River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-19
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masses in Paris against the escape OF
Soleillant, known as the "monstrous
violator and murderer" whose SEN
tence to death for the atrocious muir
der of a 12-year-old girl was COM
mute6 by President Fallieres to life
imprisonment, was expressed by nu-
merous parades led by women.
Frank Steinhart, who until July i,
was United States consul general at
Havana, is involved in new Cuban
sensation through a lawsuit brought
by Judge Fl. j. Reilly to recover $685.
900 alleged to be owed by Steinhart
on an option for the purchase of an
electric railroad in Santa Clara prov
ince.
DR. Henry L. Colt, of Newark, n. j.,
president Of the American Association
of Medical Milk Commissions, strong
ly opposed, in an address at the inter-
national milk congress at Brussels,
the compulsory pasteuriZation of milk
as a means of effectively improving
the supply of milk.
fearful head-on collision between
the south-bound Quebec express and a
nOrth-bound freight train on the Con-
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railroad, occurred four miles north of
Canaan Station due to q mistake in
train dispatcher's orders, and from
demolished passenger coach there
were taken out rs dead and dying and
n other passengers, most of them Sc
riously wounded.
Four persons wer killed and three
dangerously injured in firedamp ex-
plosion in the Merlenbach mine near
Forbach, Germany.
c. Berry Winship, Fl years old,
member of a prominent family of
Washington, was almost instantly
killed in Rock Creek park by being
thrown from his horse.
George Rose, son of w. A. d. Rose,
of Benton Harbor, Mich, was slain
by bandits at Guanajuato, Mexico.
Several persons were killed by a
premature explosion Of dynamite in
the Columbia gold mine, Georgia.
Three young hunters were killed in
a dynamite explosion near Cheboygan,
Mich, when they mistook dynamite
storehouse in the woods for a deserted
hut and used it for a target.
One hundred thousand persons wit
messed the start from Brussels of a
great international balloon race organ
lied by the Belgian Aeronautic club.
Thirty-four balloons assembled, a rec
ord number, and soon passed out of
sight.
M. d. Woodford, former president of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton e Dayton
railway, died at Kalamazoo, where he
had stopped on the way home with his
family from Charlevoix to Cincinnati.
William Harrison, of Louisville, KY,
GO years old, for many years vice pres
ident of the Bradley & Gilbert Print
ing company, and for 80 years a dea-
con of the Broadway Baptist church,
committed suicide by shooting
Clarence J. Fletcher, president and
secretary of the Fletcher Grocery
company, of Kansas City, Mo-, died of
peritonitis, aged IA years.
E. NJ Crumb, a diamond broker, of
Chicago, was lured to fiat and beat
en- and robbed of 1000 of gems.
Mathew B. Hudson, whose strange
disappearance in San Francisco near
~ caused two deaths in the Hudson
home in Chicago, has been found in a
hospital in San Francisco in serious
condition, brought on by blows struck
by sailors who robbed him of his
watch and money.
The Hartman interests have taken
over the Armour refrigerator car
business on the Pacific slope.
Champagne growers of France
threaten to follow the example of the
men of Midi in refusing to pay taxes
unless the government protects their
industry against unfair competition.
Juan Espinosa, an expert CHILEAN
maiksman, while attempting to shoot
an apple from the head of man at
circus at Rio Janeiro missed and
killed the apple bearer.
The Mary Kingsley medal has been
awarded by the Liverpool School for
the Study of Tropical Diseases to DR.
Charles Finley, chief sanitary officer
Of the canal zone, and DR.. Theobald
Smith, of Harvard.
Fire for a second time endangered
the plants of the Louisville Courier
Journal and Times and threatened to
destroy that portion of the Courier
Journal office building left intact after
the recent disastrous fire. The flames
were brought under control with a
loss of $4,000.
Miss Anna Olson, of Chicago, who
was detained by customs officers at
Port Huron, together with Mrs. Lucy
Rapp and Mrs. A. Hubert, also of Chi
cago, admitted that the contents of the
three canvas trunks which the party
had, worth about $4,000, were snug
gled goods.
The president of the Eastern Ship
building company at New London,
Conn, announced that the plant has
been purchased by New London
syndicate.
Five street car men were severely
injured in labor riot in San Fran
cisco.
The destruction of the battleship
Indiana by fire was averted only by
the courage and GOODNESS of the Off
GERS and crew.
The Philadelphia plant of the
Cudahy Packing company was de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being