River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-24

McAIullen, of Festus, Mo-, lost her life
and Churchill was also drowned before
assistance could reach them.
Mrs. Anne Woodall, who has just
died at Newport, KY, aged So years,
was a native of England, where, soon
after her marriage, she and her hus-
band rode on the first steam railroad
and witnessed the coronation of Queen
Victoria.
Al passenger train on the Rome, Wa
tertown & Ogdensburg railroad at Phil
adelphia, Jefferson county, n. r,
struck and killed Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Fl. Cross, of that village, and their
daughter, Mrs. Chauncey WEIGH, OF
Chicago.
Leon Jacerwitz, formerly noted Rus
sian musician, died in the Dayton, o.,
state hospital, aged sc years. While
touring the United States with an
opera company 80 years ago, JacerWitz
lost his mind, and with it went all
knowledge of music.
Secretary Wilson upholds the 28-hour
stock car law, saying changes already
made are lenient.
Eight gambling houses in MilWau-
kee belonging to the trust were raided
by District Attorney McGovern, over
$50 inmates being locked up.
Hugh Watt, an English financier and
former member of parliament, has been
arrested, charged with having offered
a detective $4,000 to assist him in the
murder of his former wife, who in
volved him in scandal by her divorce
suit.
Federal Judge Baker at Indianapolis
decides that a public service corpora
ton cannot give an option for the pur-
chase of it's plant in it's charter and
that a municipality has no power to
enforce it.
The body of a man done to death as
the result Of labor feud was found IN
New York park. 1t had 81 stab
wounds.
The people of all classes in Arizona
are waging a strenuous campaign
against the joint statehood plan, and
declare the attempt to merge their ter
ritory with New Mexico is extremely
unjust
r. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly trade re-
port shows general prosperity in bust
ness circles.
Internal machines of deadly char
acter were sent to Jacob HI. Schiff, the
rich banker and to the Offices of M.
Guggenheims Sons in New York.
Webb Jay autoist, was perhaps IA
tally injured when his car at Buffalo
left the track and landed in a creek.
The daughter of a French opera
singer, starving, watched beside the
bed of her dying father in New Or
leans, and after her parents death at
tempted suicide because she was PEN
niless and alone.
Foreign trade in July was the heavi-
est on record, with large gains in both
imports and exports over year ago.
Joseph A. Thompson, brother of a
multi-millionaire and a near relative of
the Thaw family, of Pittsburg, commit
ted suicide, leaving letter accusing
his brother of allowing him to starve.
Thomas W. Lawson has been sued
with others in legal fight over possess
sion of copper stocks said to be worth
$4,000, 900.
The governments drawing for home
steads in the Uintah Indian reserva-
ton of Utah, 160-acre sections which
are said to be worth from SIS 900 to
$100 900, was begun at Provo, Utah, 1000
persons winning.
IL
on the Panama canal was stopped be-
cause of lack of funds, but says it was
due to the necessity for doing prelim-
mary work that had been neglected.
Walter p. Kraft, of Chicago, % years
old, an Equitable Trust company clerk,
is a fugitive, charged with stealing
$4,000 from his employers to speculate.
Returns in Norway show 368,200
votes fer separation and 1874 against.
John P. Mockler, leading grocer of
Cairo, ILL.,, and colored employee, were
killed by contact with live wire in
the formers store.
With $4,000 in checks and cash be-
longing to Charles A. Stevens & Broth
ers, of Chicago, Gus Bobbs, young
employee of the firm, disappeared.
The reciprocity convention ended it's
Chicago session with the formation of
permanent organization to crusade
for tariff revision under a dual sched-
ule.
e. III. Conger, ambassador to Mexico,
will be sent to China as the president S
Snncia1 eny0v fo ovnrc0mn thn h0vcott
of American goods.
The Dramatic Order of Knights of
Khorassan, which has been in conven-
ton in Detroit for three days, decided
to hold its next session in two years at
Colorado Springs.
Forest supervisors examinations will
be held under the direction of the civil
service commission commencing about
October and lasting throughout the
month in several of the western states.
A telegram received from Batavia,
Dutch East Indies, reports an ugly out
break of Achinese rebels. who attacked
the Dutch post at Rambong, killing
two officers and % men.
Confirmation of the report that the
Marshall islands were visited by hur-
ricane and tidal wave on June 80 has
been received One hundred lives were
lost.
DR.. Austin Drake. of Springfield, H.,
won 20-year contest for $4,000, 900
estate in New York
Five thousand idle workmen, armed
with rifles are roaming through nartS