River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-08
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the Globe-Latest Home and For
eiqn Items.

eien Items.
Judge Cochran at Clinton quashed
one count in the indictments against
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Magill. Attor-
neys for the defendants asked for an
early trial Of the cases.
France and Spain acted promptly
and in concert to meet the situation
in Morocco, both sending men-of-war
and France despatching troops from
Toulon.
The American motor boat Dixie,
owned by Commodore E. j. Schroeder,
Of the Auto Boat Club of America,
won the race for the international
marine motor cup in Southampton
water
The breech-block of hundred MILL
meter gun was blown off on board the
French gunnery school ship Couronne
during target practice in Salins road
stead, and three persons were killed
and five wounded.
The French minister of public works
has approved the project of the de-
partment Of bridges and roads for the
construction of canal to connect the
valley of the Rhone with the port of
Marseilles The plan involves the
building of the biggest tunnel in the
world.
Three women we're killed and two
other persons were injured when a
suburban trolley car struck an auto
,,ocbiIo Of Tac1ycOp Mich
Olga Lundell, 17-year-old Sac City,
Ia, girl, who has been a member of
the "HOly Jumpers" sect at the
Fountain house in Waukesha, Wis,
for several months past, was taken
from them by court and ordered re-
turned to her home.
#. w. Stevens, general solicitor for
the Pere Marquette railroad an
nounced that the Pere Marquette will
not contest Michigan's recently enact
ed two-cent fare law.
Three Cinnamon were killed and
seven wounded in the Chinese quarter
of Boston by members Of rival tong
from New York.
Fire which started In one of the
buildings of the Tomahawk, Wis,
branch of the United States Leather
company laid the entire plant in ruins.
The loss is about 100000.
Gen. Tremaine, formerly of Fort
Wayne, Ind, and recently of Mexico
City, was found dead in a rooming
house at Torreon, Mexico.
The navy department rejected all
bids submitted for the construction of
a dry dock at Bremerton, on Puget
sound, because they were not within
the limit of the appropriation.
The license of the Southern railway
has been revoked, by action of Secre-
tary of State Frank n. Julian.
A bill in equity which calls upon the
American Sugar Refining company to
give an accounting of it's business for
the past four years was filed before
Chancellor Magic at Trenton, N. j.,
on behalf of George H. Earle, Jr., re-
ceiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re-
filming company, of Philadelphia.
Workmen excavating in Marysville,
N. b., uncovered 102 Spanish coins of
the eighteenth century. The money
is worth about $4,000
1t is reported in Paris that a secret
trial of the Wright brothers aeroplane
is about to take place in France as the
result of an arrangement with the
French government. The aeroplane
has been shipped from the United
States
BY the will of Miss Julia Sands Bry-
ant, daughter of William Cullen Bry-
ant, the poet, filed at Mineola, L. l.,
one-half of her estate of 100000 is left
to her chum, Miss Anne Rebecca Fair
child. The rest goes to the niece and
nephew of Miss Bryant
Edward L. Perwar, city ticket agent
for the Cleveland & Pittsburg road for
20 years, committed suicide at Steu-
benville, o.
A launch went over the dam in the
Des PLANES river at Ottumwa and Mr.
and Mrs. William M. Powell, their
son Halle and Mrs J. E. Stevens and
baby were drowned.
Charles B. Grub, a wealthy resident
of Lancaster, Pa, received a black
hand letter demanding $4,000 on
pains of death.
Attorney E. F. Richardson, of Den
yer, disguised with Clarence Darrow's
methods, has quit the Idaho cases.
Col. Henry E. S. Kellogg and Mrs.
Elizabeth Roshing kellogg Henry
have been remarked at Ithaca, n Y,
after a separation of % years.
DR.. ]. N. Thomas, travelling inspec-
tor, has issued favorable report on
conditions in Central America in ref
erence to yellow fever.
Henry Hillegas of Allentown, Pa,
the great-great-great-g grandson of Mi
chael Hillegas, the first treasurer of
the United States, received the first
specimen Of the new SO yellow
backed government gold certificates
that came to Allentown. A portrait
of his ancestor adorns the note.
]. NJ. O'Neil of Dallas, Tex, has in
vented a churn which, it is said, ex-
tracts every particle of fat from milk,
increasing the quantity of butter and
leaving practically no buttermilk.
Cortlandt Parker, aged SO, nestor of
the New Jersey bar, died at his home
in Newark
The United States government be-
gan suit against the so-called powder
trust in the United States circuit