River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-03

ginia Colorado, Maryland and Penn
sylvania arrived at San Francisco
from the Philippines.
Two army surgeons were named to
physically examine every officer re-
CURED to make the 15-mile test ride.
Those not healthy enough will not
take the test.
Secretary of State Root, on his way
to Mexico, declared that President
Roosevelt would not be a candidate
for denomination.
The steamer Minnesota, with Secre-
tary Of War Taft on board, arrived at
Yokohama.
Rev Wilbert P. Ferguson of Lin
coin, Neb., resigned from the state
Methodist conference rather than pro-
coed with the church trial in which
he was being tried for unbecoming
conduct with Mrs. E. A. Cross.
The directors of the Toledo, ST.
Louis & Western railway at a meet
ing in New York voted to sign con-
tract for the purchase of the Chicago
& Alton railway from the Rock Island
interests.
Methodists of Indiana refused to
elect Vice President Fairbanks lay
delegate to the general conference be-
cause he served cocktails at a dinner
in honor of President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Marguerite Bower, the leading
lady in the Broadway After Dark
company, playing at a Washington
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hotel.
President Roosevelt defeated the
Bishop of London at tennis and then
gave a dinner in his honor.
Richard Walton, colored, confessed
to the murder Of Mrs. Lillian White
Grant in Chicago.
Six hundred lives were lost by the
overfowing of the river Otonashiga-
wa in Japan.
Hundreds of houses and boats were
destroyed by fire in Wuchow, China,
and it is feared many lives were lost.
Theodore F. Rice, resident of Chi
cago for over 40 years and we'll
known in the wholesale paper trade,
died after months illness.
Eight persons were injured in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad
at Duncannon, Pa, when the Altoona
accommodation train ran into a
freight
Henry T. Scott, builder of the Ore
gOn, said in a New York interview
that in future warships could not be
built on the Pacific coast owing to the
high prices of labor and material.
Three men-James Cooper James
Reilly and Richard Smith-who were
loading sprinkling cart with oil for
use on the Morris park automobile
track at New York, were killed by an
explosion of oil at a tank in the
Bronx
Children playing with matches in a
hay shed on the Trafford farm, near
New Haven, ILL.,, started fire that re-
suited in the loss of four lives
Two hundred railway clerks in To-
ledo, o., representing six roads,
struck, demanding working agree
ment with the roads. More than that
many remained at their desks.
President Roosevelt announced at
the White House that he assumed
there would be no objection to the
appointment of WI Ting-fang as min
lister from China to the United States.
The handsome home of Francis G.
Landon, ex-secretary of the American
embassy at Vienna, was robbed by
two men at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
High officials of the Persian army
have signed document presented to
the shah saying that unless full &C
ceptance is given to their demands
for constitutional government they
will resign in body.
The union labor city and county
convention of San Francisco nominal
ed ticket headed by P. H. McCar-
thy, president of the Building Trades
council, for mayor.
The bishop of London preached in
Trinity church, New York, to a great
throng of financiers and business men,
and scored the dishonesty of the
wealthy.
The automobile of Mrs. William
Graham of Santa Barbara, Cal, killed
a peasant at Auxerre, France. The
driver in trying to save the man
ditched the machine and Mrs. Graham
was injured.
The Indiana Pipe Lin company,
subsidiary of the Standard Oil COM
pany, made a profit of $4,091, 022 in
1903 on a total investment of $2,22S,-
75S, according to the company's fig
ures produced by George Chesebro,
controller of the National Pipe Line
company, who appeared as a witness
in the federal suit against the oil com
bine
By the order of Gov Magoon, of
Cuba, the negro general, Juan Du-
casse, and Gems. Masso PARA and
Luis Lara Miret, were arrested and
lodged in Jail on the charge of sedi-
ton
President Small, of the commercial
telegraphers, said the leased wire op-
orators under contract would not be
called out.
Forces of the Guggenheim railroad,
the Copper River & Northwestern,
shot and killed one man and wounded
five employed by the Alaska Rome
railway in keystone canyon, Is miles
from Valdez.
The Countess Montignoso, eX-crown
princess of SaXony, and Sig. Toselli,
the music master, were married at
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