River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-06

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which was wrecked on the north side
of Coatue beach.
DR.. Leander Starr Jameson, premier
and secretary for native affairs of
Cape Colony, has resigned. He as
sumed these Offices in February, 1904.
Fire wiped out the village of Twin
Lakes, Mimi, over 200 persons being
made homeless.
A proposal for statewide liquor
prohibition was rejected in the Mich
igan constitutional convention by a
vote of So to 80.
In a dispute over horse, Philip
Kastner, aged 81, shot and fatally
wounded his son George, aged 80, at
Jasper, Ind.
The Office of the superintendent OF
poor at West Seneca, N. Y, was be-
sieged by 500 men begging for food
Four men were taken to the county
hospital suffering from starvation.
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature passed a measure prohibit
ing the smoking of cigarettes in the
state.
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Lloyd & Wood, one of the best-known
lawyers on the Pacific coast, died at
his home in San Francisco.
Nine miners we're killed by an ex-
plosion in the New Rivery colliery
near Hawks Nest, w. Va.
Because he was angry with his wife,
William Meutsch of Chicago killed one
Of his children and fatally shot the
two others.
Col Burr Robbins, the old-time cir
Gus man, died in Chicago.
Kings court, one of the show places
of Lakewood, N. j., residence built
some years ago by George Gould for
his son, Kingdom, was destroyed by
fire. The building was valued at
100000
Liquidation of the State National
bank of New Orleans was decided
upon by vote of the stockholders.
This bank is nearly 100 years old.
The. superior court at Paris refused
to grant an absolute divorce to Maud
Come from her husband, Maj. Nc
Bride
The schooner Helen e. Taft of
Thomaston, Me-, was run down and
sunk by an unknown steamer 16 miles
southwest of Cape Lookout lightship
off the coast of North Carolina.
Pearl Harper was acquitted at
Cadillac, Mich, on the charge of muir
dering her stepfather.
Arthur w. Ferguson, secretary of
the Philippine commission, died sud-
denly of heart disease in Manila.
The Diamond Window Glass factory
at Gas City, Ind, was destroyed by
fire, resulting in a loss estimated at
100000.
The American torpedo boat f1otilla
sailed from Buenos Ayres for Punta
Arenas.
DR.. ]. c.. Brigham persisted in fire
that destroyed eight stores and resi-
dences in Girard, Ca
Two financial institutions of New
York city, one a national and the
other a state bank, closed their doors
The New Amsterdam National bank,
capital $1,000,000, was taken in charge
by the representative of the comptrol-
Ter of the currency, and the Mechanics
and Traders bank, state institution,
capital 100000, announced the de-
cision of the directors not to open.
Both banks announced their ability to
pay all depositors.
The 100000 estate of Capt. Hooker
of Rochester, N. Y, who left will
bequeathing his property to Gales
burg, ILL.,, will be distributed, the sur
rogate having denied probate to the
will on the ground that Capt Hooker
was mentally incompetent.
Peter F. Clark of Girard, ILL.,, plead
ed guilty to the charge of numbering
Mrs. Ollie Gibson on a trolley car near
Virden March rs, 1907, and was SEN
fenced to serve 40 years in the peni-
tertiary.
Marshal Halstead, former United
States consul at Birmingham, Eng
land, and son of Murat Halstead, died
in Cincinnati following an operation
for appendicitis.
Gen. Benjamin Rush Cowen, for
over % years clerk of the United
States circuit and district courts for
the southern district of Ohio, assistant
secretary of the interior under Presi-
dent Grant and formerly editor of the
Ohio State Journal, died in Cincinnati.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
the theater holocaust at Boyertown,
Pa, asked for the prosecution of Mrs.
Monroe, owner of the stereopticon ma
chine, and Harry McC. Bechtel, the
deputy factory inspector, on the
charge of criminal negligence
An old Roman coin has been dug up
at Springfield, Mass, which is discov-
cred to be worth $780,
The Partisan laundry building in
Detroit was Quilted by fire, the loss
being estimated at over 100000.
Robert S. Hewes was appointed re-
ceiver for the Montana Grand Lodge
of Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The Croker heirs gave a block on
Mob Hill, San Francisco, as site for
an Episcopal cathedral.
Because portion of his congrega-
ton objected to his breeding dogs,
Rev. L. Moore Smith, pastor of the
Scotch Plains IN. j. Baptist church,
resigned his charge.
That this nation has reached the
point where it must decide whether
it is to lose the use of the rivers in