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

killed at WILLOWS, Cal, by OmcerS,
was identified as Count Otto Won
Waldstein, of Austria. He died think
| ing he was fighting robbers.
With appropriate civic and military
ceremonies, and in the presence OF
distinguished audience, the heroic
equestrian statue of bronze of MAJ
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, erected
under the auspices of the Army of the
Potomac, was unveiled at Washing
ton. President Roosevelt made the
principal speech.
Gen. Kuroki and his staff, represen-
tatives Of Japan to the jamestown ex-
position were given picturesque
welcome to Seattle by both American
and Japanese residents.
Arcangelo Rossi, the tenor, who
was with the Conried opera company
in San Francisco during the earth
quake and who, as the result OF the
fright he experienced, lost his voice,
went crazy in Milan, Italy, and cut
out his tongue with a pair of scissors.
FRESHMAN employed on all but one
of the English papers in st. Louis
| struck Tor nlgner wages
The strained relations between Mex
leo and Guatemala, arising from the
failure of the latter to surrender under
extradition proceedings, for trial IN
| Mexico, Gen. Lima, charged with
completely in the assassination OF
President Barrillas, are causing the
! Washington officials much worry. 1t
is believed war can be averted, but
that revolution against President
Cabrera will be planned and financed
in Mexico.
Secretary of War Taft agreed to
address the National Millers' associa-
ton in st. Louis May 80.
Under direction of the department
of the interior, a corps of special
agents has begun examining fences
and titles to public land in Wyoming.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw, speaking at Worcester, Mass,
predicted that an awful war for the
control of the Pacific would be fought,
and said the United States was not
prepared for it. ;,
Sixteen survivors of the crew Of
the wrecked bark Oriente were res
cued by a fishing smack north Of
Cape Hatteras after being afioat in a
small leaking boat for IA hours.
Four deaths, three in one family,
were recorded on the ships log when
the White Star liner Baltic arrived at
New York from Liverpool.
Maj Gerald Rathbone, consul at
/ n =
ministration, died at San Francisco.
G. L. Schroeder, a Chicago travel
ing man, was robbed of $500 and
beaten into insensibility by thugs in
San Diego, Cal.
The Hotel Carolina at Durham, n.
c., was destroyed by fire, all the
guests escaping.
Many persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of a magazine in Canton,
China.
Rev. Jere H. Cooke, rector of, an
Episcopal church at Hampstead, l.. L.,
who eloped with young heiress, was
deposed from the ministry on his own
request.
Five masked train robbers were
captured on a Santa Fe passenger
train at Streator, ILL.,, after a pistol bat
tie in which one of them was shot
Baroness" Anisia Louise de Massey,
who killed a New York merchant
named Simon, was found guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree.
The steamer Kumeric is on it's way
to Honolulu with 1,050 Spaniards wko
| islands.
Gov Chamberlin, of Oregon, presi-
dent of the National Irrigation con-
| gress, has extended an invitation to
President Roosevelt to be present at
the annual meeting of the association
next September in Sacramento, Cal.
Oxford university England con-
ferred the honorary degree of doctor
Of science on Prof. Alexander Graham
Bell, regent of the Smithsonian In
| stitution, Washington, D. c.
| The Whiting Qnd.) council has put
the old curfew law into effect to keep
boys and girls under 16 years off the
streets after nine D. m.
The navy department at Washing
ton has been advised of the death of
Naval Pay Director James E. Cam,
at Portsmouth, N H.
Arthur McEwen, chief editorial
writer of the New York American and
we'll known throughout the west in
| journalistic circles, died suddenly at
| Hamilton, Bermuda, of heart failure.
Six secret service operatives are
working in western Washington un-
earthing series of land frauds that
are declared to be more astounding
in their far-reaching character than
the discoveries made in Oregon or Cal
| ifornia.
Brig. Gen. Clarence r. Edwards,
chief of the bureau of insular affairs,
has been designated to attend the
unwilling of the Lawton statue at In
dianapolis on May 80, as the repre-
sentative of the secretary of war. He
was Lawtons chief of staff
Adjt Gen. Lauck, of California,
! ouSted ten militia companies from
the state national guard for ineffi-
cheney.
Forty persons, mostly women, were
| injured in a fire at 255 Wabash ave-
nue., Chicago. The victims were pa
| irons and employees of lunch club
and jumped or fell from the second
story.