River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-12


eral times at Venice by young man
who gained entrance to his room. The
assailant escaped. The count is ex-
pected to recover.
Frank A. Perret, an American who
is assistant in the observatory on
Vesuvius, says the clouds of dust re-
Gently seen from the volcano were not
due to an eruption, but to the
crumbling of the crater.
The failure of Watson & Co., mem
bers of the New York Stock and Pro-
duce exchanges, and of the Chicago
Board of Trade, was announced IN
those exchanges. No cause was as
signed for the failure nor was any es-
innate of the liabilities and assets
made public.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane began investigating the traffic
conditions in the northwest and
found farmers could do much to pre-
vent the threatened fuel shortage by
stocking up with coal now.
The Mckinley monument in But
falo-a white marble obelisk-was I'M
yelled in the presence of men and
women of national prominence and an
immense concourse of citizens, Gov.
Hughes, Mayor Adam and others MAX
ing speeches.
Creditors of the Mcneil Pressed
Brick company, of Jerseyville, ILL.,,
with a plant valued at about $4,000,
filed a petition in the United States
poration is insolvent and asking that
it be adjudged bankrupt.
BY direction of President Roosevelt,
the public health and marine hospital
service assumed charge OF the meas
ures to stamp out the plague in San
Francisco.
Ten persons are known to have lost
| their lives in the burning of the WeDb
hotel at Shelton, 20 miles from Ia
coma, Wash.
Acting Secretary Newberry ordered
| the tug Lebanon to tow the convert
| ed yacht Huntress from League Island,
Pa, to Pensacola, Fla. There the
Huntress will be formally turned over
| to the naval militia of Missouri,
crew from which will take the YES
sci to st. Louis.
Bodies of a young man and girl
| clasped in each others arms were
found in the Mississippi river at Mus
| catine, Ia. There was nothing on the
bodies to establish their identity.
Fifty persons are said to have been
buried alive by vast avalanche OF
snow that obliterated the CHILEAN Gus
| tom house at Juncal.
Following the wreck that resulted
in t.. loss of II lives, the NATION
| City Railway company and the Cen
trail Illinois Traction company went
| into the hands of a receiver.
Contracts aggregating $2,OOO,OOO
have recently been awarded American
| firms for rolling stock to be used by
| foreign railroads. The American Lo-
| connective works, the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works and the ST. Louis Car COM
pany will supply nearly 100 lOcOmo-
| tives and 800 cars, including number
| of motor cars, to Japan, China, South
America, Mexico and the West In
| dies.
| Ferdinand Penney Earle was at
| tackled by a crowd at his home in
Monroe, N. Y, his buggy overturned
and a whip welded on his person
after he had sent his wife away to
Europe on steamer, SO that he could
marry another woman.
John Roach, leader of the conserva-
| tive element in the miners union
was elected president of local 220 at
| Goldfield, New, by about 800 majority
over C. H. McKinnon.
The directors of the Aero club of
| America learn that the International
| Aeronautic federation, the arbiter of
| international ballooning has barred
the Spanish Aero club from partici-
patton in the forthcoming cup race at
st. Louis in October for failing to for
ward the required fees.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the presi-
dent, abandoned his ride with the
Thirteenth cavalry from Fort Leaven-
worth to Fort Sheridan because of the
annoying attentions of women.
Senator La Toilette has decided to
announce his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination for the presi-
| dency and will address a statement to
the voters.
The factory of the Wemple Grave
ly Tobacco company at Danville, Va,
was destroyed by fire. Loss about $751;
600.
| William H. Abercrbmbie, formerly
United States consul at Nagasaki,
Japan, committed suicide by asphyXi-
alton in Washington.
The navy department virtually has
decided to name the 2O,000-ton battle
ship, No. 20, sister ship of the Della
ware, the New York.
1t is reported in London from Ath-
abasca landing, in the Canadian
northwest, that the steamer Duchess
of Bedford, on which the Nikkelsen
Arctic expedition was working its way
into the polar regions, has been lost.
Attorney General Bonaparte said he
had instructed District Attorney Sims
to fulfill the pledge of immunity to the
Alton road and officials and that he did
not know the newly learned facts that
caused Mr. Sims to have the case post
poned.
Mrs. J. J. Phillips. widow of the
murdered coal operator Of Cleveland,
was arrested on the charge of killing
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