River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-17


tuition and the election of an entire
corps of state officers as Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 3, next.
Hundreds of persons persisted in a
tidal wave that devastated some of the
Dutch East Indian islands.
The assassin of Lieut.. Gen. Pavloff,
military procurator of st. Petersburg,
was executed, dying with a cheer for
the revolution.
Sixteen girls and four youths from
Is to 10 years old were burned to death
at Ceispolsheim, Germany, in factory
fire started by the explosion of eel
luloid scraps.
Mabel Calvert, 16 years old, was
caught in the machinery of the ven
tilating plant in a Chicago school and
instantly killed.
Pope Plus issued an encyclical ad-
dressed to the clergy of France urging
further resistance to the separation
law, characterizing it as an effort on
the part of the government to destroy
all religion.
Fred Gilman, a former banker of
Goodland, Ind, was arrested in Bloom
ington, III. Gilman is wanted at Good
land, where 13 indictments await him
for receiving deposits knowing his
institution to be insolvent.
George C. Wapp, supposed to be in
sane, killed Mrs. Frederick Freund,
his mother-in-law, in Milwaukee, by
cutting off her head with razor.
Archbishop Montgomery died at San
Francisco. He was operated on for
appendicitis a few days ago and was
believed to be recovering when re-
lapse occurred.
Representative of 27 of the largest
traction interests operating between
Maine and Missouri met at Cleveland
and began the organization of four big
insurance companies.
The two licorice paste companies on
trial in New York as parts of to-
bacco trust were found guilty, but the
individual defendants were acquitted.
The Honduran revolutionists were
defeated at Ell Carrigal by Gen. Car
Gallo, who captured their positions and
compelled them tc flee to Nicaraguan
territory.
The residents of Berwick, Pa, we're
greatly alarmed over the outbreak OF
some 40 cases of typhoid fever, which
was believed to be due to the use of
water taken from the Susquehanna
river.
The crater on the summit of the vol
cano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, broke out
and the eruption forms magnificent
spectacle, which is visible for hun
dreds of miles at sea.
Albert Lindsay was frightened to
death and two men were severely
burned by an explosion of molten
metal in the finishing plant at Bald
wins locomotive works, Philadelphia.
The fact that President Roosevelt
has accepted membership in the Sim
plified Spelling Board, whose list of
simplified spellings he adopted last
summer was announced.
Nearly 100 terrorists were arrested
in Warsaw by the police, who seized
also many rifles and revolvers. Five
terrorists were tried by drum-head
court-martial and condemned to death.
San Francisco is on the verge of a
great coal famine, having only seven
days supply of fuel on hand.
Col Patko Andrieff, chief of gend-
armes at LODI, Poland, was slain by
an assassin who escaped.
Congressman William Alden Smith,
of Grand Rapids, Mich, was nomi-
tor r. A. Alger. This is equivalent to
an election.
The interstate commerce commits
sion inquiry into the Hartman sys-
tenn may result in the taking of steps
by Attorney General Bonaparte to dis
solve the combination of railroads.
The navy department is planning to
equip warships with bells for subma-
rine warnings to other ships in thick
weather on or after nightfall.
Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee
will be retired January 16 on account
of age.
George w. Burnham, known as the
father of spiritualism in Connecticut,
died at Willimantic of rheumatism of
the heart, aged SO years.
Cuba's vast sugar crop is reported
imperiled because big bankers refuse
to make loans to planters while the
island is in such chaotic state po-
litically
Earthquake shocks were felt in
parts of the United States, Russia,
Sweden and Norway.
Runaway freight cars wrecked the
Union hotel at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The miners at Goldfield, New, voted
to end their strike by accepting the
operators schedule.
Bob Lankswert, a well known ball
player, committed suicide in Louis
vile, Ky.
Ed Smith, manager of the washing
house in the nitroglycerin plant at the
Vigorit Powder works at Point Isabel,
near Berkeley, CAL, was killed by an
explosion of 5000 pounds of nitro
glycerin.
Suits to dissolve the alleged Gould
merger of railways and other concerns
were filed by Attorney General Had
ley, of Missouri.
Gov. A. B. Cummins ordered imme-
date prosecution of as many as pos
sible of the mob that lynched MUIR
derer at Charles City, la.
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of San
Francisco, through his attorneys peti.
toned the supreme court for writ of
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