River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-06


| blowing up of a Roburit factory near
Witten, Westphalia.
The grand jury at st. Louis re-
turned two indictments against the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, said to be
branch of the Standard, for receiv-
| ing rebates from railroads.
Six men were killed and 35 injured
In fire in a Salvation Army hotel at
| st. Louis.
Greeks and Bulgarians had des-
| perate battle near Saloniki, Turkey,
and rs men were killed.
| The war department has called on
Maj. Penrose, of the TWenty-fifth reg
iment at Fort Reno, for anexplanation
of the statement alleged to have been
made by him in newspaper inter-
view to the effect that the dismissed
battalion of that regiment was the
best battalion in the United States.
Mrs. Rose Handffeld entered the Of
fee of John D. Rockefeller's secre~
tary in New York and threatened to
kill Mr.. Rockefeller unless she were
paid $1,000,000. A check was given
her on which payment was stopped
and she was then arrested and held
for examination as to her sanity.
Sylvester Bautsch, the 12-year-old
son of A. j. Bautsch, of Whitehall,
Wis. prominent in state politics, gave
his life Wednesday to save two boy
companions from drowning.
One fireman was killed and dozen
So re,
row between firemen In the stoke hole
of the Mallory line steamer San ia
cinto as the vessel was rounding Cape
Hatteras en- route from Galveston.
A desperate but unsuccessful effort
was made to blow open the safe and
vault of the Mendon, o., bank, in
which more than $4,000 was depos-
tied. The defamation aroused the cit
liens and the three masked men fled,
followed by posses.
La Patrie. LIE Baudy's dirigible war
balloon, which has been formally ac-
cepted by the French government,
made it's first ascension under the au-
spices of the Aerostatic division of the
army. The flight lasted an hour and a
half.
A fire in the heart of the business
district of Peoria, ILL.,, did $4,000 dam
age, covered by 100000 insurance.
The Victoria, Australia, legislative
council has again rejected the wom-
ans suffrage bill.
Capt Amundsen, the arctic explorer,
who recently went through the north
west passage, was presented with the
gold medal of the Norwegian Geo
graphical society.
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman, of
South Carolina, in a Chicago address,
predicted race wa,- and told his au-
dience the negro question is the most
serious and dangerous issue OF the day.
A record of 1872 persons killed and
2,271 others injured by elevated and
surface traction lines in Chicago since
January | gave impetus to the crusade
against the overcrowding of cars IN
augurated by the city council.
Philadelphia police charged Bridget
Carey with poisoning her husband, her
two children and two tenants, all with
in few months, for their insurance.
Nat Goodwin, who is SAID to have
won $40, 900 recently cutting cards, was
invited by the New York district attor-
ney to tell the grand jury where he
got it.
The steamship j. FL. Jones went
down in the storm on the Georgian
bay and the crew Of 13 and at least Ii
passengers are believed to have been
drowned. Bodies and wreckage wash
ed ashore confirm the belief that the
vessel was lost.
The governments grip frightened
about the men who are said to have
stolen public lands worth millions. In
quiry opened in Salt Lake City by the
interstate commerce commission in
volved high officials and the land de-
partment at Washington.
Discovery of an alleged gigantic
bribery scandal resulted in the ar
rest of the president of the Tube City
railroad and councilman in Pitts
burg. The mayor ordered a sweeping
investigation and 70 suspected council
men, besides railroad officials, are I'M
der surveillance.
The decoration of The Commander
of the Order of Christ" was conferred
upon DR.. Alexander Hugh Ferguson.
Chicago, by King Carlos I. of Portugal,
through Count de Saint Eulalia, Port
ugal's consul at New York.
An anarchist was sent to prison in
Switzerland for praising the assassin
Of King Humbert after winning popu-
lar sympathy by a strong argument Of
his own case.
President Roosevelt refreshed by
his Panama trip, resumed work on i'm
portant affairs, including the canal.
Porto Rico and the Japanese complica-
lions. Several special messages to
congress are expected to result from
his observations abroad.
Capt Horatio N. Read was shot and
instantly killed by his wife at their
home, four miles southeast OF Burling-
ton, Kan. Mrs. Read claims that her
husband threatened to kill her with
corn knife and that she shot in self
defense.
Fire destroyed most Of the business
section of Belmont, o. The total loss
| was about about 100000.
C.~G. Rutledge and ]. A. Obermeyer,
both members Of the board of educa-
ton, were indicted on a charge Of
, making unlawful contracts in purchas-