River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-12
GENERAL NEWS.

In letter in answer to many cor
respondents President Roosevelt re-
piled to inquiries concerning Judge
Tafts religious convictions, and in do
ing so sharply rebuked bigotry and re-
ligious intolerance.
Invitations to second meeting in
Washington Of the governors or their
representatives have been sent out by
the National Conservation of Re
sources commission. The date an
nOunced is Tuesday, December 8.
Walworth II. Tappan, well-knOwn in
the iron and steel trade of the south
and middle west, who lived in Louis
vile, KY, blew his brains out in the
Mushroom of the Hotel Savoy New
York. He was Respondent because of
Illness
Albert Roubick, who confessed that
he had murdered Emil Kvasnicka, a
Chicago jeweler, because of infatua-
ton for his victims wife, whom he
expected to marry, was given a SEN
tence for life Imprisonment by jury
at Laporte, Ind.
Nat G. Goodwin, the comedian, and
Edna Goodrich, a well-known actress,
were married at the home in Boston
of Mr.. Goodwin's mother.
Burglars robbed the home of Charles
T.. layton of Brooklyn of $4,000 worth
of jewelry and silverware, keeping
the family covered with reyolvers.
band of Bosnian refugees blew up
with dvn aD,ito tho borro ~ KODi+1o
Herzegovina, killing 10 Austrian SOL
diers.
BY the over-turning of a rowboat,
William Black and John Pierson of ST.
David H., were drowned in the I'LL
nois river
Count Johann Heinrich Won Bern
storff, who recently has represented
the German government in Egypt, has
been selected by Emperor William to
succeed the late Baron Won Sternburg
as ambassador to America. Countess
Won Bernstorff is a daughter of Ed
ward Luckemeyer of New York
The United States circuit court at
New York decided the American To-
bacco Company is operated in viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust law,
but refused to appoint a receiver.
Gov. Magoon of Cuba issued a de-
cree providing an annual pension of
$4,000 during her life to the widow of
the late President Tomas Estrada
Palma and $50 monthly in addition dur
ing the minority of her four children.
The worlds production of cotton for
mill consumption during the year end
900 bales the production of the previ-
GUS year, according to the census bu-
reau's report.
F. o. King. superintendent of
schools at Atkins. Mimi, for six years,
committed suicide by taking poison
Fire in the business district of
Blanchard, n. D., destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
After announcing he would make
the jump if he broke his neck Peter
Kramer, an aeronaut from st. Louis,
was killed at Princeton, ILL.,, by being
dashed against a church steeple.
]. Nelson Veit, a young New York
broker. killed his wealthy mother and
himself presumably because she
wouldn't be reconciled to his mar
riage.
Fire destroyed 100000 worth OF
property in the business portion OF
Sherman, Tex.
Mai. Henry Burnett, go years old, OF
Osceola, Ark, shot A. B. CLANCY, a
saloon-keeper of Chaffee, Mo-, who
killed Burnett's son last September
Robbers entered Hubbell mich }
post office, blew open the safe and
stole $500 worth of stamps and some
valuable papers.
President Edmund ]. James of the
University of Illinois, issued an ad
dress on the subject of hazing to the
students, in which he declared that
the sport will not be tolerated an6
that any student found guilty of haz
ing will be dismissed from the uni
versity.