River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-19

Prince Chav Chavadze, of the coun-
ed in the Bushety district of Russia
The princess was wounded at the
same time.
Two men and a woman were killed
by the collapse of the Dohan Shoe
companys building in Cincinnati.
mot even respectable nonsense"
was the way former Ambassador Luke
Wright, who just returned from Toxic
to resume private life, characterized
the war talk between the United
States and Japan.
Walter Wellman started for home
after disastrous attempt to start Tor
the north pole in his airship. The bal
loon was driven back by violent
storm and landed on top OF glacier,
where the party took it to pieces
WeIlman said he would return to
Spitzbergen and make another start
next year.
The Illinois board of pardons decid-
ed that the time was not at hand Tor
them to grant a release from the penl-
president of the collapsed Milwaukee
Avenue State bank of Chicago, and he
was sent back to prison to serve the
balance of his term.
The Lusitania lowered the record
for the trip from Queenstown to New
York to five days and 81 minutes.
The big turbine steamship failed to
lower the hourly speed average OF
23.58 knots made by the Kaiser Will
helm H. of the North German Lloyd
line, or the average of 23.51 knots
made by the Deutschland, though it
covered the distance between ports in
an average of 2301 knots, which is
record for maiden voyages.
Jacob Johnson, machinist, infuri-
ated after he had been knocked down
by passing automobile at Michigan
avenue and Sixteenth street, Chicago,
leaped into the machine and stabbed
the chauffeur, H. r. Almeney, in the
arm and breast.
The mines of the Amalgamated Cop
per company will not be closed be-
cause of the glut of the copper mar
ket General Superintendent John
ellis says that while work will be
abandoned on Sundays there will be
no general close down.
Sir Thomas Upton mailed to the
New York Yacht club a challenge for
the Americas cup.
Three bandits broke into the First
State bank at Leola, S. D., wrecked
the safe and escaped with $1,000.
An explosion of dynamite placed in
bundle of grain injured five men
and wrecked a threshing machine on
the farm of Peter Peterson near Chip
pewa Falls, Wis. Investigation devel-
oped the fact that sticks of dynamite
had been placed in several bundles of
grain.
In a riot between Purdue university
students and city toughs at Lafayette,
Ind, six students were seriously in
jured and Is others were badly
beaten.
who, according to Charles E. Letten,
the defaulting tax clerk of New Or
leans, received about $4,000 out of
the 100000 or more he stole from
the state, attempted to commit suicide
by jumping into the Bayou st. John.
She was fished out.
Eight former striking operators, in
Guiding the vice president of the local
telegraphers' union, returned to work
with the Postal Telegraph & Gable
company in Cleveland, o.
AS result of strikes declared in
several shops 60 or more of the lead
ing manufacturers of furs in New
York decided, it is stated, to lock out
their employees. The lockout will af-
feet about 1000 men.
The census bureau announced that
the total population of the territories
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. as
made public, is an increase of 70 per
cent over 1900, and that the aggregate
population is larger than any state at
the time of admission into the union
Andrew Carnegie has begun suit in
the New York supreme court to have
the taxes reduced on his residence in
Fifth avenue and on Carnegie hall
Mrs. Gertrude G. Clinton, of Read
ing, Pa, was slain by Frank Palmer,
for whom she deserted her husband
Forty miners were hurt by an explo-
sion in mine No. 10, owned by the
Union Pacific Coal company, at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
More arrests have been made in
Prussia on charges of betraying mill
tary secrets. One of the men under
arrest charged with high treason is a
noble.
Serious rioting occurred in Calcut-
ia, India, following the sentencing of
prisoner for sedition.
Chang Mon Wo, president of the Chi
nese Six companies, was found dead
in Chinatown, San Francisco. Death
was due to plague.
Charles G. Burton, of Nevada, Mo-,
a former member of congress, was
elected commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the
Saratoga encampment. Two veterans
died as result of exposure during the
parade.
Emperor Nicholas and his family
were forced to abandon the imperial
yacht STANDARD, which went on the
reef off Hango, Finland The boat
was badly damaged but will be saved.
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Foust of Pennsylvania has sent to
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