River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-12-10

The United States cruiser Yankee
just released from Spindle Rock al
Buzzards Bay, sank near Peinkezee
island her crew of $50 men being
saved.
The receivers of the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Company
and the Securities Investment Com
pany were discharged in the United
States circuit court at Pittsburg, Pa
The suffragettes of London INDUCED
in a fierce demonstration against
David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the
exchequer at Albert hail.
Wreckage which has come ashore
at Cape Ray leaves little room for
doubt that the sturdy little steamer
500 City, which for 20 years piled as
an excursion vessel on the Great
Lakes, went down with her crew in
the midst of the gale that lashed the
Newfoundland coast for two days.
She was on her way to the Gulf OF
Mexico and carried a crew of % men.
Mrs. Abbie Rice completed her testi-
mony in the Davis trial at Omaha by
relating the extraordinary agreement
which she says Dr. Rustin made with
Davis, whereby Davis was to kill the
physician in return for poison with
which to commit suicide.
The controversy between the Penn
sylvania lines west Of Pittsburg and
the engineers was amicably settled.
The United States cruiser Yankee,
which hod haon aoroupd in Pu1zard G
bay for ten weeks, has been foated.
A revolution has begun in Salvador
under the leadership of former Vice
President Prudencio Alfaro. The cities
of Ahuachapan, Usutulan and Santana
have been captured by the revolution
lists.
The conference Of the powers called
by Great Britain to frame code of
laws for naval warfare and to form
the international prize court recon-
mended by The Hague congress, was
opened at the foreign office in London.
Standard Oil prosecutions in Hamil-
ton county, O., were dismissed at the
request of the prosecuting attorney.
The Round Mountain Banking cor
poration of Round Mountain, New,
closed it's doors because of bad loans.
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Mariani,
daughter of Mayor Tom Johnson Of
Cleveland, o., was granted a divorce
from FREDERICK Mariani of New York.
Malvern Hill, the historic colonial
residence IL miles below Richmond on
James river belonging to William H.
Hall of New York, was completely de-
stroyed by fire.
Three Dutch warships made dem
onstration against Venezuela by
steaming along it's coast from Puerto
Cabello to La Guaira.
Nord Alexis, president of Hayti, was
deposed by the people of Port au
Prince, attacked insulted and cursed,
and took refuge on a French vessel.
Gen. Legitime 1Jas proclaimed his sue
cessor.
For many hours during the night
following the flight of Nord Alexis, de-
posed president of Hayti, riot and pill
lage prevailed in Port au Prince. Final
ly troops fired on the mob, killing IL,
wounding many and dispensing the
rest.
Unable to withstand the continued
pressure of the water hurled against 1t
through the diverting of the current of
the Arkansas river, the result of the
dynamiting operations, the government
dyke at the foot of Alabama street,
Pine Bluff, Ark, several blocks south
of the former danger zone, was washed
away for a distance of 200 yards.
Poison conveyed in a letter is be-
lieved to have caused the death of
Henry Boas, salesman for an electric
company in San Francisco.
Seventeen fishermen persisted in a
storm which dashed the Newfoundland
coast for 4S hours.
A $4,000 pearl necklace stolen from
the home of Frank G.. Jones in Mem
phis, Tenn, on the night of February
10 last, was recovered in New York.
1t belongs to Garrett E. Lamb of Clin-
ton. Ia.
Alexander Shipoff, millionaire pro-
prietor of the Neva ferry line and one
of the richest men of st. Petersburg,
was condemned to six months impris-
onment on the charge of criminal neg
hgence in connection with the founder
ing of the ferry steamer Archangelsk.
Gen. Ismail Mahir Pasha, former
aide-de-camp of the sultan, who inves-
ttgated the revolutionary movement in
the army last May, and who was con-
sidered to have been spy of the old
regime. was assassinated by an army
officer
Ex-Mayor Adolphus Seebohm of
Pomeroy, o., committed suicide in a
room in Gallipolis, O., by blowing his
brains out with a pistol
Timothy r. Palmer, who resigned
recently as president of the Minnesota
Mutual Life Insurance Company, COM
mitted suicide in St. Paul because of
i'll health
Thirty-five Japanese fishing boats
we're wrecked in a typhoon, $50 men
losing their lives.
John Gill, Jail turnkey at Jackson,
Miss, committed suicide. His only
explanation was he had tried to be
gentleman and failed.
All fourth-class postmasters in the
states east of the Mississippi river and
north of the Ohio river were placed
in the classified service by an execu-
tive order of the president.
Four armed men held up a street car
in New York and robbed the Dassen-