River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-24
A cablegram from Tanning island

escaped and were camping comfort
abby ashore.
Many towns in Maine were &hreat-
ened by forest fires.
Dispatches from Tabriz said the
bombardment of that city by the
shah's forces was imminent.
Tilted by an 18-year-old girl, John
Smith of Calhoun, Wis, shot and fatal
ly wounded the mother of the girl
Mrs. Augusta Grabow, wounded the girl
herself, and then wounded the sheriff,
who came to arrest him.
The explosion OF ESQ gallons OF
gasoline on board barge at the Mare
Island navy yard resulted in the death
of Chief Machinist Teddy May and
injuries to three other men.
The American Atlantic feet, under
the command of Rear Admiral Sperry,
left Albany, Western Australia, for
Manila, $500 miles away, where it is
due to arrive October or 3.
Heavy rainfall in northern Michigan
and Ontario checked the forest fires
and insured the safety Of the threat
ened towns.
Maj Gen. Charles Edward Luard,
retired, whose wife was mysteriously
murdered near London August "a,
committed suicide by throwing him.
self in front of railroad train. He
had received letters accusing him of
killing his wife.
Forty men were overcome by smoke
in a fire which threatened the destruc-
ton of Swift & Company's packing
plant in South st. Joseph, Mo. The
loss is about 100000.
The Oklahoma election board re-
fused to put the Prohibition electoral
ticket on the ballot.
The home of Mark Twain at Red
ding, Conn, was entered by two bur-
glars. Later the men were captured
and in making the arrests Deputy
Sheriff Bangs was shot in the leg.
Three hundred and five cases and
lis deaths from the Asiatic cholera
were reported for one day in ST.
Petersburg. The municipal admins
trations are under fire from all sides
for their criminal ineficiency in han
ding the epidemic.
Minority stockholders filed a petit
ton in the circuit court asking that
receiver be appointed for the State
Trust Company, st. Louis real es-
tate firm capitalized at $1,000,000.
Edward Quick, penitentiary guard
at Michigan City, Ind, was murdered
in his home by burglar.
Five persons were killed and 16 in
jured by a boiler explosion in mine
near Aix-la-Chapelle.
Joseph James, the negro murderer
whose crime helped start the race
riots in Springfield, ILL.,, was convicted
and sentenced to death.
When Judge Gerard in the supreme
court granted Miss Helen Maloney,
daughter of Martin Maloney, Phila-
delphia millionaire and papal marquis,
a decree annulling the marriage cere-
mony which she went through with
Arthur Herbert Osborne, young
broker, on the afternoon of December
25, 1905, it came to light that the
young woman was influenced into TAX
ing the step by the fear that she was
to be forced into marriage with one
Of two titled foreigners known to her
parents.
The Bay Shore hotel. at Green
Springs, Ia, one of the largest hotels
on the west coast, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, 40 guests having mar
row escapes.
Fire in the library of Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, did inestimable
damage to ancient papyri and parch-
ments.
John Cook, aged IS years, a farmer
living near Philo, ILL.,, shot and killed
Mrs. Edna McClelland and attempted
suicide.
Dense fog in Chicago caused &C
cidents on steam and street railways
that resulted in the death of two
men and the injury of many others.
The Interparliamentary union met
in Berlin to discuss anew the peace
of the world and how to maintain 1t
through arbitration.
A powder magazine near McAlester,
Okla, was struck by lightning, the ex-
plosion killing one miner and seriously
injuring eight others.
Police Commissioner Bingham of
New York publicly retracted his re-
cent statement in magazine article
that half the criminals in New York
were Jews.
The New York stock exchange house
of E. r. Chapman G. Co. was victim
lied to the extent of $4,000 by means
of fraudulent checks.
The American battleships Maine and
Alabama, the vanguard of the Ameri-
can fleet on it's round-the-world voy-
age, arrived at Naples.
Suit for the recovery of 100000
damages, alleged to have been sus-
tanned because of boycott, has been
begun against the United Hatters Of
America by D. E. Loewe e Co., of Dan
bury, Conn.
John and Wilbur Patterson, charged
with holding up street car near Bos-
ton, Pa, last May and robbing II pas
sengers and the conductor, were con-
victed in the criminal court at
Pittsburg.
The Republican state convention of
Utah nominated ticket headed by w.
E. Spry for governor.
The average wages per hour in the
principal manufacturing and mechani-