River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-05


lionaire of Pittsburg, Pa, was thrown
from his horse and killed.
While Wilbur Wright, the American
aeroplanist, was making a flight at LIE
Mans, France, the motor of the ma
chine exploded.
The first squadron of the Atlantic
battleship feet arrived at Olongapo,
P. l.
Many accidents, one Of which re-
suited in the death of 12-year-old
schoolboy in the Bronx, were reported
in New York as a result of the 40
mile an hour northwest gale.
Pumped full of air by three friends
"as joke" John Schink, Fl years old,
died in Bridgeport, Conn.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Company let contract for 100000
busheI elevator at Fort William, On
tario
"A prominent politician" of New
York is accused by a New York judge
with having engaged in white slave"
traffic.
Orders have been given that the
British squadron, under the command
Of Rear Admiral Sir Percy Scott pro-
coed to South America on the com
pletion of it's South African program.
Thirty-nine New York cooks, laun-
dresses, nursery and chamber maids
were the recipients this year of the
prizes given annually by the German
Housewives society for faithfulness
and length of service.
Winston Green, negro youth, was
electrocuted in the state penitentiary
at Richmond, Va, for attempted Grim
inal assault.
AS the battleships of the Atlantic
fleet proceed to the navy yard they
will be painted a slate color.
President Roosevelt has agreed to
recommend to congress in his next
message the passage of a law to con-
serve the public health, similar to the
one proposed by the American Medi-
cal association.
A mob of about 80 men attacked
the Roane county Jail, Kingston,
Tenn, and killed George Cook, held
on the charge of numbering John
King, ferryman at Southwest Point.
e. A. S. Blake, a contractor con-
victed of attempting to bride John M.
Kelly to qualify on the jury to try
Abraham Ruef and vote for Ruef's ac-
quittal, made a full confession in
court at San Francisco duplicating
Ruefs counsel
The body Of a murdered man was
found in q sack at Lapham's Lane,
Mich
Eight battleships comprising the
second squadron of the American At
lantic feet, under command of Rear
Admiral William H. Emory, arrived at
Annoy, China
Fire broke out in the History Neave
building at Race and Fourth streets,
Cincinnati, and in the panic that en-
sued about twenty persons were in
jured.
Two squadrons of cavalry and
band were ordered to Hawaii as an adj
dition to the garrison there.
Wreckage picked up in the North
sea confirms the fears that the steamer
Yarmouth foundered while crossing
from the Hook of Holland to Harwich.
Her crew of % men was lost.
Reports from Tampico, Mexico, show
that over SO lives have been lost in
the oil fields as a result of the poison
Gus gases emitting from the big hole
in the ground caused by the recent
fire.
A dispatch from Smyrna says that
the Young Turks, believing that the
sultan has a secret understanding with
Tewfik Pasha, the foreign minister,
have decided to dethrone him and re-
place him by his third son.
The Barcelona municipality has of
fered a prize of $1,000 for the best
poster design for advertising Barcelona
as a winter resort, and the mayor OF
the city has especially invited the
competition of American artists.
With Gov Curtis Guild, Jr., making
an eloquent plea for religious tolera-
ton in it's broadcast and kindest sense,
which brought thousands of Catholics
to their feet in wild applause, and
prominent Catholics delivering adj
dresses, the opening day of the five
niversary of the founding of the do
cese of Boston came to a close. The
day opened with a pontifical mass in
the Holy Cross cathedral, celebrated
by the papal delegate to the United
States, Most Rev. Diomede Falconio.
Alfred H. Curtis, former president
of the National Bank of North Amer
lea, testified that Charles W. Morse
was to blame for the illegal banking
transactions of which they are both
accused.
Ted" Burton, under arrest at Reel
foot Lake, Tenn, confessed that infor-
nation he gave led to the murder of
Capt. Quentin Rankin and implicated
many persons in the night rider out
RACES there.
A H. Curtis, co-defendant with
Charles w. Morse, the New York
financier accused of violating the ma
tional banking laws, took the stand
in his own defense, promising to re-
veal everything.
Nicholas Tschaikovsky, the Rus
sian patriot who has been imprisoned
in st. Petersburg for nearly a year.
was released on bail.
Mrs. ]. l. Petrie of New York was
robbed of LOO worth of jewelry on
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