River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-07

The steamship Texas, on her maid
en- voyage from Christiana, Norway,
to Havana, put in at Savannah, Ca,
with her cargo of paper and carbides
afire The passengers were landed
safely, but it was feared the vessel
would be destroyed.
Great anxiety is being felt by the
inhabitants Of Greenbank, a small
town in West Virginia, over the stead
lily increasing appearance of burning
crater of seemingly volcanic nature,
on the side of neighboring noun
tain.
The Park opera house at Erie, Pa,
caught fire during a performance and
a terrible panic was barely averted.
No one was seriously injured.
The two masked highwaymen who
held up 25 men near Tulsa, Okla,
were captured.
The Tom Jones restaurant in Chi
cago was totally wrecked by an eX-
plosion of gas.
An aerial warship 700 feet in length
with accommodations for 100 passen-
age across the ocean, and full COM
plement of guns, is to be built immedi-
ately at the Nixon yards, according to
Lewis Nixon, the designer and con-
structor of many warships.
Prof J. P. Gordy of New York uni
versity and his wife committed sui
eide a few hours after the death of
their daughter.
Passenger travel across the Atlantic
in the year of 1908 shows shrinkage
of nearly 100000 persons as COM
pared with the preceding year.
Forty-eight bodies were taken from
the colliery at Lick Branch, w. Va,
and it was certain that the explosion
killed about 60 men.
With the beginning of the new year
the statewide prohibition law in Ala
bama went into effect.
Fire destroyed the Whitwell hos
pital at Tucson, Ariz., all the patients
being saved.
Because he swore around the house,
Lee Marshbanks, living five miles east
of Catoosa, Okla, shot and instantly
killed his brother. John.
A disaffected Corsican fired several
shots at M Clemenceau, the French
premier, but failed to hit him.
Ray Reese of Kansas City, Kan,
shot Mrs. Clyde Setter, his former
sweetheart, and killed himself.
Five robbers dynamited the bank at
many shots with the citizens escaped
with $4,000 No one was hurt.
Arthur Trotter, SO years old, sup
posedly insane, killed his aged mother,
Mrs. Ann Trotter, by beheading her
with an ak and knife in New York.
Fire in the wool warehouse district
of Philadelphia caused loss of
100000.
Al Kaufman of San Francisco
stopped Jimmy Barry of Chicago in
the thirty-fifth round of their SEIZED
uled 45-round fight in Los Angeles.
A. w. Troutman, an employe of a
Kansas City, Mo-, produce company
committed suicide after confessing
that he had embezzled 1920 of the
firms money.
John Emerson Stone, aged %, high
ly connected in Boston and New York,
graduate of Holy Cross college, Wor-
cester, Mass, was shot and killed in
Washington by May Woolard, who
then shot herself twice and may die.
The will of the late Amos H. Van
Horn, furniture merchant of New
ark, N. j., disposing of an estate
worth $1,000,00O, gives $150,000 to
Newark for three monuments in city
parks in honor of soldiers and sailors,
| and to many churches and charitable
institutions sums ranging from $4,000
down.
Capt Harvey G. DAILY of the schoon-
er Freddie w. Alton, and Philip NJ.
| Springer, a Boston florist, were found
guilty in the United States district
court at Boston of conspiracy to SNUG
gle Chinese into the country.
Accused of professionalism in de-
handing exorbitant expense moneys,
Melvin w. Sheppard, Charles Bacon,
Harry F. Porter and George v. Bonhag
of the Irish-American Athletic club;
F. G. Bellars, New York Athletic club,
and ]. ]. Lee. formerly of the Boston
Athletic association, but now unat-
tached, were suspended by the Anna
teur Athletic union
Brooding over fancied disgrace to
his family because his father had been
whipped by night riders, Roy Rogers,
the 20-year-old son of Presley Rogers,
a prominent planter, committed sui
eide at Hopkinsville, Ky.
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