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

After passing resolutions indors1ng
the ship channel project and calling
upon congress for an appropriation
sufficient to secure a 14foot canal
from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
through the route already selected by
army engineers, the deep waterway
convention at Memphis adjourned.
The next meeting of the association
will be held in Chicago.
William Burns (colored), who fatal
" shot Policeman August Banter at
Cumberland Md, was taken from the
jail by a mob and shot and kicked to
death.
Peter Mathieson, on trial for killing
John Johansen near Tenstrike, Mimi,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree at Bemidji, Mimi. Judge Nc
Clenahan tainted when about to pro-
nounce sentence.
DR.. and Mrs. David Rowland were
acquitted at Raleigh, N. c., of the
charge of poisoning Mrs. Rowland's
former husband Charles r. Strange
George E. Robinson, prosecuting at
torney of Wayne county, Michigan,
and one of the most widely-known at
torneys in the state, died suddenly
from heart disease at Detroit.
Unionists in Odessa renewed their
anti-semitic outrages, brutally beating
many Jews.
The British government accepted
the bandit Raisulis reduced terms for
Caid Sir Harry MacLean's release, the
principal items being $15G,000 ransom
and British protection for Raisuli and
his family.
Four men were killed and 80 hor-
ribly injured by the upsetting of a
great pot of molten metal in a steel
plant at Butler, Pa.
Tho cornerstone of the new ST.
Cecilia's Catholic cathedral at Omaha,
Neh, was laid, Archbishop Ireland de-
liveEing the address.
immigration of Japanese into Amer
lea ia increasing at so alarming a rate
that it has been determined by the
government to adopt extraordinary
measures to prevent the introduction
into the United States, not only of Jap
borers.
Three men were killed and two
seriously injured when the Lake
Shore limited train plowed through a
crowd OF men at Gary, Ind.
Postmaster General Meyer suspend
ed the payment of all moneys due
from his department to the Hartford
Manufacturing company of Hartford,
Conn, and asked the attorney gen.
eral to take up charges that the COM
pany wrongly benefited to the extent
of about $425,000 by using paper be-
low specifications in stamped en-
velopes.
A serious revolution broke out in
the Province of Corrientes, Argentine
Republic.
Valentine Cotrel, woman of Rouen,
was sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for mutilating Jean Auguste
Ingres' picture, Plus VII. in the Sis
tine Chapel" in the Louvre.
Anton A. Higbee, a fisherman from
Colona, Mich, was picked up off Chi
cage, after he had been four days
adrift in wrecked sloop.
James Hensly of Indianapolis shot
and killed Walter McClintock, farm
er, and his son Enoch near Mobiles
vile, Ind.
Four Italians were hanged at once
at Lancaster Pa, for the murder of a
fellow countTyman.
The forty-fifth triennial general con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States opened
in Richmond, Va, with many foreign
church dignitaries present.
District Attorney H. B. Means, of
Arkansas, has entered suits against
the Southern Telephone & Telegraph
company and the Southwestern Tele-
graph & Telephone company, charging
violation of the antitrust laws and
asking that penalties aggregating
s3,00O.000 be assessed.