River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21

1 oL. LOUIS 10 f1elcud, Null.
The Marconi wireless station at
Siasconset, Mass, was destroyed by
| fire.
Col. Garrett J. LydecKer. corps of
engineers, in charge of river and har-
Dor works at Detroit, was placed on
| the retired list on account of age,
with the rank of brigadier general.
Dora May French, poet and author.
| committed suicide at Carmel-by-the-
Sea, Cal, by taking cyanide Of potas-
SUM.
The American Shipbuilding company
decided to close down all its yards on
the great lakes temporarily because
of the financial stringency.
The steam schooner Berkeley, in
ballast, from San Pedro for San Fran
cisco, was destroyed by fire about 10
miles off Gaviota, Cal. Capt. Higgins
and the crew of 10 escaped from the
| burning vessel by the narrowest mar
| gin.
Attorney General William H. Dixon.
| of Colorado, began an action under
the common law in the Denver district
court with view to breaking up the
| so-called grocers trust.
Juliette Estelle Prescott Mathis. 6S
years old, writer of songs and verses.
| formerly a resident CT Illinois, died
in Los Angeles.
The directors of the jamestown ex-
position accepted a committee report
| favoring keeping the exposition open
next year provided 100000 can be
raised by popular subscription
| Ensign Ulmo, who was arrested at
! Toulon, charged with being spy, con-
| fessed his guilt when confronted in
court with the original of a telegram
which he had filed at Toulon, adj
| dressed to an agent of foreign
| power.
Mrs George Decker, of Toledo, O.,
| was burned to death by an explosion
of furniture polish.
The peace conference of Central
| American delegates opened in Wash
ington. Senior Luis Anderson, of Costa
RIGA. being president.
The third Russian douma opened
without disorder, the car being
cheered by the conservatives, who
elected M. Khornyakoff president.
Denver was selected as the meeting
place of the national w. g. T. U. con-
vention in 1908.
The vacancy on the bench of the
court Of appeals of the District of
Columbia, caused by the death of
Judge McComas, was filled by the APP
pointment of Josiah A. Van Orsdel as
sistant attorney general in the depart
ment of justice.
Through the editorial columns of
The Commoner William Jennings
Bryan declared he will not seek nor
ask for the nomination for president,
but if it is the desire of the rank and
file of the party that he should have it,
he would accept it cheerfully.
Gov. George L. Sheldon, of Nebras-
ka, was notified that the executive
mansion had been sold for the delin-
quent taxes of 1890.
Merriment was caused at the trial
of w. r. Hearst for criminal libel in
New York when Raymond Hitchcock's
former cook picked out Mr.. Hearst
instead of William Astor Chanler as
the man whom she had seen at her
employers house with two little girls.
The pope, it is said, has issued an
order forbidding any Catholic priest
to marry Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and
Count Szechenyi.
According to the Shipping Gazette
of London, there is a strong probable
ity that the Salvation Army will soon
own it's own fleet of ocean steam
ships These will be used in connec-
ton with the army's scheme for pro-
noting Canadian immigration.
Fire which is said to have started
from a defective fue destroyed the
main building of Monmouth college,
Monmouth, ILL.,, causing loss esti-
mated at nearly $4,000. Orval Dean,
telephone lineman, lost his life by
being buried under falling floors.
A jury at Joliet, ILL.,, acquitted Rev.
B. F. Graft, former Baptist minister,
who was accused of forgery in con-
nection with an insurance application.
Mrs. Hannah Oman, so years old, of
Findlay, o., used incense while pray
ing, caught fire and burned to death.
After seven hours and a half of
argument on both sides of the ques-
ton. Judge Hough in the United
States circuit court at New York an
nounced that he would not be ready
to render a decision on the petition of
the interstate commerce commission
to compel E. H. Hartman to answer
certain questions propOunded to him
last spring in the course of the COM
missions investigation into the So
called Hartman lines, until Deem
Der 1.
Citizens of Fithian, ILL.,, and four
yegg men fought pitched battle
with revolvers and shotguns. The
robbers were routed before they OBJ
tanned anything of value from the
post office safe. which they had
blown.
AS the result of the inability of
the Northern Pacific railroad to fur
nish cars the coal mines of Bear
Creek, Mont, are compelled practical
ly TO close. mining being suspended
because of inability to make ship
ments.
Queen Helena of Italy gave birth
to daughter. her fourth child.
The engine and tender of a Balti-
more & Ohio train to which was at