River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-04-01

James Boyle and the woman he calls
his wife, kidnapers of Willie Whitla,
were placed in jail at Pittsburg for
safe keeping, the authorities fearing
for their safety at Sharon.
The woman who planned the Whitla
kidnapping and is known as Mrs.
! James Boyle, was Anna Overton,
daughter of former fireman of Chi
cago.
Mrs. Jessie Overton Culbertson of
Vincennes, Ind, committed suicide
and was not slain, according to latest
developments in the strange case.
President and Mrs. Taft entertained
at dinner at the White House warning
factors in the house of representa-
tives.
The Is railroads of Missouri have
decided to put into effect April 1, a
three-cent passenger fare.
The original affinity" wife, Mrs.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, has sued for
an annulment of her marriage, de-
claring her husband is a lunatic.
The new military post to be con-
structed at Waiano, Uka, Island of
Oahu, Hawaii, has been designated
Schofield barracks, in honor of the
late Lieut. Gen. John M. Schofield.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., wife Of
the tobacco magnate, committed sui
eide in Washington. Illness is be-
lieved to have caused her act.
Unopened notes, buried with Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard, Jr., the Washington
society leader, carried to the grave
the secret of her suicide.
The First National bank of Gibson,
Okla, has closed its doors. 1t is CAPT
talized at $4,000 All the deposits
have been transferred to the Citizens
State bank. Depositors will be paid in
full.
Frederick D. Prentice and Miss
Hope Yeager were returned to Toledo,
o., from Oklahoma to answer to
charges growing out of the investiga-
ton of the German Fire Insurance
Company, of which Prentice was Sec
rotary and treasurer, and Miss Yea
ger department manager.
Representative Cox of Ohio called
on President Taft to discuss plans for
the delivery of the gold medals
awarded by the Aero Club of America
to the Wright Brothers of Dayton, o.
Mrs. Lloyd c. Griscom, wife of the
American ambassador to Italy, who
has been i'll, underwent a slight opera
ton which, although successful, will
prevent her leaving Rome until May.
More than 10000 persons demanded
seats in the Milwaukee hippodrome
where the liquor debate between
Mayor Rose and Samuel Dickie was
held. The building holds 1000.
Gen. Cipriano Castro, former presi-
dent of Venezuela, has sailed from
Havre for home and, it is believed, in
tends to attempt to rule the country
again.
The French chamber of deputies
unanimously adopted M. Delcasse's
motion to appoint a parliamentary
commission to inquire into the state
of the navy before fresh credits were
voted.
King Edward has appointed the
earl of Granard knight of the Order
of st. Patrick in place of the earl of
Howth, deceased. The earl of Granard
married Miss Beatrice Mills of New
York in January of this year.
Adjt. U. T. Webb, head of the Sal
walton Army of Youngstown, o., COM
mitted suicide by swallowing NOR
phine. He knelt in earnest prayer
with his wife after taking the drug.
Frederick Richardson, wanted on
charges of fraud amounting to $780,
600, committed suicide in Harrisburg,
Pa, just as the police were about to
arrest him
The miners convention at Scranton,
Pa, decided that there will be no
strike on April 1, when the present
agreement with the operators expires.
Police Commissioner Bingham said
bride of 100000 a year was offered
to him if he would protect certain
criminal interests in New York city.
Plans for the formation of a merger
of four eastern railroads under one
system have been made by George
Gould and others according to a Balti-
more report.
Mrs. Amos Miller drowned herself
and two children at Sumsbury, Conn.,,
while mentally deranged.
Representative Taylor struck Rep
resentative Shoemaker with his fist
and called him "deceitful liar" dur
ing the progress of an argument over
the woman suffrage bill in the Ne
braska house.
William C. Nagel, the oldest en-
gineer in point of service on the Big
Four lines, was killed by being struck
by a water crane as he put his head
out Of his cab window, II miles east
of Greensburg, Ind.
The lower branch of the Connect
cut general assembly adopted reso-
luton instructing the Connecticut
delegation in congress to favor chang
ing the date of the presidential in
auguration from March 4 to the last
week in April.
Attorney General Wickersham has
asked Wade H. Ellis of Ohio to con-
tinue in his present position of assist
ant attorney general, and it was Off
cially announced that Mr.. Ellis had
agreed to do so.
Two children of Hosea Webster, a
merchant of Deals Island, Md, died