River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

At a meeting held in Oakland the
telegraphers' union voted unanimously
to accept the terms of settlement pro-
posed by the Western Union and Pos
tai Telegraph companies. The teleg-
raphers will return to work and then
both telegraph companies will receive
a committee OF arbitration to discuss
and settle matters affecting the teleg-
raphers.
After the emperor of Korea had alb
Dictated a company of Korean troops
mutinied, escaped from the barracks
and fought with the Japanese. Many
were killed and wounded on both
sides before the revolt was quelled
William January alias Charles w.
Anderson, for whose pardon petition
containing the signatures of $4,000
persons was presented to President
Roosevelt, was released from the fed
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The Southern Railway company was
fined 100000, and Thomas j. Green,
ticket agent of the company, fined five
dollars in the state court at Raleigh,
N. c., for selling railroad tickets at a
rate in excess of that provided by the
recent state law for a uniform rate
of two and one-fourth cents mile in
North Carolina.
Thomas b. Mcpherson, of Omaha,
was elected president of the National
Livestock Exchange association to
succeed James c. Swift, of Kansas
City, Mo.
Adolph Ruegger, former treasurer of
Madison county, ILL.,, committed sui
eide owing to the intense heat, which
prevented him from sleeping.
In the United States district court
at Cheyenne, Wyo., E. M. Holbrook, a
millionaire, E. e. Lonabaugh, promi-
nent attorney, and Robert McPhil-
lamey, a we'll known business man of
Sheridan, were found guilty of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States
government of coal lands in Sheridan
county.
Said Kali Haick, the Syrian drago.
man, who announced that he was go
ing to marry Miss Elsie Ellwood, of
De Kalb, ILL.,, gave up his plan because
of the opposition of Miss Ellwoods
family.
1t was announced by President Mel
len, of the New York, New Haven e
Hartford Railroad company that John
F. Stevens, former chief engineer of
the Panama canal, had been appoint
ed a vice president of the road.
Midshipman James f. Cruise, of the
battleship Georgia, died at the naval
hospital in Chelsea. He is the tenth
man to die, as a result of the powder
explosion in the after turret of the
Georgia.
Great damage to property in St.
Joseph, Mo-, and vicinity was done by
a tornado and a terrific rainstorm.
Many houses were wrecked, cellars
flooded and street railway tracks
washed away
Capt. August Azzali, leader of the
Mexican band, which organization ac-
companied the Ell Paso, Tex, lodge of
Elks to Philadelphia. was drowned
while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J.
Roy L. Reece was elected mayor of
Springfield, ILL.,, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mayor Griffiths.
1t is believed that war is about to
break out again in Central America,
Salvador and Guatemala being about
ready to attack President Zelaya, of
Nicaragua.
All records for immigration were
broken in the fiscal year ending June
80, the total number of aliens who
landed In America being 1,2S5,349.
Theatrical combines of United
States, London, Paris, Berlin and
Vienna are to unite in a syndicate
representing a capital of 100000, 900.
The Elks selected Dallas, Tex, as
the next convention city and elected
John K. Tener, OF Charleroi, Pa,
grand exalted ruler of the order.
The Black Hand society blew up a
grocery store in East Harlem, n. Y,
amid crowd of 10000 Italians cele-
brating a festival.
The war department has ordered
the fifth field artillery, now at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, to the Philippines.
Herman Bartels, the millionaire
brewer, who escaped from sheriff at
Toronto, Ont, as he was about to be
taken back to Auburn, N. Y, has been
recaptnTed.