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

in New York city and known also as a
writer, died at the Worcester, Mass,
hospital of pneumonia.
Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, well known
authoress, died at her home in Brock
port, N. Y.
Rev. DR.. George F. Whitworth,
founder of Whitworth college, Taco
ma, Wash, died at Seattle, aged 81
years.
Mayor Bennett, of Fort Dodge, Ia,
who gained fame by issuing ukase
that all bachelors within the city
must wed within year or pay fine.
was taken at his word by Nolan Snow,
chauffeur, who eloped with the
mayors daughter, Mabel.
George Fekes of Chicago attempted
to murder his landlady, shot another
boarder who went to her assistance,
and then committed suicide.
George w. Kirkman, ex-captain in
the regular army, was released from
the penitentiary at Leavenworth after
serving two years and three months
| for passing bogus checks.
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passed the 100000 mark, according
to the census just completed.
After a brilliant appeal by Joseph
H. Choate of the American delegation
the committee on arbitration of The
Hague peace conference set it's ap-
prevail on the principle of obligatory
arbitration by vote of 80 votes to 6.
Count de Rozan and Marquis de
SardeIys fought a duel in the Bots de
Boulogne, Paris, as the result of a
private quarrel and the count was
wounded in the arm.
Sixty-three girls were killed and
over 60 injured by an explosion in an
ammunition factory at Osaka, Japan.
Representative Charles E. Ward of
Bancroft, Mich, was held for trial in
the recorders court charged with be-
ing a party to an act which led to the
death in a maternity hospital of Edith
Presley, a prOofreader in the legisla-
tive printing office.
The reports of 80 railroads operat-
ing in Ohio, submitted to the state
railway commission, show that the
two-cent passenger fare law has oper-
ated to their advantage.
An omnibus contract, whereby the
Standard Oil company obtains from
every steamship company operating
between New York and all ports in
Africa a rate for the shipment of
lubricating oil that is about one-half
what it's competitor, the New York
Lubricating Oil company, pays, was
produced in the hearing of the federal
suit against the alleged oil combine.
James HI. Farrand, superintendent
of delivery in the Davenport Qa.)
post office, was arrested charged with
opening registered mail. Soon after
he committed suicide.
Miss Katherine Rittenhouse, stu
dent at Northwestern university, in
Chicago, has fallen heir to an estate
worth $4,000 by the will of Col. Isaac
Wing, who was rejected by her moth
er when a girl.
Owen V. Anderson, recently ap-
pointed to lieutenancy in the United
States army, was blown to atoms at
bottle of nitro-glycerine.
Ambassador Tower has written
President Roosevelt asking that he be
permitted to retire from the diplomat
ic service next spring.
The captain of the steamer Fred
Hartweg imperiled the lives of Pres
ident Roosevelt and his party on the
steamer Mississippi by reckless navi-
cation and on order of the president
his license was suspended for 90 days
The immense cotton shipping bust
ness of New Orleans was tied up by
the strike of 5000 members of the
Dock and Cotton Handlers union.
Herbert r. Morton of Australia,
millionaire, slipped ON the steps of the
Vancouver opera house and fractured
his skull.
John E. Daley, United States sur
veyor general, slipped on the stairs
in the Selling Hirsch building in Port
land, Ore, and broke his neck
Clarence S. barrow, the spectacular
genius of the Chicago bar and of Chi
cago politics, lies seriously ill in
hospital at Boise City. He went
through an operation for tumor on
the brain.
A tremendous forest fire in Sonoma
county Cal, burned over thousands of
acres and did vast damage to prop
erty.
Three American Mormons have been
expelled from Germany as the result
of persisting, despite final warnings
prohibiting them from spreading their
propaganda, in conducting river bap-
tisms and making converts.
Secretary of State Elihu Root was
the recipient of the highest honors
which can be granted to a foreign
visitor at the City of Mexico. He was
present at special meeting of the
chamber of deputies, convened espe-
cially to show the appreciation of the
lawmakers of the republic for the dis
tinguished guest, was made a mem
Der of the academy of Jurisprudence
and legislation and was given a BAN
quet by the City of Mexico
Insanely jealous of his handsome
young wife, John Bohnrueller, a
Brooklyn saloon keeper, shot her to
death and then killed himself
United States Senator William E.
Borah was acquitted of the charge of
conspiracy to defraud the government
out of valuable Idaho timber lands