River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-05-13
The national commanderies Of the

officers who served in the conflict
were in attendance.
Francis l.. Wellman, noted cross
examiner and authority of court pro.
cedure, declared in speech to the
Catholic club in New York that per-
jury by Witnesses was increasing at
an alarming rate.
In default of payment of a hotel bill
in Paris, France, the trunks and cloth
ing of Princess Louise of Belgium,
which have been seized, will be sold
in accordance with a court order.
John Bradley was found guilty OF
murder in the first degree in Kenosha,
Wis, for killing Clifford L. Smith, a
Libertyville (Ill.) contractor, on June
81, 1906.
A fierce electrical storm swept over
northern Indiana and lower Michigan
and the high wind dashed rain and
hail, cutting crops and stripping fruit
trees. Great property damage was
done
Harry Josephs, who alleged he was
falsely imprisoned in Belleville, ILL.,,
at the instance of Harry Rosenberg,
rival merchant, sued for $4,000 and
obtained verdict of one cent, or one
mill for each pound of flesh he had
lost while in Jail.
Mothers day" was celebrated gen.
orally throughout the country and con-
tributions were taken up in the
churches for destitute mothers.
The American Federation of Musi-
In of
Minneapolis, with about three hun
dred delegates present.
The arrival of British battleship
at Suadia, Asiatic Turkey, brought re-
lief to the survivors of the recent
massacre.
James Boyle was convicted at
Mercer, Pa, of kidnapping Willie
Whitla, and the trial of his wife began
Immediately.
Advocates of international peace
through arbitration met in Washing
ton at a dinner in honor of Secretary
Knoxs f1fty-sixth birthday anniver-
sary.
Mrs. Harry Thaw paid the judgment
obtained against her by milliner and
avoided going to jail for contempt of
court.
Canon Arthur w. Behrens, chaplain
of st. Adams School for Boys at
Galesburg, ILL.,, fearing insanity, COM
mitted suicide.
Several farm houses, much stock
and other property were destroyed by
prairie fire which swept ten town
ships near North Platte, Neb.
The fiftieth anniversary of the dis
covery of gold was celebrated with
fetes in Denver and other Colorado
cities and towns.
An ice skating rink is to be installed
in the Plaza hotel, New York, for use
of patrons in hot weather.
A crystal spring which was favored
In the early days of San Francisco for
it's medicinal virtues but lost to sight
for many years has started to flow
again on one of the main streets.
Three thousand silk worms sailed
on the steamer Mauretania in charge
of John A. Emery of New York, who
will take them to the south of France
for breeding in an effort to produce
hybrid which will spin silk superior to
that of China.
DR.. T. e. Graham resigned as assist
ant physician of the state hospital for
the insane No. at st. Joseph, Mo-,
and asserted that inmates were sub
jected to gross outrages on the part
of the attendants.
The Missouri senate passed reso-
luton to submit statewide prohibit
ton amendment to the constitution to
the people.
The trial of James Boyle, charged
with kidnapping Willie Whitla, was be-
gun in Mercer, Pa.
The American Therapeutic society
opened it's tenth annual convention
in Lampson hall, Yale university.
Two more lions were killed by Col.
Roosevelt, making six he has now
brought down with his trusty rifle.
1t is the hope of the sleeping sick
ness" commission that Theodore
Roosevelt will visit it's camp at Sesset
| Uganda, and view the work being
done to find cure for the disease.
May wheat was sold in the Chicago
market at $1.291a on the strength of
a report that James A. Patten had re-
entered the game.
! British riflemen in the international
small bore match defeated the Amer
leans, 1853 points to 14,179 out of a
possible $4,000.
Arthur Stitt and Lesla Stroud died
in a buggy in Indianapolis from
! poison, after she had spurned his love.
A plot was discovered in the Cali
fornia penitentiary in which J. B.
Clifton, a convict, planned to have a
friend steal Gov. Gillette's son and
hold him until Clifton was pardoned
Mrs. Della Stringer was acquitted
at Washington, Ind, on a charge of
blackmail, but was sent to an insane
asylum.
DR.. Frank r. Hanson, wanted in
Jackson, Mimi, for forgery, feigued
sickness and escaped from Sheriff
Terhaar in Kansas City.
King Edward, who has been travel.
ing in the south of Italy, arrived in
Paris on his way to England
Ex-President Castro of Venezuela
says his physicion had advised him
to go to the Canary islands
The buildings of the Northwest
Stove works at the Oregon state peni-