River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-30


closed with the presentation of medals
and trophies by the queen. In the field
and track events, in which the points
were counted five for first, three for
second and one for third, the standing
was: America, 1141a; United King
dom, Sc 1-3; Sweden, 121@; Canada,
IL; South Africa and Greece, 8 each;
Norway, 5; Germany, 4; Italy, 8; Hun
gary, 2 1-3; France, 1-3; Australia
and Finland, 1 each.
The Marathon race, chief event of
the Olympic games, was won by John
F. Hayes of the Irish-American Ath-
letic club. Dorando of Italy was first
to reach the stadium but collapsed.
fell several times and, being helped
across the line, was disqualified.
Carpenter, an American, was dis
qualified after winning the 400-meter
run at the Olympic games in London
and the event was called mo race" be-
cause of alleged foul
r. E. Walker of South Africa won
the 100-meter dash at the Olympic
games, defeating j. A. Rector of the
University of Virginia. A worlds rec
ord, by G. j. Bacon of the Irish-Ameri-
can A. c., in the 400-meter hurdling,
which he won in SIS seconds; an
Olympic record of "a feet 61& inches
by F. c. Irons of the Chicago A. A., in
the running broad jump; and the vic
tory of G. S. Dole of Yale, in the
featherweight wrestling, were the Win
nings of the Americans.
American athletes won two more
gold medals in the Olympic games at
London. M. w. Sheppard won the
800-meter run and Harry F. Porter
the high jump, both setting new
Olympic records.
bill" Hazard, alleged horsethief.
was rescued from Jail at Bassett, Neb.:
by two armed men.
The condition of Mrs. Robert Louis
Stevenson, who is i'll at her home
near Gilroy, Cal, is regarded as seri-
Gus by the attending physician.
The prince of Wales reviewed $4,000
soldiers, sailors and marines on the
plains of Abraham and then the ia
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Quebec as public memorial.
Joseph A. Vaughn, bank messen.
ger, was robbed of $1,000 on a Phila-
delphia street car.
At least one life was lost and dam
age estimated at quarter of mil
lion of dollars or more resulted from
a series of storms that swept over
Pittsburg, Pa, and surrounding ter
ritory.
Green Hall, a prominent farmer of
Roane county, Ohio, was assassinated
by Lester Wagner, his son-in-law, who
shot him to death as he sat by win
dow
Striking mill hands at Bombay be-
came riotous and were fired on by
troops, one man being killed.
About Is persons were drowned
near Christiania when a steamer was
sunk in collision.
twenty-five workmen were drowned
in a tunnel in the Bernese Alps when
subterranean river was tapped.
Three troopers we're killed and
many injured in a terrific electrical
storm that wrecked the camp of the
Pennsylvania National Guard at
Gettysburg.
Quebec began the celebration of it's
tercentenary with fine historical pa
geants. The prince of Wales presided
and he and Vice-President Fairbanks
exchanged addresses.
At Port Edwards, Wis, Daniel l..
Lynch shot and killed Richard Nom
Miss Anna Sorenson and then tried to
kill himself.
One man was killed and another ia
tally injured in terrific explosion
which demolished one of the powder
mills at Kings Mills, o.
Lying in bed, helpless cripple,
locked in plaster cast, William T.
Branitzky, an architectural engineer
of Chicago, shot and killed Lucas Slet-
ten, who he declared had wrecked his
home
Joseph ]. Henry, an ordinary sea-
man on board the new hattleship Mis-
sissippi, was killed by being caught
in the machinery of one of the guns.
Indictments charging violations of
the federal laws against the issuance
of passes were returned against the
Illinois Central and the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway companies by
the federal grand jury at Chicago.
Fire Quilted the Abingdon store and
Office building in Portland, Ore, the
loss being 100000.
In an opinion bristling with caustic
comment and criticism the United
States court of appeals in Chicago
unanimously reversed the decision of
Judge Lands imposing a fine of $685.
100000 upon the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana for accepting conces-
sions from the Chicago & Alton rail-
road, and remanded the case for re-
hearing.
President Roosevelt delivered a
spirited and characteristic address at
Newport, R. l., before an important
conference of American naval officers.
The purpose of the meeting was to dis
cuss the battleships which the United
States is to build in the future, and
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke warmly in favor
of a hard-hitting navy. as good as any
in the world, and capable of finding
the enemy and 'hammering him into
quits
Santo PurQuo of Chicago killed his
wife and wounded a man whom bo