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

With hands tied behind him ana
clothes weighted with stones, the
body Of an unidentified man was
found floating in the Chicago river
near it's mouth.
Bishop Satterlee laid the founda-
ton of the Episcopal cathedral of
Saints Peter and Paul in Washington.
President Roosevelt spoke and the
bishop Of London delivered the salu-
tation.
Eight men were killed and a score
injured, four fatally, when the Chica-
90 & Wheeling express on the Baltl-
more & Ohio railroad crashed into a
freight train at a siding near Bel
laire, 0.
Japanese pirates looted an Alaskan
village on Southwest Kodiak island.
Captains of several American fish
ing vessels reported that their papers
were seized by Russian gunboat in
the Okhotsk sea.
Secretary Taft was welcomed to
Japan as an envoy Of peace. He was
installed in palace and conferred
with the Japanese war minister and
other notables.
Gov Deneen appointed a commits
sion to revise the school laws Of ILL
nois.
Herr Woelfing, formerly Archduke
Leopold Salvatore of Austria, is en-
gagged to marry Maria Ritter, the
daughter of humble Siberian.
Matt McGrath, representative of
the New York Athletic club, in Kan
sas City broke the worlds record for
throwing the 16-pOund hammer, held
by Nicholson, of Scotland, by hurting
it 164 feet, three inches. The former
record was 164 feet.
Four persons were killed in a col
lision between a freight train and
work train on the Seabord Air line
railroad near Alamo, Ca
Maj. G. H. Wilson, who for 16 years
has ben engaged in the formation of
mining enterprises in the Missouri
Kansas lead and zinc district, was ar
rested in Joplin, Mo-, charged with
having obtained money in connection
with fraudulent companies.
r. B Converse, editor of the Chris
tian Observer, said to be the Oldest
religious newspaper in the world,
died in Louisville, KY, of a heart at
tack. He was II years old.
With the final words of the hymn
which he was singing with his Sun
day school class, God be with you
till we meet again" upon his lips,
Frank B. Kitchener, real estate
man Of Kansas City, dropped dead in
church.
Floods in southern France and in
Malaga caused great loss of life and
property.
The Spanish government, alarmed
by the exodus of laborers, has pre-
pared a drastic law to keep them
from emigrating, especially to the
Panama canal.
Taniemo Hitachiyama, champion
wrestler of Japan, presented a jeweled
Japanese sword to President Roose-
Welt
Miss May Sipp, Is years old, was
found dead in the back yard of her
parents home in Lorain, Kan, with
her throat cut
James E. Tromey, aged II, of Re
we're, Mass, was choked to death OIL
grapes that he stole.
Sir John Charles Bell, ex-sheriff of
London and head of a brewery COM
pany, was elected lord mayor of Lon
don.
Grand Duke Frederick of Baden
died at Constance of intestinal inflam-
nation.
Clayton F. McMichael, secretary of
the board of trustees of the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania, died at a hos
pital in Philadelphia, following an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis.
Elias Hornbeck, a wealthy New
Yorker, was mistaken for a burglar
and shot dead in Tacoma, Wash.
Mrs. H. G. Munsell and Mrs. Henry
Holmes, both of Springfield, Mass,
were killed by car in Norfolk, Va
The federal grand jury at San Fran
cisco returned indictments against
the Southern Pacific Railway COM
pany and the Pacific Mail Steamship
company for secret cutting of rates.
Rev. Walter Fardy, vicar general of
the Superior (Wis.) diocese of the Ro.
man church, has been appointed by
Pope Plus X. prelate of the pontifi-
cal household.
Gov. Magoon learned of a conspiracy
to start revolutionary movement in
Cuba, backed by New York capitalists.
City ownership of waterworks plants
was defeated in various ways in Man
itowoc, Racine, Sheboygan and Apple
ton, Wis.
Mrs. Cyrus Baldwin, SO years old,
Of Hampshire, ILL.,, was beaten to death
with a hammer, and her husband, SIS
and in his dotage, confessed the crime
Frank A. MCGEE of Worcester,
Mass, national organizer of the Foun-
drymen's union, was found guilty at
New Haven Conn, on four counts al
leging intimidation of nonunion work
men, and on each count he was SEN
fenced to Jail for six months and
fined S100.
A monster petition signed by hun.
dreds of British Columbians is on its
way to Premier Laurier of Canada.
urging vigorous exclusion of Asiatics.
Paul Meliege, a miner at Chisholm,
Mimi, was rescued alive after being
buried 265 feet below the surface by
a depression Of lis feet.