River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-17

Ballard, a pioneer wealthy farmer liv-
ing northeast of Boone, Ia. He guf-
fawed at some act of one of his work
men, threw up his arms and fell
dead.
Mrs. Claudia Bodey Money, wife Of
the senior senator from Mississippi,
II. D. Money, died suddenly at Beau
voir, Miss.
All of the European aeronauts, who
are to compete in the James Gordon
Bennett cup race to start from st.
Louis, are now in this country.
In the first game of the worlds
series on its own field, the Detroit
American league team was beaten by
the Chicago Nationals by the score OF
to 1.
Placer mines near Lender, Wyo.,
were found to have been sailed and
T. L. and J. F. Greenough, prime NOV
ers in the mining company, offered to
redeem at cost price all the stock held
by investors, who had paid more than
third of a million dollars for it.
Physicians attending Emperor Fran
els Joseph of Austria announced that
his condition had taken change for
the worse, and it was reported he had
lung disease and sclerosis of the ar
teries.
The jury at Los Angeles, CAL, In
the case of the Santa Fe Railway COM
pany, charged with rebating ship
ments, rendered verdict of guilty on
all counts enumerated in the indict-
ments found by the grand jury
Bonansinga, a balloonist of Quincy,
H., was probably fatally hurt at Mat
toon, H., by falling 400 feet from
bursted balloon.
Rev. Maxwell J. H. Walenta, pastor
of the German Reformed church of
Brooklyn, and Mrs. Louis A. Bauer,
a parishioner and the wife of an cleo
trotyper who, Mr. Walenta said, was
his affinity, were arrested and in court
held for an inquiry into their mental
condition.
Miss Texas Guinan, leading lady
with the Simple Simon" Theatrical
company, accidentally shot herself in
the side during the performance in
theater at Gallipolis, o.
President Roosevelt, not having
found any bear, changed his camp
to a site near Newellton, La, where
the big game was said to be more
plentiful.
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon
jumped into the Charles river near
Boston and rescued a drowning boy.
H. B. Howard, wealthy coal deal
er of Hartwell, a suburb of Cincinnati,
who had been missing, was found in
a railroad coal shed, apparently MUIR
dered.
The steamer Fred Pabst collided
with the steamer Lake Shore in the
st. Clair river and sank.
Henri Rochefort, the well-known
French journalist, severed his connec-
ton with the Interanssigeant, which
he founded in $780, and assumed the
editorship of the Patrie.
Two companies of Dutch troops
were ambuscaded and massacred by
natives of Celebes.
John D. Rockefeller gave 100000
toward the building of the Harper
memorial library at the University of
Chicago.
A Frenchman giving the name of
Posse, but who later was identified
as Gotcho Spira, was arrested in Lon
don on suspicion of being implicated
with the Thomases of Clermont-Fer-
rand, France, in the theft of church
treasurers.
One man was killed and several
persons injured when a west-bound
Pennsylvania train plunged into a
crowd at Bourbon, Ind, where the
victims were awaiting the arrival of
an east-bOund train.
Charles H. Nichols, a wealthy real
estate man of Chicago, aged 60 years,
married Miss Lillian A. KinselIa, aged
%, at Salem, Mass, the young wom-
ans home.
Mrs. Clifford w. Hartridge, wife of
one of the attorneys who defended
Harry X. Thaw in his first trial, is
missing in New York She was ill
and it is feared she committed suicide.
Arthur Herbert Osborn, a young
New York broker, asserted that in
1905 he was secretly married to
Helen Maloney, the missing heiress
who is said to have married Samuel
Clarkson of England in Montreal.
Prof. David Todd, who passd four
months in Chill with the expedition
sent from the United States to OBJ
serve Mars, believes the planet is in
habited
A report has been spread in New
York that Rear Admiral r. D. Evans
will ask to be relieved of command
after he pilots the Atlantic squadron
to San Francisco, Cal, where prepare
tions already are under way for the
reception of the fleet.
Loans of over $40 900, 900, which the
books of the Southern Pipe Line com
pany show were made to P S. Trainor
between 1899 and 1905, became more
| puzzling of solution to Frank B. Kel-
logg, conducting the federal suit
against the Standard Oil company,
| when Mr. Trainor, taking the wit
ness stand in the oil suit, testified that
the money had never been paid to
| him and that he had never heard of
| the account
| The Cunarder Lusitania broke near
! l. all ocean records on its second run
| to New York, making the trip in four
| days, 20 hours, the average speed be-