River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14

ground, a perpendicular distance OF
500 feet, which extended to near S25
feet by the stairway.
Crown Princess Frederick William
of Germany gave birth to another
son.
Bats Cunningham, Overton Decker
and Salvan Pearson, members of the
Baptist church choir at Hazleton, Ind,
were arrested on affidavits filed by
Rev. Samuel Belts, charged with dis
turbing religious services by chewing
gum while seated in the choir.
The Minneapolis chamber of COM
merce won it's fight against 16 indie
pendent grain companies, which were
accused of stealing the chamber quo
tations, and had them enjoined.
Albert Krippendoffer, missing son
of a Cincinnati millionaire, has been
found at the st. Francis hotel in San
Francisco.
The series of crimes in Berlin re-
sembIing the Jack the Ripper MUIR
ders in London in 1888-1889, only that
the victims were little girls instead of
women, has been cleared up through
the confession of an epileptic printers
apprentice named Paul Minow.
A terrific earthquake occurred at
| Unalaska and Mccullough peak, which
was created by an earthquake nearly
year ago, and extended over 3,4OO
feet above the sea, has dwindled to al
most nothing as result of submarine
disturbances.
Fire on the docks Of Superior, Wis,
destroyed a number of big elevators,
mills and other buildings, the total
loss being estimated at 100000.
Crazed by the death of her mother,
Miss Helen Schwab, % years old,
drank a half pint of poison, and then
cast herself from the roof of the sew
en-story apartment house in New
York. She was almost instantly
killed.
The warehouse of the Northern
Cooperage company at st. Paul, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire. Two men are
missing
Chief Wilkie, of the secret service,
reports the discovery of a new coun-
terfeit ten-dollar national bank note.
The counterfeit is on the Wells Fargo
Nevada National bank, of San Fran
cisco.
Charles Frary and his wife, an aged
couple of Saybrook, o., were killed by
Lake Shore passenger train near
Ashtabula, o.
The building occupied by the whole
sale grocery firm of Ruffner Bros. in
Charleston, w. Va, was destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of 100000. Capt.
]. j. Foley, of the fire department, and
John Dewey, shipping clerk, were
burned to death.
Rear Admiral Henry w. Lyon re-
tired from the navy on account of
having reached the age limit of serv-
ice.
David J. Hill, American minister to
the Netherlands, will succeed Mr..
Tower as ambassador to Berlin.
Edward H. Hall, a cashier, died at
New York of myxoedema, rare dis
ease caused by handling paper
money.
M LeLas, with a hydroplane, COW
cred two kilometers in one minute
and Sc seconds on the Seine, which is
at the rate of 81 knots an hour. This
constitutes a worlds record for this
sort of a machine.
A hurricane swept over Marseilles,
France, causing immense damage to
docks and other water front property.
The gas works were flooded and the
city was plunged into darkness. A
number of people were killed by col
lapsing houses.
Charles A. Perkins, formerly presi-
dent of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, and one of the lead
ing railroad authorities, died at his
home in West Wood, a suburb of Bos-
ton.
H. S. Duncan, prominent person
age in the iron and steel industry in
western Pennsylvania, died suddenly
in Pittsburg from heart disease. He
was vice president of the Cannons-
burg Steel company.
Eight thousand Croatians in con-
gress at Zagrab resolved to support
the policy of parliamentary obstruc-
ton and to seek the separation of
Croatia from Hungary.
The orphans court of Philadelphia
decided that DR.. Thomas w. Evans,
| the famous dentist, who died in Paris
several years ago and over whose es-
tate there has been much litigation,
was Partisan and that the state of
Pennsylvania has no right to collect
the collateral inheritance tax on up
ward of $1,0OO,0OO of the 100000
estate
Charles ]. Glidden, the famous auto
mobilist, has decided to try balloon
ing and hopes to make ascents from
as many different points on the globe
as possible.
A sensational petition in behalf of
three victims of the Charleston Oll.)
| disaster on the Central Illinois Trac-
ton line has been prepared at Mat
| toon, alleging that the mortgages on
| the company's property held by two
| Chicago banks were made for the pur-
| pose of defrauding the claimants.
Secretary Root has designated w. 1.
! Buchanan as the American delegate
to the Central American peace con-
| ference.
Robbers dynamfted the safe of the
Farmers State bank at Marshall,
Okla, securing all the money and val