River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-01

A lone bandit near Ukiah, CAL, held
up two stages at once.
Judge A. S. Green, of Topeka, Kan,
died at a sanitarium in Battle Creek,
Mich, after long illness.
Helen Bailey Trowbridge, an actress
playing recently with the Peoples
Stock company in Chicago, committed
suicide in Pittsburg, Pa, by slashing
her throat with a razor.
Rev. Levont Martogessian, an Ar
menian priest, told the New York au-
thorities he believed the Matchmaking
of wealthy Armenians was being done
by Turkish government spies to dis
credit the Armenian patriots.
Judge w. H. Munger, in the fed
eral court at Omaha handed down a
decision holding that the Sibley law,
passed by the last Missouri legisla-
ture, providing for reduction OF 20
per cent. in express rates, is constitu-
tional
While Emperor Nicholas was review
ing the troops encamped at Krasnoye-
Selo the Seminovsky regiment refused
to participate in the maneuvers and
broke up the order of parade. The
men demanded the retirement of Gen.
Reiman, who, with Gen. Min, ruthless
ly put down the Moscow uprising in
December, 1905.
Thousands of persons attending the
ninth day session of the novena of the
shrine of ST. Anne at Kankakee, Ill,
saw several persons arise in ST.
Josephs church and announce that
they had been healed of infr1nities.
Gertrude F. Atherton, Katherine
Glover and Poultney Bigelow, well
known authors, are directors in the
Maiden Poultry farm of Maiden, n. Y,
which filed articles of incorporation.
President Richard H. Halsey, of the
Oshkosh, Wis, Normal school, was
accidentally shot and killed at Geoge-
bic lake, Wis.
A Jack the Ripper" in Berlin
stabbed three little girls in one af-
ternoon. One of them died and the
others probably cannot recover.
The census bureau perfected its ar
rangements for collecting cotton gin
ming statistics covering the cotton crop
of 1907-08 There will be 10 reports,
the first appearing September and
the last March 20 The intermediate
dates of publication will be October 2,
October %, November 8, November 21,
December s, December 90 January 8
and January %.
The celebrated convent at OiseauX,
where SO many young women of the
aristocracy of France and other coun-
tries have been educated, has been
closed under the law forbidding the
continuation of institutions of secular
instruction.
Acting Secretary of the Interior
Woodruff said coal famine was
neither necessary nor imminent be-
cause the geological survey has devel-
oped such immense areas of coal lands
in the west and northwest.
The supreme court of Guatemala has
confirmed the death penalty on all
those sentenced in connection with the
recent attempt to assassinate Presi-
dent Cabrera.
heat Henry Baumeyer, of Evansville,
Ind, mechanic 40 years old, made an
attempt to kill his wife and two chill
dren and then shot and killed himself.
A naval parade by United States
war vessels on the great lakes will be
feature of the ceremonies attending
the unwilling of the Victory monument
at Put-in-Bay, o., August 5, in memory
OF Perry's victory.
William J. Bryan rescued Mrs. E.
B. Stillman in an auto accident at
Storm Lake, Ia.
Cleveland voters rejected Mayor ].
Tom JOhnsons plan to issue $750,000
bonds for the rebuilding of Central
viaduct.
A bolt of lightning started a fire in
the Augusta cotton factory at Augusta,
Ga, but another bolt turned on the
automatic sprinkling apparatus and
quenched it.
Two workmen in the powder mills
five miles north of Birmingham, Ala,
were blown to atoms in an explosion
Jose Antonio Ostes, a Mexican stu
dent at Cornell university, has invent
ed a bicycle that runs on water.
John D. OShea Of Boston. a grand
trustee of the Elks, left in his will a
legacy to Miss Hattie NJ Evans, who
was his sweetheart 25 years ago.
Mrs Lillian Cora Rand, widow of
Burlington 0a) business man, will
contest the will of her father, the late
Hiram Higgins, who left $1,000,O00
She also will sue her mother and bro
Their, William r. Higgins, for defama-
ton of character.
Newton A. Berry, wealthy farmer
who lived near Covington, Ca, was
gored to death by mad bull from a
neighboring farm
Frank Cousins of Salem, Mass, a
clerk in the finance department of
the Boston post Office, was arrested
by post office inspectors charged with
embezzlement of $4,725.
Despondent because he was hope
lessly afflicted with locomotor ataxia,
Henry c. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn,
formerly auditor of the Nashville,
Chattanooga & ST. Louis railroad,
committed suicide in ST. Louis by
shooting.
committee of citizens of Ottawa,
Ont, compelled the removal of some
American flags that had been used
in decorating the CITY hall for a car