River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-03-25

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Three persons were drowned, many
injured and damages estimated at
$250,00O, caused by the breaking of
two reservoirs at Parkersburg, w. Va.
While several of the band kept citi-
zens at bay by shooting at all who
came in sight, robbers made an un-
successful attempt to get into the
vault of bank at Bald Knob, Ark.
Joseph Brown, who wounded Chief
OF Police Scott White at Whitmer, w.
Va, was hanged by mob to tele-
graph pole.
John Moake, villain in an amateur
play near Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, was shot
and probably fatally wounded by Roy
Slater, the hero.
DR.. ID. H. Kress of Washington in
an address said the liquor habit could
be cured by eschewing meat and eat
ing plenty of vegetables.
President Lewis of the United Mine
Workers of America has called meet
ing OF the executive board to discuss
the trouble in the anthracite field of
Pennsylvania.
1t was reported that the Tennessee
coal and iron plant of the United States
Steel corporation, at Ensley, Ala, will
be closed for an indefinite time, owing
to stagnation in the iron and steel
trade.
President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt,
Chief Justice Fuller, Gov. Hughes and
Mayor Mcclellan joined in praising
Grover Cleveland at the celebration of
the dead presidents seventy-second
birthday anniversary in New York.
Benjamin l.. Winchell, president OF
the Rock Island railroad, in speech
at Council Bluffs, Ia, complained of
the restricting laws against railroads.
William Whitla, eight-year-old son
OF James H. Whitla, an attorney of
Sharon, Pa, and nephew of Frank H.
Bull, a millionaire, was kidnapped and
ransom Of $4,000 demanded.
Fire destroyed the Union railway
station in Louisville, KY, causing a
loss of 100000.
More than 100 women stormed the
Iowa senate and denounced recent
blows at prohibition by the legislature.
That party lines will be erased by
the fight over the tariff was shown by
Mr.. Broussard's desertion of the Dem
ocrats in the interests of his home dis
trict.
A bill has been introduced in the
house by Mr.. Bennett providing for
postage of one cent an ounce on de-
nestle letters.
William st. Clair, arrested at Fort
Collins, Col, was identified by two
mail clerks as one of the men that
held up and robbed the Rio Grande
passenger train February IS.
Secret service men are collecting
evidence at Bellefontaine, o., to be
used in the governments prosecution
of Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma in the
cases charging alleged land frauds.
Miss Isabel v. Lyon, Mark Twain's
social and literary secretary, was mar
ried to Ralph Ashcraft, who is a close
friend of Mr.. Clemens and who is also
his business adviser
The lnemen, repairers and mechan-
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mail carriers in the Paris strike.
Robbers broke into the bank at
Birds, Ill, and stole $1,000. They
blew open the safe with nitro
glycerine.
Robert Tanner, aged as years, his
son aged ten, and his little daughter
aged eight, were asphyxiated by gas
at their home in Montreal, Ont. The
gas had been turned on accidentally
it is thought.
A Canadian Pacific passenger train,
after the enginemen had leaped from
the locomotive to escape scalding,
crashed into the Montreal station,
killed four persons and injured 30.
A. E. Rice, aged SO, president of the
Ohio Bankers association, died at his
home in Fremont, o., from a complica-
ton of diseases. He was president of
the Crogham Banking & Savings Com
pany.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the annual spring
dinner of the Gridiron club April II.
Senior Espinoza, minister from Mic
aragua, told Secretary Knox his coun-
try had no intention of attacking any
of her sister republics and wants
peace.
A dog sent to find Joseph Small
wood at Indianapolis returned and led
the mans wife to his dead body. He
had committed suicide.
In a debate in parliament fear was
expressed that Germany will soon
outstrip England in naval strength
and be able to wrest the rule of the
seas from Great Britain.
The plan of reorganization of the
Chicago & Great Western railway has
been completed. 1t provides for the
authorization of $6O,000,0O0 first mort
gage four per cent. bonds, of which
$17,000000 will be reserved to retire
outstanding divisional bonds.
Peter Augustus Jay, secretary of the
American embassy at Tokyo, and
Miss Susan Alexander McCook, daugh-
ter of Col John J. McCook, were mar
ried in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church in New York.
Orders have been received by Super
intendent Ross of the Greer tin plant
at Newcastle, Pa, to begin operations
in full. Sixteen hundred employees who
have been idle since last June will be
given work.
John w. Gates, according to a re-
port, is behind merger of several