River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-10-10

Americans in Mexico should be
good, loyal and true Mexican citizens"
was the gist of Secretary Roots
speech at banquet given him by the
American colony of Mexico City at the
| Country club.
The Republican state committee OF
| New York nominated Edward T. Bart
lett and Willard Bartlett as candidates
for associated justices of the court OF
appeals, and the Democratic commit
tee Endorsed the nominations.
The president has directed the ap'
pointment of Col Charles S. Smith,
| ordnance department, to be brigadler
general on the retirement of Col. God
| frey.
The housewives of Kennebec coun-
| ty, Me, are on strike against high
meat prices. Nearly 1000 persons in
| four towns have agreed to buy no
meat for ten days until prices are
| lower.
At Danville, Wash, an angry mob
drove a small party of Hindoos across
the line into Canada. A few shots
were discharged but no one was in
| jured.
Three men were shot when Fred
Robolledo, Mexican student, 20 years
old, ran amuck with a revolver in the
Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, Cal.
United States Senator Platt made
formal denial in court that he ever
married Mae G. Wood, who is suing
him for divorce.
That the Galena Signal Oil COM
pany, a subsidiary of the Standard
Oil company, controls 81 per cent. of
the lubricating oil business with the
railroads of the United States and that
the prices for it's products are not uni
form with all railroads was written in
the record of the hearing of the fed
eral suit against the SO-called oil
trust.
Robert M Thompson, New York
financier and retired naval officer, will
take Is friends around the world in
the steam yacht Mineola, at an esti-
mated expenditure of 100000.
That he deliberately destroyed
checks for $43,878 so that he would
not be compelled to say to whom the
money represented by them was paid,
was admitted by Lemuel Ely Quigg at
the hearing on street railway merger
matters before the public utilities COM
mission of New York.
A letter from the Toxic chamber
of commerce appealing to the New
York chamber of commerce to do all
in it's power to prevent breach in
the relations between the United
States and Japan over the San Fran
cisco incident, and the reply of the
New York organization expressing
confidence that wholesome public
sentiment will assert itself in the
locality where these incidents oc-
Cured" were made public at the
meetings of the New York chamber
Several hundred of young German
women left Hamburg on the steam
er Fliedmarschal, bound for Ger
man Southwest Africa, where they
will take positions with the families
of the German settlers and govern
ment officials.
All leading railroads having lines
in South Dakota commenced 9
united action in the United States
court for permanent Injunction
preventing the state board of rail-
road commissioners from putting
into effect an order reducing passen-
ger rates in the state from three to
two and one-half cents a mile.
Ludwig Szczygiel, the Polish priest
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree for the killing of Andrew and
Stephen Starzyuski, was sentenced to
80 years imprisonment in the Western
penitentiary of Pennsylvania.
Rev. Wilbert P. Ferguson was ar.
rested at Lincoln, Neb., on a charge
sworn out by Arthur N. Cross, alleging
criminal relations with the wife of
Mr.. Cross.
Rev. James M. King, LII. D., execu-
tive head of the board of home mis-
sions and church extension of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and
known throughout the world of Meth
odism, died at Philadelphia.
d. D. Edwards, on trial for the MUIR
der of Sam Brooks, a negro in Chat
tanooga, declared he had killed Ia
men in the Kentucky mountains and
Chicago.
The sum of 100000 is divided in
ten portions of 100000 each and be-
queathed to several colleges and
church and charitable organizations
by the will of D. Willis James, which
was filed for probate in New York.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, widow of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, made formal an
nouncement of the engagement of her
daughter, Gladys, to Count Ladislaus
SZechenyi, of Budapest.
The bodies of Claude H. Perry, a
soldier, and his wife were found in
their apartments in Brooklyn, and it
is believed the man killed his wife
and then himself, rather than endure
a separation from her, which i'm
pended, because of his threatened
transfer from Fort Hamilton, Brook
Ign, to another post.
The District of Columbia supreme
court finally fixed November II as
the date for the trial of Mrs. Anna M.
Bradley, charged with the killing of
former United States Senator Arthur
M. Brown, of Utah.
Secretary of War Taft was granted
a private audience and entertained at
luncheon by the emperor of Japan and
then left Toxic for Kobe.