River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-12

building at Collinwood, o. A sweep
| ing investigation by state and village
authorities was begun into the horror.
Forty-eight hours after the disaster
; which swept into eternity approx
mately one-third of the school children
Of North Collinwood, o., the death
roll numbered 1914
The total number of dead, as re-
suit of the burning of the Lakeview
school i'll Collinwood, o., is estimated
at ia.
At the age of 105 years, Owen
Priester, oldest confederate veteran,
died at Salkehatchie, S. c.
Fire which started in a paint shop
at Peoria, ILL.,, caused $4,000 dam
age.
The verdict in the case of Lieut..
Gen Stoessel, who was recently SEN
fenced to death by a court-martial for
the surrender of the Port Arthur
fortress to the Japanese, was formal
ly pronounced at ST. Petersburg.
Edward T. Hance, first vice-presi-
dent of the Union Trust company OF
Detroit, Mich, and former postmaster,
shot and killed himself.
The Democratic state committee OF
Minnesota, after a bitter fight, adopt
ed a resolution indorsing Gov. John 4.
Johnson of Minnesota for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
The army increase pay bill was
passed by the senate.
Montro11a Waterbury
Comm musician and his young, Will
liam, died as a result Of taking car
bolic acid and a daughter was nearly
dead
Mrs. Virginia Campbell Thompson,
daughter of Rev. Alexander Camp
bell, who founded the Christian or
Campbellite church, died in Washing
ton.
A violent gale swept the coasts Of
the British Isles. There have been
numerous wrecks of small craft. Most
Of them were on the east coast of Ire
land Altogether about 20 lives have
been lost.
and brokers of Philadelphia, an
nounced their assignment for the
benefit of creditors.
A Paris paper says that Nine. Anna
Gould has been married to Prince
Helie de Sagan in quiet German
town.
An outburst of anger against En-
peror William on the part of the
British public followed the announce
ment that Emperor William had at
tempted to influence the British naval
policy
Public requests of more than $50,
600 are contained in the will of the
late Rt. Rev. George Worthington,
Episcopal bishop of Nebraska, filed at
Pittsfield, Mass.
The report that Emperor William of
Germany will visit Lisbon, Portugal
started the rumor that arrangements
were being made for the marriage OF
King Manuel and Princess Victoria.
The police of YekaterinOvar, Rus
STA, broke up a big meeting of revO
lutionary workmen and took into Gus
tody the president of the assemblage,
NJ Staroselsky, former governor of
Kutais.
Charges have been preferred by
Rev. George A. Cooke, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church in Bran
don, VT, against Rev. J. r. Day, LII.
D., chancellor of Syracuse university,
on the ground that DR.. Day DETAINED
the character of President Roosevelt.
o1,Yh
York Gov. Charles Hughes declared
for government control of railroads.
Serious flood conditions were re.
ported from many points in Michigan.
Senior Don Eduardo de Beistegui,
third secretary of the Mexican en-
bassy. is dead at Washington.
Gary was elected United States
senator on the fourth ballot by the
joint session of the legislature at Col
umbus, S. G.
The L. l.. Odds Seed company's
plant at Clinton, Wis was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
A treaty of arbitration between the
United States and Mexico has been
agreed upon.
The mysterious death of Walter F.
Baker, the wealthy young Boston
man, which caused a sensation last
October, is to be the subject of fur
Their investigation by the officials of
Bogota, N. j.
Festivities given by the Peruvians
of both Callao and Lima in honor of
the officers and men of the torpedo
fiotilla made the stay of the Ameri-
cans pleasant.
Secretary Straus at Washington is,
sued a sweeping order directing CO.
operation of the police and detective
forces in an effort to rid the country
OF alien anarchists.
Detectives swooped down on the
home of Harry Goldstein in Chicago
and confiscated a trunk filled with an
archistic literature.
After an illness of ten days DR.. o.
ID. J. Hughes died at his home in
New Rochelle, n. Y
Joseph Hufker of Alton, ILL.,, played
cards almost continuously for two
weeks in order to keep alive until his
son, Louis. could reach his bedside.
A fire panic was narrowly averted
at the st. Louis poorhouse by the
GOODNESS and determination of a lone
city fireman regularly stationed there.
Gen. Herman Lieb, a Chicago vet
eran of the civil war, died of injuries
suffered when he slipped and fell on