River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-02
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENsED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
MISCELLANEOUS.

easterly gale on treacherOuS hereford
bar of that port and eight persisted.
The recklesness of four men, none
of whom could swim, or handle boat,
caused the drowning of two girls &C
companying them and one Of the men
in Lake Hopatcong, n. j.
William F. He'd eman, policeman
attached to the Alexander avenue sta
ton in the Bronx, and Alfons Mano-
dino, 13 years old, whose life the po-
liCcman was trying to save, met death
in Cromwells creek, near Macomb's
Dam park.
Five persons were drowned near
Fulton during a squat on Lake Neah-
tawanta, their boat being capsized.
Thirteen machines made the entire
trip of LAB miles from Buffalo to
Breton Woods, N. H., for the Glidden
trophy without penalty. The Deming
trophy will go to G. w. Kelsey, Mr..
Post, member of the committee, hav-
ing withdrawn because of his official
capacity. Both had perfect scores.
Pacific express train No. 81 of the
New York Central was wrecked a
short distance above Chelsea by run
ming into a landslide which had been
swept down from high embankment
by terrific rainstorm.
Eugene v. Debs, former presidential
candidate on the socialist ticket, ad-
vised all workingmen Of the United
States to assist in the freeing of
Charles Meyer, W. d. Haywood and
George A. Pettibone, the three Denver
miners confined in Jail in Idaho, at any
cost, even ii it took a revolution to
free them
The gross amount of insurance at
San Francisco involved by all compa-
MES was 1922, 1886, 307 the reinsurance,
$65,246,771; salvage, $50, 814,456, and
actual loss, $132,823,O67.
A naval court-martial passed SEN
fences of death upon seamen who
were arrested for completely in the
mutiny of the Black sea fleet of No
vember, 1905.
The Armenian town of Shusha was
the scene of a renewal of hostilities
between Armenians and Tartars
The postal car robbed on the War
saw-Vienna railroad contained pack
age of 100000 in cash from abroad and
at least $4,000 additional funds.
John Alexander Dowie will appeal
from the decision of Judge Lands of
the federal court at Chicago declaring
Zion City a trust estate and holding
that the deposed first apostle has no
individual prOprietorship in the es-
tate.
John L. Voss, a truck gardener liv-
ing near Dunning ILL.,, is charged with
numbering his wife and then setting
fire to the house to hide his crime.
The southbOund cannon ball on the
Frisco was wrecked south of Antlers.
l. I. A spike had been driven be-
tween the rails on the high side of the
curve, and the engine struck it and
rolled down the embankment.
A great demonstration occurred at
Samara following the receipt of the
news of the dissolution of the douma.
Five hundred of the demonstrants
were arrested
The 1906 biennial saengerfest of the
Saengerbund of the northwest came
to close at st. Paul with the election
Of officers. La Crosse was chosen for
the 1908 saengerfest upon condition
that projected new auditorium is
built.
The property appraisement of Indi-
ana corporations for 1906 as made by
the state tax commissioners shows an
Increase of approximately $4,000, 900
over the valuation for 1905. Of this
amount $12,OOO,OO0 is due to increased
valuation of steam railroads.
Lightning struck the tent of a camp
ing party during an electric storm at
Conneaut, Pa and killed Edward Kin
Sey.
John D. Rockefeller said he was. glad
to be home again, although he had a
splendid time while in Europe.
The authorities have seized copies
of the Viborg manifesto issued by the
outlawed parliament to the weight of
400 pounds which had been shipped
surreptitiously into Kharkov.
Francis r. Reynolds, a bookmaker
and racing man. was found dead at
the bottom of an air shaft at New
York
The bodies of Fireman George Bell
and E. Nj. Newcombe, killed in the
Great Northern wreck near Camden
were recovered from Diamond lake.
The demand for labor in California
promises to exceed the supply Tor
many months to come.
j. G.. A. Leishman, the American
ambassador to Turkey, called on
Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign
minister, and presented his new Gre
dentials.
o. w. Butt, formerly manager of the
Kansas City Ice & Cold Storage com
pany, at the ice inquiry before a spe-
cial commissioner, at Kansas City,
gave the strongest evidence tending to
show the existence of an ice combine
here which has been introduced since
the hearing began.
AS the result of experiments with
mice, the superintendent of the i'm
perial cancer research fund labora-
tory at LONDON announced at meet
ing of the subscribers to the fund
that the prospects of discovering the
mystery of the origin OF cancer were
more hopeful than ever