River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-27

railway, left the track south OF La
porte, Ind, injuring the engineer, fire
man and woman passenger.
Mrs Daisy Gordon Maud Hanna
was granted a divorce from Dan K.
Hanna, son of the late Senator Hanna,
on her charge of cruelty and neglect
of duty.
John Sheets and Alexander Nc
Kenzie, convicts who sawed their way
out of the state prison at Jackson,
Mich, were recaptured within "a
hours after their escape.
Capt. w. j. Downs, who laid out the
Miami and Erie canal and surveyed
the Pennsylvania on the Panhandle
route between Pittsburg and Chicago,
died at Black River Falls, Wis, aged
91
Premier Clemenceau was subjected
to a hot fire of questions in the
French chamber of deputies concern
ing the severe measures adopted to
quell the wine growers uprising. he
justified the use of the troops. III
Narbonne and other cities the rioters
engaged in bloody battles with tn9
soldiers and police.
Over 300 employees of the Pennsy:-
vania state hospital for the insane &t
Norristown were taken suddenly Ill,
apparently suffering from ptomalne
poisoning. 1t is thought that the Ill
ness was caused by eating stewed
chicken which was served for dinner
Two of the regular stages from
Raymond, CAL, bound for Wawona,
were held up and Is passengers re-
lieved of their valuables by BLACK
Kid the famous lone bandit of that
section
The public land convention in Den
yer came to an end with the adoption
of a series of resolutions which were
not so radical as expected. letter
from President Roosevelt was fea-
ture of the last days session.
The Newport News Shipbuilding
company of Newport News, Va, with
one bid at $3,987,000 and the Fore
River Shipbuilding company of
Quincy, Mass, with a bid of $4,377 900
were the successful bidders for the
construction of two American Dread
noughts' or what are officially known
as battleships Nos. % and 20, each
to be of approximately 10000 tons
displacement
John d. Rockefeller's automobile, in
which Mr.. Rockefeller was being hur-
riedly driven to his country home,
was stopped by constable at Elms-
ford, N. Y, and the chauffeur was SUBJ
sequently fined $25 for exceeding the
speed limit. Mr.. Rockefeller paid the
fine.
By an overwhelming majority the
citizens of Des Moines, Ia, adopted
what is known as the Des Moines plan
of government, by which the city will
be governed by a commission of five.
Nealon, a western horse, owned by
c.. E. Durnell, ridden by Jockey w.
Dugan and quoted at 20 to 1, won the
great suburban handicap at Sleeps
head Bay.
Thomas H. Huntington, Ami B.
Todd and Fred Hoyt were sentenced
to Imprisonment and fined by Federal
Judge Munger in Omaha for conspir-
acy to defraud the government out of
| lands.
Western Union telegraph operators
were ordered to go on strike at San
Francisco and Oakland, CAL, for a 25
per cent increase in wages. Presi-
| dent Small of the Commercial Tel
| egraphers' union refused to abide by
| the decision Of the executive commit
| tee in New York calling off the
strike.
Prince Piscara, a member of the
Italian nobility, and four other per-
sons were killed in an automobile ac-
cident at Caianello, Italy.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York
turned the first sod at Peekskill in an
enterprise which begins the Catskill
water aqueduct, $50 miles long, and
which will supply New York and en-
vironments with 8O0,0O0,OOO gallons of
water daily.
The general executive board of the
| Commercial Telegraphers' union ap-
| proved strike against either or both
| the Western Union and Postal Tele-
| graph companies. The date for the
beginning of the strike was left to
President Small.
The interstate commerce. commits
sion decided to institute proceeding
of inquiry and investigation into the
affairs of the neutrality-suspicious.
Packet company, which is charged by
Peter Wright e Sons, general agents
at Philadelphia of the Cosmopolitan
Shipping company and the Cosmopoli-
tan lines, with pooling and maintain
ing monopolies in restraint of trade.
Ira B. Smith, a member of the
wholesale grocery firm of Smith,
| Thorndike & Brown, of Milwaukee,
which recently went into involuntary
bankruptcy, was arrested on charge
of obtaining money under false repre-
sentation of the firms finances.
The surprise of the second session
of the peace conference at The Hague
was the formal reservation by Gen.
Horace Porter on behalf of the United
States of the right to present the
| question of limitation of ornaments.
Together with this, he also reserved
the right to introduce the subject OF
the collection of contractual debts by
force.
Viscount Hayashi, Japanese minis
ter of foreign affairs, declared the ru-
NOR that Ambassador Aoki would be
recalled from Washington was totally
without foundation.