River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-12-24

street In SomerV1lle, Mass.
The four men convicted in the Penn.
! sylvania capitol fraud case were sen.
fenced to two years in the peni
Tertiary, $500 fine and costs, the maxi
mum punishment allowed by law. and
were released on 100000 bail On SUI
! persedeas.
James Curren, IS years old, was
| killed in boxing bout with Benjamin
Barnet, II years of age, at the Broad
way Athletic club Of Philadelphia.
Frank Cain, city marshal of Higbee,
Mo-, was shot and probably fatally
wounded and Elmer Magruder was in.
stantly killed in the city Jail by three
men whom Cain had arrested on a
charge Of robbing railway station at
| Salisbury, Mo.
Eleven deaths have occurred and 10
men are seriously i'll at Keithley
camp, Mindanao island, as a result OF
the men of the Eighteenth infantry
| drinking calumbic acid, vegetable
compound extracted from the columbia
root.
Six hundred pupils calmly marched
out of the high school at Altoona, Pa
which was on fire.
Gov. Campbell of Texas announced
that the law closing saloons on Sun
day would be enforced throughout the
state.
Sir Max Waechter, who is touring
the capitals of Europe advocating the
abolition of emperors and kings and
the formation OF the United States of
Europe, was received by M. Pichon,
French minister of foreign affairs. Sir
Max favors King Edward as the first
president of his proposed union.
The Council of Jewish Women,
through Dr. Cornelia H. Kahn, chair
man of the committee on purity of the
press, has issued an appeal to newspa-
pers for the elimination of indecent
details in the published evidence at
murder and divorce trials.
One man was fatally injured and
one seriously hurt in head-on COLI
sion between two passenger trains on
the Big Four railroad between Lilley
and Woodruff, Ill.
On a charge of criminal libel, made
by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., S. S. Car
valho, president of the Star Company,
publishers of William r. Hearst's New
York American, was arrested in New
York.
A considerable part Of Rostov-on-
the-Don, busy Russian city Of 120,-
900 population, was destroyed by fire.
Frederick A. Storm, real estate
dealer, testified in the trial of Thorn
ton ]. Hams, as principal with his
brother, Capt. Peter G. Hams, in the
killing of William E. Annis, that the
defendant had inquired as to the
whereabouts of Annis shortly before
the latter sailed up to the dock where
he was shot. Charles Birchfeld.
friend of Annis, declared that Thorn
ton Hams drove him back with
drawn revolver when he sought to
stop the shooting.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that he would not renew his
order, issued in December, 1907, per-
hitting delivery to charitable organi-
cations of letters addressed to Santa
Claus"
Oregon Railroad & Navigation train
No. 1, known as the Chicago-Portland
special, was held up and the express
car dynamited by four masked rob-
bers nine miles east of Portland, Ore.
Express Messenger o. H. Huff said
the robbers secured little of value.
Rev. Joseph L. Sullens of Spring
dentally while hunting.
The tentative selection of Salt Lake
City as the next meeting place OF the
Grand Army of the Republic was con-
frmed by the executive committee
which has been investigating the &C.
commodations afforded by the city.
The doors of the First National
bank Of Somersworth, N. H., were
closed, following the discovery Of a
shortage, placed at $4,000, and Fred
H. Varney, the cashier of the bank,
was arrested on a charge Of being
defaulter.
Nine companies, with their subsid-
iaries, are named as constituting an
illegal combination in the final de-
cree, filed in the United States cir
cult court at New York, putting into
effect the judgment recently OBJ
tanned by the government in it's suit
to dissolve the so-called tobacco
trust.
The Dutch battleship Jacob van
Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan
guardship % de Mayo and towed it to
Curacao. In Berlin President Castro
called on the German chancellor and
was examined by physician.
On hearing of the seizure by the
Dutch of the guardship Alix, Acting
President Gomez declared Venezuela
in state of defense. President Castro
arrived in Berlin and was given an
ovation.
That the latest battleships built by
this country are vastly superior to
England's Dreadnought, is emphatical-
ly stated by Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans in an article in the latest num-
Der Of Hampton's Broadway Magazine,
wherein he strongly defends the
American navy and replies to criti-
cisms of it made some time ago by
Henry Reuterdahl and others.
In an opinion by Justice Holmes.
the supreme court Of the United States
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