River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-12


New, by Brig. Gen. Fred Funston, COM
handing the department of California,
in compliance with orders received
from the war department.
Capt William Cox, the representa-
tive Of Gov Sparks in Goldfeld, stated
that he had information from the
Mine Owners association that an at
tempt would be made very soon to
reopen the mines with nonunion men.
Nine companies OF regulars went into
camp at Goldfeld.
Ambassador Bryce has been sum-
moned to England for conference
and is not expected to return to
America.
The late George F. Porter, million
aire of Minneapolis, in his will left
100000 to Miss Stella NJ. Blethen, his
confidential stenographer
Joseph and Floyd Randall, brothers,
aged ten and eight, and Ernest Dou-
telle, aged IL, were drowned at Flint,
Mich, while crossing Flint river on
the ice.
Four hundred miners are known to
black damp, or methane, in mines Nos
and Of the Consolidation Coal COM
pany of Baltimore at Monongah, W.
Va. Five men escaped, more dead
than alive, through air shafts.
Carvings restaurant in st. Paul was
partly destroyed by fire and woman
emplOye was burned to death.
Ioc+,C,roJ tho I,ioy pt
warehouse of David Bradley & Co. at
Council Bluffs, Ia, the loss being $685.
600.
The sentence of the three Ameri
cans, Richardson, Mason and Hare,
who were to be shot at Chihuahua for
the murder of two other Americans
whose insurance they attempted to
collect, was committed to 20 years
Imprisonment.
James Bartlett Hammond, head of
the Hammond Typewriter company
was declared sane and given his free
dom
The jury which will try the case of
George A. Pettibone for completely in
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Steunenberg was completed and sworn
in at Boise Idaho
Mrs. Mary Stet of Altoona, Pa, was
murdered by burglar.
Maj. William L. Geary, U. S. A., died
in the army general hospital at the
Presidio, San Francisco. He was the
first American child born in San Fran
cisco, his father having been the last
al
city
President Roosevelt entertained at
dinner a number of bear hunters from
the Louisiana cane brakes.
The secretary of the treasury has ac-
cepted bids for the Panama canal
bonds to the amount of $25000,000.
The average price of all the bids ac-
copied is 1913.
The Southwest Bridge company of
Joplin, Mo-, with a paid-up capital
stock of $265,0O0, one of the largest
manufacturing enterprises in the dis
trict went into the hands of re
ceiver
The Fort Pitt National bank, one of
the older financial institutions of Pitts
burg, Pa, was closed by order of the
comptroller Of the currency.
The State bank. of Admire, Kan,
and the Bank of Stotesbury, at Stotes-
bury, Mo-, closed as a result of the
failure of the National Bank of Com
merce of Kansas City
d. II. Perry, of Salt Lake City,
prominent capitalist and Democratic
national committeeman from Utah,
died at Los Angeles, Cal
The Jim Crow bill passed the
Oklahoma senate and will become eff
fective in 60 days after being signed
by the governor.
Twenty bandits attacked a monas-
tary near Pskov, Russia, but were re
pulsed Six monks were killed.
The steamer St Marys Of the Mary
land, Delaware & Virginia Railroad
company, was burned at Hallowing
Point, on the Patuxent river, in south
ern Maryland
In the federal court at Topeka, Kan,
demurrer to the indictment of Secre-
tary Fl. H. Tucker, Jr., charging him
with using the mails to defraud in
his efforts to promote the Uncle Sam
Oil company, was sustained, and
Tucker was freed
Rice hail. at Washburn college, To
peka, Kan, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being 100000.
Murdered by BLACK Hand" enemies,
it is believed, Gottlieb Voegeli, so
years old, was found shot to death in
a freight doorway of the La Sale
street station at Chicago.
The British turbine torpedo boat de
stroyer Tartar has beaten all records
for her class by steamiAg 1882 knots
an hour against the tide.
Encouraged by the success of other
Russian artists in America, Mile.
Arzheffskaia, the foremost actress in
Russia, has decided to bring a com
pany to the United States in January
| and present a series of modern Rus
sian plays.
ViscOunt Kaneko cabled President
| Roosevelt as follows: The whole
empire is rejoicing at your strong
! recommendation that America should
participate in our exposition and
thank you on behalf of and with the
authority of the people of Japan"
BY means of writ of habeas cor
pus. Antonio Thompson and his wife,
of Los Angeles, Cal, secured posses