River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-23

Martin j. Sheridan or t9e lrlSn-
American Athletic club of New York
and Ralph Rose Of the Olympic club
of San Francisco were the star per-
formers in the Olympic games at Lon
don, winning two gold medals for
America. Sheridan was first in the
discus throwing and Rose was first IN
putting the shot.
The third day of the Olympic games
Great Britain won two gold medals
and France and Sweden one each.
America won second place in team
race.
American athletes captured two gold
medals on the second day OF the
Olympic games in London. John J.
Flanagan won the hammer throw,
breaking the Olympic record, and Nj.
W. Sheppard won the 1,50O-meter run.
Mrs. Frank ]. Gould's divorce suit
was not dismissed, as reported, efforts
Of friends to effect a reconciliation be-
ing futile.
A freight steamer ran down the
schooner Lilley off Lorain, o., and the
crew of the schooner jumped into the
lake and were saved
The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived
at Honolulu after pleasant and I'M
eventful voyage.
Mrs. John Dietz, wife of the famous
defender of Cameron dam, near Win
ter, Wis, finished fast of Sc days to
cure appendicitis and according to her
husband she succeeded.
One woman was killed, two were
perhaps MORALLY injured, and nearly
dozen persons were seriously hurt
when the White Mountain Express, of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, was wrecked near Greenwich,
Conn.
A terrific earthquake occurred in
the Province of Tacna and africa, in
Chile, the southern part of Peru and
Bolivia Considerable destruction of
property, but no loss of life, is re-
ported.
The powder magazine of the North
western Improvement company at
Cleelum, Wash, blew up, killing nine
persons.
A dress rehearsal of the pageants
for the Quebec tercentenary was held
successfully.
Posing for years as white girl,
Lillian Beatrice Watkins of Chicago,
a negress of great beauty, killed her
self by firing bullet into her right
temple because her Course of blood"
had left a trail of disaster and death
in it's wake.
Fire destroyed upwards Of 40 homes
and business buildings in the little
town of Baltic, o., the loss being
100000
Mrs. Edith M. Teagle, wife of Wal
ter c. Teagle of Cleveland, an official
of the Standard Oil company, shot
and fatally wounded herself at Pasa-
dena, Cal
A pleasure launch bound from Ma
Mia to Corregidor island carrying
about rs passengers was caught in a
typhoon and foundered, Is persons be-
ing drowned.
Count Boni de Castellane filed suit
for such revision of the decree of di-
vorce obtained against him by his
wife, who was Miss Anna Gould Of
New York, as will give him the Gus
tody of his three children.
Circuit Judge Reynolds of st. Louis
ruled that steam laundries may go
as far as they like in combining to
maintain prices, as, owing to other
methods of washing clothes, such a
combination would not be in restraint
of trade.
Seven mine workers were killed and
ten others injured by a terrific ex-
plosion of gas in the Williamstown
(Pa) colliery of the Summit Branch
Mining company. The mine was
wrecked and set on fire.
Republican Chairman Hitchcock
called conference of party leaders at
Colorado Springs, Col, for the opening
of the campaign in the west.
BY the burning of one-story frame
building in st. Paul, Mimi, the struc-
ture in which the first volunteer for
the union armies enlisted in 1861 was
destroyed.
The shriners at ST. Paul elected E. I.
Alderman of Marion, Ia, imperial
pOtentate and decided to hold next
years conclave in Louisville.
One man was killed and 25 or 80
others were injured, some perhaps
fatally, when trolley car on the
Johnstown (Pa.) Passenger Railway
company, after striking traction en-
CINE at a crossing a mile from here,
started backwards and went over a
steep embankment.
The Democratic national committee
adopted a resolution, dictated by
Bryan, declaring for publication of
campaign contributions, limiting them
to $4,000 and declaring none would
be accepted from corporations.
Standing within a few feet Of the
spot where, a little more than two
years ago, he shot and killed his IA
ther-in-law, DR.. James Weddell Simp-
son, dentist of New York, was shot
and perhaps mortally wounded at
Northport, n. Y, by his mother-in-law,
Mrs. BARLEY T. Horner, the woman he
made a widow.
A plot against the car of Russia
was discovered at Sosnowice, Russian
Poland, and many arrests were made.
Homer L. Castle of Pittsburg, Pa, a
former Prohibition candidate for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania; Charles Hunt
er, Philadelphia; d. c. Washington,
| Collingswood, n. J.; Arthur F. Will
| Hams Chioa00 and Fl r ASninwall