River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-05-20
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Mackenzie, pastor of Rutgers Presby-
terrain church, New York.
The first convention of the Interna-
tional League for Highway Improve
ment began at Richmond, Va.
Five Filipino outlaws were killed
near Bamno by cavalry under Capt
Rhodes.
The business of the town of Tilton,
ILL.,, is at standstill because three
members of it's board of affairs have
resigned, having been told by the
Standard Oil Company, which employs
them, that it's employees cannot take
part in public administration.
Mrs. Myrtle Brewer, widow, is in
Jail in Lyons, Kan, having confessed
that she shot and killed Frederick Arm,
bridge carpenter, because he an
noyed her.
A dispatch received in Cologne said
a massacre was threatened at Ezer-
oun, Turkey.
The Wright brothers and their sis
ter, who have just returned from Eu-
rope, were heartily welcomed to their
home, Dayton, o.
Former President Roosevelt after
several days of successful hunting,
moved his camp to George McMillan's
Ju ia ranch.
Judge Harris of Paxton refused to
quash the indictment against Joseph
Klein, the Chicago militiaman charged
with killing a Kankakee boy.
The rat" in her hair acted as
buffer and saved Mrs. Richard Frost
of Jackson, Mich, from probable death
in an automobile crash.
The Illinois Elks voted to hold their
1910 convention in Quincy.
A medal was awarded by the war
department to Amos Weaver of Dun
kirk, Ind, for bravery in the Philip
pines.
Misses Maud Ewing and Ida Tilden,
Des Moines Qa.) teachers, were ar
rested on charges of cruelty whipping
David Kaplain, nine years old.
William Price of Pana, ILL.,, COM
mitted suicide by blowing himself to
pieces with dynamite
William E. Corey, president of the
United States Steel corporation, sailed
from New York for Europe. He said
an early tariff adjustment meant pros
perity.
Geraldine Farrar, prima donna, will
be welded in June to Antonio Scott,
Italian barytone. The ceremony will
take place in Paris.
F. j. Walz district forecaster of
Louisville, KY, has been appointed to
assume charge of the new topograph-
1cal division of the United States for
the collection of climatology data.
Eastern Illinois is in the division.
Chicago is seeking the next conven-
ton of the National Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, which is meeting
in Columbus, o., and which is expected
to vote money for completing the
home for aged and disabled trainmen
at Highland Park, Ill.
Judge G. H. Cabaniss of the superior
court of San Francisco granted di-
vorces to seven women in 20 minutes.
The twenty-fifth worldwide quadren-
NAL conference of the United Brethren
church began IL days session at
Canton, o.
Wireless telephone between Chicago
and Milwaukee was put in operation,
the first wireless telephone message
received in Wisconsin being picked up
at the Office of the Milwaukee Journal.
The departmental committee which
probed the alleged combinations in
the meat trade in England scored the
American beef trust
Twenty men were killed by the ex-
plosion of 1000 pounds of dynamite at
Bethlehem, N. Y.
In deciding the suit of Mrs Sarah
A. Davis of Vermilion, ILL.,, the circuit
court will determine whether the
widow owns the body of her husband.
Twenty-four men, who participated
in the recent mutiny, were hanged in
the streets of Constantinople.
Announcement was made that E. H.
Gary will give 100000 Y. M. C. A.
building to the city of Gary, Ind.
Thomas H. Netherland, who had
charge OF the social affairs of the
White House during the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. committed suicide.
II. R. Brasfeld of Unionville, Mo,
state representative, who in 1902 set
record by fasting so days, is said to be
dying in Jefferson City, Mo.
John w. Heron of Cincinnati,
father of Mrs. William H. Taft, ac-
companied by his daughter, Mrs.
Louise More, has gone to the White
House for a visit.
Both Henry T. Huntington, nephew
of the late Coils P. Huntington. and
the latter's widow, Mrs. Arabella d.
Huntington, denied the dispatches
from Los Angeles that they are to be
married.
Claiming complete lapse of memory,
a mysterious stranger has arrived at
Mcneil, Ark, with the only means of
Identification being the letters III. A.
W." on his linen. He says he remem-
bers he was a professor at a univer-
sity in Texas.
Because she wore high-heeled shoes
when she was injured by fall from a
street car, Mrs. Anna Peterson of Oak
land, Cal, has lost her suit for dam
ages against the Oakland Traction
Company.
The Playground Association of
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