River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-16

Judge Windes at Chicago Quashed
| the last CT the indictments growing
out of the Iroquois theater disaster.
Edwin Collier, ST., took his eight
/ year-old blind son Edwin to his wife's
grave in Ravenna (O.) cemetery, shot
him dead and then put bullet
through his own body, near the heart.
Residents of the Ghetto in New
York turned out in such numbers to
attend the funeral of their poet and
playwright, Abraham Goldfaden, that
traffic on the Bowery was blocked.
The grand jury in Kansas City re-
turned 100 indictments for working
on Sunday, mostly against actors and
other theatrical folk.
Mrs Henry o. Boehme of Orange,
N. j., committed suicide by kneeling
in front of an express train in the
Lackawanna railroad.
Fred Otto of Miles, Ia, travelling dis
patcher of the Chicago Great Western
railroad, was killed at Egan, ILL.,, while
assisting in clearing a wreck.
William H. Taft addressed large
audience in the Peoples Institute, New
n,
mitted to a rapid fire quiz from his
hearers.
The safe of the Bank of Adair at
Adair, ILL.,, was blown open with nitro
glycerin and $1,000, all the currency
in bank, was taken.
Five persons were killed in COLI
sion on the Alabama & Mississippi
railroad at Vinegar Bend, Ala.
The appellate division of the SUI
preme court of New York set aside
verdict for 100000 obtained against
George ]. Gould and others by John
S. Jones, an Ohio coal operator.
The American Society of Equity in
session at Henderson, KY, denounced
the night riders as common criminals.
James A. Kemp, embezzling en-
ploye of the Washington police de-
partment, was arrested in New Or
leans.
Fire destroyed business block in
Sidney, Neb, the loss being 100000.
William H. Patterson, son of former
Senator John Patterson of North Caro-
lima and brother-in-law of Admiral Ev-
ans, commanding the Pacific fleet,
died at Battle Creek, Mich, from
pneumonia.
1t was officially announced in Tokyo
that Baron Takahira had been chosen
ambassador to the United States to
succeed Viscount Aoki.
The socialists organized suffrage
demonstration before the building of
~ 10y, 10 IN hinh
a radical resolution demanding univer-
sal suffrage in Prussian elections came
up for discussion. They were dis
persed by the police, and Chancellor
Won Buelow said the government was
against manhood suffrage.
Paul Bowers, aged IA years, shot
and killed a negro burglar in his home
at Alverton, Pa.
George F. Evans, vice president and
general manager of the Maine Central
railroad, died at Vanceboro, Me.
Terrorists of Warsaw threw a bomb
at post car station, killing two men
and injuring ten, and escaping with
large sum of money.
Five Detroit firemen were injured,
none of them seriously, at a fire which
caused about 100000 damage in the
Forester & Cheney knitting mills
Fire in the business section of AL
bion, ILL.,, destroyed the Edwards Coun-
ty Bank building, the new National
Bank building, the telephone exchange
and four stores.
1t is reported in New Britain, Conn,
that William F. Walker, the abscond-
ing bank treasurer recently arrested
in Mexico, is being aided in his de-
tense by New York parties who re-
ceived part of the stolen securities.
New Jersey railway commissioners
report that from July 20 to December
1, 1907, 10S persons were killed and
1913 injured by railroads in the state.
Ex-Empress Eugene and her suite
sailed from Marseilles, France, for Co.
lombo
DR.. Horace Newell Marvin of Dover,
Del, father of the boy who wandered
away from farmhouse near Dover
last spring and died from exposure,
was married to Mrs. Flora Melinda
Swift, his mother-in-law.
Testimony was begun in the suit in
stituted by Richard Smell, son of Col.
Thomas Smell, the late millionaire
railroad builder, in Clinton, ILL.,, to
break the will which cuts young Smell
off with an annuity of but $50. Sen
sational statements were made by
counsel for the plaintiff to the effect
that Col. Smell had expended no less
than 100000 upon women during the
last ten years of his life, of which
| $4,000 had gone to his alleged grand
niece, Maybelle Smell, of Kansas City,
Mo-, now Mrs. Mcnamara.
The district court of appeals at
San Francisco handed down a decision
setting aside the judgment in the case
of former Mayor Eugene E. SchmitZ,
convicted of extortion in the French
restaurant case. Abe Ruef also bene-
fits by the ruling.
The old historic building at New.
bern, N c., which was part of Gov.
Tryon's place before the revolutionary
war was destroyed by fire.
Cyrus j. Lawrence, aged rs, of the
New York banking firm of Cyrus ].
Lawrence & Son and vice president
of the Bush Terminal company, died.
Lansing, Mich, was seized by a
strange malady, thousands of persons
haiuo Strickpn with nausea and acnte