River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-26

works, two ships at $624,00c each; and
the New York Shipbuilding company,
one ship at $645,000.
A fast mail and newspaper train on
the New York Central road was par
TALLY wrecked near Utica when the en-
CINE struck a portion of a wrecked
freight. The engineer was injured.
The board of directors of the
mother Christian Science church at
Boston has issued new bylaw in
spired by Mrs. Eddy which permits
the holding of autopsies on bodies OF
followers of the faith who have met
with sudden death.
The oriental limited train on the
Great Northern railroad was ditched
near Wenatchee, Wash. Only one pas
senger, woman, was injured.
George c. Hazleton, lawyer and
playwright in New York, has secured
the Shakespearean productions Oh
Richard Mansfield from the estate.
DR.. Charles A. Whitney, wealthy
New Yorker, and his son Lloyd De-
came reconciled when the latter had
been arrested on a begging charge.
The young man left home year ago
and was taken back.
News has reached the Vatican OF
the death of Frederick Zadox Rocker,
the first American Roman Catholic
bishop of Jaro, Philippine Islands,
from paralysis of the brain.
A dispatch from Progreso, Mexico,
says the entire coast of Yucatan, ten
miles seward, is strewn with dead
fish, presumably from a submarine
eruption.
w. P. King, Chicago railroad man
who was sent to the asylum for the
insane at Jacksonville, ILL.,, was being
taken from that city to Bloomington
on a Chicago & Alton train when he
leaped through a car window while
the train was going at full speed and
escaped. He had been discharged
from the asylum for shamming insan-
ity.
President Roosevelt announced the
appointment of Walter G. Noyes OF
New London, Conn, as United States
circuit Judge to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of William 4.
Townsend.
That the Standard Oil company is
operating under the name of the Cor
sicana Refining company in the state
of Texas, which has forbidden the oil
combine to operate within the state,
was indicated when Wesley H. Tilford,
treasurer of the Standard Oil company,
under examination in the govern
ment's suit against the company, tes-
tilted that H. G. Folger and G. M.
Payne, who Frank Kellogg, the at
torney for the government, states con-
troll the Corsicana company, are prom
inent in the conduct of affairs OF the
Standard Oil company. It was also
brought out that John d. Rockefeller
personally owns more than One-fourth
of the Standard company and that his
personal profits in eight years were
nearly $125, 100000.
Republicans of New Jersey nominal
ed Supreme Court Justice j. Franklin
Fort for governor.
Korean insurgents were reported to
be gathering to attack Seoul and Mar
quis Ito intimated that the continued
hostility Of the Koreans might force
Japan to annex their country.
Plans were announced for President
Roosevelts trip to the Mississippi
valley, which will include II days in
camp in the cane brakes of northeast
ern Louisiana, where game abounds.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
announced that it will meet the pro-
posed invasion of it's territory by the
Grand Trunk and the Canadian North
ern by running an extension of it's
own north from Lethbridge into the
heart of the wheat country that the
other roads are preparing to cross.
An entire family in Allegheny, Pa,
was poisoned, presumably by a homi-
cidal maniac who has killed large
number of dogs and horses there.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Holmes, who
was elected from the White House in
January, 1906, after series of at
tempts to interview the president, was
adjudged insane in Brooklyn.
Thirty-four persons were killed and
many injured in a collision on the
Mexican Central railroad at Encar-
nacion.
Because she had persistently re-
fused to marry him Henry Fischner,
New York baker, shot and instantly
killed Miss Johanna Hoffman and IA
tally wounded himself.
Joseph Harrison, convicted of alb
duction in North Carolina and denied
a new trial, committed suicide in
Norfolk, Va, as the police were about
to arrest him.
Droga Seigel, an heiress, 20 years of
age, and daughter of colonel in the
Austrian army, now dead, was fatally
shot in New York by julius Hoffman,
a married man and formerly a lieu
tenant of Col. Siegers regiment. The
tragedy was the outcome of jealousy
on the part of Hoffman, who, after
shooting Miss Seigel, tried TO shoot
himself but was prevented by the Gy-
ing girl
The British admiralty has decided
to substitute oil for coal as fuel for
the navy, and already has made heavy
purchases of oil in Texas and Europe
and will develop the Nigeria fields.
Judge David McCulloch, for "a years
a member of the Peoria bar and a
former judge of the Appellate court.
iS dead