River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-06

Killed.
Theodore Roosevelt will never be
president of Harvard, declared Har-
ward corporation men at Cambridge.
The bursting of a large fly wheel at
the Creighton power plant at Taren-
tum, Pa, killed Engineer Frank M.
Geiger, seriously injured Calvert Haz-
lett, his assistant, and hurt several
other employees. The building was
wrecked.
The state of Texas won custer suit
against Waters-Pierce Oil company
and got judgments against concern
for 81, 623, 800 in fines.
Decaying ties, rusty nails and dilap-
idated equipment of the Southern Pa
| cific, San Francisco man says, were
responsible for the fatal accident near
Bradley, Cal. After an investigation
of the track he asserts the road has
been negligent.
Bank clearings in Chicago touched
| another new high mark for May, the
total for the month being in excess of
| 81 ,120, 900 900, or more than $55,O00,-
900 higher than the last preceding rec
ord total.
Reports to New York insurance de-
partment show large increase in COM
missions paid to agents.
The tip comes from New York that
the Democratic leaders have decided
on Joseph W. Folk, Of Missouri, for
their presidential candidate in 1908
and John A. Johnson, of Minnesota,
for his running mate.
Wisconsin university eight won the
two-mile boat race from Syracuse by
a length and half.
Ambassador Cambon telegraphed to
Foreign Minister Pichon from Berlin
that the basis of the Franco-Japanese
agreement had been communicated to
the German foreign Office.
While attempting to make land
ing above the rapids in the Payette
river, IL miles from Garden Valley,
Idaho, seven loggers we're drowned.
The two boats they were using were
carried over the rapids. Nine other
occupants of the boats reached shore.
Returns from the Bavarian diet
elections showed that the clericals
elected sc, the socialists Fl, the lib
erals 10 and the peasant league nine
representatives.
The revolt in China is spreading;
10000 armed rebels are marching to
attack Annoy.
Ex-president of Santo Domingo, de-
ported from that country, arrived in
New York
"Nickie" Shepard, lost Minnesota
boy, was found dead in a swamp.
The president of Salina (Kan.) Ma
tional bank walked 1856 miles, rather
than break faith with his 15-year-old
daughter.
President Roosevelt dropped a hint
at Lansing, Mich, that May, 1909,
would find him an active member of
Harvard.
President Roosevelt speaking at the
Agricultural college celebration at
Lansing, Mich, praised rural life and
advised his hearers to stick to the
farm
Howard Gould, it is said in New
York, will tell in court the treatment
Mrs. Gould accorded a administered
bos'n on her yacht to prove her vio-
lent temper.
New York Society of Self-Culture
incorporated with 100 women mem
bers and only one man, to spread a
knowledge Of the principles of real
social courtesy to the farthest corners
of the country.
of
the Denver Union Water company and
one of the foremost capitalists of Den
yer, died, following a stroke of pa
ralysis Mr.. Cheesman was born at
Hampstead Harbor, l.. l., June 27,
1888.
John Ball, five times winner of the
British amateur golf championship,
again captured the title, defeating c..
A. Palmer by six up, four play. Pal
mer is comparatively a new conner in
first-class golf.
The Danish government has decided
not to take up again the question of
the sale of the Danish West Indies to
the United States.
Mrs. Frank Croxton, aged 43 years,
living near Roanoke, Ind, gave birth
to four children. There were three
girls and a boy. The combined weight
of the four was liz pounds. Two of
the children have since died.
According to a dispatch from Rome,
the pope adopted vegetarianism last
January, hoping to defeat his perpet-
ual enemy, the govt. He has not suf-
fered since, and he attributes his con-
dition entirely to his diet.
Mrs. Harriet Matilda Balm, aged 70
years, widow of Edward Balm and one
of the wealthiest women in Wiscon-
sin, died at her home in Kenosha Sor-
row over the death of her daughter,
Mrs. F. S. Newell, of New York,
caused an attack of apoplexy.
In a runaway stage accident near
Lopey, Cal, in southern Oregon, the
driver, George Galbraith, and two
commercial travellers, names unknown,
were killed and two other passengers
were perhaps fatally injured
William ]. Bryan in a speech at
the jamestown exposition in observ-
ance of Patrick Henry day. said the eff
feet of the rate bill was to enable the
railroads to keep the money formerly
paid out as rebates.
Mrs. Della E. Dalrymple, of Worces-
ter, Mass, whose husband, preacher,
fled to Chicago, has made public let