River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-07-19

Inc sailors at CrOuSIduI uccilHcd "
participate in requiem for Vice ADJ
miral Chouknin.
The supply of guncotton stored In
naval magazines and on warships along
| the Atlantic coast, is said to nave
shown such evidences of deterioration
that orders have been issued for its re-
turn and the issuance of new supply.
The prize of the president OF the re-
public, at one mile four and a half FUR
longs and valued at $4,000, was won
at Maisons-Laffitteb by William K. Van
derbilt's Maitenon, with the American
| Jockey, Ransch. in the saddle.
An investigation is to be made by
| the interstate commerce commission OF
| the elevator, grain buying and for
warding business of the country, 10
| determine to what extent special Ia
vors have been granted to them by
railroad companies.
| It has long been known that some
parts OF the Vatican are unsafe; put IL
| has Just been discovered that the pal
ace is practically falling to pieces.
Even the corner where the popes
apartment is situated needs strength
ening, and the pontiff is moving out.
The announcement is made OF the
engagement of Miss Annie Ide, daugh-
ter of Gov. Gen. Ide, of the Philippines,
and Bourke Cochran. The wedding Will
occur in Washington next fall.
| Shrinking molders of the All1s-Chal-
mers Milwaukee plant were absolved
| IL IF 70 in function and
were informed that no injunction could
lie if they continued to conduct the
strike as had been observed since its
beginning.
Three men were instantly killed and
score of others were injured, sever
al of whom are expected to die, when
a shanty at the O'Laughlin Bros.
stone quarry, near Bellwood, ILL.,, was
blown up with dynamite.
DR.. David S. Jordan, in a lecture, To-
Gated the origin of the recent seismic
disturbance in Behring sea and proph-
esied the next center of trouble would
be in the vicinity of San Leandro and
Haywards.
1t is stated on good authority that
commander of the Black sea fleet, was
girl disguised in the uniform Of a
sailor
Capt William Henry Bunting, one of
| the few survivors of the crew of the
confederate ironclad Merrimac during
the civil war, died at the Norfolk, Va,
Protestant hospital, following an oper-
alton.
United States Senator Francis G..
Newlands, of Nevada, is suffering from
broken collar bone. The senator was
thrown from a horse and had a mar
row escape from death.
The men in the coliieries of the Cen
trail Pennsylvania bituminous coal
district numbering nearly 10000 who
have been idle since April 1, when the
mines closed down because the oper-
ators would not restore the scale of
1903, will resume work on practically
| the same scale as 1903.
The American vice consul general at
Warsaw, Poland, cabled the state de-
partment that press correspondents
have been misled by erroneous reports
into informing their papers that there
was reason to fear massacres in War
saw and LODI.
The Costa Rico congress issued a
decree placing cocoa, rice and sugar
plants, brooms and vermicelli on the
/ free list.
The department of Justice, through
Attorney General Moody, has begun
| to investigate thoroughly the actions
of some of the federal grand jurymen
in the Standard Oil-Lake Shore rebate
case at Cincinnati.
DR.. Carl Sattler, one of the leaders
of the National liberal party in the
Reichstag, is dead.
With picks and shovels, City Mar
shall Isaacs, of Prescott, Wis, was
murdered in a crowd of so Italian Ia
borers while attempting to make ar
rests for alleged violations of the
state game law. Deputy Sheriff Ham
mil, of Pierce county, who accompa-
MED Isaacs, was severely beaten and
may die.
Of eight little girls who went wading
in the Cedar river at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
one is alive. One by one she saw the
others drown in swimming hole at
the end of the sandbar in which they
were padding.
The big refrigerating ship Glacier
will sail from New York, on the 28th
instant laden with good things for the
Dominican fleet There will be enough
fresh meats to last the sailors two or
! three weeks, and all sorts of fresh
vegetables and one installment Of 25,-
900 big watermelons on ice.
The will or John Crowle, we'll
known merchant of London, gives ST.
100000 for the promotion of tenn
perance in England under the direc-
ton of the Wesleyan Methodist con-
ference, conditioned on the churches
raising like sum within five years.
Henry T. Fry, of Chicago, was elect
ed president of the American Whist
league.
The North Dakota Republican state
convention nominated full state
ticket headed by E. Y. Sarles, who
was renominated for governor.
William J. Bryan, in another inter-
view at London, denied that he had
abandoned free silver, but admitted
that it was no longer an issue. Mr..
Bryan declared, Also that in his atti-
tude on predatory wealth and i'm
moral methods he is more radical now
than he was in 1896.