River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
The verified known death list result


Forest fires driven by high winds
were reported to be raging fiercely in
the Adirondacks.
sugar Island, Mich, was reported or
fire from end to end. Near Detour
several towns were surrounded by for
est fires.
Fires in Vincennes, Ind, destroyed
the grain elevators of Bartlett, Kuhn
& Co. and the plant of the Empire Pa
per Company.
Two sisters, aged II and six years,
are accused of a long series of rob-
berries at Beverly, Mass.
Two men were killed and five in
jured, one fatally, in a wreck of a
gasoline speeder on the Newton &
Northwestern road near Gowrie, Ia.
Emperor Williams fourth son,
Prince August William of Prussia, and
Princess Alexandra Victoria Of Schles.
wig Holstein were welded in the
chapel of the imperial palace at
! Berlin.
Many thousands of citizens of
Tokyo marched in a lantern parade in
! honor of the officers of the American
feet, the demonstration being one of
| in any country.
The Italian cruiser Fieramosca has
been ordered to await the duke of the
Abruzzi at New York, whittier the
cruiser Etruria also will be dispatched.
It is understood that the two warships
will escort the duke and his bride to
Italy. Mr.. Elkins is to be given the
title Of chevalier of Annunciade.
Maurice TannenholZ, New York
jeweler, was robbed of two diamond
earrings and fatally shot by the
thief.
Mayor Tom Johnson and the three
cent street car fare suffered crush
ing blow, when the franchise under
which the Municipal Traction Com
pany is operating the local street rail-
way lines on the low-fare basis, was
defeated by a majority of 879 in the
referendum.
Train service and business in the
northwest were demoralized by a Sc
we're snowstorm and blizzard.
The supreme court of Nebraska sus-
tanned the legality of the Nebraska
blue laws forbidding all Sunday bust
ness transactions.
Seventeen Of the women suffragists
who were arrested in London during
the "storming" of the house of CON-
mons were sentenced to terms Of i'm
prisonment varying from three weeks
to three months.
Benjamin F. Gilbert, aged Is years,
was found guilty at Norfolk, Va, of
murder in the first degree for killing
his sweetheart, Miss Amanda Morse.
Miss Lucille Mulhall, known as COX
lahoma's Cowgirl" and Martin Van
Burgan, vaudeville singer, were Sc
cretly married in Brooklyn, N. Y, Sep
TENDER IA, 1907, according to an
nouncements made in Topeka, Kan,
by the couple.
Dr. Irving ]. Cook Of New York, ac-
cused of causing the death of a young
woman, committed suicide in the Wal
dorf-Astoria hotel.
Torrential rains caused serious
floods in San Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras.
The officers Of the American battle
ships were entertained at fine dinner
and ball by Premier Katsura at his
residence in Tokyo.
Col. Zachary Taylor escaped from
the mob that murdered Capt. Quentin
Rankin at Reelfoot lake, Tenn, by
bold dash in a rain of bullets. He was
unhurt.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion awarded medals to 48 persons for
acts of bravery and gave about $4,000
cash to some of them.
Belated reports at Manila indicate
that the storm of October IL in the
Cagayan valley was the worst and
most destructive within the memory
of living inhabitants of the valley. 1t
is believed 800 lives were lost.
AS a result of ptomaine poisoning
three children of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Hackert Of Schenectady, N. Y, are
dead, the father is critically i'll, one
son and three daughters are less seri-
ously affected.
A grand jury at Coalgate, Okla,
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Coalgate and recommended the remov-
al of H. H. Smock, the examiner who
had closed the bank.
Frank G. Marin, formerly we'll
known Brooklyn lawyer who was con-
victed of swindling Mrs. Caroline
Barry, widow, out of $4,000, was
sentenced to from Is to 20 years in
states prison.
Three burglars blew the safe of the
post Office at Mayville, Mich, but were
driven away empty-handed by citi-
zens.
Mrs. Nels Ingvarhorn and her two
children we're killed by the explosion
Of a gasoline stove at Sisseton, S. D.
William P. Dillingham; and Carroll
S. Page were formally elected to rep
resent Vermont in the United States
senate, at joint session of the gener
al assembly.
An incendiary fire destroyed the ele-
vator of the Hungarian Mills Com
pany at Denver, the loss being $780,
600.
The timely intervention of a physi-
clan who was not satisfied with the
appearance of the body prevented the
burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman,
wife of one of the best-known citizens
of Ellis, Kan.