River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-17
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ca rejected CN6 SuSSGSLlOu duFduCCu
by President S. j. Small of the ma
tiOnal union that the time had come
when the strike against the Western
Union and Postal companies should
be declared off. In every city where a
vote was taken the executive head OF
the keymer's body was excoriated
without mercy. Charges Of treachery
were frequent and demands for his
resignation were many
Norfolk & Western passenger train
No and an extra coal train side
swiped in a cut near Montvale, Va,
resulting in the death of one man
and the injury of dozen passengers.
Arthur Onweller, merchant of
Lyons, O., was killed in an autOmo-
bile accident five miles east of Moren-
CT Mich.
During a pistol duel with burglar,
who had robbed a residence of sever
al thousand dollars worth Of dia-
monds, Ed Barrett, policeman of
Peoria, H., was shot and killed
Six members of the family of Solo,
mon Frank, a glove cutter, the father
and five daughters, were suffocated by
smoke when their home was destroyed
by fire in Gloversville, N. Y.
Campbell Slemp, member of con-
gresS from the Ninth district of Vir-
ginia, died of angina pectoris. He
was the only Republican member of
the Virginia delegation in congress.
The bodies of 10 members of the
crew Of the steamer Cyprus, which
foundered in Lake Superior off Deer
Park have been recovered.
One man was killed and the steel
steamer John w. Moore was sunk in
collision between the Moore and the
Queen City in the Detroit river.
The Oceanic Steamship company's
steamer MaripOsa, which was adrift
without fuel 70 miles off Monterey,
was towed into port by the tugs
Dauntless and Relief.
Chicago Nationals won the worlds
championship by defeating Detroit
Americans for the fourth time.
The emperor of Austria was de-
clared to be considerably worse and
his physicians feared an attack of
lobular pneumonia.
Rev. DR.. Willard Scott, pastor of
Piedmont church, Worcester Mass,
for nine years, resigned to devote all
his time to golf.
Second Lieut.. James M. Sutton, Jr.,
United States Marine corps, killed
himself by shooting at Annapolis, Md.
A couple in the village of Isonbolgi,
Austria, celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary of their wedding.
Discouraged by i'll health, Gen. Ifivro
Rojan, commandant of the Braves dis
trict OF the Mexican army, committed
suicide in his quarters at Juarez by
shooting himself.
The bodies of two nuns buried in the
private cemetery of the seminary of
the Ladies of the Sacred Heart in
Chicago were found to have been pet
rified
1t was reported that Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt would be married to a duke
soon after her daughter becomes
Countess Szechenyi.
The Glover Leaf grain elevator and
$4,000 bushels of grain burned in
Madison, ILL.,, the loss being $1OO, OOO
Gen Webb Syck, civil war veter-
an with brilliant record, murdered
his young bride of two weeks and
then committed suicide at their man
sion in Fairview, a suburb of PikevilIe.
Ky
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, son of the late
famous socialist leader in the reichs-
tag, who has been on trial on the
charge of high treason in the publica-
ton of pamphlet addressed to the
youth of Germany, in which he advo-
Gated a general military strike in the
event of an unpopular war, was SEN
fenced to Is months detention in a
fortress.
Anton Hupp, the proprietor of the
Grand hotel at Carlsbad, and weh
known to thousands of Americans, is
dead at the age of 81 years.
The New Hampshire state board of
railway commissioners found a train
dispatcher responsible for the Canaan
wreck on the Boston & Maine road in
which &c lives were lost.
Paris doctors have discovered a
method of remedying birthmarks by
means of an application of radium.
M. B. Nelson of Seattle, Wash, a
cabin passenger on the steamer C. F.
Tietgen, which arrived at New York
from Copenhagen, died of diabetes at
sea.
At the direction of President Roose-
welt $50 soldiers will be detailed at
st. Louis to police the grounds and
aid in the international balloon race.
The badly decomposed body Of Jack
Simpkins, missing member of the
Western Federation of Miners. was
found in Shoshone county. Idaho.
DR.. Walter G. Crump is reported as
having performed a remarkable opera
ton in New York on Mrs. George
Blydenburg for cancer, in which parts
of six organs were removed from the
abdominal region, and the patient is
reported on the way toward recov-
cry.
AS result of its investigation OF
the so-called little black book" the
federal grand jury at Minneapolis re
turned 10 indictments against we'll
known lumber men and officers of the
Northwestern Lumbermen's associa
ton charging conspiracy to defraud
by the use of the mails.