River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-08-10

Inc ranks Oh the SIT1klUS Telegraph
ers on the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific systems are SAID to be bro
ken. Manager Horn declares the at
tempt to tie up traffic failure.
More delays of passenger trains have
resulted from the telegraphers' strike
on the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific
Secretary Taft and party sailed on the
Manchuria from Nagasaki, their last
port in Japan, closing tour marked by
many demonstrations.
Secretary Taft and party were official
Iy welcomed by the governor and other
officials at Nagasaki. Japan.
Secretary Taft and party received an
elaborate welcome in Manila.
A mysterious case of wholesale pol
soning at the summer boarding house OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chamberlain, near
Cincinnati, o., Frustrated seven per-
sons. Several of the victims are still in
a serious condition.
David Reed, so years of age, shot and
killed his wife and afterwards drowned
himself in a ditch near their home at
Hamlet, Ind, in which there was only
Is inches of water. Reed was formerly
a policeman in Chicago.
Big crops, according to Dun's and
Bradstreet's reviews, have resulted in an
unusual expansion of trade all over the
country.
After being out more than 40 hours
the jury in the Oregon land fraud
cases against Congressman William
son, DR.. Van Gesner and Land Commits
sioner Biggs reported that it was I'M
able to agree, making the second dis
agreement in the same case. The third
trial will begin on August %.
An attempt to blow up the French
ship Asnieres at sea has been reported
by Capt. G. Touze, who arrived with
the vessel at San Francisco. He said
that dozen capped fuses, such as are
used by miners, were found in his
cargo, and that a shock or jar might
have ignited them and destroyed the
vessel
Information is in the hands Of the
Chicago police that may lead to the
unraveling of the automobile murder
of last November, in which William
Bate, Jr., chauffeur, was killed by
mysterious man who went by the
name of Dove
Despite the efforts of his former
friends and business associates the
whereabouts of the missing Mayor Will
liam H. Belcher, of Paterson, N. j.,
have not been discovered.
John Laughlin, former state senator
and one of the best known lawyers of
Brooklyn, N. Y, died suddenly of apo
plexy.
Judge d. s. Wade, aged 65, died at
his home at Little Medford, o. He was
probate judge of Ashtabula county for
several terms.
Leon Howell and Jennie Richardson,
and Helen Pallis, colored children, were
drowned in lake at Glenloch, N. ].
The children had gone boating and one
of the party rocked the boat, upsetting
it. Two other children were rescued.
George H. Robinsons $3,OO0,0OO dam
age suit against. Edward HOlbrook at
Providence, r. l., has been settled out
of court.
Capt. William Croker, prominent
hotelkeeper and horSeman, was fatally
cut in an encounter with f. S. Jergen,
of Huntington, w. Va. w. e. Ingram
and Walter Mayhem, of Ohio, all we'll
known horsemen, and an unknown
jockey.
Eight prisoners escaped in a whole
sale Jail break at Sioux Falls, Ia. They
were charged with burglary and high
way robbery.
A mob took two negroes, kid"
George and Ed Lewis, from Jail at Hat
tiesburg, Miss, and hanged them to
bridge in the glare of the electric light
for the murder of j. G.. Smith, con-
vict guard.
The extraordinary session of the
Swedish riksdag has been brought to
close.
The creditors of Mrs. Chadwick will
receive seven mills on the dollar.
One woman was fatally and six seri-
ously hurt as the result of wreck on
the Baltimore & Ohio near Johnstown,
Pa.
Robert W. Criswell, editor of The
New Yorker, a weekly publication in
Gotham, who was charged with Grim
inally libeling a friend of Alice Roose-
welt, committed suicide by throwing
himself under a train in the subway.
The celebration of the semi-centen-
NAL of the ship canal at Sault Ste. Ma
RE came to an end with speeches by
noted men, including Vice President
Fairbanks.
Martin Strock and his two sons, aged
Is and p years, ten miles south of Big
Stone City, S. D., were killed by foul
air while cleaning out an old well.
After killing two persons, probably
fatally wounding two others, one a
woman, and less seriously shooting two
moore, Ike Kinney, negro, was killed
at Doella, Ark, six miles south Of Lew
isville, after a fight with a posse.
Mrs. Lyman r. Hawkes., of Warren,
Mass. and Mrs. Anna Skipper, a Wis
itcr, met death in the burning of the
Hawkes. farmhouse. Mrs. Hawkes. died
while trying to save Miss Skipper.
The safe of the post Office at Boles,
Mo-, was blown open by robbers, who
secured 5000 in cash and $40 worth
of stamps.
DR.. G. R. Koch was acquitted on the
third trial on the charge of numbering
DR.. L. A. Gebhardt at New Ulm, MINI.
Earl S. Trainor, safe blower, made
his escape from the La Crosse, Wis,
iaiI nv the helm of a woman