River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-24

of the battle of Gettysburg, died in
Harrisburg, Pa, aged 70 years.
Four persons were killed and many
hurt in a trolley car collision at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
While endeavoring to arrest James
P. Strong, an insane man, Deputy
Sheriff Charles NJ. Webb, of Atoka,
Tenn, was killed and Deputy Louis
Ogilvie was dangerously wounded.
T. w. House, of Houston, owner of
one of the oldest banking concerns in
Texas, made a general assignment.
]. T. Neal, editor of the Columbus IN.
d. Reporter, was shot and killed by
Mrs. r. c. Rasmussen, who mistook
him for burglar.
John Charles Mcneil, poet and
raconteur, died at his home in Scot
land county, N. c., aged 33 years.
A panic was caused in Naples by
the sudden cessation of smoke from
all the craters of Vesuvius, accom-
panied by loud detonations which
usually mean a resumption of activ-
ity on the part of the volcano.
The taking of evidence ended in the
trial of Mr.. and Mrs. Magill at De-
catur for the murder of the former
Mrs. Magill, after Fred Magill had
testified in his own defense.
John Boydell, a well-known paint
manufacturer of Detroit, died, aged 65
years.
Rudyard Kipling, after a tour of
the Canadian northwest, said the
Asiatic problem on the coast would
be solved by the bringing of white la
borers from England
The inauguration of regular trans
atlantic wireless service was accom-
plished by William Marconi and his
assistants. More than 5000 words
were transmitted the first day be-
tween the station at Port Morien and
the Irish station.
Charles M. Shortridge, of San Jose,
CAL, ex-state senator, editor of the
Daily Times, was arrested on COM
plant of Congressman E. A. Hayes,
on charge of criminal libel.
Modern Woodmen of America
closed deal for the purchase of 1000
acres of land adjoining Colorado
Springs, whereon to erect a sanitar-
ium for the treatment of members of
the society afflicted with tuberculosis.
Two of the balloon teams at st.
Louis for the international races made
trial ascensions and remained in the
air all night.
Upton Sinclair was elected from the
Vanderbilt mansion at Newport, where
he was serving in a mental capacity
with view to gaining knowledge to
be used in new book which he con-
templates writing.
The national commandery of the
military order of the Loyal Legion, in
annual session at Philadelphia, Pa,
elected Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, of
New York, as commander-in-ch chief and
as senior vice commander, Rear Ad-
miral John G. Wilson, of California.
The town of Fontanet, Ind, was
practically destroyed by the explosion
of the plant of the Dupont Powder
company. The dead number from 25
to so. Over 600 persons were injured
and every building in the town was
wholly or partially leveled with the
ground. Seven mills blew up, one
after another, and when the great
magazine exploded the shock was felt
for many miles.
Thirty-eight lives snuffed out, 900
injured, of which number SO were
seriously hurt, and property loss of
approximatelI$750,OOO was the latest
estimate of the destruction wrought
by the explosion at the Dupont Pow
der mills at Fontanet, Ind.
report in Washington says Presi-
dent Roosevelt ordered the suspension
Of Pilot Nichols, of the steamer
Hartweg, because Pittsburgers on that
boat during the Mississippi river trip
kept yelling Teddy" at the president.
Several hundred grizzled veterans
of the civil war, survivors of the cav
airy command of Gen. Nathan Bed
ford Forrest, met in Memphis, Tenn,
in their fifteenth annual reunion.
The Illinois house and senate adopt
ed two joint resolutions, one providing
for submission to the people in the
general election next fall of proposal
for a constitutional amendment to al
low $20,000,000 bond issue for funds
to proceed for the deep waterways
work, and the other providing for
deep waterway commission to submit
report on the subject in time to in
form the people so they may vote in
telligently on the proposed amend
ment
Marguerite Magill testified at Deca-
tur in behalf of her father and STEP
mother, on trial for the death of Ma
gills former wife, and her story
strongly supported the suicide theory.
1t was mistaken by cross-eXamt%sS++sen.
Hospital physicians having declared
both Rev. Maxwell Walenta, pastor of
ST. Lucas German Evangelical Luth-
eran church Of Williamsburg, and Mrs.
Dora Bauer. his affinity" insane, the
couple was discharged in police court
in New York.
The wholesale price of spirits was
advanced one cent gallon at Gin
cinnati. o. The advance brings the
basis price of a proof gallon of spirits
up to $1.35 per gallon. minus the reve-
nue. duty, the highest reached since
the civil war.
Fire which started in the opera
house at Plant City, Fla, destroyed
20 business houses and residences.
The loss is estimated at $75.