River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-05
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between an Interurban express train,
consisting Of motor car and trailer,
and a traction car @on the Mattoon and
Charleston electric line. The crash oc-
Cured on a sharp curve one mile west
of Charleston, ILL., A confusion OF or
ders received over the telephone is
said to have been the cause of the
terrible accident.
Richard Mansfield, the best known
actor on the American stage, passed
away at his summer residence, Seven
Oaks, Ocean avenue, New London,
Conn. Death was directly due to dis
case of the liver, aggravated by compli-
cations. He had been i'll since last
spring when he broke down while
playing at Scranton, Pa.
Most Rev. John J. Williams, arch
bishop of the Boston diocese, dean OF
the Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic
church in America, and for genera
ton or more the spiritual head Of that
faith in New England, died at his
home in Boston.
BY a decision rendered by Judge
Cochran at Clinton, ILL.,, Mrs. Warner,
widow Of John Warner, millionaire,
gains a fortune of $350,000 to be paid
Immediately, an annual income of $1O,-
900 a year, dover rights, and the fam
lily homestead, worth 100000. With
her two daughters, Mrs. Mettler and
Mrs Bell, Chicago society women, she
is also freed by the judgment from the
stigma of having negro blood in her
veins, which Vespasian Warner, Unit
ed States commissioner of pensions
and former congressman, endeavored,
in his capacity as executor Of his ia
theirs will, to establish in order to de-
feat her suit.
Myron Severhill, a wealthy tobacco
buyer, aged 70, died in GAINESVILLE,
Wis. He was the first man to grow
tobacco in Wisconsin.
BY authority of President Roosevelt,
James r. Garfield, secretary of the in
terror, announced that no further eff
fort will be made by the administra-
ton to bring up in congress the ques-
ton Of joint statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico.
Ominous rumblings are coming from
Mt Vesuvius, and smoke is issuing
from the crater. AS a result, the in
habitants of the villages surrounding
the volcano are in state of great
alarm.
The United States Naval academy
team won the national trophy in the
national rifle match at Camp Perry,
o. The Massachusetts team was Sec
Ond and Ohio third.
William Howard Metcalf, youngest
son of Secretary of the Navy Victor
III. Metcalf, social favorite and Oak
land bank clerk, eloped to San Rafael
and was married to Mrs. Vida Bevans,
a widow
Thousands of Moors made two des-
perate attacks on the French troops at
Casablanca and were repulsed after
several hours fighting.
James Money, Jr, was shot and al
most instantly killed and his father,
James Money, Sr., was mortally
wounded at their place of business at
Money, Miss, by DR.. Grover Kirky.
Miss Sutton won the international
tennis championship at Niagara-on-
the-Lake, Ont, by defeating Miss
Rotch, of Boston, in two well contest
ed games.
DR.. Villaldo in an official report to
the war department says the Ameri-
can soldiers at Cienfuegos, Cuba, are
not in danger of yellow fever.
King Edward, shocked by an indeli-
cate song in cafe chantant in Mari
enbad got up in his box and left the
theater, followed by all the English
and Americans present.
President Nicholas Murray Butler OF
Columbia university has announced
the program for the trust conference
to be held in Chicago October 1926
The four days discussion will cover
every phase of the present agitation.
Steps are being taken to save st
Paul's cathedral in London, which has
been gradually sinking for two cen
turtles
The Southern Pacific railroad is con
sidering a plan to electric the Sacra
mento division of its line, which runs
over the mountains and presents hard
problems in winter.
Two persons were killed and severa
others injured when a motor car OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee Electric rail
way crashed into an ice wagon il
Glencoe, a Chicago suburb.
Albert Stemmelen, of Detroit, weEt
crazy over religion and drowned hi:
twO-year-old daughter.
Little nine-year-old Ella Schrader
daughter of John Schrader, a railroad
construction worker of Gary, Ind, was
brutally murdered and the whole towI
sought in vain for her slayer
Kingsbury Batchelder, professor o
Greek in Hillsdale college, Michigan
died at Ocean Park, Me.
Arrangements have been completes
for the organization of S50,000,0 0
American syndicate, which plans t,
develop several million acres of OF
lands in Mexico. 1t is purposed no
only to supply the Mexican market
but to ship the product in competi
ton with the Standard Oil company
Charles Blondin, the once famou
tight-wire walker, who once crosses
Niagara falls on a rope, reported t
have died ten years ago, is said to b
living a hermit life in West Cheshire
Conn. Under the name of Michae
Todd he is working as jobbing cal