River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

John d. Rockefeller appeared as
witness before Federal Judge Lands
but could give the court little infor-
nation concerning the Standard Oil
companys business. The facts desired
were obtained from Secretary Pratt,
of the company.
Representative Richard Bartholdt,
of Missouri, president of the Amer
lean group of the Interparliamentary
union, arrived at The Hague and is
arranging for presentation to Presi-
dent Nelidoff of the resolutions adop-
ted at the interparliamentary confer
ence in London in July, 1906.
Long Pine was visited by tornado
and heavy damage was done. Bust
ness buildings, the fire station, the jail,
a church and many other structures
were demolished and three persons
were injured. The little town of Polk,
founded only last September, also was
badly wrecked by a combined wind
and haistorm. The best business
buildings in the town were demolished
or damaged.
Two persons were killed and ten
hurt when a trolley car plunged over
an embankment at Clarksburg, w. Va.
A portion of the state regalia, val
ued at $250,000, has been stolen from
Dublin castle. The safe in which the
regalia was kept was forced.
One man was killed, another seri-
Ously injured and damage to the ex-
tent of $4,000 was done by fire which
originated in barber shop in Pitts,
burg, Pa, and spread to four adjoin-
ing buildings.
"A race riot occurred at Chesapeake
Junction, near Washington, and two
negroes were seriously injured and
several others hurt.
The Northwest Lumber company.
the principal stockholders in which
are Barley Bros. and M. F. Quinn, of
Pennsylvania, have purchased 10000
acres of timber land in western Wash
ington. The consideration is ST.
100000.
Christopher HOrandt, wealthy silk
manufacturer of Paterson, N. j., was
killed and other members of his fam
lily injured when locomotive struck
and demolished an automobile in
which the party was returning home
from Asbury Park.
Two brick buildings, three stories
high, in the center of the wholesale
district of indianapolis, Ind, collapsed
from some unknown cause causing a
loss of 100000.
CT nj I nIn Of Coz
Francisco, has decided to advocate the
selection of w. J. Lebreton to sue
coed Eugene e. Schmitz as soon as
the latter is sentenced by Judge
Dunno.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
has issued an order requiring the
Great Northern and the Eastern Rail-
way company of Minnesota and the
Chicago, ST. Paul. Minneapolis &
Omaha railroad companies to open
their big grain elevators at Superior
to the use of the general public.
One man was killed and 80 injured
when trolley car on an interurban
road near Washington collided with
two cars loaded with steel rails.
JdpduGoS pIOpI16lOIS VI d I6SlduT-
ant and a bath house have sued San
Francisco for $2,575 for damages
caused by a mob.
King Edward has decorated Enrico
Caruso, the Italian tenor, with the
Victorian order.
Martha Washington, wife of George
Washington, a colored farm hand liv-
ing near Terre Haute, Ind, gave birth
to three boys and two girls. All are
expected to live.
The gunboat Don Juan de Austria,
one of Admiral Dewey's trophies of
the Spanish war. has been assigned to
the use of the Michigan naval militia
and will be located on Lake Superior.
Former Judge John T. Healy of
Elgin, ILL.,, was found dead in a bath
establishment in Chicago.
President Small. of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union, ordered the op-
orators strike extended to another
city, but would not say what one
The emperor of Japan has bestowed
war medals on ten American women
who served as volunteer nurses and
10 American war CORRESPONDENTS