River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-18

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Bacon, of Georgia, lost $4,000 as a re-
suit of the troubles of the Exchange
bank of Macon in which he was a
| stakeholder.
Philip Kempier, former teller of the
Capital National bank of ST. Paul, was
sentenced to four years in state prison
for defalcations said to have amount
ed to over $4,000
Friends of Gov. Hughes, of New
York, announce that he will not be a
candidate for reelection.
The Christian Endeavor convention
at Seattle, Wash, decided to hold
next years convention in ST. Paul,
Mimi.
Two men robbed a pawnshop in In
dianapolis of goods valued at $4,000
after fatally wounding the clerk,
| Simon Gold
| Seven mine workers, all Italians,
were killed in an abandoned slope of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal COM
| pany at Honeybrook, Pa, by deadly
white damp. Three others are miss
ing.
A Japanese spy was said to have
been arrested while making drawings
of Fort Rosecrans, near San Diego,
Cal.
Because the Northwestern railroad
refused to make an excursion rate of
20 cents for the volunteer firemens
picnic, the firemen of Deadwood, S.
D., voted to refuse to protect railroad
property
President Roosevelt appointed Frank
A. Leach, of Oakland, Cal, director
of the mint to succeed George E.
Roberts, who resigned to accept the
presidency of Chicago bank.
Robbers murdered a Chinese res
taurant keeper in Omaha and took
$500 from his strong box.
Morton F. Plant, of New York, has
ordered a twin screw yacht from
a Leith firm which will be the third
largest private-owned yacht afioat
Theodore S. Clark, of Chicago, was
badly injured near Bryan, O., when
his automobile, one of those in the
Glidden tour, was ditched.
Ouida, the novelist, was found to be
living in dire poverty and the British
government granted her a pension of
$3.50 year.
The Mexican consul at Douglass.
Ariz., and three officers were held for
the kidnapping of Manuel Sarabia.
John Sweeney, widely known as an
amateur billiard player, committed
suicide in Detroit.
Five prominent planters of Louis
lana were arrested on a charge of
conspiring to obtain public lands by
fraud.
Rock Island passenger train No. "a,
north bound, was derailed few miles
south of Peabody, Kan, by running
into a switch. Engineer Lay of Her
ington, Kan, was dangerously scald-
ed.
Judge Martin J. Severance, one of
the best known jurists of Minnesota,
died at his home in Mankato as the
result of an operation for goiter. He
was 81 years old
Louis A. E. Alters, head professor
of German languages and literature
in Colorado college, died in Colorado
Springs at the age of AZ.
1t is rumored in Washington that
Robert j. Wynne, consul general in
London, will be recalled and that
Vespasian Warner of Illinois, commits
sioner of pensions, will succeed him.
Many of Gloucester (Mass.) famous
fish wharves, storehouses and ships
were seriously threatened with des-
truction by a fire which broke out in
the plant of the Gloucester Cold Stor-
age company.
0. G. Mcmillan of Lowell, Mich, in
trying to escape from his burning
home grasped a live wire and was
killed instantly.
David H. Green of Newark, N. J.,
was elected president of the Theatri-
cal Mechanics association of the
United States and Canada.
A vigorous protest has been re-
ceived by the government from the
Japanese and Korean Expulsion
league, the headquarters of which are
at Seattle, Wash, against what is as
serted to be an organized traffic in
Japanese women, who, it is alleged,
are being brought to this country iN
large numbers for immoral purposes.
Fourteen Japanese laborers who,
under the labor laws, are not permit
ted to land in this country, evaded
the authorities in Philadelphia and
are at large somewhere in the United
States
Thirty-three contestants for the ma
tional amateur golf championship at
Cleveland, o., finished their qualifying
rounds with scores of 165 or better.
Eleven eastern players, 10 western
ers and two Canadians qualified for
the championship. w. ]. Travis won
the gold medal for low qualifying
score, LAG.
The balloon house of the Wellman-
Record-Herald Arctic expedition was
damaged by a storm July 4 and al |
though the airship was uninjured, the |
accident probably will delay the de- |
parture of the expedition until early |
in August.
E. G. Fox. a banker of Middleport, |
O., was indicted and arrested on a |
charge of trying the bride a prosecut-
ing attorney.
Admiral Baron Yamamoto, a distin- |
guished Japanese naval officer, ar |
rived in New York. He said the talk |
of war between America and Japan |
was foolish.