River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-29


aged wife at their home, eight miles
southeast of Tulsa, /. T.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin unveiled
the monument erected at Fontenoy,
Belgium, to commemorate the bravery
of the Irish brigade in the battle of
Fontenoy in 1745, in the presence of
800 visitors.
Four persons were killed and 80 IN
jured in a collision between two pas
senge1 trains near Sapulpa, l. T., on
the st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road
The common council of Highmore,
S. D., passed an ordinance which has
since been approved by Acting Mayor
j. E. Mcdonald, which forbids spoony
couples from flirting in public places
and makes the penalty for each viola
ton fine or Imprisonment.
Mrs. Laura Sterrette McAdoo Triggs
obtained a divorce in Chicago from
Prof Oscar Lowell Triggs, one time
member of the University of Chicago
faculty and founder of short lived
colony of free thinkers
The Dupont de Nemoures powder
works at Sobrante, near Berkeley,
Cal, were blown up, three persons be-
ing killed and many injured.
A crowded passenger train on the
Mohawk and Malone division of the
New York Central was saved from dis
aster about two miles south of Fulton,
n. Y, by two young women, who dis
covered a giant tree lying across the
track on curve and tagged the ex-
press, using a red shawl.
Edmond F. Noel, of Lexington,
Miss, was nominated for governor in
the Democratic primaries.
Arthur Clemens, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was struck by a baseball while play
ing at Glencove, J.. l., and killed.
A pearl valued at $1,000 was found
n Clinch river, Tennessee, by William
Tyler, professional pearl hunter.
Glasgow Thompson, bootblack, of
Kewanee, ILL.,, inherited $4,000 from a
great uncle who died in Montana.
Secretary of State Elihu Root, who
has already spent three weeks at the
farm-sanitarium of William G. Null
doom, ex-champion wrestler, near
White Plains, N. Y, taking Mr.. Null
doons course of athletic treatment for
severe attack of nervous exhaus-
ton, expects to complete his cure in
two weeks more. He is now we'll on
the road to complete recovery and all
reason for apprehension about his
health seems to have disappeared.
To relieve the money market during
crop moving, Secretary of the Treas
ury CorteIyou will place each week,
at such points in the country as he
shall designate, government funds to
such an amount as he deems sufficient
to prevent an acute monetary strin-
gency and possible panic when the
demand for money is greatest.
Figures compiled by the attorney
general of Minnesota, show that, with
three exceptions, the railroads of that
state are receiving increased passen-
ger revenues since the two-cent fare
law went into effect.
Raisuli completely defeated the
large force sent against him by the
sultan VI MOIOCCO III CAS ChOlC " %
cure the release of Caid MacLean, and
threatens the City of Alcazar.
Frank Peknolas and Samuel Am
brose were stabbed to death at Coal
dale, Pa, presumably by BLACK
Hand" agents.
The Atlantic battleship fleet will
start for the Pacific next December,
according to an official statement is
sued by Secretary Loeb at the direc-
ton of President Roosevelt.
Nine. Agnes Lake, the first woman
circus owner in this country and at
one time a famous bareback rider and
high wire walker, died at the home
of relatives in Jersey City.
1t cost the American government
So, 554,970 to keep the American army
of Cuban pacification in that island
during the fiscal year of 1907.
Five persons were suffocated by
smoke from a fire in a tenement in
Somerville, Mass.
"Star Masterpiece" Berkshire
hog formerly owned by the Wisconsin
state university, was sold at the
Whitehall, Ill, hog sale to residents of
Kirksville, ILL.,, for $5,500
DR.. James c. Monaghan, of Wash
ington, has been appointed to the
chair of economics at Notre Dame uni
versity. He is at present chief of the
consular reports of the bureau of sta
tistics at Washington.
With the arrest of four MeXicans in
Los Angeles, Cal, the revolutionary
movement, which under the name of
La Junta has for three years been a
source of endless trouble and annoy
ance to the administration OF Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico, it is believed
has been stamped out.
John Porter Stollings and William
j. Sewer, prosperous farmers, engaged
in street duel with pistols in Lib
erty, Mo-, resulting in the death of
StollingS.
King Charles of Roumania granted
amnesty to all those who were i'm
plicated in the recent agrarian revolt,
with the exception of about 200 mill
tant priests and those already SEN
fenced for murders committed dur
ing the uprising. The prisoners total
about 5000.
The American minister at Madrid,
Mr.. Collier, is negotiating an extradi-
ton treaty between the United States