night riders 300 strong visited
Eddyville, KY, and whipped ten men,
four of them white and six negroes.
a new American ski record was
made at Duluth when John Mangseth
jumped III feet
The flood at Pittsburg rsceded after
causing great damage to property and
intense suffering among poor people.
High water stopped railway traffic in
many parts of southern Ohio.
Harry Arthur McArdle, who painted
Dawn at the Alamo and ''The Battle
of San Jacinto," and other famous his
torical pictures, died at his home in
San Antonio, Tex.
Henry ID. Sellers, real estate
broker and prominent citizen of Pitts
burg, Pa, committed suicide by shoot
ing, Just as did his son some months
ago.
While one masked robber held up
the cashier, his two companions looted
the vault of the bank at Granite Falls,
N c., secured all the cash in the in
stitution-$2, 700-forced the cashier
20 enter the vault and after locking
MIN in made their escape.
Marian Grey, affinity finder. was
convicted in the federal court at Chi
cago of using the United States mails
to defraud while conducting the Elgin
Searchlight club.
Smallpox appeared in the University
of Illinois, and all students were or.
dered vaccinated.
Seven persons were killed and a
dozen injured when a Big Four pas
senger train struck Toledo & West
ern electric car at the Michigan Cen
trail crossing in West Toledo, o.
Miss Theodore Shonts, daughter oil
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore p. Shonts, was
married in New York to the due dc
Chaulnes in the presence of goo
guests.
Frank Murdoch, well-known Re
publican politician, died at his home
In Oneida, ILL.,, of heart disease, in
duced by an attack of pneumonia
aged &C years.
Attorney General Bonaparte directed
the immediate prosecution of the
Southern Pacific on 10S charges of re
batting, involving $4,000 to $4,000 il
each case.
Michael Devalo of South Chicago is
under arrest charged with scalding &
baby to death because the child's
mother refused to elope with him.
Lincoln's birthday was celebrated
with banquets and orations by dis
tinguished men in many cities.
While exercising in the Phillips
Exeter academy gymnasium. Foster
Holmes of Minneapolis, Mimi, sus
tanned injuries which were declared
to be very dangerous.
Six men were killed by an explosion
in starch factory at Providence, r
L. and the building was wrecked anC
burned.
Chauncey B. Geiger, president of tn,
Illinois state board of arbitration dur
inc the administration of Gov. RicharC
Yates, died at his home in Ashley, III
Gov. Davidson appointed Frederick
Thwaites and James F. Trottman o
Milwaukee as regents of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin.
Haunted by a dream in which h
was accused of crime, Christophe
Fagen, a coachman, committed sui
eide in Minneapolis.
The net result Of the Republican pr
maries held throughout Ohio was
For William H. Taft, four delegates
at-large, and % district delegates tt
the national convention in Chicago
and list of delegates to the state con