River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-11

pion, was knocked out in the first
round by Tommy Burns at Colma, Cal.
Martin j. Sheridan, of the Irish
American Athletic club of New York,
won the all around championship of
the Amateur Athletic union at Celtic
Park, l.. l.
Seventeen persons were killed anu
many injured by storms in western
Wisconsin.
Meyer Goldberg, 40 years old, said
to be a well-to-do horse dealer of
Chicago, was locked up in New York
at the request of the Chicago police
on a charge of larceny of $4,000.
The customs authorities of Venice
searched ]. Pierpont Morgan's yacht
Corsair, having been informed that
number of pictures from the Strozzi
collection were concealed on board.
The search, however, was without re-
suit. The protests of Mr.. Morgan, who
was on board at the time, were dis
regarded.
DIR. Albert E. Carrier, a prominent
physician of Detroit, widely known as
specialist on skin diseases, dropped
dead OF heart disease.
Maj Charles r. Knowles, of Albany,
N. Y, dropped dead at the Pittsfield
County club while playing golf.
The Hotel Gordon, Kingwood, Va,
was totally destroyed by fire. The
guests had narrow escapes.
Francis B. Thurber one of the or
ganizers of the New York board of
trade and transportation, died, aged sc
years. He was widely known as a
grocer, publicist and lawyer
The 100-kilometer bicycle race for
| the championship of the world was
run at the Pare des Princes, Paris,
and won by the Englishman Meredith.
Marquis Ito questioned the emperor
of Korea about the complaint made
to The Hague conference by Koreans
and gave him to understand that his
intriguing against Japan must stop.
Rexford Dew, of Wilson, N. c., shot
and instantly killed his young wife
and his brother. He made no denial
of the tragedy.
President Roosevelt appointed Orms-
by McHarg, clerk of the senate COM
mittee on pensions, to investigate
alleged frauds in New Mexico.
Frank Schneider, of Silverton, Col,
who was elected a member of the
executive board of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners, was killed by jump
ing from moving train while on his
way to give important testimony in
the Haywood trial at Boise.
A 1o1 10d INV hot CT ri
sympathizers planned an attack on
them under guise of Fourth of July
| celebration, most of the ice men with
the American Ice company in New
York abandoned their wagons.
William w. Johnson, a wealthy lum-
herman of Petoskey, Mich, was killed
while racing with dummy train with
his machine at a dangerous crossing
he was thrown under the wheels Of
the train.
A tornado in western Wisconsin
partly wrecked several towns and in:
jured a number of persons.
An automobile driven by William j.
Fortune, millionaire brewer, ran down
and killed G. A. Cornish in Lincoln
park, Chicago. 4.
Raisuli, the bandit chief of Moroc-I
CO, captured Caid Gen. Sir Harry;
MacLean, commander of the sultan's,,
bodyguard, and said he would hold.
him until the SULTAN paid 100000:
and appointed Raisuli governor of
Tangier and commander of police.
A riot occurred at the jamestown
exposition, following an attempt Of
500 members of the South Carolina
and Kentucky regiments to take.
charge of the WAR PATH" which at
tempt the Powhattan guards resisted
Several were injured.
Charles Murray, who shot and
killed his wife, Nellie Murray, Octo-
Der 2, 1906, because she refused to
return home with him, was sentenced
at Peoria, ILL.,, to 25 years in the peni-
tertiary.
The jury in the trial of former AS
sociate Statistician E. S. Holmes, Jr.,1
of the department of agriculture, on
the charge of conspiring to defraud
the government by giving out the de-
partment's crop information, failed to
agree and was discharged.
Philip K. Green, instructor of Eng
| lish and mathematics, and Prof. David.
A. Durward, assistant in the agricul-
tural department at the Mount Her.
mon school for boys, were drowned.
while canoeing in the Connecticut
| river.
| Gov. Deneen, of Illinois, appointed
Gen. G. M. Moulton as major general,
| commanding the Illinois National
guard, under the reorganization law.
Col. J. E. Stuart, of the Second in
| fantry, succeeds Moulton as brigadier
general of the First brigade.
A man giving the name of G. u
Hall and claiming to be from st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, but recently practicing'
| physician at Lennox, Ia, was arrested
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, while in the.
very act, it is charged, of making
counterfeit money.
Mark Twain, in London, denied the,
report that he was to marry Miss
| Lyon, his secretary.
| J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago, in a
Fourth of July address at Whitewater,
Wis, predicted Chicago would be the,
largest city in the worlds history and
| that the United States would whip
/ China and Tanan in war