River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-01
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review

in special industries or localities the
restraining influence of these adverse
factors are felt.
In view of the alarming reports
from Morocco the Spanish govern
ment has decided to hold several
cruisers ready for dispatch to the
west coast to protect Spanish sub
jects.
Under a ruling Of the interstate
commerce commission, transportation
over railroad lines no longer may be
given to newspaper publishers or ed1-
tors in exchange for advertising space
in their newspapers.
Counting the minutes, which
seemed to them to be but few inter-
vening between them and death,
bruised, bleeding, hungering and
athirst, five men adrift on a bit or
wreckage, off the Florida coast saw
one of their companions whose SUI
fering had driven him mad, throw
himself into the sea to death and not
long afterward ship which was COM
ing saved their lives.
Gov. Magoon has accepted the res
ignation of CASTOR Mora, under Sec
rotary of government, and has ap-
pointed Manuel Sobrado, a former
member of congress and an independ-
ent.
Herr Won Tschirsky, the German
secretary of foreign affairs, visited
Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal sec
rotary of state and had prolonged
conversation with him on matters in
teresting to German Catholics.
A notable feature of the autumn
maneuvers of the Chinese imperial
army, has been portable wireless
telegraphy apparatus, carried upon
light wagons and so adjusted that it
can be erected in less than 80 min
utes
While the second torpedo boat flo
tilla was in Newport waters recently
it's record for torpedo target practice
is reported to have excelled any pre-
vious craftsmanship by a torpedo
boat fotilla of the navy.
A hurricane swept over southwest
ern Japan. Several hundred coral
fishing boats are reported missing.
Each boat is manned by at least two
sailors.
After a desperate encounter be-
tween posse of armed citizens and
officials on one side and six alleged
bank robbers on the other, the latter
were rounded up at Jewett, o.
At meeting of the United States
Historical society, Harry A. Colman,
of Washington, d. c., was elected
president to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Maj. J. Fl. Slime.
The continuous rains and the warm
weather have caused all the streams
of the far northwest to rise to a
height never before known since the
country was first settled.
The strike of the grain handlers at
Portland, Ore, has been settled. The
strikers agreed to return to work pro-
vided that the police were withdrawn
from the docks.
The collapse of the rebellion in San
to Domingo will make unnecessary
the presence of number of warships
there, and it is expected that orders
will be issued for the withdrawal of
about one-half of these ships.
The wife of Gen. Bell has left
Washington for Cuba. This is re-
garded as an Indication that Gen.
Bell is to remain indefinitely in COM
mand of the American troops in Cuba
Prohibitionists and anti-saloonists
were criticised in resolutions adopted
at the closing session of the four
teenth annual convention of the Ma
tional Liquor league.
G. G. Rose and Mrs. Minnie Wheel
er, leaders of the Brotherhood of
Light, who conduct home for poor
children on a farm near Arbeles, Col,
were arraigned on charges of man
slaughter in connection with the
deaths of six babies on the place.
The vault in the bank of Kerkhov-
en-, Mimi, was badly damaged by
burglars, who used dynamite in an
attempt to get at the money chest
The Barriquand and Mares arms
factory, situated in the Rue Ober-
kampf, Paris, was destroyed by fire.
The losses are placed at many mil
lions of francs.
Articles have been signed for a
match between Abe Attell and Billy
De Coursey to take place at San Die
go, CAL, November 16, before the Ma
tional Athletic club.
Three persons were killed and
three seriously injured In a collision
at Woodside, L. l., between a Long
Island railroad train and a coach
which was returning from funeral
at Calvary cemetery.
At the interstate commerce COM
missions inquiry at Omaha into the
abuses of the grain and elevator bus
mess J. o. Phillippi, assistant general
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific
railway for this territory, admitted
that his road discouraged the estab-
lishment of more than one elevator at
small stations, and also showed small
consideration to dealers without ele-
vators who loaded grain from wag-
onS.
Mrs. Mary Dover, of Mobile, shot
her husband, Thomas Dover, inflict-
ing wound in the head, from which
he died. Mrs. Dover claims she shot
her husband in self-defense.
The large sawmill of the Wisconsin
Timber and Land company, valued at
$4,000, together with about 100000
worth of lumber, burned to the