River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04

with Capt. Sealby of the Republic, his
volunteer crew and Jack Binns, the
wireless operator, who stuck to the
, rammed liner until she went down.
The Florida, badly smashed, also
reached port
The New York senate adopted res
olution expressing admiration for the
heroic services rendered by the Mar
conf operator on board the steamship
Republic during the collision with the
Florida, and by the officers and crews
Of the colliding steamships, the
steamer Baltic, the revenue cutter
Gresham and the derelict destroyer
Seneca.
Owners of the steamers Republic
and Florida both began suits for dam
ages in the court of admiralty at New
York, the White Star line asking
100000.
The French government decided to
give special medal to Jack Binns,
Republic.
According to meager reports re.
ceived in London, an earthquake shook
the entire Mediterranean coast of
Spain, and it was believed many lives
were lost. Barcelona was said to have
been overwhelmed by tidal wave and
towns were reported buried by land
slides.
A furious storm of snow, sleet and
rain, accompanied by a wind which in
places reached a velocity of Is miles
an hour, held the United States in its
grasp from the eastern slope of the
Rockies to Detroit and from the Cana
dian boundary to southern Texas. The
storm brought with it loss of life, in
juries to many persons, suffering to
live stock, delay to railroad trains, tie
up of street car service, partial paraly-
sis Of telegraph service, destruction OF
telephone lines and general damage
and inconvenience.
Fleetwood Lester, travelling sales
man for the Southern Supply Com
pany, and his wife are in Jail at Mo-
bile, Ala, charged with holding up
Hardaway Young, president of the
company, at the point of revolver at
the formers home and robbing him of
S., 6OO.25.
Fire in ST. Paul destroyed half a
dozen buildings and threatened the
business district The loss was $780,
900.
Conrade Danielson, Porto Rjcan
manager for the United States Ex-
press Company, shot and killed him.
self in New York after a quarrel with
his wife.
John Bedford, accused of the MUIR
der of Oscar Hoganson, a young farm
er at Marengo, ILL.,, the latter part OF
last October, pleaded guilty in the
county court at Woodstock, Ill. He
was given an indeterminate sentence
by Judge Donnelly.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announced that orders for 1900 new
steel freight cars for use on the lines
west of Pittsburg had been placed.
Old and WORKOUT cars are to be re-
placed by the new ones.
The suit of the Salvation Army in
the United States against the Ameri-
can Salvation Army to enjoin the lat
ter organization from the use of it's
name and from publishing the paper
called "The American Salvation Army
War Cry" was dismissed by Justice
O'Gorman in the supreme court of
New York.
Hawaii has set up a quarantine
against queen bees that are unhealthy.
The mails will bar such consignments.
The navy department opened bids
for locating a wireless tower at Wash
ington for communicating with ships
at sea, to the distance of 5000 miles.
Frank D. Campbell, a travelling
salesman for Franklin MacVeagh &
Co. of Chicago, whose wife died I'M
der mysterious circumstances Deem
Der "a, wa crested in Kewanee, ILL.,,
and formally accused of having MUIR
dered her.
The bodies of the two American vic
Tins of the earthquake at Messina,
Italy, United States Consul Arthur S.
Cheney and Mrs. Cheney, arrived in
New York
James Mooney of Missouri, mem
Der of the national executive board of
the United Mine Workers of America,
in speech opposing resolution pro-
testing to congress against a repeal
of the tariff on coal, criticised the po-
litical trend of the convention of the
organization.
Ten persons were badly hurt when
a passenger train on the Southern
railway was derailed near Point Wood,
Ind
1t was reported that King Menelik
of Abyssinia was dangerously i'll.
Fire in Lcndon, KY, destroyed the
Stillwell hotel, a Methodist church
and several dwellings.
Three men were killed at South
Bend, Ind, by being buried in a cave-in
of gravel in a sewer excavation.
Emperor William has established a
government monopoly of the trade in
all diamonds found in German South
west Africa.
Statistics from the foreign office at
Tokyo show that for every Japanese
that is coming to America, three are
going home.
August Belmont, the New York
financier, was operated on for appendi-
citis.
George Goldman, a lawyer of Phila-
delphia, was indicted by the grand
jury on a charge of criminally libeling
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