River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-11

1t is stated in French military cir
cles that Maj Alfred Dreyfus, the
former captain of artillery who was
sentenced on charge of treason to
Imprisonment on Devils island, is
shortly to retire from the army, ac-
cepting pension.
DR.. J. II. Nichols and G.. F. Williams,
both of Minneapolis, were probably
fatally injured in an automobile acct
dent.
DR.. George F. Jelly, of Boston, and
DR.. G.. A. Blumer, of Providence, r.
l., have been appointed comasters
with Judge Edgar Aldrich, of Littleton,
n. H., to determine the competency of
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.
John Mcguire, Chicago motorman,
was stabbed in the head and killed by
an unknown man during dispute over
payment Of fare.
Willie Richards and Ella Brook,
each IA years old, were married at
Thorn Grove, Tenn.
The steamer Mount Royal struck
rock in the Skeena river, British Co
lumbia, and sank, six persons being
drowned.
John M. Carroll, veteran dry goods
merchant of Chicago and prominent
in Republican politics, died of paraly-
sis.
Pope Plus has been asked to annul
the runaway marriage of Miss Dough
erty, daughter of d. Webster Dough
erty, of Philadelphia, to Bohemian
who calls himself Baron Goepel.
The first annual convention of the
American Federation of Travellers,
"an organization for the protection
of travellers rights elected W. A.
Morgan, of Sedalia, Mo-, as president
and Dan w. Richmond, of Chicago,
secretary-treasurer.
Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting
teller of the Windsor Trust company,
was arrested in New York and $54 40
of the money stolen from the bank
was recovered. He was betrayed to
the police by Mrs. Laura M Carter, in
whose fat he had been hiding.
Twenty-one persons are known to
have persisted in the tornado that
swept through part of Wisconsin.
Flour shippers of Oklahoma, Kan
sas and Missouri filed charges with
the interstate commerce commission
against several western railroads, al
leging that they raised the rates on
flour to the Atlantic seaboard in re-
venge.
An entire afternoon sitting of the
committee on the Geneva convention
was given over to a discussion of the
American proposition, presented by
Joseph H. Choate on June "a, regard
ing the inviolability of private proper
ty on the high seas. Some of the
delegates said they would support the
proposal but many said they were op-
posed to it.
The New York Central Railroad
company was fined $4,000 by Judge
Hazel in the federal court at Roches-
ter, N: Y, for failure to file rates on
shipment of oil for the Standard Oil
company.
J. G.. McMaken, a prominent politi-
clan of Ohio, died suddenly at san
itarium in Martinsville, Ind. He was
81 years old.
The business portion of North
Lawrence, N. Y, was wiped out by a
fire that destroyed Is business houses,
eight residences, the post office,
Dunn's and the Commercial hotels,
and the telephone exchange. The loss
is $4,000.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield, and occupying the
chair of politics at Princeton, was
chosen president of Williams college.
He will succeed Henry Hopkins in
June, 1908.
A severe earth shock was recorded
at the university of Florence, Italy.
1t began at four o'clock and lasted
until $50. The distance was esti-
mated at SITS miles
Nicholas Deidrich, of Sioux City, Ia,
shot a woman who refused to marry
him and then committed suicide.
Most Rev. John J. Glennon, arch
bishop of st. Louis, has been appoint
ed by the United States census bureau
as special agent to compile complete
statistics of the Catholic population
of the country estimated at Is, 100000.
A motorman was killed and about
80 passengers injured in a collision
of interurban trolley cars at North
Tonawanda, N. Y.
Miss Ethel Bish of Findlay, O.,
some time ago helped Mrs. Mary M.
Kendall of Oswego who was hurt in
street accident, and received $780,
900 as a legacy from the woman she
aided.
Express companies in Nebraska
failed to file schedules reducing rates,
according to the new law.
The losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during June ag-
gregated $14, 5000. This brings the
total fire waste for the first half of
1907 up to $117,477, 500.
Herman Bartels, the millionaire
brewer of Syracuse, who has been
| fighting extradition proceedings to the
United States, escaped from custody
at Osgoode Hall, Ont.
1t has been learned that $4,000 dis
appeared in some mysterious manner
from the United States subtreasury at
Boston early in June.
The Buena Vista lake levee near
Bakersfield, Cal, broke, flooding 3d.
900 acres and doing $1,00O,O00 dam
age.