River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

| Strangways, sister of the Earl OF
| Leicester, is locked up in New York on
charges of passing worthless checks.
| The International Stomatological
| congress, which was held in the
academy of medicine at Paris, elected
Prof. E. S. Talbot, of Chicago, to be
first honorary president.
Gov. Conner of Alabama and officials
of the Southern railway reached an
agreement by which the company is
] to put the new laws into effect Sep
/ TENDER 1, pending court decisions, and
| the state is to restore it's license.
The Democratic executive commit
tee of Mississippi announced that Con-
gresham Williams was the nominee
for senator by majority of 64S votes,
and Gov. Vardaman accepted the re-
suit.
An enormous amount of damage has
been done to the grain crops, orchards
and vineyards in many parts of Aus
tria by heavy storms, and several vii
| lagos in eastern Bohemia have been
| devastated by cyclone.
~ F. Frazier, president of the Citi-
zens State bank, pioneer and one of
| Kansas wealthy men, died at his
home in Ell Dorado, Kan, aged 62
| years.
Four trainmen were killed and
three seriously injured in a head-on
| collision between a local freight and
an extra freight train on the Western
& Atlantic railroad, near Dalton, Ca
The joint convention of the United
| Mine Workers of America and the
operators representing every mine in
| Wyoming reached an agreement which
means permanent peace in the Wyo-
ming coal field.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $4,000
for new building for the Long Island
railroad employees branch of the Young
Mems Christian association at Long
Island City.
The American Spice Trade associa-
| ton, the first organization ever known
| in the spice trade, has been effected
in New York. Fifty-six of the most
| important concerns of the various GEN.
| ters were represented.
Since the San Francisco fire, accord
| ing to the figures given out by the
California promotion committee, e.
100000 barrels of cement, or about
100000 tons, have been used in re-
| building operations.
At the funeral of Anna Markowitz,
the Dayton co. girl who was mysteri-
ously murdered near the scene of the
Dona Gilman tragedy, the officiating
rabbi cursed the ground where the
crime was committed.
Edward Mulvaney of Brooklyn
knocked down and killed Robert Sea-
lander, a contractor, his prospective
| father-in-law. The killing was the out
come of an effort as peacemaker by
| Mulvaney in quarrel between Sea-
| lander and his son.
Western Union operators at Los
| Angeles struck because the company
| refused to reinState a discharged
| man. The boilermakers in the South
ern Pacific's shops walked out. Brick
| layers of Washington voted to join the
| other building trades in their strike.
Miss Katherine Eddy, daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs. Augustus N. Eddy, of
| Chicago, and niece of Mrs. Marshall
| Field, was married to Senator Albert
J. Beveridge, of Indiana, in the Amer
| lean embassy at Berlin. The religious
| ceremony was preceded by civil one.
Mounted on white palfrey and
decorously clothed in masses of hair,
| pink f1eshings, and clouds of gauze,
a modern Lady Godiva gave repre-
sentation of the historic ride through
the streets of Coventry, England.
Cyclones struck Clear Lake, Lake
Mills and Hanlontown, Ia, causing
one death and great damage. Wi
mona, Mimi. Springfield, Ill, and 9TH
| er places suffered severely from furi-
Gus wind and transforms.
Three-fourths of the Golden Cycle
Mining company's million dollar re-
duction plant, in the foot hills south
of Colorado City, Col, was destroyed
by fire. Loss estimated at $750,000.
Insurance, 100000.
A race between two big automO-
biles from Milwaukee to Okauchee
ended in a frightful accident to one
of the cars, which resulted in the
u0dIu OIL TWO OF us occupants anu
painful though not fatal injury to two
others.
Venezuela advised Belgium that in
recognition of the principle of arbitra-
ton she would pay the disputed claim
of Belgian creditors, amounting to
100000, in conformity with the deci-
sion of The Hague tribunal
Michele Berardinelle of New York,
special agent of the department of JUS
tice, has begun an investigation of
Italian peonage in ST. Louis.
At a conference of representatives
of more than 40 silk mills in Scranton,
Pa, it was unanimously agreed that
it would be impossible to grant a
shorter work day to silk workers, s.
600 of whom are now on strike.
The grand jury of Perry county,
Alabama, returned an indictment
against the Southern Railway COM
pany for doing business as foreign
company without a license. This ac-
ton was taken as result of Secretary
of State Julian's action in revoking
the charter of the company.
Russian editors have been ordered
by the project of police at st. Peters