River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-22

silks ana IuFS.
J. Ogden Armour has bought two
English gray shires and will exhibit
them in Chicago.
Diamonds and other precious
stones, valued at $4,000, were stolen
from the mansion of Count Secken-
dorf, at Ramseys, n. j.
Three big thread factories at New
York, the greatest of their kind in the
world, locked up their doors for ten
days, because their employees demand
ed vacation on threat Of strike.
Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugilist,
has been asked to accept the position
of physical director in the school OF
instruction for policemen just organ
lied by Mayor Charles J. Fisk OF
Plainfeld, n. j.
Will Clifford, colored, who had con-
fessed to assaulting and killing two
white women, was lynched at Maple,
KY.
Five persons were killed and many
injured by the collapsing of tene-
ment building during windstorm in
Chicago.
Fires have destroyed about 1900
acres of woodland on Cape Cod, the
damage amounting to many thousands
of dollars.
King Edward arrived at Ischl, Aus
tria, on his visit to Emperor Francis
Joseph. The exchanges between the
two monarchs were cordial and GER
tain political matters were discussed
and cleared up satisfactorily.
George Wasser, 81 years of age,
murdered his wife and was in turn
slain by his daughter at the home OF
the women in New York. Wasser fired
upon his wife and then exchanged
shots with the daughter. The latter
was not wounded.
Vice Admiral Philibert reported iso-
lated attacks on Casablanca which the
troops easily repulsed, being assisted
by the shell fire of the French cruiser
Gloire.
A work train on the Long Island
railroad backed into a crowded street
car at a crossing in Brooklyn, hurting
the trolley from its tracks and causing
the death of three passengers and the
injury of 16 others.
Seventeen summer hotels, 16 sum,
mer cottages and a score of buildings
occupied by stores were burned in
fire which swept the eastern section
of Old Orchard, Me-, causing loss es'
timated at half million dollars. An
unknown man was killed and two
others were injured severely by soda
water tank which exploded in burn
ing drug store.
The fast Burlington train from Den
yer to Chicago was wrecked a mile
east of Russell, Ia, injuring IL per-
sons, two of whom may die.
Burlington passenger train No 20,
south-bound, was wrecked near WeS-
ton, Mo-, resulting in the death Of one
man and serious injury to four other
persons.
The Belfast strike was settled, the
men receiving more pay but giving up
the CLOSED shop"
Miss Kate C. knight, of Pittsburg,
Pa, prominent as club woman and
philanthropist and president of 20
women's clubs about the country, died
at a sanatorium at Danville, Pa, of
paralysis.
Eight persons were killed, IA were
severely and 81 slightly injured as a
result of an explosion in a dynamite
factory in DoemitZ, Germany.
With an attendance surprising all
other notable day celebrations and
estimated at 10000 North Carolina
day was observed at the Jamestown
exposition.
Justice Warren G. Foster of New
York settled the bigamy case of Her.
mann Keuhn by decreeing that he
should live with one of his wives and
support them both.
H. A. Crow of Connellsville, Pa,
former captain of the Tenth Pennsyl-
vania Volunteer infantry, was elected
commander-in-chief of the Society
Army of the Philippines at Kansas
City, Mo. The meeting next year
will be at Galesburg, Ill.
The American government will es-
tablish a great training school for the
coast artillery at Fort Monroe.
The strike of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen members employed
by the Colorado & Southern railroad
was settled by the granting of one
cent an hour increase to yardmen and
switchmen. 1t was agreed to arbitrate
the demand for another cent.
An heir to William Waldorf Astor's
millions was born at Cliveden. He is
the son of Waldorf Astor, Jr., and will
be called Waldorf III.
The lives of so strike breakers in
the Erie machine shops at Susquehan-
ma, Pa, were imperiled VIXEN the NAM
moth storehouse of the company was
destroyed by fire.
Capt. c. E. Fox is TO command the
cruiser South Dakota as soon as that
vessel is put into commission as one
of the new cruiser squadron intended
for the Pacific coast.
Ten men were injured, four serious
ly, when gas, which escaped from a
pressure main connecting with large
tank, exploded in one-story brick
building used by the Peoples Gas
Light & Coke company in South Chi
cago.
Gov. Folk, of Missouri, signed an or
der committing to life imprisonment
the sentence of Lord" Frederick Bar
rington, who was condemned to death
for the murder of James Mccain.
DvnanniferS DESTROYED the dam at