River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-31


the convictions of John A. Cooke for
enlightenment while circuit clerk of
Cook county and of George S. Nc
| Reynolds for embezzlement.
M. Inber, political editor of the
Odessa Novasto, was sentenced to
| four months Imprisonment in a fort
ress by the court at Elizabethgrad on
the charge of having published an un-
| true statement.
Ensign Charles B. Ulmo, of the
French navy, was arrested at Toulon,
charged with being a spy. He con-
| fessed to having distracted a secret
| signal book and the naval cipher.
| 1t was estimated that 900 persons
| lost their lives in the Italian earth
quake.
Morris Paul, Chicago store keeper,
| confessed that he set fire to his place
so that he could have fire sale"
| A mixing mill of the Atlantic Dyna-
mite company, about six miles from
Ashland, Wis, blew up, 200 pounds of
glycerin exploding. Four men were
killed and many injured.
Miss Helen Miller Gould was ac-
corded the honors of general officer
of the American army by the officers
and soldiers at Fort Leavenworth in
review of the troops.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gold
and currency, supposed to have been
shipped by a Chicago bank to bank
in Oshkosh, Wis, was stolen from the
office of the United States Express
company in the Union station at Mil
waukee.
Ruth Anderson, of Vincennes, Ind.
disappointed in love, drank poison,
walked to the morgue, lay down on
slab and died.
Ute Indians on the Cheyenne river
reservation threatened an outbreak
and troops were called for, but the In
dian police quieted the uneasy red
skins.
The Hennepin canal was opened
with ceremony at Sterling, Ill.
Counsel for Count Won Moltke in his
libel suit against Editor Harden, of
Berlin, said he would ask Emperor
William to testify.
Ten thousand striking levee cot
ton handlers at New Orleans agreed
to resume work pending arbitration.
Miss Catharine Cullom Ridgely,
elder daughter of the comptroller of
the currency, and Phelps Brown, of
indianapolis, Ind, son of the late
Sevellon Brown, for many years chief
clerk of the state department, were
married in Washington.
| =, yA11 IN
the wholesale grocery and flour trade
of the central west for nearly a half
century, died at his home in Allie
gheny. Pa.
Four hundred Chinese who had just
landed near Santa Cruz, Mexico, made
an attack on the English ship Wool
WITCH and fatally injured several sail
ors. The Chinese were incensed be-
cause 200 of their number were being
held on board the ship by the sanitary
inspector.
Federal Judge Dayton at Wheeling,
W. Va, issued an injunction restrain
ing John Mitchell, president; T. L.
Lewis, vice president, and the district
officers of the United Mine Workers
of America from organizing or inter-
fering in any way with about 1000
nonunion miners employed by the
Hitchman Coal company, Glendale
Coal company and the Richland Coal
company. located in the Wheeling dis
trict.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed at Birmingham, Ala,
against the Southern Steel company.
William Lepper, an aged resident of
Laramie, Wyo., shot and perhaps fatal
ly wounded ex-Judge Charles w.
Brammell, then killed himself. Bran
nell had been his lawyer in some
ong-drawn-out litigation.
The employees of the New York Gen.
trail railroad, it is reported, will strike
unless given raises in wages.
Miss Helen M. Gould was present
at the dedicatory services of the new
army Y. M. G. A. building at Fort
Leavenworth, given to the soldiers by
Miss Gould.
A census of the high buildings in
| New York shows that if all the sky
scrapers were piled one on top of an
other the pile would be 5000 stories
high. The highest is 48 stories.
Embarrassed by the stringency OF
the money market, four Westinghouse
companies at Pittsburg and one trust
company went into the hands of re-
ceivers. All were said to be solvent.
The German balloon Pommern,
which landed at Asbury Park, $50
miles from st. Louis, won the inter-
national aeronautic cup. The French
balloon L'Isle de France was second
with S75. Lincoln Beachey, of To
ledo, O., won first prize in the dirigi-
BILE airship race.
President Roosevelt reached the
White House from his southern trip.
He expressed himself as thoroughly
pleased with his trip but glad to be
at home again.
At a public demonstration given at
the Marconi wireless telegraph sta
ton at Glace City, G. B., a message
was sent to Clifden, Ireland, and a
reply was received in five minutes.
The annual convention of the In
ternational League of Press Clubs
opened at Birmingham, Ala.
The State Bank and Trust COM
pany, of Nevada, with headquarters
at Carson and branches at Goldfield,
Tonopah, Manhattan and Blair, closed