River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-08

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captured Is Chinese slave girls. They
will be deported.
Jimmy Britt obtained the decision
over Battling Nelson at San Francisco
after 20 rounds of hard fighting.
Father Martoogessian, the Armenian
priest who is accused of being leader
in blackmailing society, was indicted
four times in New York for attempted
robbery and extortion.
Patrolman Stephen S. Watson, OF
New York, was found guilty OF cow
ardice and was publicly degraded and
stripped of his shield.
The coroners jury at Colorado
Springs found that Miss Laura Mat
thews committed suicide, removing
the suspicion that she was murdered
by A. r. Rumbaugh, who also killed
himself.
President Roosevelt conferred with
Gov. Curry, of New Mexico, and in
structed him to institute radical re-
forms in the government of that terri
tory.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, sent
personal emissaries to the iron range
to determine whether it is advisable to
send state troops there to control the
strikers. The striking ore handlers
at Duluth voted to return to work.
The executive board of district No.
5, United Mine Workers of America,
which embraces the Pittsburg district,
authorized President Patrick Feehan
to call a strike Immediately of the
miners in that district, alleging that
the Pittsburg Coal company has been
violating the wage agreement repeat
eddy.
Troops to the number of 1000 men
have been sent to Belfast, Ireland, en-
phasizing the fact that the authorities
are fully determined to grapple
promptly with rioting, whether on the
part of the striking dock laborers or
the mutinous police, who are demand
ing more pay because of the extra
work the strike entails.
On the pretext that they were dis
pleased with the harbor works, three
tribes raided Casablanca, one of the
chief seaports of Morocco, and mas
sacred the native guards and seven
Europeans.
Claude Haywood, aged 20 years, who
had been attending the naval academy
at Annapolis for the past two years,
and who was at home at Jackson,
Mich, on leave, was drowned at
Clark's lake.
S. M. Stephenson, of Menominee
Mich, ex-congressman and multimil-
lionaire lumberman, died at his home
as a result of fall.
State Senator Bryon Newberry, ia
Their of the Iowa pure food law, who
was bitten on the ankle by rattle
snake, is in a critical condition and
his recovery is doubtful.
The physician in attendance upon
Adolphus Busch of st. Louis, who has
been seriously i'll at his villa near
Schwalbach, Prussia, announced that
Mr. Busch was now out of danger and
improving gradually.
Seven hundred operatives at the
Empire and Klotz mills at Simpson,
Pa, have quit work, making the total
number of silk workers in the Lacka-
wanna valley idle through their
strike 4,400.
The twenty-eighth child, ten
pound boy, has arrived in the family
of Rev. Abraham c. Ruebush of Port
Lavaca, Tex. Mr. Ruebush is 65
years old and has been married
twice.
The Georgia house passed prohi-
bition bill that will make Georgia a
dry" state after January 1, 1908.
The Des Moines-Kansas City limit
ed and Twin City Chicago special on
the Chicago & Great Western railroad
crashed head-on near Marshalltown,
Ia. Harry Norton, brakeman, was
seriously injured.
A bomb hurled against the dwelling
occupied by Joseph Bienni and family
in the Italian quarter of Philadelphia
did considerable damage to the build
ing and shattered windows a block
distant.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw gave an
authoritative statement to the press
concerning her plans, declaring that
she has no present intention of re-
turning to the stage but will devote
her energies to the study of music.
The stone arches which support
the bed of the Erie canal in Syracuse,
N. Y, where it passes over OnOndaga
creek, gave way and four canal boats
were drawn into the bed of the creek
beneath, so feet of the wall of the
three-story Empire Touring mill fell
into the water and several persons
narrowly escaped drowning.
Brig. Gen. Charles Francis Powell,
U. S. A., retired, died in st. Paul.
Mimi, aged 63 years.
Queen Wilhelmina has conferred
upon Andrew Carnegie the order OF
Orange Nassau.
Four men were killed when Missou-
ri Pacific freight train No. 164 ran
away down Shannon hill in Atchison,
Kan, and struck the rear end of No.
154, also freight, standing on the
track Three of the dead men were
tramps
Fire destroyed three business blocks
in the village of Moravia, N. Y, en-
failing a loss of $4,000.
Four persons were killed, another
was fatally injured and ten others
were seriously hurt when the boiler
of an engine attached to a fast I'LL
nois Central fruit train exploded near