River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-08

brought in a verdict of manslaughter.
The body of white man, with a
gaping wound on the head, was found
in freight car at Baltimore. The car
had been sent from Chicago.
Two attempts were made to wreck
a passenger train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton road at Midway,
two miles from Hamilton, o.
A disastrous fire ragged oil night
along the foothills ten miles east of
VisaIia, CAL The territory devastated
amounts to Is or 100 square miles.
Korean troops, enraged at the de-
cree disbanding them, attacked the
japanese in Seoul and about 100 men
were killed and wounded. The COM
mander of one Korean regiment COM
mitted suicide.
Another labor war broke out in
LODI, Russia. Strikers destroyed prop
erty, barricaded the streets and gave
battle to the troops, 80 being killed or
wounded.
Four men lost their lives at San
Pedro, Cal, when 400 feet of the
trestle leading from the wharf of the
Pacific Wharf & Storage company col
lapsed.
The Pittsburg Coal company, whose
$4,000 miners threatened to strike, in
vited them to conference, offering
reparation if its agreements had been
violated.
Petriella, leader of the Minnesota
iron mine strikers, advised them to
use guns to maintain their right to
sell their labor where they could get
the best price.
Fred Magill and his young bride
were indicted at Clinton, ILL.,, on the
charge of numbering MagilPs first
wife.
More than so families were driven
from their homes at Edgewater, N. j.,
by a fierce blaze which destroyed the
main refining building of the Valve
line Oil company's plant. The loss
was 100000
Katie Pritschler, eight years old,
was found murdered and mutilated in
New York, the case being similar to
two recent murders of women there.
Neil N. Hughes, senior clerk in the
Columbia, Tenn, post office, son OF
eX-PostmaSter A. M. Hughes, of Column
bia, was arrested by United States
post office inspectors charged with
robbing the mails.
Marquette, Kan, on the Missouri
Pacific railway, was wrecked by tor
nado.
Gov. Frank Frantz was nominated
by reclamation for governor of the
new state of Oklahoma by the Repub-
lican state convention.
Garrett Walsh, first-class fireman
belonging to the crew of the battle
ship Maine, was stabbed and killed,
and Chief Master at Arms T. F. Mad
dox and Chief Baker j. Alderman, of
the same ship, were wounded, the for
mer probably fatally, by Fred Cutter
rez, a beach wagon" driver, in Phoe-
bus, Va.
Serious agrarian disorders have
broken out in the government of Voro-
nezh, Russia, where the peasants have
burned down II estates.
David Christie Murray, novelist and
playwright, died in London, aged so
years.
With appropriate ceremonies the
new cruiser California, recently COM
pleted, was placed in commission at
Vallejo, Cal.
Several Koreans have been arrested
in Honolulu charged with counter
feiting $40 gold pieces.
In convention at Exeter, the British
Medical association has almost unani-
mously supported contention adj
vanced by member that sick people
should be treated at public expense.
Aloise r. Care, said to be a mem
Der of a wealthy family of bankers in
Mexico City, committed suicide in his
boarding house in Brooklyn, N. Y. He
was % years old.
Robert Stubs, for years butler for
Levi P. Morton, has retired with a for
tune of 100000 made from market
tips furnished by his employer
An explosion in one of the mills of
the American Powder company, MAX
ers of smokeless powder, near Avoca,
Pa, blew up the entire plant. J. M.
Hague, the superintendent, and James
Coolbaugh, an employee, were badly in
jured.
Objections have been filed at Clinton
to the administration of the John
Warner estate, charging Vespasian
Warner, the executor, with collision
and fraud.
Police Commissioner Bingham, Of
New York, is planning an information
al detective bureau, which is to con-
meet all the important cities of the
world.
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, was
released from the Boise, Idaho, Jail on
bond of $4,000. signed by Timothy
Reagan and Thomas ]. Jones, of
Boise.
Mrs. A. Nichols, of Egg Harbor, N.
j., had premonition that she would
die, and, despite the fact that she was
apparently in good health, was found
dead in bed.
Fire in the Pittsburg municipal in
situations at Marshalsea destroyed two
buildings and caused the death of one
employee and the serious injury of sew
eral other persons.
The candidacy of William H. Taft,
secretary of war, for the Republican
nomination for president, was en-
dorSed nv the Ohio Republican state