River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-05


Ferry, near Sunbury, Pa. He was a
sufferer from cancer.
A section of the new bridge across
the st. Lawrence river five miles be-
low Quebec collapsed carrying scores
of bridge workers and mechanics into
the water. 1t was estimated that the
loss of life was a. The bridge was
about mile and half in length and
half of it, from the south shore to mid
stream, crumpled up and dropped into
the water. 1t was to be the longest sin
gle span cantilever bridge in the world
and was being built by the Phoenix
Iron company of Phoenixville, Pa.
The surgeon general of the marine
hospital service and the authorities
of San Francisco co-Operated to stamp
out the plague, several cases of which
appeared in the California city.
Harry Harmon and Eddy Quinn,
convicts, escaped from the penlten-
tiary at Joliet, ILL.,, and eluded a posse
of 100 men.
Nearly 5000 persons at the Barn
stable County Fair saw Professor
Maloney, balloonist, drop 1000 feet
to earth, strike on top of a cedar fence
post and escape probably with his
life. His parachute failed to work.
In the presence of number OF
boarders in the New Jersey House,
Ocean Grove, n. j., of which he was
the proprietor, Robert S. Gravatt shot
and perhaps MORALLY wounded his
wife, Irene; seriously wounded his
nine-year-old daughter, Mollie, and
then killed himself.
Paul Atkinson, 10 years old, OF
Youngwood, Pa, and Harry Miller, IL
years old, of Buffalo, N. Y, made
daring escape from the Morganza Re-
form school.
The Photographers Association of
New England awarded the gold medal
in the grand portrait class to E. C.
Dotey of Bedding, Mich.
Fire destroyed the big Louisville
Courier-Journal building at Louisville,
KY.
A passenger train on the Southern
railway collided with an engine in
Asheville, N. c., and 80 persons were
injured, none fatally.
The French schooner Violette went
down in the English channel and IS
men on board of her were drowned.
National President Small said he
would not be surprised if there would
be general strike of the railroad
telegraphers.
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million dollars will be instituted
against the steel trust and st. Louis
county, Minnesota, by striking miners
who have been shot or imprisoned by
sheriffs.
Prince Naisut, son of the King of
Siam, arrived in New York on his way
to Harvard, where he is to become
student.
Judge Jones of the United States
district court at Montgomery, Ala, is
sued an order directing the Louisville
& Nashville and the North and South
Alabama railroads to obey the maxi
mum-rate bill passed by the last Ala
bama legislature.
At the dedication of the Mckinley
obelisk in Niagara square, Buffalo,
Sept. s, Gov. Hughes will speak and
1000 Canadian troops VIII take part.
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad will not submit to arbi-
tration the question of demurrage rate
on detained foreign cars, as proposed
by the American Railway association,
and is likely soon to withdraw from
that body.
Four men were killed in dynamite
explosion at the camp of w. T. Par
SONS, a contractor on the Grand Trunk
Pacific construction near Vermillion
Bay station, in Ontario.
Gov Hughes has refused to grant
papers for the extradition of julius
| Eller of Syracuse, n. Y, wanted in
Colorado on the charge of being impli-
Gated in robbery at the Rio Grande
railway at Alamosa.
The American officers, Brig. Gen. w.
S. Edgerly, Maj. G. Dewitt Wilcox,
| Capt. Robert E. l.. Niche and Capt.
George H. Shelton, designated by the
| United States government to attend
| the autumn maneuvers of the German
army as guests of Emperor William,
arrived in Berlin.
A windstorm struck the Iowa state
fair grounds at Des Moines causing
damage estimated at 100000.
1t was reported in Tangier that the
sultan of Morocco had been assas-
sinated in the palace at Fee. Gen.
Dru6e asked for aid and obtained re-
endorsements from Oran.
Marriage with deceased wifes sis
ter finally has become legalized in
/ Great Britain, the house of lords hav-