River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

chael Sanders.
George L. Seeberger, a Chicago dry
goods merchant, died of wounds in
Hicted by two men who undertook to
hold him up in his store.
Commander Peary postponed his
expedition in search of the north pole
until next year because of delay in
putting new boilers in the steamer
Roosevelt.
Judge H. B. Short, was arrested at
Center, Tex, while holding court, on
an Indictment charging him with COM
plicity in the murder of DR.. Mike Paul
last fall
Several stocks quoted in New York
fell to new low record levels. Nota-
BILE among them was Standard Oil,
which at one time reached 466, the
lowest point touched in many years.
A little later the stock was offered at
ATS with no bidders.
A detachment of infantry COM
manded by two lieutenants was mas
sacred by rebels in the Mort district
of the Island of Celebes.
The grand jury at jamestown, n. Y,
returned indictments against the
Standard Oil company, the Vacuum
Oil company and the New York Cen
trail and Pennsylvania railroads for
rebating. In Chicago Judge Grosscup
granted writ of error allowing the
Standard company to appeal from the
fine imposed by Judge Lands.
The anniversary of the coronation
of Pope Plus x was celebrated in the
Sistine chapel with religious solemn
ty, great pomp and magnificence.
Emerson B. Brownelle, one Of a
party of IA people who were poisoned
by mushrooms, died at his home in
Kalamazoo, Mich.
The striking boilermakers of the
Pacific division of the Southern Pacific
declined the offer of arbitration sub
mitted by the company.
Bill Quantrell, leader of Quantrelps
guerrillas in the civil war, who sup
posedly died at a Kentucky hospital
after his raiders were cut up, is alive
at Quatsino, on the northwest coast of
Vancouver island, under the name of
John Sharp, according to the state
ment of persons who have conversed
with him.
James H. Rodebaugh was killed by
a revolver shot in the office of the
Niagara Mill & Elevator company, of
Buffalo, of which he was president.
Charles N. Chase, secretary and treas
urer of the milling company, who was
alone in the office with Rodebaugh at
the time of the shooting, is under ar
rest.
Daniel J. Tobin, of Boston, was
elected president of the Team Drivers
and Helpers international union. Cor
nelius P. Shea, of Chicago, president
for the past four years, was defeated.
A furious storm, which centered in
the district along the Pennsylvania
railroad line from Homestead to
Greensburg, Pa, did great property
damage in the several towns in that
section, and was the cause of proba-
bly, three deaths.
Col. Frank H. Phipps, of the ord
nance department, superintendent of
y,
retired by operation of law with the
grade of brigadier general.
John McClintock, aged %, and Miss
Edna Rogers, 10, were waylaid and
shot at Bloomington, ILL.,, while return
ing from an entertainment McClin-
tock who was a we'll known farmer.
was instantly killed. Miss Rogers will
recover.
A. l.. G. Atkinson, secretary of the
territory of Hawaii, has resigned
from his position.
Gov. Patterson, of Tennessee, issued
a call for conference of textile man
ufacturers and labor representatives
in all southern states to be held in
Nashville October IA, to consider uni
form labor laws affecting women and
children.
Moors made two desperate attempts
to rush the French camp outside Cas-
ablanca and invade the city, but were
repulsed by the troops and warships
with heavy loss.
The opium dens of Canton, China,
were closed in accordance with the
imperial decree. The city celebrated
the result with bands and decorations.
Harry Liebe, a Portland (Ore.)
Jeweler, shot and killed his wife, Eta
Pittman Liebe. He then killed him
self. Domestic infelicity is said to
be the cause of the shooting.
Bill Miner under life sentence for
robbing a Canadian Pacific railway
train at Kamloops last year, and three
other convicts, J. w. Clarke, w. J.
Woods and A. F. McClosky, escaped
from the Westminster penitentiary in
British Columbia.
The situation along the coast and
in the interior of Morocco became
more serious Fanatics were preach
ing holy war and arousing the
anti-foreign spirit among the Mussul-
mans at Rabat and tribesmen were
firing within two miles of Tangier.
The skeleton of w. ]. Barney, a
timberman said to have been MUIR
dered by Colorado miners in 1901, was
found where Steve Adams said the
body was buried, near Telluride.
The Chicago directory for 1907 esti-
mates the population of the city at
2,367,OO0.
Casablanca, on the Moroccan coast,
has been bombarded by French cruis-
ers, the Moors are reported to have
been shot down in large numbers and
the town ia nractic011v in the nOSSoS-