River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-21

Four men were killed, six seriously
injured and dozen more stunned by
bolt of lightning which wrecked q
crowded poultry exhibition tent at the
county fair in Indianola, Ill.
The democratic state central commit
tee of Wisconsin met in Milwaukee,
when the resignation of A. F. Warden,
as state chairman, was formally re-
ceived and accepted.
Charles Johnson and George Oliver,
miners, were killed by premature
nee, Mich.
Three storms, which attained the We
locity of a typhoon, have swept Korea.
The town of Gensan was flooded and at
Seoul many people were drowned and
many buildings destroyed.
At it's closing session in Nashville,
Tenn, the great council of Red Men
accepted the invitation of Dallas, Tex.
to meet there next year.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky has COM
pletely recovered from the wounds
which he sustained at the battle of the
Sea of Japan.
Peter Vieau, the Oldest native MIL
waukeean and brother-in-law of Solo
mon Juneau, died at his home at Mus
kego Center, Wis, at the age of sc
years.
Samuel Hisle, negro on trial at
Manchester, KY, charged with assault
ing Mrs. Jasper Case, white woman,
was sentenced to be hanged.
On the Ninth avenue elevated rail-
road, New York, car crowded with
early morning workers, on their way
downtown, pitched headlong into the
street. Twelve persons were killed.
Employees say the isthmus canal will
cost 81 900 000,O0 and take 20 years to
complete.
Western Union directors adopted a
resolution to stop furnishing racing
news to the bookmakers and poolrooms.
Jonathan Reed, "the hermit of the
cemetery" died near New York, after
IL years of watching at his wife's tomb.
Sixty passengers were injured, nine
seriously, by the overturning of a trail
er attached to a traction car bound from
Pittsburg, Pa, for Homestead, near the
Glenwood bridge. 1t is expected that
all of the injured will recover.
Norway denies that mobilization of
conscripts has been ordered on the Swed-
ish frontier. A settlement is expected.
The board of consulting engineers is
strongly in favor of a lock canal for
Panama. and its attitude dooms the plan
for a sea level ditch.
Thomas French, boy of East Orange,
N. J., who amused himself by sending
internal machines through the mails
and setting fire to buildings, was cap
tured and confessed.
Luke J. COoney, Jr., of Chicago, is
plaintiff in suit at Kalamazoo, Mich,
said to involve an estate of 100000.
Handwriting experts have been sum-
moned to testify as to an $4,000 check
which it is charged was raised from
| $4,000.
The murderer Of girl hanged himself
in North Dakota after leaving note
confessing the crime for which another
man was executed.
A United States warship is to take
Minister Merry to the Nicaraguan coast
to investigate the Imprisonment of w. S.
Albers, an American citizen.
An official of the New York Life In
surance company admitted at the inves-
tigation in New York that the company
furnishes the money required for syndi-
cate deals, but gives half the profits to
banks.
Lambert Naegele, for IL years editor
of the Montana Stats Zeitung, pub
lished at Helena, founder of the Mime.
apolis Freie Presse, veteran of the civil
war and survivor of the New Ulm
| (Minn.) Sioux massacre, died in Seat
tie, Wash, aged % years.
William F. Powell, United minister
| to Hayti, announces his intention OF
rendering his resignation to President
| Roosevelt at once. He gives as his
reason for resigning the prevalence of
revolutions, riots and fever in Hayti.
Three young civil engineers in the
employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western railroad were killed by a
work train while returning to Cort-
land, N. Y, on a handcar.
For the first time in Iowa, in many
years, death warrants have been issued
from the governors Office for the exc.
cution of two murderers, one Joseph
Smith, Friday, April 13, 1906; the other
Louis Busse, April 20, 1906. Busse muir.
dered his wife. Smith is a negro who
killed a woman with whom he was
boarding.
A movement is on foot to give Pres
ident Roosevelt a cordial popular re-
ception on his return to Washington
| September 80 from his summer home
at Oyster Bay.
A woman who registered as Mrs
Brown at the Miller House, a small
hotel in Memphis, Tenn, was burned
| to death in fire which destroyed that
building.
Fire that started from the explosion
of lamp at Clement Okla, destroyed
the entire east side of the main bust
ness street. Loss, $60,060.
President Roosevelt has announced
that until he returns to Washington on
| September 80 he will receive no callers
| at Sycamore Hill except those who may
| come on urgent official business.
A report from the japanese h>ed-
quarters say that in the direction of
Hsingching Gen. Madrikoff with about
| three regiments opened an attack on
Sushan or Monday, September II, but
| was Immediately repulsed by the Japan
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