River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-01-28

Jay Gould, champion amateur court
tennis player of the world and son of
the millionaire railroad director,
George J. Gould, is likely to become
a probation officer in a New York pc
| lice court.
A pair of surgeons forceps, acct
dentally sewed up in the abdomen
after an operation II years ago. caused
the death of Miss Mary G. Donovan
of Philadelphia. The operation in
which the unfortunate mistake oc
Cured was performed by a surgeon of
that city of high reputation, who has
since died.
The number of dead in the crib fire
horror at Chicago was estimated at
70. 1t was believed the disaster was
caused by q workman dropping
| torch OH dynamite.
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
published statement declaring they
would not ask for clemency in the con-
tempt Of court matter and severely de.
nouncing Justice Wright and his de-
cision against them.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the mems building of the Mahoning
county infrmary at Garfield, o., and
Is Of the aged inmates received burns
more or less serious.
The prohibition forces of Tennessee
scored another victory when the house
passed the bill prohibiting the manu-
facture OF intoxicating liquors in this
state after January 1, 1910.
Alvin Boline of Ottawa, ILL.,, shot his
wife and fatally wounded her mother
in the latter's home at Galva, ILL.,, and
chen committed suicide
An alleged conspiracy of stockmen
to Drive stock company from South
Dakota was revealed by the confes-
sions of men under arrest.
Mrs. Susie M. Burdette, widow of
the late Joshua Burdette, q wealthy
pioneer merchant of Creek county, Ok
lahoma, who was the victim of mys-
ferrous assassination at Eufala, Okla,
in 1906, filed suit for the recovery of
100000 insurance upon Burdette's
life.
The Union Tobacco society after
months of preparation and preliminary
meetings received the final touches of
the promoters at Louisville and as
result the tobacco growers of Ken
lucky, Indiana and Wisconsin are
welded into one body with central
administration.
Prof. T. A. Jaggar, Jr., of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, an
authority on volcanoes, predicts ter
rible eruption of Mount Etna within
Is months.
The members of the Union of Anne
lean Hebrew Congregations united in
the dedication of memorial window
to Rabbi Isaac M. Wise at Temple
Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia.
The business portion of McCracken,
Kan, including the Jesse hotel, was
destroyed by fire.
A plot to assassinate Detective Ga
briel Longobardi of Chicago because
of his activity against the Black
Hand, was exposed by an Italian
woman.
Fines ranging from $3.50 to $500
have been imposed upon st. Peters
burg journals for publishing articles
based on statements in foreign news
papers to the effect that agents of
the Russian police had participated in
terroristic crimes.
Over the veto of Gov. Patterson
both houses of the Tennessee legisla-
ture passed the senate bill which pro-
hibits the sale of intoxicating liquors
within four miles of a schoolhouse in
Tennessee and is in effect a statewide
prohibition act 1t is effective July /,
1909.
The jury in the case of Gov. B. B.
Conner of Alabama against the Mont
gomery Advertiser awarded damages
of one cent for libel. The governor de-
manded $4,000
Four men were killed and ten 9th
ers injured, one fatally, when several
tons of dynamite in one of the build
ings of the Forcite Powder works at
Lake Hopatcong, N. j., blew up.
Mrs. Ingles and four of her children
were burned to death in their farm
house IL miles from Lang, Sask.
Gov. George E. Chamberlain of Ore
gon, Democrat, was elected United
States senator by Republican legis-
lature, and Charles J. Hughes, Jr., was
elected senator by the Colorado legis-
lature.
Consideration of the bills denying
Japanese the right to own land or to
be directors of corporations was de-
layed for one week by the California
assembly at the request of President
Roosevelt and Gov Gillett.
That the United States is not a
Christian country was the spirit of
resolution passed by the delegates to
the twenty-first council of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations
in Philadelphia.
Announcement was made that an
other alleged trust is to be investi-
gated by the federal authorities in
New York. The company concerned
is the Atlantic Terra Gotta Company,
a $3,000,000 corporation.
On a warrant sworn out by Gov.
Haskell, charging conspiracy to de.
fame the governor, Scott MacRey.
nolds, attorney and special agent for
William r. Hearst, was arrested in
| Guthrie and a mass of data on the
| governors libel suit against Hearst
was seized in his room.
| Paul Radloff, under sentence of ten
| years for arson, hanged himself in the